In this episode we look at the criminal involvement in the plastic waste industry.


The lucrative global market in plastic waste is expected to be reach over $50 billion US Dollars by 2022. From Mafia groups to poly-crime networks, the temptation for organised criminal groups and bad actors to get a slice of this market is too hard to resist - and so corners are cut, laws are ignored, and irreversible damage is done.


Alongside this, some waste management companies are used as Fronts to conceal other illicit activities like human trafficking, drug trafficking, prostitution, and various financial crimes like money laundering, tax evasion, mis-invoicing.


Paper: Plastic for Profit: Tracing illicit plastic waste flows, supply chains and actors ([ Ссылка ])


Speakers


Virginia Comolli ([ Ссылка ]) , Research Manager, Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime ([ Ссылка ])


Yuyun Ismawati ([ Ссылка ]) , Special Advisor at the Nexus3 Foundation ([ Ссылка ])


Willie Wilson ([ Ссылка ]) , Vice Chair and Private Sector Engagement Lead, INTERPOL Pollution Crime Working Group ([ Ссылка ])


Sedat Gündoğdu ([ Ссылка ]) , Marine Biologist at Cukurova University ([ Ссылка ]) in Turkey


Reading


Plastic for Profit: Tracing illicit plastic waste flows, supply chains and actors ([ Ссылка ]) , Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GITOC)


Money Laundering from Environmental Crime ([ Ссылка ]) , Financial Action Task Force (FATF)


INTERPOL report alerts to sharp rise in plastic waste crime ([ Ссылка ]) , INTERPOL


Plastic Waste Management and Burden in Indonesia ([ Ссылка ]) , Nexus3 Foundation ([ Ссылка ])


Global Shell Game: Fate of re-exports of seized illegal imports of waste from the USA to Indonesia ([ Ссылка ]) , Nexus3 Foundation


Why is UK recycling being dumped by Turkish roadsides? ([ Ссылка ]) , BBC News


Biffa fined £1.5 million for 'reckless' export breach ([ Ссылка ].) , gov.uk


UK waste firm fined £1.5m for exporting household waste ([ Ссылка ]) , The Guardian


Three victims of trafficking and modern slavery to sue Biffa: The claimants were moved from Poland to the UK and placed in work with waste firm ([ Ссылка ]) , The Guardian

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