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Dhapa is a locality on the fringes of East Kolkata, India.The area consists of landfill sites where the solid wastes of the city of Kolkata are dumped. "Garbage farming" is encouraged in the landfill sites. [1]
The Deonar dumping ground is a waste dumping ground or landfill in the city of Mumbai.Located in Shivaji Nagar, an eastern suburb of the city, it is India's oldest and largest [1] [2] dumping ground, set up in 1927.
Mining construction landfill sites is the simplest form of landfill mining. Construction landfills in the United States contain three basic components, wood, scrap metal and gypsum, or drywall, along with a minimal amount of other construction materials. The wood collected can be used as fuel in coal burning power plants and the scrap metal ...
The problem of undercounting resonates in the Indian state of Gujarat, the site of a mammoth debacle that was supposed to transform the World Bank’s approach to development and displacement. In 1985, the bank pledged $450 million to finance the Sardar Sarovar dam and canal, the keystone of an effort to turn the Narmada River into a series of ...
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 largest landfills in Delhi.
CERCLIS ID Name Location Reason Proposed Listed Construction completed Partially deleted Deleted GU6571999519: Andersen Air Force Base: Yigo: Groundwater and soil contaminated with dioxins/dibenzofurans, metals, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon, polychlorinated biphenyls, persistent organic pollutants, pesticides, and volatile organic compounds including trichloroethylene, toluene, and ...
Similarly, any new landfill site must conform to Act 73, a state law since 2020, and its restrictions on waste disposal facilities, particularly near conservation lands or near "buffer zones" in the.
Hawaii's land board has approved handing over state land on Maui to be used for a wildfire memorial and fire debris disposal, but officials urged Maui County to talk further with the community ...