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Communities living in Dumpyard
Ahmedabad is one of the largest cities in the state of Gujarat, both in terms of size and population. The total population of Ahmedabad is 55.7 lakhs. This huge number of population has a positive and negative effect. With this huge population, there comes in high pollution too.

It is said that, Amdavadis keep producing nearly 4,200 tones every day. Not only this waste is collected, but also it is dumped in huge tones of plastic, toxic chemicals and other such wastes. This garbage dumped at the site burns unknowingly which then creates pollution and also emits toxic fumes into the air.

The adverse effects are very harmful on the communities living nearby. The rural type of communities is found around this Pirana Dump yard. Most of the families in absence of work and any source of money, survive themselves by doing labor work on the site. Thus, this labor work provides them a good opportunity to earn their livelihood. The worst part is that most of what they earn is spent on illness.

EFFECTS ON PEOPLE
All the people working and doing labor work in Pirana dump yard area are majorly suffer from one or the other health issues. The conditions in which they work are so worsened that no person can even look at the site of working. There prevails a common complaint from the local communities about the unpleasant smell coming from the dump yard due to dumping of garbage. Also, there is no proper facility for the waste disposal. This not only affects the health of the people living there but also the workers climb on the higher risk of getting TB, asthma, rabies and various other skin disorders. Following are the major effects of this dumping of garbage –

1.    Respiratory problems
People working in the dump yard and the communities living around the garbage, suffer from the respiratory problems. Due to the heavy emission of the smoke of burned garbage, people feel problems and blockage in inhaling and exhaling air leading to respiratory problem.

2.    Disorder and headaches
The laborers working in the area of dumping garbage do the manual work of collecting the garbage and separating into different types. This manual work and separation work leads to various skin disorders and headaches. Many people who are working there on the site and even those who are doing business little away from that place, suffer from skin disorder wherein they lose hair from cheek and forehead area and thus leading to skin disorders. Also, people working on the dumping ground from morning to evening have headaches due to the foul smell and sunlight too.

3.    Increasing number of insects and flies
Pirana dump yard is a huge place for dumping garbage of all types, which includes the garbage and waste of the whole city. This causes increase in number of dumping. Due to the garbage, there creates very bad and foul smell leading to the polluted air and insects and flies which flies around the garbage. From there, comes the diseases like dengue, malaria and more. Thus, the labors have to spend more on illness from their income.

4.    Elimination of gases
The garbage that is collected is a mixture of both wet and dry waste. Thus, when this garbage and waste is burned, a huge amount of gas is emitted. Those gases are so harmful that this elimination of toxic gases can kill people too. Also, sometimes there is an automatic fire that takes place on the dumping.

5.    Pollution
These dumping of wastes and garbage also include the process of collecting it door to door and then dumping it on the hip of the collected garbage. Burning of these creates air pollution. Also, the disastrous and foul smell causes air pollution. This foul smell affects the residents living around. Even, water pollution also takes place due the contamination of ground water. All this has only worsened the health situation apart from the obvious harm of living beside Pirana dump yard.