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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Miranda Bryant Nordic correspondent

‘Queen of trash’ and employees arrested over Sweden’s ‘largest environmental crime’

Bags for recycling by Think Pink. Five people, including the owner, are accused of serious environmental crime.
Bags for recycling by Think Pink. Five people, including the owner, are accused of serious environmental crime. Photograph: TT News Agency/Alamy

Eleven people have been charged by a Swedish court in what is being billed as potentially the country’s worst environmental crime in half a century.

NMT Think Pink – a previously celebrated waste management company known for its trademark pink rubbish bags – is accused of illegally burying and dumping tens of thousands of tonnes of waste at 21 sites across 15 municipalities around Sweden, in what prosecutors described as a “very serious crime”.

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