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The world’s plastics waste trade is a cover for criminal exploitation and abuses of human rights

The global plastic waste trade is an environmental disaster hiding in plain sight, EIA’s latest report concludes. Undermined by exploitable loopholes and weak enforcement, the plastic waste trade fuels organised crime, drives working conditions that amount to human rights violations and is devastating to the environment and human health. In the second instalment of its […]

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Exposed — the plastics waste trade scams that fuel crime and injustice around the world

Old wheelie bins discarded by UK householders may be funding organised crime and contributing to environmental injustice and human rights violations around the globe. In the first of a new two-part report, Dirty Deals, the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA UK) reveals startling evidence of how regulatory weaknesses, legal loopholes and outdated practices in the […]