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Ghazipur landfill: The 70-acre 'garbage mountain of Delhi' - where nearby residents are being 'slowly poisoned'

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Ghazipur landfill is one of the largest landfills in the country, also called the "garbage mountain of Delhi " It is 200 feet high and covers an area of almost 70 acres - over 50 football pitches.

The site is a hotspot for methane emissions - a powerful greenhouse gas that is 84 times more potent in warming the atmosphere than carbon dioxide over a 20-year period.

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