Last year 10,000 tires were illegally dumped across the county, part of a larger trash problem, says the Imperial County Farm Bureau.
Farmers, ranchers, the county and the Imperial Irrigation District are increasingly dealing with the issue, Candace Nelson, Farm Bureau spokeswoman, said. If trash is dumped, it is the responsibility of the landowner to pick it up, she added.
“And for any type of hazardous material, it’s extraordinarily expensive to clean up, sometimes running into the multiple of thousands of dollars,” Nelson said.
Besides tires, materials most often dumped include furniture, mattresses and large appliances. But what many do not realize is that most items can be disposed of properly at no cost, Nelson said. For a guide to dispose of property people can go online to the Web site www.ivrma.org
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The State of California and the California Integrated Waste Management Board brought this problem on themselves. There used to be at least 5 big tire recycling companies ion the state and they were recycling all the waste tires and even cleaning up old waste tire piles in the state. The recyclers were making crumb rubber for use in asphalt for highway construction. The oil lobbyists stepped in and got the state to stop mandating the use of crumb rubber in highway construction and the tire recycling industry went broke through out the state.
Short sighted politicians were greased and ruined an effective recycling industry.
California is a very harsh climate to try to recycle any waste for a profit.
Way cool! Some extremely valid points! I appreciate you
writing this article and the rest of the site is also really good.
I love seeing the Recycling of Tires, in Landscaping as Planters. I know that not everyone can do this. I have seen them off stacked like a pyramid and planted with colorful flowers, or Herbs. And they last a long time without breaking down like Clay Pots do…Just sayin’ !!!