In Delhi, 27 million people, the Ghazipur landfill, which is considered the largest in India, and possibly in the world, is on fire.

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One of India’s largest rubbish mounds is on fire, continuing to burn after almost 24 hours and spewing toxic fumes into the air of a densely populated area on the outskirts of the capital Delhi.

The Ghazipur landfill, which takes up more than 40 football fields and rises to a height of 65m, caught fire on Sunday evening amid soaring temperatures in the region.

The fire was still burning on Monday and at least six fire tenders were on the spot trying to put it out, local officials said. https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/ghazipur-landfill-delhi-fire-toxic-smoke-b2532597.html

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This has the same potential as those Pennsylvania coal mines that have been burning for 100+ years.

I bet it is stanky.

[–]relative 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Seems this is a regular occurance. https://www.indiatvnews.com/delhi/ghazipur-landfill-fire-mcd-douses-90-per-cent-of-blaze-fire-service-tenders-inquiry-into-the-incident-latest-updates-2024-04-22-927498

[–]Musky[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

It's crazy all the energy being wasted. They could be producing electricity if it's just going to catch on fire anyways.

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Already producing electricity there.

https://swachhindia.ndtv.com/living-in-the-shadows-of-asias-largest-garbage-mountain-the-ghazipur-landfill-69630/

"Dilip who has been living in the area for the past 25 years said,

In the starting, I used to live, sleep in the dump yard. I have seen it becoming bigger and bigger over the years. I used to work in MCD before, I was in charge of planting trees, maintaining parks in the areas near the landfill. Over the past 25 years, I have seen those parks and trees get engulfed by the dump yard as it expanded slowly. The Waste-To-Energy plant has now come in the picture, it is now slowly managing that waste and converting it into electricity. But the problem is that the waste here just keeps on increasing".

[–]Musky[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That was an interesting read, thanks for digging up more information about the landfill.

There's got to be a better way to handle waste. I don't know what it is, but the way we go about it is nuts.

I do have a 5 gallon compost bucket, but there's only so much soil that I need.

[–]WoodyWoodPecker 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

https://youtu.be/mPb2_glC8kA