EPA Orders Virgin Islands to Remove Scrap Tyres

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has ordered the Virgin Islands government and other parties to clean up an illegal tyre dump on St. Thomas.

Some 870,000 tyres were illegally dumped near a landfill, the EPA said, determining that the Virgin Islands government, the Virgin Islands Waste Management Authority, A-9 Trucking Enterprise, and a private landowner handled tires in a manner that left them vulnerable to catching fire or providing ideal breeding grounds disease-carrying mosquitoes. EPA ordered the dump cleaned up and that the tyres be either recycled or disposed of properly. (Tire Review/Akron)