While the UK is not facing the Italian calamity of organised criminals dumping radioactive materials and contaminating the food chain with a cocktail of nasty poisons, our waste management industry seems to be at risk of sinking further and further underground.
A maker of automobile lights has agreed to pay $14.2 million and to plead guilty to criminal charges for dumping chemical-laden waste that killed millions of fish and fouled much of Indianapolis's drinking water, a federal prosecutor said.
But despite having signed international conventions governing protection of refugees, China hunts them out, brands them "criminals" and dumps them back in North Korea where punishment awaits.Bad form, but bad policy tooSouth Korea generously takes in those North Koreans who do make it around 5,000 so far.
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The whole fracas underscores precisely why exile is a convoluted punishment in the 21st century, not the least of which is the impression that one jurisdiction is just dumping criminals into another, and God knows Fort Mac has seen its share of east coast rowdymen before.
No American hospital has ever been prosecuted on criminal charges of patient dumping, said Philip F. Mangano, the executive director of the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness and the Bush administration's chief coordinator of homeless services.
Mexico is deliberately dumping its criminals on our side of the border.
He blames Western companies for illegally hoovering up tuna fish off Somalia's coast and says that European criminal gangs have dumped toxic waste along it.
The Manchester Evening Chronicle explained what this meant: "That the dirty, destitute, diseased, verminous and criminal foreigner who dumps himself on our soil and rates simultaneously, shall be forbidden to land".
Soon after the sale he was indicted on federal criminal charges in Dallas for dumping lead used in coloring ceramic tile and fined $4 million.
