Operation Wasteland
{{Short description|Undercover investigation into organized crime}}
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Operation Wasteland was an undercover investigation into organized crime control of the waste disposal industry in New York City.
The investigation resulted in the indictment and conviction of over one hundred participants in price-fixing and bid rigging of waste hauling contracts in the city.
The story is detailed in the book, Takedown, the Fall of the Last Mafia Empire, by Detective Rick Cowan and co-author Douglas Century,{{cite book|last1=Cowan|first1=Rick|last2=Century|first2=Douglas|title=Takedown : the fall of the last Mafia empire|date=2002|publisher=Putnam's|location=New York|isbn=978-0399148750|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/takedownfallofla00cowa}} and in Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage by Heather Rogers.{{cite book|last1=Rogers|first1=Heather|title=Gone tomorrow : the hidden life of garbage|url=https://archive.org/details/gonetomorrowhidd00roge|url-access=registration|date=2005|publisher=New Press|location=New York|isbn=9781595581204|pages=[https://archive.org/details/gonetomorrowhidd00roge/page/191 191–194]}}