17 Feb 2017 Environment Protection Authority Victoria (EPA) has fined Brooklyn company Tyre-Lug Services (Barro Group Pty Ltd) more than $7,500 for storing more than 5000 equivalent passenger units (EPU) of waste tyres without an EPA licence.
EPA Metro Manager Daniel Hunt said the large stockpile, which was the equivalent of about 150,000 standard waste car tyres, had been reduced by about half but the company still had work ahead to become compliant with an EPA notice.
“While the company has begun reducing its stockpile, it has not met an EPA deadline to arrange waste tyre stockpiles and maintain stockpile separation distances as required under the Victorian Fire Services’ tyre storage guidelines,” Mr Hunt said.
The company now has until 30 April 2017 to either reduce its stockpile to below 5000 EPU or to obtain an EPA licence.