{"id":75029,"date":"2025-11-04T18:45:43","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T09:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/video\/2025\/nov\/04\/life-and-death-on-indias-toxic-trash-mountains-video"},"modified":"2025-11-04T18:45:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T09:45:43","slug":"life-and-death-on-indias-toxic-trash-mountains-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75029","title":{"rendered":"Life and death on India\u2019s toxic trash mountains \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Towering above Delhi\u2019s skyline, emitting an inescapable stench of rotting flesh, are giant mountains of rubbish. Several miles wide and more than 200ft (60 metres) high, they are visible from across the city and stand as symbols of Delhi\u2019s inability to deal with its trash. <\/p>\n<p>Hannah Ellis-Petersen visited communities living in the shadow of Bhalswa\u2019s overfilled landfill heaps, to see how they have become reliant on the mountain that is simultaneously poisoning them<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/video\/2025\/nov\/04\/life-and-death-on-indias-toxic-trash-mountains-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Towering above Delhi\u2019s skyline, emitting an inescapable stench of rotting flesh, are giant mountains of rubbish. Several miles wide and more than 200ft (60 metres) high, they are visible from across the city and stand as symbols of Delhi\u2019s inability to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5049,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[353,62,3438,466,61,304],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-delhi","category-india","category-landfill","category-pollution","category-south-and-central-asia","category-waste"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5049"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75030,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75029\/revisions\/75030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}