Countywide : Supervisors Request Tire-Disposal Study
The Orange County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday directed two county agencies to study alternative ways of disposing of the millions of old tires that now are being buried in county landfills.
The proposal by Supervisor Gaddi H. Vasquez asks the General Services and Environmental Management agencies to explore recycling and shredding of the tires, which accumulate at the rate of nearly 50 tons a day at two of the county landfills.
Vasquez has suggested that the tires could be shredded and mixed with asphalt for road building material. They also could be shipped out of the county to be burned in trash-to-energy plants.
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