Everybody in the waste industry, and that includes tyre recovery and recycling, knows that the sector is a magnet for criminal operations, and a report by Interpol makes for some disconcerting reading.
In Germany, the Police report waste crimes, and a Google search for “Altreifen” almost always returns a number of crime reports about tyres abandoned or dumped in the wild. In the UK, only the larger incidents make it to the local press.
It is presumed by the bona fide players that these fly-tippers are exploiting the lack of control, and evading tax and gate fees by working “in t...
