This mountain is composed of garbage.
Nicknamed 'Mount Everest' by locals, the expansive pile of fetid matter is already more than 65 metres (213 feet) tall. As India's Supreme Court recently warned, it's well overdue for some aircraft warning lights.
Better yet, they never lined the thing, so leachate flows all over the place:
What's more, the landfill has absolutely no liner system, which means it is sitting straight on the ground. All dumps produce something called leachate, but without something to catch this black liquid at Ghazipur, the whole thing oozes continuously into a local canal.
India is one of the world's largest garbage producers.
No wonder that those who can tend to move to North America.
