Ohio EPA Announces Completion of Tire Cleanup

The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency announced that the scrap tire cleanup at the McMasters site in Atwater Township, Ohio, is complete six months ahead of schedule with a cost savings of $689,000.

Contractors removed more than one million passenger tire equivalents and 500 tons of solid waste from the site. Cleanup of the illegal dump was conducted by Liberty Tire Services of Ohio, under contract with Ohio EPA. The project was completed in nine months at a cost of $1.5 million.

This site was difficult to clean up because more than half of the tires were submerged in a flooded strip mine. An excavator with an extra long arm (60 feet) was used to remove the submerged tires. Liberty Tire Services of Ohio processed half of the tires on-site and hauled half of the tires to its mobile scrap tire recovery facility near Minerva, Ohio.

After processing, all the shredded tires were transported to construction and demolition debris landfills in nearby counties for use in constructing leachate collection systems for new cells at the landfills.