A Brooklyn company has been fined more than $7700 for posing a threat to the community by storing more than 20,000 waste tyres.
The Environment Protection Authority Victoria (EPA) slapped Somerville Road business Goodyear & Dunlop Tyres (Aust) Pty Ltd with a $7773 fine for unsafe tyre stockpiles in breach of industrial waste regulations.
EPA metro manager Peter Kerr said the company is in breach of regulations limiting it to storing the equivalent of 5000 waste car tyres on the site without a license.
“EPA officers found more than four times that amount stored on the site, which represents a potential fire hazard with the associated danger to people’s health and the environment,” he said.
“The tyres stored at the site included a range of different types of … tyres, and were equivalent to more than 20,000 car tyres.”
Tyre regulations were tightened in 2015 as a protection against the risk of tyre fires, vermin and other hazards.
EPA regulations also require firefighting resources on-site as well as limits on the size of tyre piles and minimum distances between the piles.
The EPA earlier this month fined a Spotswood company $7773 for stockpiling contaminated soil without a licence at its Simcock Avenue premises.
CPB Contractors P/L was found stockpiling soil containing bricks, rocks, bluestone and demolition waste.
Benjamin Millar
