Yet another... recycling plant fire

[speedchick]

24th July this year, we had one in our little town, plastic recycling place, it burned quite well and could be seen quite a distance away and was suspected to be arson

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-23...

[Davel]

We had one next door to us which went up on 21 October 2012.

15 fire engines attended and sixty fire crew. Burned for five weeks and did £200,000 damage to my site.

Their insurers won't pay out because arson is suspected, although the Directors there told me that it was a rogue firework.

They reckon the cost of removing the remaining spoil will be in excess of £4.5m...

Not a happy bunny!

[AJS-]

Otispunkmeyer said:

If you ask me, the whole green game has been well and truly hijacked by the crooks and the shysters and those who like to peddle religion and tell us how to live. I actually feel sorry for the proper environmentalists who do care about the planet and get caught up in all this and tarred with the same brush.


I don't believe for a second all these fires have been accidental. No way.

I think "created" would fit better than "hijacked."

As for the proper environmentalists, they lost any sympathy with me when their power lust threw them in with the first lot.

[shouldbworking]

So what do we do with all these tyres we've collected?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yo...

[Davel]

Another naughty firework?

[AJS-]

Risky business running a recycling centre!

Do they still charge £1 to dispose of your old tyre? I don't know what a tyre weighs, but I imagine a tonne would be a couple of hundred.

And will I get my £1 back since they didn't dispose of it in an environmentally friendly way?

[Digga]

People who draft legislation constantly fail to predict the unintended - but very likely - consequences of their actions. The whole waste and recycling thing is currently a nonsense - a get rich-quick-scheme for criminals in many cases.

[Scuffers]

AJS- said:

Risky business running a recycling centre!

Do they still charge £1 to dispose of your old tyre? I don't know what a tyre weighs, but I imagine a tonne would be a couple of hundred.

And will I get my £1 back since they didn't dispose of it in an environmentally friendly way?

as an average, say 12Kg's a tyre, 1,000 tonnes = ~83,000 tyres

[Davel]

What the EA should do, of course, is set limits for the amount of waste being stored and insist on fire breaks between the piles.

They should then rigidly ensure that these sites are randomly checked for compliance.

[Pints]

I don't think we've had this one in Swindon yet.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-251...

[TameScrapman]

There's a tyre recycling facility not too far from where I am that 'catches fire' at least once a year, usually when the yard is fully stockpiled to the point where there are too many tyres to process

[V8mate]

Davel said:

What the EA should do, of course, is set limits for the amount of waste being stored and insist on fire breaks between the piles.

They should then rigidly ensure that these sites are randomly checked for compliance.

Sites with an environmental permit will have maximum tonnages and, often, maximum durations for waste on site.

[Pints]

TameScrapman said:

There's a tyre recycling facility not too far from where I am that 'catches fire' at least once a year, usually when the yard is fully stockpiled to the point where there are too many tyres to process

It could be worse...

Established 1989.

[Digga]

One of the problems with tyres is that there are insufficient commerical uses for the end product.

Unlike demolition rubble, which can be put through a concrete crusher and re-used fairly readily and in fact, all major sites are compelled to do so by planning regs, there isn't the same degree of feedback for the recycled by-product of tyres.

[trashbat]

It's certainly a worrying trend, not least as I'm about to open a recycling centre myself.

It's going to recycle piers and aging funfairs.

[Dog Star]

TameScrapman said:

There's a tyre recycling facility not too far from where I am that 'catches fire' at least once a year, usually when the yard is fully stockpiled to the point where there are too many tyres to process

I know - and the thing is that you've really got to pay attention with tyre, because they are just so flammable it's incredible. You can't even smoke in the tyre recycling facilities for fear a bit of ash might send the lot up in flames.

I don't know what you lot do, but I park my car in a foot deep pool of water every night just in case my tyres "catch fire".

[Dog Star]

trashbat said:

It's certainly a worrying trend, not least as I'm about to open a recycling centre myself.

It's going to recycle piers and aging funfairs.

You're missing a trick there, trashbat: what about the market in recycled dodgy nightclubs?

[Digga]

Dog Star said:

trashbat said:

It's certainly a worrying trend, not least as I'm about to open a recycling centre myself.

It's going to recycle piers and aging funfairs.

You're missing a trick there, trashbat: what about the market in recycled dodgy nightclubs?

High Streets?

[trashbat]

Dog Star said:

You're missing a trick there, trashbat: what about the market in recycled dodgy nightclubs?

It'd certainly be a shame if that burnt down, in ten minutes time, just over there, where I'm going now.

[perdu]

Old tyres?

Why not grind them up/down and sell them to that nice Mr Branson?

His Spaceship two (One ??? ) uses granulated rubber as a fuel doesn't it...

And get the engines added to all the BA aeroplanes and they can do us a big environmental favour.

These recycling fires never seem to start if the stock is of real value to the site owner do they?