Gasping for air as massive fire burns at Delhi rubbish mountain - BBC News
For days, dozens of firefighters in India's capital Delhi have been struggling to extinguish a fire at one of the largest waste heaps in Asia.
The Ghazipur landfill - a towering mountain of rubbish in the east of the city - exceeded its capacity in 2002 but thousands of tonnes of refuse is still dumped here every day.
People near the site say their lives are blighted by toxic fumes and the stench from the rubbish.
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how disrespectful can we be to our earth and all the sould that live on it?
@mattiemclean9882
2 жыл бұрын
people are selfish and inconsiderate. Always have been and always will be. India has become so westernised that they throw plastic rubbish away without even thinking where it goes
@mutualdelusion1798
2 жыл бұрын
@@morebaloney1539 .. not to let the trash piled up to this level. .. ooopppssss!!! .. I forgot this is SUPA' POWER lNDlA : 2020
@IScreenshotNFTs
2 жыл бұрын
@@morebaloney1539 The bhalswa landfill was only required to hold 20 meters height of waste. It is now 61 meters. Lack of checks is the main reason.
@AssSlurry2998
Жыл бұрын
@@IScreenshotNFTs tell us an alternative then
Can you imagine the smell, rotting food, and burning plastic?
@whoishim2998
2 жыл бұрын
I can have you ever burned rotten food… and I’m sure you’ve smelled burnt plastic before
@whoishim2998
2 жыл бұрын
That stuff is killing those people living there
@davidjames666
2 жыл бұрын
Have you ever been to India? those smells would be an improvement
@anumeetsingh6218
2 жыл бұрын
It includes dead animals, bio wastes from hospitals and everything worse you can imagine.
Good luck trying to put that one out, once these deep seated fires start burning it is practically impossible to put them out due to fact the temp inside the mount builds up to such a level it becomes a self consuming fire. There are 2 of these type fires still burning on the planet. One in the USA started in 1962 - Centralia mine fire and another in the Canadian artic that has been burning for over 120 years. Even though both others are coal fires they act in the same way.
@gamingtonight1526
2 жыл бұрын
What I was going to say, so totally agree!
@geoffreycharles6330
2 жыл бұрын
How do you know that these fires are still burning? Is it because of the methane?
@titteryenot4524
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks Fireman Dave! 👨🚒
@romeisfallingagain
2 жыл бұрын
centralia is one of the most incredible stories
@OmogeVblogTV
2 жыл бұрын
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Holy Hell 😧 What a waste of environment humans have done to this world 🌎 Just pathetic
@R.MaxumOff
2 жыл бұрын
kzread.info/dash/bejne/Z5mdpaRpYtmop9Y.html 😈👹😱😱
@helenpauls1496
2 жыл бұрын
Agreed. You’d think by now, knowing the lethal damage to the earth and our health, that something would be done collectively and immediately in the world to stop this. Suicide of the human species.
@jeroendoeterniettoe2325
2 жыл бұрын
Jimmy savile was my first celebirty crush
@darklord4775
2 жыл бұрын
In 19s entire europe look like this sad now people will gona say india is that and then if you don't like it why not give india helping hand converting this garbage to fuel their are technology today which can help with this problems also don't forget majority of plastic waste in world ocean is from West since industrial revolution don't start me over their learn history first just because BBC like propaganda don't get your mind clouded
@whoishim2998
2 жыл бұрын
@@jeroendoeterniettoe2325 y’all are weird dude was a Pedo
Indian government can only blame themselves for this. It’s bad management. Plain and simple. They need to invest in waste management, sewage management and cleaning the rivers.
@mutualdelusion1798
2 жыл бұрын
Then who's gonna send RAW agents around the world indusgise of terroristss?? .. indiaa a failed terroristss state.
@IScreenshotNFTs
2 жыл бұрын
How a tea waiter (Modi) is still in office just baffles me. He's only voted into power because he's a Hindu who was voted by Hindu. And guess what, its the same Hindu who is screwing over all the other Hindus. Vote someone educated, brave and actually cares for indian citizens.
@curiouslaid
2 жыл бұрын
People of this city are as responsible as government.
