India is the world’s largest plastic polluter, releasing enough plastic waste into the environment each year to fill 604 Taj Mahals, according to a study released on Wednesday that has displaced China from the top position.
Researchers at the University of Leeds in the UK have estimated that India emits some 9.3 million tonnes of macroplastic waste into the environment, over 90 per cent of it coming from uncollected municipal waste or waste burned at land disposal sites.
Their study, aimed at producing the first ever global plastic pollution inventory, has calculated that the world released 52 million tonnes of plastic waste into the environment during 2020, with India, Nigeria, Indonesia, China and Pakistan the top five polluters
Source: Telegraph
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