UNODC: Combat Waste Trafficking - A Guide to Good Legislative Practices
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Crimes that affect the environment are among the most profitable and fastest growing types of international criminal activity. Crimes that affect the environment have become some of the most lucrative transnational criminal activities and are often closely interlinked with different forms of crime and corruption. Money-laundering and illicit financial flows derived from environmental crime may contribute to the financing of other transnational organized crimes and terrorism.
There is no universally accepted definition of waste crime. At its broadest, waste crime may be considered to refer to conduct that relates to waste and is criminalized. More precisely, waste crime can generally be understood as the trade, treatment or disposal of waste in ways that breach international or domestic environmental legislation and cause harm or risk to the environment and [or] human health and related conduct, such as fraudulent acts and omissions.
The present guide is concerned with drafting legislation to prevent and combat waste trafficking.
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