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Workers on top of Ghazipur landfill in 2013. The Ghazipur landfill is a landfill waste dumping site established in 1984. It is located in Ghazipur, a village in the eastern district of Delhi, India. [1] The landfill covers an area of approximately 70 acres (28 ha) and reaches heights of over 236 feet (72 m). [2] Ghazipur has become one of the ...
The toll plaza of Delhi–Meerut Expressway is known as Ghazipur Border Which connects Delhi to Noida. Ghazipur is a new commercial hub and many new markets for flowers, fruits, clothes have come up. The Ghazipur landfill is one of the largest refuse dumping sites for Delhi. The landfill has grown over the past years that it is now visible from ...
Ghazipur, originally Gadhipur, is a city in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. Ghazipur city is the administrative headquarters of the Ghazipur district, one of the four districts that form the Varanasi division of Uttar Pradesh. It is located on the Ganges (Ganga) River near the border with Bihar state, about 40 miles (65 km) northeast of ...
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India’s capital choked on toxic fumes Tuesday, as a thick and pungent haze spread from a fire at a towering trash dump, the latest in a series of landfill blazes that authorities have struggled ...
A landfill fire occurs when waste disposed of in a landfill ignites and spreads. Two types of landfills fires are generally recognized – surface fires and deep-seated fires. Surface fires typically occur in underdeveloped countries that lack capacity to properly cover waste with inert daily and intermediate cover.
The plan was to build the plant along the Gulf of Kutch, an inlet of the Arabian Sea that provides a living for fishing clans that harvest the coast’s rich marine life.
Waste management in India falls under the purview of the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC). In 2016, this ministry released the Solid Wastage Management (SWM) Rules, which replaced by the Municipal Solid Waste (Management and Handling) Rules, and 2000 of which had been in place for 16 years. [1]