#Gravitas New Delhi has long struggled with an overwhelming waste management system leading to landfills reaching embarrassing heights, some as tall as 200 feet, visible from kilometres away.

World’s biggest stink: Delhi’s mount rubbish

Several mutilated bodies were found discarded in plastic sacks at a rubbish dump in a slum of Nairobi in Kenya. A report by a news agency on Saturday (July 13) said that the bodies were discovered on Friday in Mukuru, south of Nairobi. On Saturday, Kenyan police were searching through the dump watched by angry crowds. Watch in for more details!

Kenya: Gruesome discovery of bodies in Landfill

Every day, dozens of elephants lumber out of the forest and into this garbage dump in eastern Sri Lanka, looking for something to eat. They rummage through heaps of plastic, paper and other trash, picking out wilted bits of vegetables with their trunks. It's a common sight at the country's three largest landfills which are located next to wildlife protection zones.

Drone footage shows hungry elephants looking for food in Sri Lanka landfill

Mansoor Khan and his wife Latifa Bibi have been collecting scraps of plastic and other items at a towering landfill on the outskirts of New Delhi for nearly 20 years. The $5 daily earnings enable their three children to go to school, in search of a better future than their parents' lives amid the stench of rotting garbage. But over the past few months, biomedical waste has been piling up - a result, experts say, of the novel coronavirus pandemic and a huge risk for those who work there.

Delhi scavengers risk lives to sift coronavirus debris

Indonesia has returned five containers of rubbish to the United States and will not become a "dumping ground", officials said Saturday, the latest Southeast Asian country to return imported waste.

Indonesia returns five containers of waste to the US

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