A big dirty business – Britain’s battle against the illegal waste industry
The UK is facing a quiet but catastrophic environmental crisis, driven not by accidental littering, but by a highly organised, lucrative criminal industry.
Illegal waste crime costs the UK economy an estimated £1bn every year, with recent sector data suggesting that when including widespread landfill tax evasion, the total economic drain could be closer to £2bn.
This is no longer a matter of individuals throwing single bags of rubbish into a hedge (as antisocial as that may be).
Today, massive criminal syndicates run indust... You can carry on reading TheBusinessDesk.com for free, but you have reached the maximum number of pages an unregistered user can view. To register for an account, click here or login below...