@Anama_7
2 жыл бұрын
@@curiouslaid yep! both need a change or else... it will stay like this
@PasajeroDelToro
2 жыл бұрын
@@Anama_7 Nah, it won't stay like this because the people will die off in droves from asthma and other lung diseases caused by smoke inhalation. I expect that the end result would be that the surviving people from that area will abandon the place, and even lower iq people will move in, then they will die off...and so on.
it's so ugly that the INDIAN municipality system has completely failed. Living in India's capital NEW DELHI for one hour is equal to smoking 50 cigarettes. Air quality is utterly bad. India should focus completely on waste management cities restructuring or else this waste is pile up mountains and mountains
@ultimexg1419
2 жыл бұрын
Its more of the dust particles which keep pollution in delhi high all the time. 200-300 range is same for my home town in bihar and even capital of bihar. So much movement around the areas, cant really stop the dust from flying around all the time
Imagine what lies beneath all that trash, there could be homes, families, an entire civilisation under there..
All the clean water being dumped on trash is what kills me the most. Such little amount of clean water left and this is what we’re doing with it.
@dallascross8992
2 жыл бұрын
I highly doubt that's clean water most likely it is just water they're pumping from the river below
@smileygladhands
2 жыл бұрын
Is it drinkable water? I'd think they would just pump it in from a local canal or river. Those are definitely not clean water sources in Delhi.
@StratsRUs
2 жыл бұрын
Dumbest comment of the week.
@ultimexg1419
2 жыл бұрын
Those r treated water from sewage plant, its used everywhere in delhi for all these kinds of stuff. Surely not drinkable and usable for any other needs. They even use that for putting down dust on trees around Delhi
Based on 2018 Census Bureau export data for shipments of plastic waste generated in the U.S. and sent to other countries, about 157,000 large 20-ft shipping containers (429 per day) of U.S. plastic waste was shipped to China and other countries
The temperature will rise further in the months ahead. Important to keep vigilant.
Wow I'm from Florence Oregon Lane county America and our county landfill hours is 800 to 1200 tons of trash per day but your s trash pile is just insane wow
Its just like that underground coal fire that has been burning for 60 years...impossible to put out.
@markdavis4268
2 жыл бұрын
Really are you serious
@mwp1088
2 жыл бұрын
@@markdavis4268 Town was abandoned, still burning today. Irony is that is was started by filling an old coal mine with trash.
@jsheckleberg5954
2 жыл бұрын
Are you talking about that place in Turkmenistan?
The cesspool of humanity. Northern India.
@major2707
2 жыл бұрын
Lol
those with an education in science this is your moment to shine
Delhi always has to deal with Pollution, Smoke, Heat, Bad Wiring, Bad Design and what not... All because the Governments have no care for this City, even though it's Capital of India... I think Ghost of Nehru is in this City!
@dharmapersona2084
2 жыл бұрын
@Flaneurs L its a city, flaneurs🙄🙄 although, it needs to be more developed with better infrastructure 😄
@nightshadehelis9821
2 жыл бұрын
The problem is that their population is so big and poor that the government can't afford to fix problems like this.
@MyHandelsMessiah
2 жыл бұрын
@@dharmapersona2084 no it’s a dung heap
@dr.haransivasambu1819
2 жыл бұрын
Daily more than a 30 million people Even so call developed in western country major city 1 million to 5 million Many many trash mountain and the trash on the street
@KillingItForYears
2 жыл бұрын
It’s not government that creates trash, it’s the citizens.
This is apocalyptic
What a backwater
I wonder a couple of months BBC not picking India because NATO war BBC couldn't sleep without nitpicking and finally they come up with the trash mountain Just make you happy I'm really happy for you British and European and American shipping trash to Asian country hiding in the container Malaysia Sri Lanka Singapore Indonesia Filipino all sent it back to you. Jealousy is bad Karma I never saw any nice picture about India in your channel
Sending Prayers to family and friends and 1st responders
@teamtryxgg281
2 жыл бұрын
Why sending prayers, they're doing routine job? It's like somebody enjoying a barbecue and you send him your prayers.
@titteryenot4524
2 жыл бұрын
@@teamtryxgg281 Lol.
@whoishim2998
2 жыл бұрын
@@teamtryxgg281 people just want to act like they care smh probably didn’t even pray and left a comment
@teamtryxgg281
2 жыл бұрын
@@whoishim2998 this old woman wants to look cool by using "first responders".
This is just 1 among the things that make me "not proud" of being an Indian.
