The Mumbai City Council has acquired a new weapon to combat the increasingly putrid stench emanating from two of the city's biggest rubbish dumps: 42,000 litres of deodorant.
Sanil Supreme, a sweet-smelling herbal spray, will be squirted each day in an attempt to neutralise the increasingly offensive odour of the massive Deonar and Mulund landfill sites after a decree from Ahmad Karim, the head of the city's solid-waste management division, The Australian reports.
He hopes that this fresh tactic will deliver some much-needed olfactory relief for the 400,000 people who live near the tips.
The Deonar dump covers more than 120ha. Locals filed a petition with the High Court complaining that the stink was intolerable.
The dump was first used by the British in 1927. A growing mountain of untreated garbage has festered there since.
"The foul smell at the two sites is unbearable," Mr Karim said.
The city council was also growing increasingly concerned about the risk of disease.
"We were fumigating with ordinary chemical but Sanil Supreme will help to reduce the smell while controlling the breeding of pathogens," he said. Source:
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