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Illegal pollution

Illegal pollution contaminates the environment – whether on land, sea or air. It takes many forms including the illegal dumping of waste, the illegal trade in hazardous waste and toxic chemicals and the illegal trade in ozone-depleting substances. For more information, the AIC website offers a range of links to international and national research.

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• Illegal dumping
• Illegal trade in hazardous waste
• Illegal trade in ozone-depleting substances

General resources

Reports and papers

• Pollution Watch - a tough approach to fighting environmental crime (PDF 1.96MB)
  WA Department of the Environment, 2004
• Enforcement of pollution laws in Australia : past experience and current trends (PDF 95kB)
  Maria Comino and Paul Leadbeter. Fifth international conference on environmental compliance and enforcement, 1998
• Australian pollution laws : offences, penalties and regulatory agencies
  Jennifer Norberry. In Environmental crime : proceedings of a conference held 1-3 September 1993, Hobart, 1995
• Water pollution and the Yass Shire Council
  P N Grabosky (ed.) In Wayward governance : illegality and its control in the public sector, 1989

Links

• Pollution case summaries
  AdmiraltyLaw.com
• Pollution Crimes Working Group
  Interpol
• Green Customs

Illegal dumping

Reports and papers

• Environmental crime : fly-tipping, fly-posting, litter, graffiti and noise (PDF 1.34MB)
  UK House of Commons, Environmental Audit Committee, 2004
• A problem-oriented approach to fly-tipping
  Barry Webb and Ben Marshall. Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science, 2004
• Liquid waste management in Western Australia : a case study in enforcement and compliance (PDF 141kB)
  Adam J Parker, N J Davies and H Rychner. Fifth international conference on environmental compliance and enforcement, 1998
• Local environmental quality : fly-tipping
  UK Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
• Illegal dumping
  UK Organised Crime Task Force
• Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)

Illegal trade in hazardous waste and toxic chemicals

Reports and papers

• Illegal traffic
  Secretariat of the Basel Convention
• Illegal waste trade cases
  Trade and Environment Database (TED) transnational crime case studies
• An overview of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions and their inter-relationship (PDF 896kB)
  United Nations Environment Programme, 2004
• How to optimise the control of world-wide movements of waste
  Ruud MA De Krom. Sixth international conference on environmental compliance and enforcement, 2002
• Enforcement of international environmental agreements, e.g., hazardous waste and ozone depleting substances (PDF 42kB)
  Cees Boekel. Fifth international conference on environmental compliance and enforcement, 1998
• Illegal transports of waste : tricks of the trade (PDF 108kB)
  L C Blanker. Fourth international conference on environmental compliance and enforcement, 1996

Links

• Basel Action Network
• Basel Convention
• United Nations Environment Programme OzonAction Programme
• Rotterdam Convention

Illegal trade in ozone-depleting substances

Reports and papers

• The global environment : CFC smuggling
  Environmental Investigation Agency
• Ozone depleting substances
  Green Customs
• Lost in transit : global CFC smuggling trends and the need for a faster phase-out (PDF 1.08MB)
  Ezra Clark, Environmental Investigation Agency, 2003
• Illegal trade in ozone-depleting substances : is there a hole in the Montreal Protocol? (PDF 2.07MB)
  OzonAction newsletter special supplement. United Nations Environment Programme, 2001
• A crime against nature : the worldwide illegal trade in ozone-depleting substances
  Environmental Investigation Agency, 1998

Links

• Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer
• United Nations Environment Programme OzonAction Programme