Baltimore Celebrates America Recycles Day

Friday Nov 8th, 2013

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BALTIMORE. MD (November 8, 2013) — Baltimore City Department of Public Works (DPW) Director Alfred H. Foxx today reminds citizens 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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