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Woman near Delhi landfill endures smog and air pollution
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11/21/2024
Surrounded by tonnes of waste emitting noxious gases, Hema, 40, a homemaker residing in the congested slums next to the Bhalswa landfill site, is gasping for clean air amid soaring pollution in New Delhi.
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Surrounded by tons of waste emitting noxious gases, 40-year-old Hema, a homemaker residing
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in the congested slums next to the Bhalswa landfill site, is gasping for clean air amid
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soaring pollution in New Delhi.
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While residents in India's capital city and other northern states have recently been concerned
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about pollution-induced illnesses, especially during winter, Hema has been consuming toxic
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air from the Bhalswa landfill for the past 25 years.
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Living in a neighbourhood filled with people who work as rag pickers, Hema and several
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others like her have always been exposed to noxious gases, including methane and carbon
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monoxide, that come from the toxic waste dumped at the landfill.
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Hema used to collect waste for 15 years, after which she had to stop because of health concerns.
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Bharti Chaturvedi, founder of an environmental research group, Chintan, said the impact of
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pollution on people living near landfill sites is much worse as they do not have the
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best access to health care.
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So they're breathing two kinds of things, they're breathing direct landfill pollution
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and they're breathing the general air pollution, so it definitely gets much worse for them.
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And on top of that, remember, these are people without the best access to health care, these
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are malnourished, vulnerable, poor people.
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So they themselves don't have the resilience that a middle class person may have.
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India battles air pollution every winter as cold, heavy air traps, dust, emissions and
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smoke from farm fires started illegally in the farming states of Punjab and Haryana.
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