‘Queen of trash’ and employees arrested over Sweden’s ‘largest environmental crime’

Bella Nilsson’s company NMT Think Pink accused of illegally dumping tens of thousands of tonnes of waste

Eleven people have been charged by a Swedish court in what is being billed as potentially the country’s worst environmental crime in half a century.

NMT Think Pink – a previously celebrated waste management company known for its trademark pink rubbish bags – is accused of illegally burying and dumping tens of thousands of tonnes of waste at 21 sites across 15 municipalities around Sweden, in what prosecutors described as a “very serious crime”.