The Harsh Realities of Where Your Amazon Packaging Ends Up
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- Tons of plastic mostly from the US and Canada end up at a dump in Muzaffarnagar, a city north of New Delhi. But India banned almost all imports of plastic waste in 2019. Bloomberg's K. Oanh Ha investigates the failings of the global recycling system.
Plastic wrappers and parcels that start off in Americans’ recycling bins end up at illegal dumpsites and industrial furnaces - and inside the lungs of people in Muzaffarnagar.
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.
On a November afternoon, mosquitoes swarmed above plastic trash piled 6 feet high off one of the city’s main roads. A few children picked through the mounds, looking for discarded toys while unmasked waste pickers sifted for metal cans or intact plastic bottles that could be sold. Although much of it was sodden or shredded, labels hinted at how far these items had traveled: Kirkland-brand almonds from Costco, Nestlé's Purina-brand dog food containers, the wrapping for Trader Joe’s mangoes.
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Why is the USA still using plastic packaging? Legislate for paper and cardboard and this problem gets solved.
Our politicians never understand unless they are unable to breathe
We are getting this info from you guys And Our news channels are busy in some hate mongering debates
The US Govt cares a lot about it's people, hence happily allows shipping plastic waste out of the country.
They care only about their own interest ...if some countries go against their interest then it's war
How about STOP importing other people's trash and hold your own government accountable for allowing this to happen.
They're importing paper for recycling - its US that are contaminating it with plastic trash.
Awesome reporting per usual K. Oanh Ha
Ob man ein gutes oder schlechtes Leben hat hängt einzig an der geographischen Lage
This sucks :( I wish all Indian people can live a happy and prosperous life
i watched a same story about thailand or indonesia maybe. They import recyclable plastics from us and canada because its cheaper, but they also get tonnes of non recyclable plastics. Due to which they are thinking to stop importing from us and canada.
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Same trend here, these industries buy paper to recycle , but along with that they also get loads of plastics with them.
But nearby states Haryana and Punjab burn so much of the harvest waste that it pollutes almost half of India's geography, do a video on that as well.
Despite our governments providing them a biodegradable option, the ride farmers would not opt for that but burn all of the remainder of the harvest, straw, grass, etc.
We can't be bigots and say that US is responsible for all the pollution when our own people still use plastic despite a strict ban on its usage all over India.
People still use it EVERYWHERE !!! Irrespective of its micron sizes.
5:20 welp, hide your details
Indian govt doesn't care about it's people.
and you think the Biden Administration does??
@@likemostthings America and Americans are a whole different can of worms. The stupidest most vile people on this planet. You turned utopia into dystopia in less than 50 years. All because you are too stupid to stick to your protestant roots. Now your country is Jewish not just in terms of who is on the throne but also your culture and saddest of fucking all, YOUR MORALITY AND ETHICS ARE COMPLETELY JEWISH. and you won't stop invading poor weak countries for literally no reason.
@@sreekalavallybalasubramani538 Why don't you protest and ask your Government to enact change. I thought they already had an EPA equivalent in India AIEO. Why are they not fining these companies? Is it corruption?
@@jimflagg4009 corruption is the word. Indians keep running away from India like it's toxic, but wherever Indians go settle they slowly turn that place into the same shit hole they fled from. I'm Indian and you can believe me. These people are too stupid to understand cause and effect. They literally fucking sweep the home floor every morning and the conclusion is not to throw away that stuff into a receptacle, nooo no no, they fucking light it on fire and then breathe that shit in. Then they complain about air quality and fucking cancer. These people are shit and their country is a fucking shit hole and they are genocidal maniacs that would rather be kings of garbage then reform their ways. They love to complain about India when they come to America but never look at themselves
Chak de India🔥👍
Ich muss noch was bei Amazon bestellen ........
No wonder India's carbon emissions are going up..
Oh my gosh
WOW! THIS WAS SHORT AND DEFFENTLY NOT SWEET.
I appreciate consice news; U want me to care then give me the facts & don't dilly-dally about it.
With that many flies buzzing around India has other problems too. They chose to import waste from other countries, they choose to pollute the air they breath which in turn gets circulated all over the rest of the world, they made these choices. So to try to pin the blame on the source you really should be focused on the people causing their own harm: India.
das is doch nur wieder emotionalisiernder BS
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