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Scrap Tires Removed from Former Adriatic Recycling Facility
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Removal of the equivalent of 176,410 passenger tires stored at the former Adriatic Recycling facility on Jones Street in Youngstown is now complete, according to the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency. Liberty Tire Services of Ohio, the contractor, removed the tires and 20 tons of additional waste from the site during a two-month period at a cost of $140,000, EPA officials said.Adriatic operated a tire collection and processing facility on Jones Street until 2002, when the Ohio EPA denied renewal of the company's scrap tire license because the company failed to properly store and dispose of tires for an extended time period. Recycled Resources Inc., a Pittsburgh company, acquired the Adriatic property at a sheriff's auction in June 2003, but the firm also failed to correct continuing violations at this site, EPA officials said.Specifically, the owners failed to comply with orders that require pesticide application to control disease-carrying mosquitoes and the establishment of fire lanes within the oversized tire pile. The accumulation of scrap tires at this site constituted a danger to public health, safety and the environment, EPA officials said.Liberty Tire Services transported the tires to its scrap tire recovery facility near Minerva. After processing, some of the tire shreds were taken to the Akron Thermal Generating Facility and burned with wood chips as a fuel supplement to produce energy. Other shredded tires were transported to construction and demolition debris landfills in nearbycounties for use in the drainage system under new waste placement areas. Remaining scrap tire processing residuals were placed in Liberty's tire monofill in Minerva.Money for the cleanup came from a surety bond that had been posted by Adriatic Recycling and the Ohio Scrap Tire Fund.The Youngstown City Health Department, the city of Youngstown Litter Control and Recycling Program and the Mahoning County Solid Waste Management District assisted the Ohio EPA with planning and managing this cleanup effort.State-funded scrap tire abatement projects are supported by a $1 fee collected for each new tire sold in Ohio. In addition, $1 million is allocated annually from the scrap tire fund to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Litter Control and Recycling, to provide financial assistance to businesses and solid waste management districts,which team up to recycle scrap tires. The Ohio EPA is responsible for administering the scrap tire fund for scrap tire removal projects. Under Ohio law, the Ohio EPA is required to award the scrap tire removal contract based on proposals to reuse or recycle the scrap tires.Visit the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency: www.epa.state.oh.us"