In 20 years of recycling rubber In St Erth, we've seen a lot of tyre collectors come and go.  First thing we do is approach them to see if we can work together.  They generally aren't interested in this and normally respond with "we're going to put you out of business" which is an interesting business aim!. The last ones in our area collected tyres on an Exemption and stored them on private property near Hayle.  

Anyone can get an Exemption certificate (which is self regulated) without site approval.  It's a ridiculous loophole which allows the storage of 40 tonnes of tyres (5000 tyres) to be stored without a Waste Management License, without a concreted area for them to go on, without Risk Assessments, without background checks!  If that isn't ridiculous, what is?

We first reported the Strawberry Lane Tyre Dump to the EA when there were only 2000 tyres there (Exemption allowed the storage of only 1000 tyres at the time).  It wasn't until we approached Andrew George over 18 months later to intervene and encourage the EA to tackle the problem which had escalated in that time to nearly 20,000 + tyres (as predicted), that the problem was addressed. The poor woman who owned the site had been renting it out and had no idea tyres were stored on her land. She ended up having to foot the bill to have them removed to a licensed site. 

Once you start collecting, unless you have a valid and constant use for the tyres they mount up fast and end up down tin mines or fly tipped on other peoples land! We process all of the tyres we collect into safe useable products and sell them Nationwide, and yet we and other licensed tyre recyclers continue to be relatively unsupported by the Environment Agency or indeed Local Council. The E A needs to put some effort into tracking down the fly tippers and preventing the collection of tyres for other than proven lawful purposes.  It shouldn't be that hard

Lack of immediate action has and will continue to result in this.....

Tyres dumped in Crofthandy Mine, Redruth 

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