Sherburn tyre fire.

[Flyingmac]

BBC News - Tyre fire breaks out at Sherburn-in-Elmet recycling plant (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-25759830)

Webcams (http://www.sherburn-aero-club.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=85&Itemid=79)

[snapper1]

That would be a good wind indicator then!:)

[cockney steve]

"sorry about your fire" " SHUSH!....It's tomorrow!"

One has to ask some questions......what was the throughput of this plant?
What "feedstock reserve" did 15 THOUSAND tons represent...That's about SEVEN hundred and fifty lorry-loads more, going on to the site, than coming away.

There have been similar fires locally and at least 2 bankruptcies of tyre "recycling" organisations.

I can just see the "elf an safety" wallahs standing waving their hankies to keep the fumes away.

something smells and not just the rubber-smoke! Tyre companies charge the punter to dispose of old casings...some are sold on for remoulding, the rest are reduced to shreds, or can be completely recycled....steel cords and bead-wires reclaimed...textile reclaimed as fibre, rubber reduced to carbon-black (used in newspaper-ink) and large quantities of low-grade heating-oil.

there was a similar local situation with a fridge-mountain that was reduced to convenient -to -recycle scrap copper and steel, after an "arson attack" on the scrapyard where they were stored....and the bonus-ball?
No CFC's to recycle, collect or account for, no waste plastics to strip out and no extremely difficult, toxic and costly Polyurethane-foam insulation to get rid of....all gone in a big puff of smoke!
This recycling bolix is similar to the electric car debate....the pollution is just gathered into big concentrations instead of being scattered and piecemeal....(electric = power-stations acknowledged ~ 40-50% efficiency, transmission and transformational losses, but the cars don't pollute (except when the batteries die!)

[ShyTorque]

Strange but a recycling place less than a mile from here also went up in smoke "big time" last summer, at the same time as the one near my son's place sixty miles away. And no, it wasn't me! :)

So much for environmentally friendly recycling. Threaten a fine to innocent householders for putting something in the wrong bin, yet bring the really nasty stuff all to the same place, put it in a huge pile then set fire to it. :rolleyes: