With the fire at Mumbai’s Deonar dumping ground pushing the city’s air to dangerously toxic levels over the last few days, residents were forced to take out a protest march against the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation. The Deonar fire was the result of a criminally callous approach to waste disposal at the massive dumping ground, that receives more than 6,000 tonnes of waste each day. And thanks to politics between the state government and the municipal corporation, a much-needed processing plant at the site is yet to materialise. In other words, the Deonar disaster was waiting to happen – with dangerous toxic gases such as methane building up over decades.



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