Baltimore Celebrates America Recycles Day

Monday Oct 28th, 2013

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BALTIMORE. MD (October 28, 2013) — Baltimore City Department
of Public Works (DPW) Director Alfred H. Foxx today announced that as a
participant in the upcoming America Recycles Day, DPW will be holding a
scrap tire drop-off event on Saturday, November 9, 2013.
 
Residents
can make one trip to our Southwestern Sanitation Yard at 701 Reedbird
Avenue, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. As many as 10 tires, without rims,
will be collected from each vehicle that enters.
 
Funding
for this special project comes from the Maryland Department of the
Environment and Maryland Environmental Services (MES). In 1991, the
Maryland General Assembly adopted the Scrap Tire Recycling Act to
address the problems associated with the environmentally responsible
disposal of scrap tires in Maryland. The law established the State Used
Tire Clean-Up and Recycling Fund, which is paid for by the collection of
a $0.80 per tire fee on the sale of each new tire in the State. MES may
use the fund for projects to reduce, recover and recycle scrap tires in
Maryland.
 
Baltimore’s
scrap tire event is part of a State initiative to aid Maryland
residents by providing a responsible disposal alternative substantially
free of charge for homeowners who have accumulated a small number of
scrap tires. It is also an opportunity to educate the public about
Maryland’s laws and regulations regarding the collection and disposal of
scrap tires.
 
Among the uses for recycled tires are playground cover, as building materials, erosion control and even as an alternative fuel.
 
Baltimore
City makes it easy to recycle tires. Residents may put out up to four
tires without rims on their mixed refuse collection day.
 
Make every day a recycling day. To learn more about America Recycles Day please go to: http://americarecyclesday.org/.

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