The Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI) provides forensic services using state-of-the-art science and technology. The NFI contributes to successful criminal law enforcement by improving the information position of public prosecutors, police and other law enforcement officers. The institute comprises over thirty different forensic disciplines that often work together in a multidisciplinary environment. The NFI Environmental Forensics research unit is dedicated to technical research in environmental criminal cases.
Within the WasteForce project the NFI contributes to the research and analysis activities (WP1 ad WP2) with the development of methodologies to measure environmental damage and the development of a forensic tool for data collection, retrieval and analysis related to illegal trade and management of waste.