2005 Leuwigajah landslide

Natural disaster The 2005 Leuwigajah landslide was a landslide that killed 143 people in Indonesia. The Leuwigajah landfill serving the cities of Cimahi and Bandung in West Java, Indonesia experienced a catastrophic garbage landslide on 21 February 2005 when the face of a large, almost-vertical garbage mound collapsed after days of rain. The slide tore through informal neighborhoods set up by individuals within the landfill for the purpose of collecting recyclables, where it killed 143 people and injured many more.Lavigne Franck Wassmer Patrick Gomez Christopher Davies Thimoty A Sri Hadmoko Danang Iskandarsyah T Yan W M Gaillard Jc Fort Monique Texier Pauline 24 December 2014 The 21 February 2005, catastrophic waste avalanche at Leuwigajah dumpsite, Bandung, Indonesia http://www.geoenvironmental-disasters.com/content/1/1/10 Geoenvironmental Disasters en 1 1 10.1186/s40677-014-0010-5 31339180 2197-8670 freeSassa Kyoshi https://books.google.com/books?id=o_S5MDSnk9cC&q=Leuwigajah+landslide&pg=PA147 Progress in Landslide Science Fukuoka Hiroshi Wang Fawu Wang Gonghui 29 December 2007 9783540709657 Leuwigajah landfill Prior to the landslide the dumpsite had been the primary disposal zone for trash from Bandung and Cimahi.Sassa Kyoji https://books.google.com/books?id=o_S5MDSnk9cC&q=2005+Leuwigajah+landslide&pg=PA147 Progress in Landslide Science Fukuoka Hiroshi Wang Fawu Wang Gonghui 2007-12-29 Springer Science & Business Media 978-3-540-70965-7 147 en Bandung sent over 3400 cubic meters of trash to the site per day, while Cimahi added 400 cubic meters and the residential District of Bandung adjacent to the dump added 750 cubic meters per day.https://books.google.com/books?id=nRXHBAAAQBAJ Municipal Solid Waste Management in Asian and the Pacific Islands Challenges and Strategic Solutions Pariatamby Agamuthu Tanaka Masaru Springer-Verlag Singapore 2014 978-981-4451-73-4 Singapore 152 Garbage had piled up in the dumpsite with a peak height of 70 meters. Landslide Two days of heavy rain had preceded the landslide,Lubis Ratna Lindawati 2015 The Triple Drivers of Ecopreneurial Action for Taking the Recycling Habits to the Next Level: A Case of Bandung City, Indonesia International Journal of Multidisciplinary Thought 5 20 ResearchGate which would have loosened mounds of garbage already destabilized by human interaction. On 21 February a large mound gave way and traveled south-southwest for over one kilometer. Sudden releases of methane gas from the slide caused explosions. The slide moved parallel the communities of Cireundeu, which sat just southeast to the slide's point of origin, and Gunung Lentik. Aftermath thumb|The Leuwigajah Disposal Site provided landfill service for the cities of Cimahi and Bandung. The disaster brought heightened regional awareness to the danger of irresponsible waste management techniques. The City of Cimahi and the City and District of Bandung canceled their agreements to send their trash to the landfill service.Pariatamby Agamuthu https://books.google.com/books?id=nRXHBAAAQBAJ&q=2005+Leuwigajah+landslide&pg=PA151 Municipal Solid Waste Management in Asia and the Pacific Islands: Challenges and Strategic Solutions Tanaka Masaru 2013-09-05 Springer Science & Business Media 978-981-4451-73-4 Singapore 151 en In December 2014 a fatwa titled Waste Management to Counteract Environment Degradation was issued by the Indonesian Ulema Council that cited the Leuwigajah disaster victims from Cimahi as a primary motivation for action to prevent a similar disaster in the future.Gade Anna M. https://books.google.com/books?id=XSd5DwAAQBAJ&q=2005+Leuwigajah+landslide&pg=PT186 Muslim Environmentalisms: Religious and Social Foundations 2019-08-20 150 Columbia University Press 978-0-231-54921-9 Chichester, West Sussex, New York en Public Reasoning for Islamic Environmental Law References Category:Landslides in 2005 Category:February 2005 in Indonesia Category:2005 disasters in Indonesia Category:21st century in West Java Category:Garbage landslides Category:2000s in Java