India should make Ghazipur a tourist destination

[retaxis]

Many Western tourists more and more go to India to see the most disgusting thing so that they can feel better about themselves at home. They even pay locals to show them the sickest places around. Ghazipur aka rubbish mountain in capital city New Dehli has a lot of western youtubers vloggers talk about it recently. India should cash in on this and give tours of this menace! Make that money and show them and let them smell what the rest of the world dont have!



The Ghazipur landfill in New Delhi, India, is a massive 70-acre mountain of waste towering over 200 feet (60 meters) high. [1, 2]

Key Facts

• • Size and Capacity: Opened in 1984 and reaching capacity in 2002, it continues to receive thousands of metric tonnes of fresh garbage daily, holding over 14 million total tonnes of waste. [1, 2, 3]
  • Environmental & Health Impacts: Decomposing organic waste generates extreme internal heat and methane leaks, leading to frequent, toxic fires during summer that choke nearby neighborhoods with smoke. [1, 2, 3]
  • Removal Plans: Local authorities have set a target to clear and flatten the Ghazipur site by the end of 2027 using biomining and waste-processing machinery. [1]

Most users on Reddit agree that the scale of the landfill is a staggering environmental and humanitarian crisis for the surrounding community. As reported by Al Jazeera, informal waste pickers face extreme conditions, working directly on these burning, toxic slopes. [1, 2]

 

[Watandar]

Very sad that a trash mountain has been given a name like Ghazipur in India.

 

[Mighty_Dragon_Strike]

Many Western tourists more and more go to India to see the most disgusting thing so that they can feel better about themselves at home. They even pay locals to show them the sickest places around. Ghazipur aka rubbish mountain in capital city New Dehli has a lot of western youtubers vloggers talk about it recently. India should cash in on this and give tours of this menace! Make that money and show them and let them smell what the rest of the world dont have!
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The Ghazipur landfill in New Delhi, India, is a massive 70-acre mountain of waste towering over 200 feet (60 meters) high. [1, 2]

Key Facts

• • Size and Capacity: Opened in 1984 and reaching capacity in 2002, it continues to receive thousands of metric tonnes of fresh garbage daily, holding over 14 million total tonnes of waste. [1, 2, 3]
  • Environmental & Health Impacts: Decomposing organic waste generates extreme internal heat and methane leaks, leading to frequent, toxic fires during summer that choke nearby neighborhoods with smoke. [1, 2, 3]
  • Removal Plans: Local authorities have set a target to clear and flatten the Ghazipur site by the end of 2027 using biomining and waste-processing machinery. [1]

Most users on Reddit agree that the scale of the landfill is a staggering environmental and humanitarian crisis for the surrounding community. As reported by Al Jazeera, informal waste pickers face extreme conditions, working directly on these burning, toxic slopes. [1, 2]

would be interesting to know the mortality rate due to cancer, in that city!

 

[retaxis]

would be interesting to know the mortality rate due to cancer, in that city!

the level of arsenic in the water is terrible too not to mention the pollution. I think once Westerner do tour of ghazipur their depression will be cured forever

 

[Mighty_Dragon_Strike]

the level of arsenic in the water is terrible too not to mention the pollution. I think once Westerner do tour of ghazipur their depression will be cured forever

in South Asia, water is too polluted any way!

come to think of it, I found water of River Thames very polluted as well!

but since this is a muslim area, no body cares in India, what happens here!

 

[retaxis]

in South Asia, water is too polluted any way!

come to think of it, I found water of River Thames very polluted as well!

but since this is a muslim area, no body cares in India, what happens here!

Yeah the Arsenic belt is particularly bad in India when it comes to water pollution and the people who live there suffers a lot.

 

[retaxis]

For those who want a deeper look into magic mountain

 

[K2RULEZ]

Terrible state of affairs.

 

[retaxis]

Terrible state of affairs.

Modi could have fixed it in an instant but he is too busy hugging world leaders

 

[Jungle Book]

Modi could have fixed it in an instant but he is too busy hugging world leaders

Ghazipur, Sarai Kale Khan, and Jahangir Pur are essentially huge garbage-dumping areas where a significant amount of waste from the metropolitan region has been accumulated. The government needs to install large-scale waste-processing and recycling facilities and develop properly engineered landfill cells for safely storing the residual waste. It is a massive challenge and could realistically take years to address.

 

[Jungle Book]

Many Western tourists more and more go to India to see the most disgusting thing so that they can feel better about themselves at home. They even pay locals to show them the sickest places around. Ghazipur aka rubbish mountain in capital city New Dehli has a lot of western youtubers vloggers talk about it recently. India should cash in on this and give tours of this menace! Make that money and show them and let them smell what the rest of the world dont have!
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The Ghazipur landfill in New Delhi, India, is a massive 70-acre mountain of waste towering over 200 feet (60 meters) high. [1, 2]

Key Facts

• • Size and Capacity: Opened in 1984 and reaching capacity in 2002, it continues to receive thousands of metric tonnes of fresh garbage daily, holding over 14 million total tonnes of waste. [1, 2, 3]
  • Environmental & Health Impacts: Decomposing organic waste generates extreme internal heat and methane leaks, leading to frequent, toxic fires during summer that choke nearby neighborhoods with smoke. [1, 2, 3]
  • Removal Plans: Local authorities have set a target to clear and flatten the Ghazipur site by the end of 2027 using biomining and waste-processing machinery. [1]

Most users on Reddit agree that the scale of the landfill is a staggering environmental and humanitarian crisis for the surrounding community. As reported by Al Jazeera, informal waste pickers face extreme conditions, working directly on these burning, toxic slopes. [1, 2]

Ghazipur, Jahangir Puri, and Sarai Kale Khan were developed as major garbage-disposal and processing areas, but due to poor management and inadequate processing capacity, enormous mountains of garbage accumulated there. However, that does not mean all of Delhi looks like this. Go to areas such as Chanakyapuri, Vasant Vihar, Greater Kailash, Defence Colony, or Golf Links, and you will find parts of Delhi that are clean, green, sophisticated, and world-class urban neighbourhoods.