CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -The open area was mostly desolate on the outskirts of the city with very few households and a drain flowing next to it. The erstwhile Municipal Corporation of Delhi started dumping waste on the location in 1984 earmarking the 70-acre site for waste management of the city.

Detailed explanation-2: -Modern landfills are well-engineered and managed facilities for the disposal of solid waste. Landfills are located, designed, operated and monitored to ensure compliance with federal regulations. They are also designed to protect the environment from contaminants, which may be present in the waste stream.

Detailed explanation-3: -This nightmarish existence is the reality of people living near the Ghazipur Landfill site near the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border. Team Banega Swasth India visited the location of the Ghazipur landfill that was commissioned in 1984 and its life span expired 20 years ago in 2002.

Detailed explanation-4: -Landfills composed mainly of cleanfill, but also construction and demolition waste with light contaminants. Landfills where contruction and demolition materials such as wood products, asphalt, plasterboard, insulation and others are disposed to land. Landfills where cleanfill material is disposed to land.