@titteryenot4524
2 жыл бұрын
You shouldn’t be proud of a random accident of birth anyway, so don’t worry about it. You had no choice where your mother plopped you out; ergo you are absolved of all guilt in this matter.
@OmogeVblogTV
2 жыл бұрын
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@MyHandelsMessiah
2 жыл бұрын
Designated 💩 Streets
@jayjoes940
2 жыл бұрын
Other than being Indian in general you mean right?..
@Username-pg3vs
2 жыл бұрын
You guys need to start recycling your waste
Wow. We really are nothing more than a cancerous tumour on this planet aren't we? That's horrific.
@thegreataynrand7210
2 жыл бұрын
You have a wrong attitude. To equate humans to disease is just wrong and pathetic
@jsheckleberg5954
2 жыл бұрын
Just indians
Disgusting...
The UK generates more plastic waste per person than any other country apart from the US, the report added. Turkey, Malaysia and Poland received the largest amounts of plastic waste exports from the UK in 2020. Last year, the dumping of plastic waste in Turkey was the subject of a BBC investigation
*At the current growth rate, the trash mountain soon surpass the height of mount Everest*
What a mess of a country! Shameful!
@dr.haransivasambu1819
2 жыл бұрын
Almost 1.4 billion people located in bad neighborhood British looted 75 trillion dollars You don't have a shame oh no feeling
@whoishim2998
2 жыл бұрын
@@dr.haransivasambu1819 dude stop blaming British Indian has been free from them since 1940s….. This is Indias fault if anything
@GoogleAccount-rt7rl
2 жыл бұрын
@@whoishim2998 If we don't blame, the facts won't change. It just makes me laugh that your Queen the majesty still wears that jewel on her crown stolen from subcontinent. :D:D:D
@NimbusCumulo
2 жыл бұрын
@@dr.haransivasambu1819 So a waste heap in Delhi caught fire and it is somehow another country's fault...yeah, very logical!
@simonesurana
2 жыл бұрын
@@NimbusCumulo nobody's saying it's direct. Basically the theft of India's resources by Europeans all those years ago, is resulting in lack of money for the indian population to this day. These are the aftereffects. But that doesn't mean that the Indian government right now is not at fault, because their management has been abysmal of this whole situation
Man, and I thought the Burn pit in Ballad was bad...
We should focus all the trash on a single point and built the highest mountain on earth and name it. The Great Mount Trash.
@nightshadehelis9821
2 жыл бұрын
You laugh, but there was a city in my state where they covered the landfill with grass and named it "Mt. Trashmore". It has a playground and everything. It's actually pretty nice and doesn't smell at all. Last I heard they are going to be making it into a golf course.
@titteryenot4524
2 жыл бұрын
@@nightshadehelis9821 No!!! Not *another* frickin golf course. Didn’t you hear the news read by Mark Twain? “Golf. A good walk spoiled.”
@UldisCrystal
2 жыл бұрын
@@nightshadehelis9821 Here in Latvia in our city Ventspils we have a small mountain built from construction debris, cement, old road fragments, etc, Its height is currently 58 m, the length of the descent is 240 m and it is increasing every year, we called it Lemberga Hūte. But from actual biological trash and other types, we do try to recycle.
@chessdad182
2 жыл бұрын
It may reach the moon.
I know because I live in front of this mountain nearly four months And I have to move out
Delhi is not liveable at all. It's the closest thing you can experience as hell on earth.
They aren't sure if the cause? Do they not understand methane? My god, they should be sending helicopters over to dump water on it. I can't imagine living next to this and a bunch of designated pooping streets.
@bikiniboy1
2 жыл бұрын
Spontaneous combustion.
Sometimes I'm embarrassed to be human.
@gamingtonight1526
2 жыл бұрын
I am 64, I feel guilty as a person.
@titteryenot4524
2 жыл бұрын
Just ‘sometimes’?
@chatterboximsaigal252
2 жыл бұрын
Embarrassed to be Indian
@organicfarm5524
2 жыл бұрын
@Bigby Wolf where will you go? To Antarctica?
