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 Pune is clean [1]

Because it sends its garbage to pollute a nearby village

SINCE 1983, all the municipal garbage from the city of Pune in Maharashtra has travelled 12 km to be dumped in the village of Urali-Devachi. More than 1,000 tonnes each day. Spread across 43 hectares, the dump pollutes the area. Leachates contaminate the ground

Publication Date: 
14/11/2008
Dolonchapa Bhattacharyya [2]
Down to Earth [3]
Tags:
Water Pollution [4], Groundwater Pollution [5], Air Pollution [6], Nagarpalikas [7], Sanitation [8], Solid Waste [9], Garbage [10], Waste Disposal [11], Landfill [12], High Court [13], Maharashtra [14], Pune (T) [15]
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