Rising inflation and worsening economic situation in Eastern Europe reincarnated an old problem of illegal tyre disposal at unregistered dumps or deep in the forest in Latvia.
Since the beginning of 2022, the Latvian State Environmental Service registered 16% more complaints about improper used tyre disposal than during the same period of the previous year.
An investigation conducted by a Riga-based news outlet LSM discovered that some popular places for dumping tyres are located right in the Latvian capital. In 2019, an illegal tyre dump caught fire in the South Bridge area in Riga. ...
