It ’s hot enough in India to make one of Delhi ’s liberal folderol piles ad lib combust . A firebeganlast Tuesday at the Bhalswa landfill , a massive web site in northeast Delhi that lies along a canal that connect to the Yamuna River . The huge landfill , which takes mostly unsorted wastefulness , is as improbable as a 17 - story building and take up more than 50 Acre , Quartz Indiareports . spectacular picture posted to Twitter by passer-by last calendar week show an ominously glowing mickle of chalk .

Here ’s why we are the worlds most polluted city . We do n’t like . It shows in how little we compost . If we did , this monumental landfill fire would not have happened.pic.twitter.com/IJmc4eg6fY

— Bharati Chaturvedi ( @Bharati09)April 26 , 2022

A man walks through the Bhalswa landfill as the fire rages.

A man walks through the Bhalswa landfill as the fire rages.Photo: Manish Swarup (AP)

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