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A woman segregating plastic waste gathered from garbage dumps for recycling, at a scrapyard on the outskirts of Bengaluru in India's Karnataka state, on Sept 6.
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NEW DELHI – It has long been known that India is one of the world’s top plastic waste generators, with only China producing more plastic waste than the country annually.
But when it comes to being the planet’s top plastic polluter, a new scientific paper has ranked India as the worst offender, whereas China is ranked fourth, turning the spotlight on India’s plastic waste management problem.
