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The global junkstore

foreign vessels carrying hazardous wastes are fast turning India into a global dumping ground. Investigations made by the international environmental group Greenpeace and Shrishti, a Delhi-based non governmental organisation, revealed that international waste traders dump toxic wastes here in violation of all local and international laws framed in the Basel convention. "The situation is completely out of control. Every Indian port is a floodgate standing open and the world's waste traders know it. India is receiving the worst waste of the wasteful nations on the planet