India's garbage mountain: Delhi's junk goes to Bhalswa landfill

Описание: Bhalswa was once a beautiful wetland jheel with thousands of wintering waterfowl converging here for the winter months of plenty. Today, this is the grim view of what was once a flouring birding habitat. All of West Delhi's trash converges here and with the landfill constantly smouldering and over-filled - what next?

What a truly dystopean view of the New India! A mountain made entirely of garbage - urban refuse that no one wants to deal with. Even the Pariah Kite - a raptor - has specialized in dealing with waste and those thousands of tiny black dots you see flying around as hordes of Kites looking for edible waste. In their own way, they are working at cleaning up this urban mess.

The truth is that Delhi has run out of space to dump its garbage and continues to create more. The urban and modern Indian generates masses of plastic, metal, and other non-biodegradable waste that he or she refuses to recycle and simply dumps out onto the street and in bins.

Who then has to deal with this? Over-burdened municipal authorities that can barely deal with their own backyards... Bhalaswa or Bhalswa is one such monster of a problem that has reached its breaking point. The elasticity has gone and something is about the snap. Who is going to Delhi with Delhi's trash?

This is worse than a Hitchcock-ian Birds nightmare. This is the ugly face of urbanization without adequate planning - the numbers that have been thrust upon us as a result of India's population problem, ignorance and lack of urban planning.

What to say of the water bodies and canals that flow next door? What of leachate and chemical out-flows?

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