A tyre recycling business has been suspended from operating after fire and pollution risks were found. <\/p>\n
The Environment Agency (EA) visited Twyford Recycling, in Chichester, West Sussex on Thursday and said it had removed its permit with immediate effect. <\/p>\n
That means the firm cannot not bring any waste onto its site.<\/p>\n
The EA found proper measures to prevent fires had not been taken and this posed a risk of water and air pollution.<\/p>\n
Officers found waste tyres were being stored outside of proper bays, making it more difficult to tackle fire.<\/p>\n
They also found inadequate fire water was accessible on site.<\/p>\n
If there was a fire, the EA said, the wind could carry smoke towards the A27 and Chichester, putting the environment and people at risk.<\/p>\n
There was also a risk, the agency found, that water from firefighting could pollute the River Lavant.<\/p>\n
Officers also worried about the risk of pollution to groundwater from runoff.<\/p>\n
The EA said the site has been told to remove all loose, shredded and baled tyres from the site by 18:00 BST on July 2.<\/p>\n
The EA’s Michael Turner, said: “When we find a waste site not playing by the rules, we step in and take swift action to shut it down.”<\/p>\n
Twyford Recycling Limited has two months to appeal the decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A tyre recycling business has been suspended from operating after fire and pollution risks were found. The Environment…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":649103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-649102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}