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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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".

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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.