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Why is garbage heaped excessively on the ground dangerous?

A trash heap 62 meters high shows the scale of India’s climate challenge
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/12/10/india/india-bhalswa-landfill-pollution-climate-intl-hnk-dst/index.html

I've experienced the horror of accumulation of burnable items. In my workplace, there was carbonized wood chips heaped on the ground. Its height was just 1 meter. Even when I sprinkled water on them, smoke emerges from them.
So, it must be much more difficult to deal with trash heaping 62 meters high.