Only around 5 per cent of recycling exports are checked before they leave the country, making it easy for criminals to dump waste abroad, MPs have been told. Between 5 and 6 per cent of waste exports were stopped at ports and inspected by the Environment Agency in the last three months of 2021, according to testimony from Jacob Hayler, the executive director at Environmental Services Association, which represents the waste industry.It was a “ low risk, high reward ” crime to ship mixed waste abr