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We have seen in Singam film as to how medical waste from Australia was imported to India . Now it appears to be a world happening  and Britain was also in the act of smuggling its wastes to Indian towns.

Sri Lankan investigation into nearly 3,000 tonnes of illegally imported hazardous waste has shown that some of it was sent on to India and

Finance Minister Mangala Samaraweera told parliament the importer of the waste had reshipped about 180 tonnes of raw garbage to India and Dubai in 2017 and 2018.

Sri Lanka’s customs department found that a local company imported 241 containers from Britain, out of which 15 had been sent to India and two to Dubai.

Ordering a deep probe the minister said that 130 containers had been taken to a free-trade zone near Colombo and some had been emptied causing contamination of water sources and air pollution.

The company at the center of the probe, Ceylon Metal Processing Corporation Privater Limited, said the storage company at a free trade zone was responsible for processing what they imported as “used mattresses “ 

Sri Lanka customs authorities said  that the waste had been mislabeled and imported as used mattresses, but contained bio and clinical waste in contravention of international laws on the transport of waste material. 

Sri Lanka’s action comes after Indonesia and the Philippines also returned shipments of foreign rubbish sent by Australia and .Canada .