In the Environmental Crime Threat Assessment, the ILT-IOD describes the practices in plastic waste that have been reported in the past 5 years by environmental supervisors, signals from the Criminal Intelligence Team, public sources and criminal investigations. The ILT-IOD concludes that financial gain leads to criminal acts. By sharing this knowledge, the ILT-IOD hopes to provide insight into what plastic waste crime can look like, so we can jointly tackle this problem more effectively.