A dirty business---Chiba official unearths illegal dumpingFeb 20 / Daily Yomiuri...Environment Ministry estimates that 320,000 tons of industrial waste was illegally dumped in fiscal 2002, Ishiwata believes the actual amount is 100 times bigger...about 10 percent of the total waste disposal industry. "In my experience, most operators in the industry are linked to gangs in some way, whether willingly or not..."
....Ishiwata's calculations, let's examine the case of a one-hectare site that an anaya bought at 2,000 yen per square meter. If the hole is five meters deep, it can take 50,000 cubic meters of waste. Receiving 40,000 yen from each of the 2,000 dump trucks it would take to fill this space, the anaya gets 80 million yen. After paying personnel costs, equipment investment and other overhead, his gross margin is assumed to be about 50 million yen...