@organicfarm5524
2 жыл бұрын
@Bigby Wolf oh that's great, but if you could move to NZ it would be better because Australia is getting too hot
Oh My G! A big mountain of trash! Didn't they know that these garbage releases gas than can cause the fire? Adding the situation they have heat wave right now will trigger the fire as well. Then the landfill was very near the houses and commercial areas and the school. Oh dear hope they will be able to solve that situation otherwise it will continue to burn and cause respiratory illness to people.
One of the biggest fallacies of modern life is the phrase "throw it away" ,obviously, there is no "away".
And people think buying an electric car will make a difference
We need… everything 🇮🇳.
I can't even imagine the smell of this. Poor people over there 😑
The bbc needs to talk about Ecosia they are a search engine that plants tress
Have they tried spaying from the top?
I am so surprised that they are not wearing even a used FFP2 mask. I assumed after the pandemic, they should be available basically everywhere
Many countries in Asia have become the world's dumping ground for plastic waste. About 12 per cent of Canada's plastic waste is sent outside of North America to be 'recycled.
Respect to people are trying and taking initiative to make it stop. Shame on everyone who's talking shit right on youtube video, that mountain is there bcz they aren't filling oceans with it. They don't you go to your own house and stop bothering us.
@jsheckleberg5954
2 жыл бұрын
Actually most ocean garbage comes from India too
Holyshitz!! No way they gonna put that out… it’s a literal mountain of trash… how does that even happen?? I see lots of dirt in india… y’all can’t layer that shit?
The fire could have been anything, it could have been a lit cigarette.
Woah
tire fire anyone?
If the fireworker could not stop the fire & if that fire engulfed the entire mountain of the garbage, it would have been a environmental disaster comparable to Chernobyl Disaster. The amount of CO2 other toxic fumes which it might generate will severely affect the lives of Delhi, Haryana, Punjab & West UP.
Please take care of your health if you are near this fire! 💖💖💖
@None-zc5vg
2 жыл бұрын
....if you are near that subcontinent.
@windows168
Жыл бұрын
@@None-zc5vg no India is very clean and is one of the safest countries in the world es is very Developed and there are no guns in India.
Too many humans on planet earth.
Not even sure how it started...??? THAT pile is big enough for any number of spontaneous combustions... and really that mountain of middle class management is one huge methane factory. With all that water just feeding the bacterial action leading to the next spontaneous combustion. Middle class management at its finest...
close some old mine with all that garbage and cover it with soil.
mmm
what happen after 1000 year😱😩😩😩
Those birds in dark polluted air 😢
Clean up your mess
I live in Indonesia and we have the similar landfill-made mountain and after watching this video, Its only a matter of time before that one got a massive fire too.
God help you. Please come up with a better plan for your waste!
@markdavis4268
2 жыл бұрын
Ame We pray so
what have you done to my mother earth???
The land of the streetpoopers
How are Delhi's firefighters so poorly equipt? Even Bangladesh has better equipt firefighters. This is nuts. These guys don't even have proper hoses, they're just using garden hoses.
Have they not heard of recycling
just a big waste of resoruces
Meteor city revolution?
The JCB Driver in this Video is the Real Heavy Driver of India(in a Good sense,not in Meme sense)🔥
@markdavis4268
2 жыл бұрын
Really
@SunilMishra-qj2cc
2 жыл бұрын
@@markdavis4268 Yes
They need to burn for electricity generation. There's no other way to get rid of this.
@bikrampradhan7525
2 жыл бұрын
Why not use this rubbish generated in urban areas as a resource to generate power, this can be burnt in place of coal or gas with proper planning and using.
@freal9395
Жыл бұрын
@@bikrampradhan7525 but this will only lead go more enviornmental problems
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@zeinaamohmud212
2 жыл бұрын
صدق الله العظيم بارك الله فيك 🙏🙏💯
@SKVIDIOHIO
2 жыл бұрын
Bro really said ⭕⭕⭕
gross
Swachh Bharat..
Superpower india
@deedeecarlsberg1568
2 ай бұрын
It's literally a dumpster fire 🔥🔥
🙏❤✌
why not use helicopters with sand rather?
God their leader needs to sort the hygiene out in that country
Shameful. India needs to deal with this today. Too many people, too much waste... reduce, recycle, reuse.
