After the environmental requirements were strengthened during the 1980s, the producers' costs of handling waste increased. With that change, a lucrative market opened up. Organized crime in the environmental industry has become very noticeable in recent years. Following the drug and arms trade, environmental crimes are approaching to be one of the largest. Illegal handling of waste can be seen as littering, dumping illegal waste in forests, ditches or dumping sites, landfills that do not meet environmental requirements, or illegal exports and imports. In the long and short-run illegal waste management can lead to negative consequences for the environment and human health. This study consists of interviews with relevant authorities and the purpose is to map how the authorities view illegal waste management. The purpose also includes mapping out what can be causing the problem and what is being done to reduce it. The choice of the qualitative method with interviews was made with the idea of giving space for individual experiences. The study shows that authorities find cooperation between them as very low, that knowledge and statistics are lacking. With this combination, the management of illegal waste is seen as complex according to the interviews. The authorities have been aware of the problem, but nothing seems to change. Increased cooperation, knowledge, and supervision may work to some extent, but it presumedly takes more than that. The society we live in today must develop to be more sustainable with less consumption.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:umu-190049 |
| Date | January 2021 |
| Creators | Lindmark Asplin, Nike |
| Publisher | Umeå universitet, Institutionen för ekologi, miljö och geovetenskap |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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