😡 Police in Luzerne County investigating after tires found dumped in creek

[GOYABEAN]

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HANOVER TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Police are investigating after dozens of tires were dumped into a creek in Luzerne County.

It's not just a nuisance. There's the potential for damage to the environment.

Photos from the Hanover Township Police Department show the tires dumped.

The land is owned by the Earth Conservancy. Saturday afternoon, it discovered someone dumped about 150 tires into Leuder's Creek.

https://www.wnep.com/article/news/lo...d-2c1b744602bd

[justsayno]

They are filling tractor trailer, with old tires, then leaving trailers on roadside.

[streaker69]

Idiots, you don't dump tires to dispose of them, you burn them.

[Gman106]

I'm curious why it seems tires get dumped so often. Is there a reason people don't just take them to recycle centers? I understand they can be turned into playground mulch or used in road paving.

[DukeConnor]

I'm curious why it seems tires get dumped so often. Is there a reason people don't just take them to recycle centers? I understand they can be turned into playground mulch or used in road paving.

When you buy new tires there is often a disposal or environmental fee. Tire place dumps the tires and pickets the money.

[wis bang]

I'm curious why it seems tires get dumped so often. Is there a reason people don't just take them to recycle centers? I understand they can be turned into playground mulch or used in road paving.

All tire replacement requires disposal so they charge for it. Someone tried to keep what was collected by midnight dumping.

[RockIsland]

When you buy new tires there is often a disposal or environmental fee. Tire place dumps the tires and pickets the money.

They used to pay shops to take the old tires away.

Now you have to pay them.

[middlefinger]

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I used to deliver gypsum to the cement plant in Fleetwood and they had a huge pile of tires that they burned in their kiln while making cement