EPA Victoria's focus on waste tyres has resulted in a northern suburbs recycler facing 12 charges relating to inappropriately accepting waste materials without an EPA permit.
MC Tyre Recycle which operates waste tyre recycling facilities in Campbellfield and Truganina allegedly stored more than 5000 tyres (equivalent passenger tyre units or EPUs) without the required operating licence.
EPA has laid a total of 12 charges on Michael Andrews and Comfort Umu Kargbo, the company operators.
Additionally, Andrews and Kargbo were both charged with failing to comply with an Environmental Action Notice (EAN) that required them to obtain an EPA operating licence for the prescribed activity and to lawfully dispose of waste tyres at the premises.
"Waste tyres pose a major environmental risk and must be stored and managed according to the regulations," EPA Chief Investigator Rhonda Murray said.
"Tyre recycling is a prescribed operating activity under the EP Act 2017 and an EPA registration is required to store more than 40 tonnes or more than 5,000 EPU.
"We are actively enforcing regulations whenever we find instances of breaches particularly with waste tyres, and will continue to do so.
