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The rise of recycling crime

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Published on: 20 November 2018

Published by a LexisNexis Corporate Crime expert

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What is the context to recycling crime in the UK?
How are waste-dumping and other recycling-related crimes currently regulated in the UK? Have there been any recent important changes to waste laws?
Have there been any significant cases relating to recycling crime? What are the practical implications of these?
What else could be done to regulate recycling crime? Can any lessons be learnt from other jurisdictions?

Article summary

Corporate Crime analysis: In the second article of a two-part series for national recycling week 2018, Siobhain Egan, director at Lewis Nedas Law, discusses the rise of recycling crime in the UK and what can be done to regulate this. In particular, Egan looks at the impact of China’s refusal to accept foreign waste.

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