Crime industry diversifying

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KPMG Investigation and Security Inc.

2006

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Unscrupulous waste trade became a serious concern in the 1980s due to three converging factors:

increasing amounts of hazardous waste; inadequate processing plants; and stricter regulations in the

developed world with growing environmental awareness. Managing special waste streams properly

became expensive, apparently too costly for some. Filthy shipments started travelling round the

world.