Rubber Hits the Road at Tire Recycling Event in Cole County, MO

ABC Tire, a tire-recycling company based in Springfield, brought two tractor-trailers to the dropoff site.

SEATTLE (Waste Advantage): It had been a long time since there had been a tire-recycling event in Cole County. At least 10 years, as far as organizers of Saturday’s tire collection could remember. Starting early in the morning, people hauled tires in to the Cole County Public Works facility for a Mid-Missouri Solid Waste Management District (MMSWMD) collection. People brought in tires of every size imaginable.

Staff loaded small tires by hand, but large tractor tires required a Bobcat to move. Elise Buchheit, district manager for the MMSWMD, said Cole County is one of only eight counties in the district. Even so, her research indicated the district had not hosted a Cole County collection since before 2014. “I wasn’t able to find it out. It’s been at least a few years,” Buchheit said. “We do collections throughout the district.”

ABC Tire, a tire-recycling company based in Springfield, brought two tractor-trailers to the dropoff site. At the end of the day, ABC was to haul the tires to Springfield. Ron Maxwell, who has been employed at ABC Tire for 20 years, said it’s not a big deal to bring tractor-trailers to a tire drop. “We pick up Walmart and Firestone. We pick up at Warehouse Tires. We leave a trailer there (Warehouse Tires in Jefferson City) and come and pick it up when it’s full,” Maxwell said. “There are seven of us. We pick up 14,000 to 15,000 tires a day.”

Courtesy: www.wasteadvantage.com

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