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Mumbai Is Overflowing with Garbage

Boys play as cows graze through garbage at the Deonar landfill site in Mumbai. Photographer: Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg

Bhuma Shrivastava and Anto Antony

July 26, 2015, 11:00 PM UTCUpdated onJuly 27, 2015, 7:53 AM UTC

Which global city uses prime real estate nearly the size of New York’s Central Park simply to dump trash on?

Mumbai.