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What plastic waste import ban? This loophole leads to influx of PET bottles India banned the import of plastic waste – particularly PET bottles -in 2015 because of an inability to recycle them A legitimate escape clause is permitting a convergence of PET jugs into the nation, notwithstanding a restriction on the import of plastic waste, a New Delhi-based ecological association has guaranteed. While China’s restriction on bringing in plastic waste has constrained different nations to venture up reusing endeavors, India has turned out to be one of the nations whose  plastic waste  imports have expanded “significantly”. An association called the Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Smriti Manch (PDUSM) has guaranteed India’s imports of plastic pieces from China, Japan, Italy and Malawi for reusing and imports of PET jug scrap and chips has quadrupled. It says that in the monetary year 2016-17, the imports were 12,000 tons. This figure developed to 48,000 tons in FY 2017-18...