EGLE creates tire scrap program to properly get rid of, repurpose, old tires

In the state of Michigan, it is illegal to dump full-sized tires into landfills. It is also illegal to well dump them on a plot of land and in alleyways. Nonetheless, people do it anyway. But now, EGLE has a tire scrap program that is putting those tires to better use. "Basically a lot of people come down here and dump stuff. I mean everybody does it." It doesn't take long to find a whole lot of used and abandoned tires on the west side of Detroit. Ironically, my photographer and I were driving down Tireman Street and came across an abandoned auto repair shop where abandoned tires were not that hard to find.