Chapters

• Waste crime: key features and main challenges
• General view
• What are we talking about in practice?
• Atacama desert in Chile
• Dead whale with 30 kilograms plastic wastes in stomach
• Polluted river in urban environment
• Dray river in India, New Delhi
• Chemical factory, Poland
• Even the COVID-19 pandemic increased the plastic pollution
• Numbers
• Some waste materials are particularly vulnerable to waste crime
• Waste trafficking is still a high-profit and low-risk crime
• Organised crime networks
• A follow-the-money approach to waste crime
• Securing documentation from involved company
• Article 1
• Article 2 (1/3)
• Article 2 (2/3)
• Article 2 (3/3)
• Waste
• Solid Waste Management Hierarchy
• Waste is ugly but recycling is the proper way
• What is waste?
• Ways of protecting the environment
• Key points
• Legislation in the numerous Member States provides a range of administrative fines
• As you can see
• Article 288
• Directive 2008/99/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of the environment through criminal law (1/2)
• Directive 2008/99/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of the environment through criminal law (2/2)
• Conclusions
• The Basel Convention
• The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal
• Exports of waste from the EU to third-countries
• How waste should be legally transported between countries?
• Stage 1
• Stage 2
• Stage 3
• Let’s stop for the moment
• More information
• Example 1
• Example 2
• Method of packaging - improper packaging proves that it is in fact waste
• Illegal exports and imports of waste (1/2)
• Illegal exports and imports of waste (2/2)