Scrap Tyre Dumping Returns

Of course, this is of no great surprise to me. So, in the trade, we refer to old tyres as “Casings”. It’s been a few years since the law clamped down on suspecting criminals who were doing anything to get rid of scrap casings. I will explain how it works. The old tyre that come of our customers car are “worthless”. When remoulding was popular, many of them were used to recycle the old casings into remoulds.

However many changes have brought an end to this in countries like the UK. Modern cars with many different tyre sizes have brought an end to car tyre remoulding. Cheap tyres from China have made remoulding into a lost cause. The remoulded tyres were costing as much as a new tyre. So it made no sense to buy remoulds when new tyres were available at a lower price.

Problems for tyre dealers

Consequently, this developed into a problem for us tyre dealers. However, companies set up to recycle the old tyres. Machines that ripped apart the old tires did this. Thus separating the rubber from the steel wire to recycle wherever possible. Rubber chippings from this process is going into the production of many new products. Including adding it to tarmac for new road building.

However, as in anything where money is concerned

criminals became involved. As a tyre retailer, we now have to pay at least £1 for every casing removed from our premises. The system was government-regulated, with various forms to fill in any time casings were removed. This worked well until the underworld became involved.

Criminals began forging documents

pretending to be legitimate casing collectors. So a truck load could easily be worth, say, £500 . The conmen would also ask for cash, which for some reason, the dealers paid. The old tyres were then disposed of in many different ways. In fact, a guy in West Yorkshire rented part of an airfield and just simply stacked the millions of old tyres on the old runway.

The pile became larger ang larger and so did the guys bank account. All his paperwork was forged and nobody thought anything about it!

He was eventually found out and sent to prison. However, this kind of thing never went away, right up to this latest find in Scotland.

Now onto 2024 Pellon Tyres are now members of Tyresafe.org

Around 10,000 tyres dumped at a disused farmyard barn in Port Glasgow have been abandoned by a criminal network, an investigation has found. The tyres were dumped at a derelict farm with one barn overflowing with

Source: Criminal gang dumps 10,000 tyres in Port Glasgow

Scrap Tyre Dumping Returns

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