The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), along with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and the State of Texas Alliance for Recycling (STAR), recently held a workshop in El Paso, Texas, to help increase tire recycling on the U.S./Mexico border.
According to the EPA, each year, the U.S.-Mexico border region deals with millions of discarded tires, which pile up and attract pests. The EPA notes that finding ways to manage scrap tires is an important goal of the agency’s Border 2020 U.S.-Mexico environmental program. Over the past few years,the program has made progress by engaging local residents in cleanup efforts. This included removing 6 million tires from a pile in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, which were converted into fuel.
For more information on EPA’s Border 2020 program visit www2.epa.gov/border2020.
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