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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)

Published 203 days ago

Waste to wonder: Why redeveloping landfills is worth doing

Landfill (HT PHOTO)

Published 455 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

Updated 535 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.

Published 614 days ago

Probe ordered after man dies in Gurugram landfill collapse

Congress leader Raj Babbar at the Bandhwari landfill. (HT Photo)

Updated 772 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)

Updated 832 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)

Updated 851 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)

Updated 868 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)

Updated 914 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)

Updated 920 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.

Published 1017 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)

Updated 1047 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)

Updated 1074 days ago

Review: Wasteland by Oliver Franklin-Wallis

The Ghazipur landfill site in New Delhi. (Virendra Singh Gosain/Hindustan Times)

Updated 1087 days ago

Housing societies and schools join fight against plastic waste

Housing societies and schools join fight against plastic waste

Updated 1094 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)

Updated 1129 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)

Updated 1179 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)

Updated 1186 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)

Updated 1200 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)

Updated 1337 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".

Updated 1376 days ago

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

Technology has been developed to detect emissions through satellite data.  (REUTERS)

Published 1453 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)

Updated 1456 days ago

Delhi LG seeks plan to flatten landfills in city

Newly-appointed Delhi LG Vinai Kumar Saxena. (PTI Photo/Kamal Kishore)

Updated 1526 days ago

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

Ghazipur landfill (Ajay Aggarwal /HT PHOTO)

Published 1532 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)

Published 1557 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)

Updated 1557 days ago

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

Delhi environment minister Gopal Rai. (ANI/File)

Updated 1559 days ago

Ghazipur fire: Tech used in Mumbai may be deployed in Delhi landfill

There have been at least three fire incidents at the landfill in the last month, starting from March 28. (Raj K Raj/HT)

Updated 1564 days ago

Ghazipur landfill burns for 3rd time in a month

Smoke billows from a fire at the Ghazipur landfill site, in New Delhi, India, on Wednesday, April 20, 2022. (Photo by Ajay Aggarwal/Hindustan Times)

Published 1565 days ago

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