The Spontaneous Dump of the Village of Mantysh

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Coordinates: 42.183698, 75.283381

Unauthorized landfills are one of the significant factors of pollution, negatively impacting natural components: the atmosphere, water sources, soil, and plant and animal life. By being placed directly on the soil cover, landfills remove a significant portion of land from agricultural circulation and the biosphere, introducing pollutants into them.
When waste placed in unauthorized landfills ignites, toxic and poisonous substances are released into the atmosphere. Heavy metals and other substances are leached from the landfill body by atmospheric precipitation, contaminating the soil and penetrating into surface waters. With prolonged storage in landfill layers, biogas begins to form, the main components of which are flammable methane and carbon dioxide. Unauthorized landfills are breeding grounds for insects and rats, active carriers of infection.

Unauthorized landfills occupy a place in the system of ecological monitoring as sources of impact on all components of the environment. An important feature of this source of environmental pollution is its spatial and temporal variability, both in volume and composition. Landfills are dangerous sources of environmental pollution, primarily affecting soils, surface and groundwater, and animal and plant life. The greatest danger is posed by landfills located in the protective zones of water bodies, river floodplains, lower parts of the terrain (ravines, gullies), in places where drinking water wells are located, and on agricultural fields.

The size of spontaneous landfills is increasing at a catastrophic rate. They consume land, lead to the death of local flora and fauna, expand to the nearest settlements, and poison people. Irrational, outdated, and immoral policies of local authorities and capital officials in the field of waste collection and disposal have resulted in thousands of semi-spontaneous dumps operating in Kyrgyzstan. All of them do not meet modern requirements for the organization of such facilities. Dozens of hectares of beautiful and invaluable land have been allocated for landfills.