Everstin Pty Ltd has contracts to transport ‘return concrete’, which is leftover liquid concrete that is poured into skip bins, sets hard and then is collected.   The concrete slabs are to be transported to specific sites for recycling to road base.

Everstin subcontracts the collection to twin hook steer trucks.  In 2019, Shingari was the driver of a twin hook steer truck collecting return concrete from sites across Melbourne.

In September 2019, the Mornington Peninsula Shire council (MPS) requested EPA assistance to try and identify a repeat offender that had dumped dumping large concrete slabs on roadsides around the shire. Each incident involved the dumping of a large concrete slab of approximately 8 to 10 tons of concrete. Help from 3AW, Vic Roads and the public lead to the discovery of more incidents.  The slabs were dumped on at least 23 occasions, in 13 different locations, across 5 Local Government Areas:

o          Mornington Peninsula Shire

o          City of Casey

o          Maroondah City Council

o          City Kingston Council

o          Frankston City Council

o          Greater Dandenong city council

Slabs were dumped on the sides of roads, on freeway onramps and under overpasses, often in poorly lit areas so the posed a risk to the driving public. Significant time and resources were required by a number of Councils to remove the large concrete slabs.

EPA received assistance from the public that led the investigation to focus on the concrete batching industry. Direct cooperation from the concrete batching industry assisted in locating the truck involved.  EPA investigations in October 2019 yielded GPS data, driver run sheets from Everstin, dashcam and CCTV footage assisted in identifying Shingari as the suspected dumper of the concrete slabs.