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Obviously the part worn tyre market cannot fail to be 'dodgy', its bottom of the market stuff. Inspection of they tyres is going to be by unskilled min wage teenagers & so on. I've worked in recycling, I've seen these people at work, I know what they are like.

The main source of stock for the UK part worn trade is of course tyres removed at Kwikfit etc. Scrap tyres are collected either by hand by tyre recyler's truck or could be by grab lorry. There is potential for damaging those scrap tyres during collection, damaging beads & so on.

The tyres are taken to recycling yard & dumped in a big heap ready to go into the shredder. Before this the used tyre boy will turn up covered in s**t from head to foot with only a worn out pair of gloves as protective gear, sort through the tyres at high speed & throw then into his clapped out Transit high top. He is looking for specific tyres, large car & light commercial, enough tread obvs but in his quest for the tyres he wants things like sidewall damage & bead damage tend to get overlooked, not that he knows anything about tyres anyway.

Why would a recycle centre allow a guy onto a site without protective workwear ??? no hi viz ?? no steel toecapped boots ?? or even hard hat ?? then they allow this said person to rifle through piles of tyres and allow them to be remove what ever they want?  yeah right.

Bessie