The LIFE SMART Waste project has developed and published a new Horizon Scanning Toolkit that is designed to help environmental regulators to build an early warning system for emerging developments in the waste sector to protect the industry from future criminal enterprise.
 
The toolkit was developed following a desk-top review of the academic and grey literature which focused on the specific context of horizon scanning applications to identify the salient features and success factors for their adoption in an environmental regulatory context.
 
It provides a structured approach to horizon scanning that builds a clear, consistent and shared perspective of emerging developments in the waste sector and their potential for criminal enterprise. By using the toolkit, regulatory bodies will learn to spot newly emerging trends quickly and to assess what the emerging opportunities for future waste crime are likely to be. They will then be able to act together to minimise the impact of those crimes on the environment, society and business.
 
Source: www.sepa.org.uk