Scrap Tire Buy Back Program
2014 NACo Achievement Award Winner
Montgomery County, Ohio, OH
Best In Category
About the Program
Category: County Resiliency (Best in Category)
Year: 2014
On September 21, 2013 Montgomery County Environmental Services provided Montgomery County residents an opportunity to recycle old tires by hosting a Scrap Tire Buy Back Event. Montgomery County residents were allowed to deliver up to ten scrap tires per vehicle for recycling and were paid two dollars per tire, with a maximum of ten tires per vehicle. Thus, residents were incentivized to clean up scrap tires from their neighborhoods, alleyways, vacant lots, rivers and streams, and deliver the tires to the event site. The inaugural event on September 21, 2013 attracted 1,581 vehicles and collected 15,488 scrap tires for recycling.