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When you get new tires on your car, you're charged a fee to "properly dispose" of the old tires. Too often, that does not happen. The tires end up being abandoned in vacant lots or thrown into a remote ditch. Zak Rosen reports one group is picking up those tires, making something useful and helping people:
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When you get new tires on your car, you're charged a fee to "properly dispose" of the old tires. Too often, that does not happen. The tires end up being abandoned in vacant lots or thrown into a remote ditch. Zak Rosen reports one group is picking up those tires, making something useful and helping people:
Broadcast History
Longer version aired on WDET, Detroit Public Radio
Later picked up by the Environment Report
Transcript
When you get new tires on your car, you're charged a fee to "properly dispose" of the old tires. Too often, that does not happen. The tires end up being abandoned in vacant lots or thrown into a remote ditch. Zak Rosen reports one group is picking up those tires, making something useful and helping people:
Mike Mason: "If you notice, it don't take much to find tires around here, you don't have to go far."
Mike Mason is driving me around in a big white truck, looking for thrown out tires. And we've found some. A pretty big pile of old tires:
"You see how they dump them around abandoned buildings?"
Rosen: "Who do you think dumped these?"
Mason: "Somebody went somewhere and picked up some tires from a tire shop, and they paid them to get rid of them, and instead of taking them somewhere, they'll dump them right here."
Abandoned tires are a problem in a lot of big cities and that...
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