In recent years, the media have repeatedly highlighted how criminals are making money at the expense of the environment. The criminals have undertaken to take care of waste, but instead of complying with current regulations, black mass from crushed batteries has been buried in fields outside Kumla, toxic waste has been dumped near water sources on the shores of Lake Mälaren, and waste has been handled so badly that fires have broken out at waste facilities in southern Stockholm and in Småland. Toxic waste has become a commodity in the underworld. We can talk about waste gangsters. There is a comprehensive set of rules on how to deal with waste. The rules are based on the idea that the polluter should pay, but in the vast majority of the cases mentioned, there is no money in the hands of the criminals or in the businesses they have run. The companies have gone bankrupt, which ultimately leads to a short-circuit in the distribution of responsibility under environmental law. There is no polluter who can pay. You could say that the environment is bankrupt. It is precisely this social problem that I want to investigate and propose solutions to in this project.