@thegreataynrand7210
2 жыл бұрын
Recycling does not work. Waste to energy does
@aweishaupt5955
2 жыл бұрын
@@thegreataynrand7210 Ok great... then they can repurpose it into energy...which is recycling, renewing and reusing... just your interpretation of the definition is different, lol 🙃🙂 I wonder how many other mountains like that there are? And on fire? Its Irresponsible! Guess the purchases of nukes and cheap oil are more important than not making mother earth toxic, safe water and food, global warming and peoples health?! Shameful!
The myth of recycling.
@Starssinger
2 жыл бұрын
I've never know what India is big on recycling. I would assume that this burning pile of rubbish was an effect of lack of recycling.
They are thinking of Ruling the World. LoL
U.S pipelines run haphazardly through the first nations lands! 💯 R they trying to do the same on an international spectrum!! 😳😳😳
We the foolish citizens of India are making our own grave.
@INCOMEINSIDER10X
2 ай бұрын
That's an absolutely & utterly true answer
Why bother to put out landfill fires when you poop in your drinking water anyway
India's appalling air pollution is a national disgrace.
@matbroomfield
2 жыл бұрын
@@alkdjfhgks1919 Appalling
That isn't a landfill... That is a mountain of middle class management.
Sacred games?
Reminds me of the trash mountain in Idiocracy.
@PasajeroDelToro
2 жыл бұрын
Glad someone mentioned that. I couldn't remember the name of the movie!
@PasajeroDelToro
2 жыл бұрын
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India has such poor air quality. Fires will only make the air quality worse. India needs more environmentalists. As much waste as possible needs to be recycled and not dumped in landfills.
I want to salute the JCB drivers, specially the one leg commander. Firefighters - they have no Hazmat suits, no masks, no gloves, no eye wear ???? Even sub saharan African nations have better fire fighting equipment.
Gaitonde Bhai has returned
This is the true face of #swach_Bharat abhiyan. When you have a problem, you fix it not get rid of it or this will happen. Mr. Kejriwal should do something about it. Chaiwala me bharose mat raho. And it's next to water bodies great. Woh modiji woh modiji.
And some people gon call this thing 'godi media' or whatever.
WHERE IS GRETA NOW?
@titteryenot4524
2 жыл бұрын
She has her hands full with the great melting 1,000,000 thun bergs.
@romeisfallingagain
2 жыл бұрын
@@titteryenot4524 never forget the 6,000,000 great melting thun bergs
Where's DJ Snake when you need him?
Where are proud indians?
Sorry to say but hmari country bhot zyada gandi hai yar......or logo ki thinking to usse b gandi hai
Humans….. You’d think that with all we’re capable of and all that we have accomplished that we would have figured out how to best deal with our waste. But no, we’re drowning in our own 💩. Any other animal that caused even a slight inconvenience on the planet would have been hunted to extinction by now.
@thegreataynrand7210
2 жыл бұрын
Waste to energy solves these problems
@jsheckleberg5954
2 жыл бұрын
Please don't put all of us humans in with these people
Why would I be recommended to watch a video about people gasping for air 7000 miles away from me when I have no power to solve a situation that not my fault
Marvelous India 🇮🇳
Another country where moon rockets come ahead of people.
Give looted money back Britain 45 trillion dollar . We can solve every problem in India and look like heaven .
@user-fx2oo3bi9c
2 жыл бұрын
@@loquacious- End Karma rule you 😆
@Abhishekry7
2 жыл бұрын
@@user-fx2oo3bi9c Chup kar chutiye bhek mat mang Duniya ke samne bhikhari mat ban
@jsheckleberg5954
2 жыл бұрын
If India got 45 trillion dollars they would spend on garbage and end up with a bigger trash pile.
BBC comes India to show this only
Moral of the story is clear, try to recycle and reduce. Don't dump everything this is the end result. This is purely man made issue .
@PasajeroDelToro
2 жыл бұрын
Plastic recycling it a big con setup by companies that make plastic. The only real solutions are to try to burn it cleanly in dedicated plasma gasification incinerators that generate energy, or use some chemistry know-how and turn it into fuel like the video below.
@PasajeroDelToro
2 жыл бұрын
Plastic to fuel | How to make free petrol from plastic waste - MH4 TECH
@PasajeroDelToro
2 жыл бұрын
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India has its own unique music , BBC just puts some middle eastern music over anything asian which is stoopid
In karnataka state law and order is totally collapsed. Democracy in danger peoples are feared.please to impose the President rule in the state and to protect the peoples in karnataka state
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