Unexpended Flares At Landfill Causes Bomb Call Response

Isles of Scilly, United Kingdom A Royal Navy Bomb Disposal Team responded to a call of unexpended flares left at the Morewell landfill. The person who discarded the flares at the landfill has not been identified.

EOD disposed of the flares through a controlled detonation without incident. Workers at the landfill are going through the visitor records to try to determine who left the flares at the landfill.

What do with expired flares and fireworks is huge international problem. In the UK and in the States, there is not a program in place for citizens to turn-in old expired flares which are common in roadside and marine safety kits. Safely disposing of old fireworks and pyrotechnics is also a growing problem across the globe.