However, India does export huge volumes of food and other goods to wealthy countries across the Middle East. Even more than their wealthy American, European, and Japanese counterparts, these Middle Eastern countries lack much of anything with which to fill those empty containers for the backhauls (oil, after all, moves in tankers, not containers). But, being rich, they do generate a lot of waste—in fact, per capita, they’re much more wasteful than Americans, even. So, no surprise, the top export, by volume, from Dubai to India is scrap paper and metal. Depending on the time of year, the cost
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