Amazon Packages Burn in India, Final Stop in Broken Recycling System

Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2022-india-plastic-recycling-pollution/#xj4y7vzkg

Author: K. Oanh Ha

Muzaffarnagar, a city about 80 miles north of New Delhi, is famous in India for two things: colonial-era freedom fighters who helped drive out the British and the production of jaggery, a cane sugar product boiled into goo at some 1,500 small sugar mills in the area. Less likely to feature in tourism guides is Muzaffarnagar’s new status as the final destination for tons of supposedly recycled American plastic.