Kodungaiyur Garbage Dump

• Huge protests at Chennai's largest garbage dump

  Kodungaiyur is where Chennai's largest dumping ground is located. The city's garbage, adding up over the years, is now a small hill, circled in the sky by birds and guarded on the ground by dogs. A major part of the city's 3,200 tonnes of daily refuse ends up in this 65 acre plot.

• Every breath you take near Kodungaiyur may be toxic: Report

  If you live in the vicinity of Chennai's largest garbage dump at Kodungaiyur, every breath you take, may have 19 toxic chemicals! Environmentalists say the polluted air could target the respiratory and central nervous system. What's worse, the noxious fumes contain Butadiene, Chloromethane and Benzene, known to be carcinogenic and between 8.5 to 50...

• Every breath you take near Kodungaiyur

  If you live in the vicinity of Chennai's largest garbage dump at Kodungaiyur, every breath you take, may have 19 toxic chemicals! Environmentalists say the polluted air could target the respiratory and central nervous system.