Authorities warn land and property owners about a scam in which thousands of old tyres are illegally dumped at leased properties, leaving one victim with a massive clean-up bill.
Authorities have warned land and property owners about a scam in which thousands of old tyres were illegally dumped at leased properties, leaving one victim with a huge clean-up bill.
In one instance, piles of tyres were left at a property in Wungong, in Perth's south-east, leaving the owner with a $100,000 clean-up bill. "In terms of scale, I believe we're talking in the order of hundreds of thousands of tyres … certainly in Western Australia, this is the largest operation of this type that my investigators have come across … so far this is the most bold operation I've seen in this state."Mr Warnock said businesses also needed to ensure they were doing their due diligence.
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