Ongoing low-level tyre dumping is an issue across the USA
Washington State Fish and Wildlife officers are asking people to stop dumping tyres in the Colombia Basin of the Colombia River.
They say the problem is ongoing, and recently they recovered some 500 tyres from the river.
The issue is a symptom of the lack of cohesion in tyre recovery in the USA. It follows an ongoing series of tyre amnesties and clear up days across the USA. If the tyre recovery system were fully functional, these events would probably be less frequent.
The tyres were sent to the Department of Ecology�...
