US EditionVerdict due for Sweden's 'Queen of Trash' over toxic waste
- Prosecutors are seeking a six-year sentence for Bella Nilsson, former head of Think Pink, for illegal toxic waste dumping.
- A court in Sweden will decide the case on Tuesday regarding environmental crimes involving Bella Nilsson and others.
- Think Pink is accused of dumping about 200,000 tonnes of waste at 21 sites from 2015 to 2020.
- Bella Nilsson and four others face charges for their involvement in illegal dumping of toxic waste.
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Maritha Dimander lives right next to one of the landfills that burned. She raised the alarm about the environmental crimes and testified in the trial. Now she welcomes the verdict, but has no hope that the landfill will ever disappear. – Today, the landfill is blooming with yellow, blue and pink lupins, but underneath it hides a lot of toxins that flow into the Svartån River, she says.
Bella Nilsson was a stripper, then she managed as a self-appointed "Queen of Trash" a waste disposal company – which illegally dumped 200,000 tons of waste. About the probably biggest environmental scandal in Sweden and an almost overly dazzling defendant.
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The LocalQueen of Trash: Sweden convicts 10 people in its biggest environmental trial
A court in Sweden on Tuesday convicted 10 people of illegally dumping toxic waste, including a former stripper who once described herself as the "Queen of Trash", in the country's biggest environmental crime trial.
A number of people have been convicted of environmental crimes in the case of the bankrupt Swedish company Think Pink.
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