Environment experts said that it was a disaster waiting to happen, triggered by apathy of the civic and government agencies. In fact, these are not even landfills in the true sense and are merely dump sites with no scientific regulations. If we continue to mindlessly pile trash over trash, we are only inviting trouble for ourselves,” Ms. Mukherjee said. The height of the Ghazipur landfill was measured as 45 metres by the East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) in 2016. “Getting more sites for landfills will not help because waste will be generated everyday and new landfills will also get exhausted someday.

Source: The Hindu September 01, 2017 20:26 UTC