Last week the growing outcry over a mountain of waste in Oxfordshire shone a spotlight on the murky world of organised waste crime.
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As lucrative as narcotics and people trafficking, waste is illegally dumped, and often left for years before it's cleaned up.
People living near a large illegal dump in Kent that's known to the Environment Agency say they feel abandoned by the authorities, and intimidated by those who run the site.
We went to the village of Iwade near Sittingbourne for this special report.
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