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• The Environmental Protection Bill will make businesses responsible for the legal disposal of all waste they produce, including tyres, and a growing number of landfill sites are refusing to take complete tyres because they create gas traps in the compacted refuse, causing a potential fire hazard.
The National Tyre Distributors Association has recommended that its members levy a charge of 12.50 per scrap truck casing. It is likely that its members will comply.
But now waste disposal operator Firbank has installed a tyre shredding machine and is offering to dispose of truck tyres for £2 a piece.
Firhank's 120.000 machine. imported from the US cuts the tyre in two round the circumference and then cuts the remains into secions about 300mm long. With the gas trap removed the tyre will be accepted at most landfill sites.
The machine is capable of processing 1,000 tyres a week. Most operators prefer to drop the tyres into the company's Luton yard but it also offers a collection service. "We have got a very good response from local operators," says Firbank director Ted Seat.