When the “Waste Cycle Integrated Management” is mishandled the consequences, most of the times, will have an impact on the environment, leading to situations that can jeopardize the ecosystem of vast territories.The main environmental pollution causes in this sector are: - Criminal organisations’ illegal activities; - Dumping of industrial wastewater and sludge non-compliant with regulations; - Illegitimate use of waste treatment and disposal facilities; - Indiscriminate abandonment of dangerous and non-degradable materials.