 Fancy winning a summer holiday? Sun, sea, sand. Come swim in these beautiful seas. Among the plastic waste? Our planet is being polluted by criminals. Oil and garbage are being illegally dumped to avoid disposal fees. Organized crime groups are trafficking all types of waste, ditching it on land and at sea. Why? Because it makes big money. Almost as lucrative as drug trafficking. So what are we doing about it? At Interpol, we have an environmental security program, which works with police forces and agencies in almost 200 member countries to help them prevent, detect, and disrupt pollution crimes. Dismantling the criminal groups behind them. We run intelligence-led global operations with increased checks at land, sea, rivers, and ports. Member countries issue Interpol notices on waste trafficking and pollution crime related offenses. And we respond to their requests for assistance, in particular with transnational crime cases. As for the pollution crime offenders, when we run their names through our databases, we often find the same names linked to other crimes. Money laundering, tax evasion, fraud. It's all the same criminals. Environmental crime is a crime that impacts on all of us. That's why Interpol is so invested in fighting it. Interpol, linking forces of nature.