The world's biggest and most dangerous dump sites interactive

From Global development | The Guardian Mon Oct 6 2014, 11:29:39

Waste is now a global business yet more than half of the worlds population have little option but to use dumps for disposing rubbish, creating massive sites full of hazardous materials, often in the worlds poorer countries. The latest Waste Atlas report, developed by D-Waste and supported by the Waste Atlas partnership, lists 50 of the biggest sites, and we profile 18 of the mountains of grime here, listed alphabetically by country

Smelly, contaminated, full of disease: the worlds open dumps are growing

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