Organised crime targets waste recycling
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Organised crime has moved into the recycling industry - a development that has become clear over the past few months after a series of raids to enforce the EU’s Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) directive .
In a raid at the start of June, police and officials from the Environment Agency targeted two east London locations - a farm at Upminster and an industrial site at Rainham - and forced open around 500 containers full of old computers, monitors, fridges and assorted electrical waste destined for illegal export to Africa, where it would be stripped down for raw materials.
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