Alasdair Palmer

What is organised crime doing disposing of rubbish?

The dirty business of gangs growing rich on public-sector contracts

issue 29 February 2020

There were headlines recently about how more than half of local councils had recorded a large increase in the number of ‘fly-tipping’ incidents: cases where rubbish and waste are collected, then illegally dumped and left to rot in open fields. That practice normally has dire consequences for the local environment, and sometimes for the health of animals and people who live close by.

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