An advertisement elsewhere in this issue gives the date and time for a tire collection activity in Nuckolls County. If this year’s event is anything like similar events in prior years, by the end of the day there will be a big pile of worn out tires to be disposed of.
Tire disposal isn’t easy and it has gotten harder with the advent of the steel belted radial tires.
When I was a youngster, it would have been easier to recycle the bias ply tire for the only metal in those tires was around the beads but recycling was not mandated as it is now.
Discarded tires can be a health hazard for they ofte...
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