Million pounds of scrap tyres removed in Alabama

Crain News Service report (WRN)

Mobile, Alabama - More than a million pounds of scrap tyre materials have been removed from a site in Baldwin County, Ala., 24 miles west of Mobile.

Work began in May to remove the material, according to the Alabama Department of Environmental Management and the Alabama Scrap Tire Commission. The scrap tyre materials were the equivalent of 68,000 passenger tyres.

The Alabama Department of Environmental Management said the project was the third of its kind. Funding came from the $1 per tyre fee the state charges. More than 7 million scrap tyres have been removed from unauthorised, large-scale disposal sites, the department said.

This report appeared in Waste & Recycling News, a Detroit-based sister publication of Tire Business.

From Tire Business (A Crain publication)