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1 results foundAuthor: New Jersey Commission of Investigation Title: Dirty Dirt: The Corrupt Recycling of Contaminated Soil and Debris Summary: Since its inception more than four decades ago, the State Commission of Investigation has carried on a legacy of exposing and rooting out criminal intrusion into New Jersey's solid waste industry. Thanks to the Commission's findings and reform recommendations, and to the response of diligent legislators, policymakers and law enforcement authorities over the years, significant steps have been taken in an effort to eradicate organized crime and other unscrupulous elements from garbage hauling and related activity through background checks, licensing requirements and other forms of oversight and control. Despite this progress, the industry remains vulnerable to subversion because key elements of a related commercial enterprise - recycling - were never included in the A-901 licensing and regulatory framework. This glaring discrepancy, the largest of a number of loopholes in that framework, has enabled convicted felons and other unsavory operators to gain a foothold without routine detection. Masquerading as seemingly legitimate recyclers, they are able to evade any form of background vetting and licensure simply because no such requirements exist for those engaged in the business they purportedly conduct. Worse still, by exploiting this gap in oversight, they profit from a dangerous commerce in contaminated materials covertly dumped by the truckload into a chaos of inappropriate and unregulated venues that, as a consequence, have been rendered serious environmental and public-health threats. Details: Trenton: The Commission, 2017. 46p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed February 27, 2018 at: http://www.nj.gov/sci/pdf/SCIDirtFinal.pdf Year: 2017 Country: United States URL: http://www.nj.gov/sci/pdf/SCIDirtFinal.pdf Shelf Number: 149272 Keywords: Environmental Crime Environmental Pollution Garbage IndustryOffences Against the Environment Organized Crime White-Collar Crime |