INVESTIGATORS have stopped more than 40 large-scale illegal shipments of toxic waste leaving Scotland in the last year as part of a crackdown on the multi-million pound criminal trade in waste.
Sepa has stopped illegal shipments of electronic waste such as used circuit boards bound for developing countries Photograph: Getty Images
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Exclusive by Rob Edwards Environment Editor
The shipments of Scotland’s most hazardous junk are bound for foreign countries -- usually impoverished third world nations.
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa), the government’s green watchdog, has this year tackled export containers full of broken TVs, computers, old fridges, worn-out tyres and even clapped-out cars.
