Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New Delhi, India – “My right eye swells up in the heat, so I stopped going to the landfill last year,” says 38-year-old Sofia ...

After a chance meeting with a migrant waste picker, Karan Kumar built Finobadi, recycling 450 tonnes of waste and creating fair, steady incomes for Delhi’s informal workers.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Durga Mukherjee remembers the first time she climbed to the top of New Delhi's largest and oldest landfill, joining the dogs, cows and crows there to begin her life as a waste ...

JAMMU, India (AP) — The putrid smell of burning garbage wafts for miles from the landfill on the outskirts of Jammu in a potentially toxic miasma fed by the plastics, industrial, medical and other ...

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