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Article

18 Sep 2002

Author:
Sanctuary Asia

World Bank to fund plastics manufacture in India

In violation of the International Treaty on Pollution, the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) has proposed $20 million loan to expand the Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) plastics operations of India's Chemplast-Sanmar Limited. The manufacture and disposal of PVC produces the cancer-causing dioxin, one of the deadliest Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs).