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    Landfill News

    In 1983, Atari buried its games in a dump; in 2014, over 1,300 were dug up

    Atari's burial of unsold cartridges in 1983 led to a 2014 excavation revealing over 1,300 games.
    World News
    Published 6 days ago

    23-year-old dies by suicide after husband's death in Moshi landfill tragedy

    Police said the woman had been distressed following her husband’s death.
    Cities
    Updated 54 days ago

    An exhibition that forces Mumbai to look at what it throws away

    Mumbai, India - Jan. 11, 2026: Author Saumya Roy, during a conversation at Priyasri Art Gallery, Kathiwada City House, as part of Mumbai Gallery Weekend, ahead of the exhibition “Necropolis of Remains” inspired by Roy’s book Mountain Tales in Mumbai, India, on Sunday, January 11, 2026. (Photo by Anshuman Poyrekar/Hindustan Times) (Anshuman Poyrekar/HT Photo)
    Cities
    Published 268 days ago

    Waste to wonder: Why redeveloping landfills is worth doing

    Landfill (HT PHOTO)
    Ht Insight
    Published 519 days ago

    Man who lost ₹6,500 crore in Bitcoin wants to buy landfill to dig it up

    Man on a quest to find Bitcoin he mistakenly threw away plans to buy the entire landfill where he thinks it is buried
    Business
    Updated 600 days ago

    Woman threw ex-boyfriend's ₹6,000 crore in trash, he now wants to dig landfill

    The large amount of wealth was stored in an old hard drive in the form of 8,000 bitcoins.
    Trending
    Published 678 days ago

    Probe ordered after man dies in Gurugram landfill collapse

    Congress leader Raj Babbar at the Bandhwari landfill. (HT Photo)
    Cities
    Updated 836 days ago

    Process to flatten Delhi’s landfills slowest at Ghazipur, fresh dumping goes on

    Smoke billows out of the landfill due to the fire on Monday. (PTI)
    Cities
    Updated 897 days ago

    Election In Pincodes: Ghaziabad votes amid bad air, in shadow of a trash mound

    Homes and dairy units dot the foot of the Ghazipur landfill, on the fringe of the Delhi-Ghaziabad border. (Sanjeev Verma/HT Photo)
    India News
    Updated 916 days ago

    Biomining at landfills in Ghazipur, Bhalswa set to miss latest deadline

    The civic body admitted that the three landfill sites still have 17.2 million tonnes of legacy waste, due to which the deadline to clear the Ghazipur landfill has been pushed back from 2024 to 2026. (HT Archive)
    Cities
    Updated 933 days ago

    Process to set up waste management plant underway, Chandigarh MC informs high court

    The high court instructed the petitioners to submit expert solutions to resolve the waste management problem in Chandigarh. (HT File Photo)
    Cities
    Updated 979 days ago

    DPCC gives conditional nod for Delhi civic body to dump WtE ash at landfill

    In humans, prolonged exposure to such ash can cause lung and heart ailments, including neurological damage. (HT Photo)
    Cities
    Updated 985 days ago

    This is how New York turned world’s biggest garbage dump into a park

    NYC Parks Commissioner Robert Moses selected Freshkills as a landfill site after World War II.
    World News
    Published 1081 days ago

    Second engineered landfill in Delhi soon

    New Delhi, India - July 10, 2023: A view of Taimoor Nagar Drain filled with garbage in New Delhi, India, on Monday, July 10, 2023. (Photo by Sanchit Khanna/ Hindustan Times)**To go with the story by Paras (Hindustan Times)
    Cities
    Updated 1112 days ago

    Waste collection gains pace in Chandigarh, but disposal still stuck in slow lane

    As the long-term projects for waste management projects of Chandigarh municipal corporation are months away from getting operational, unprocessed wet waste is being dumped at the Dadumajra landfill. (Keshav Singh/HT)
    Cities
    Updated 1138 days ago

    Review: Wasteland by Oliver Franklin-Wallis

    The Ghazipur landfill site in New Delhi. (Virendra Singh Gosain/Hindustan Times)
    Books
    Updated 1152 days ago

    Housing societies and schools join fight against plastic waste

    Housing societies and schools join fight against plastic waste
    Cities
    Updated 1159 days ago

    Ghaziabad mayor seize nine trucks, alleges Delhi’s solid waste dumped in Gz

    Dayal on Friday said the trucks allegedly bore markings of “MCD” -- Municipal Corporation of Delhi-- and were stopped midway between Nandgram and Pipeline Road and handed over to police. Three of these trucks were later taken to Nandgram police station. (Sakib Ali/HT Photo)
    Cities
    Updated 1194 days ago

    Chandigarh: Bio-mining of 55% legacy waste completed at Dadumajra dump

    A special House meeting on solid waste management has been scheduled on May 13, where approval to disburse <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>44 crore for the bio-mining project at Dadumajra landfill will be sought. (HT File Photo)
    Cities
    Updated 1244 days ago

    Sensors, cameras at Delhi landfills in MCD plan to prevent fires

    The efforts come a year after a massive fire broke out at the Bhalswa landfill in April 2022 when the site burnt for days on end. (Sanjeev Verma/HT Photo)
    Cities
    Updated 1251 days ago

    E-waste park to come up in Delhi, but many miles to go

    Delhi currently generates an estimated 200,000 tonne of e-waste each year, based on Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) data. (Representative image/HT Archive)
    Cities
    Updated 1265 days ago

    Forget wiping landfills, basics absent: Delhi voters around 3 trash mountains

    People pose for a photograph near the Ghazipur landfill after casting their vote on Sunday. (PTI)
    Cities
    Updated 1401 days ago

    BJP's Gambhir tweets old letter to Kejriwal amid Ghazipur row: ‘Chunav mendak…’

    BJP's east Delhi MP Gautam Gambhir called AAP supremo and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal "liar in chief Kejriwal".
    Cities
    Updated 1440 days ago

    Satellite finds how landfills are 'super emitters' of greenhouse gas methane

    Technology has been developed to detect emissions through satellite data. &nbsp;(REUTERS)
    Technology
    Published 1517 days ago

    MCD to upgrade surveillance at Ghazipur landfill site in bid to curb blazes

    There are currently 17 cameras over 70 acres of the landfill, and the municipality intends to install another 20 CCTV cameras at critical areas at the garbage dump.(Photo by Raj K Raj/Hindustan Times)
    Cities
    Updated 1521 days ago

    Delhi LG seeks plan to flatten landfills in city

    Newly-appointed Delhi LG Vinai Kumar Saxena. (PTI Photo/Kamal Kishore)
    Cities
    Updated 1591 days ago

    Delhi assembly panel pulls up top MCD official over ‘growing landfills’

    Ghazipur landfill (Ajay Aggarwal /HT PHOTO)
    India News
    Published 1597 days ago

    Bhalswa landfill smoulders for 3rd straight day as residents stave off smoke

    Firefighters struggled to douse the fire at the Bhalswa landfill site for the third straight day on Thursday. (Sanchit Khanna/HT Photo)
    Cities
    Published 1622 days ago

    3 landfills have cost Delhi ₹450 cr in environmental damages: Study

    Firefighters struggled to douse the fire at the Bhalswa landfill site for the third straight day on Thursday. (Sanchit Khanna/HT Photo)
    Cities
    Updated 1622 days ago

    Bhalswa fire: Gopal Rai asks Delhi pollution panel to submit report in 24 hours

    Delhi environment minister Gopal Rai. (ANI/File)
    Cities
    Updated 1624 days ago
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