When the article highlighted the potential for global organized crime in the trash disposal industry that really made me think about how little of the process f

When the article highlighted the potential for global organized crime in the trash disposal industry that really made me think about how little of the process flow for waste disposal is mapped out. In essence, when we pay a neighbor to dispose of our waste for us, they could just be dumping it somewhere that comes right back to bite us in the ass. There’s the famous list of rivers bringing the most plastic waste into the oceans (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/stemming-the-plastic-tide-10-rivers-contribute-most-of-the-plastic-in-the-oceans/?redirect=1 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/stemming-the-plas...) and also the list of the most heavily polluted rivers (https://www.conserve-energy-future.com/most-polluted-rivers-world.php https://www.conserve-energy-future.com/most-polluted-rivers-...). Spoiler: the Sarno in Naples is one of them. There’s lot of speculation over who’s doing the polluting and why, but as a base level we really need to capture the full journey of the waste to see what is actually going on in order to address it better. What are the chances that when individuals try to do the right thing and be responsible, that the aggregate of waste goes into the hands of a group doing the wrong thing and hurting everyone as a result?