ATWOOD - By summer 2001, the 4.5 million waste tires at the G&M tire pile near Atwood are expected to be cleaned up. Wednesday, the cleanup of the tire pile began at the seven-acre site.The pile, which weighs approximately 57,700 tons, includes truck, automobile, farm implement and airplane tires. The contractor, TRI-Rinse Inc., from St.Louis, Mo., plans to shred the waste tires at the site and haul the material to area landfills.There, landfill operators will use it as alternative daily cover in their operations and as a substitute material for stone used for drainage in the bottom of new landfills. TRI-Rinse expects to shred about five truckloads of tires each day, Monday through Saturday. There are concerns about why the Indiana Department of Environmental Management chose TRI-Rinse instead of the Indiana companies that planned to recycle the waste tires.
DAVID SLONE, Times-Union Staff Writer- | July 28, 2016