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Article

11 Jan 2002

Author:
Nityanand Jayaraman, NoPE - No Plastics in the Environment

Rich Countries Dump Plastic Wastes in India

At a time when Indian cities and the rural countryside are reeling under a plastic waste crisis, official import data indicates that India has been a favoured dumping ground for plastic wastes...The imports included wastes of highly toxic plastics such as PVC (poly vinyl chloride), exported primarily from United States, Taiwan, the Netherlands, Japan, France, UK and Belgium.