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IIT scholar plans gardens from landfills

IT may be difficult to believe that the Okhla landfill, the dumping ground that is bursting at the seams, can be turned into a garden but a research scholar at IIT Delhi plans to do just that.

Shailendra Jain, a research scholar at IIT-Ds Civil Engineering Department, proposes a garden atop heaps of waste in his model which deals with the post-exhaustion phase of landfills when groundwater near open landfill areas is in danger of contamination.

Jain is working on a technique that would help raise a garden as a block to rainwater seeping through the waste accumulated in the exhausted landfills. The model envisages a uniform cover of porous soil atop the landfill waste that would act as a reservoir of water during the summer and also prevent it from seeping through the waste.

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