BFS aids Keep America Beautiful campaign

BLOOMINGDALE, Ill. (Sept. 17)—Some 918,000 scrap tires were removed from parks and roadsides in the "Great American Cleanup 2003" campaign sponsored by Keep America Beautiful Inc., a national litter prevention organization. This is 143 percent more than the 377,000 collected in the 2002 campaign, according to BFS Retail & Commercial Operations L.L.C., whose Firestone Tire & Service Centers acted as a partner in the campaign. The company-owned tire stores worked in their localities to remove scrap tires from area parks and waterways, and also served as drop-off locations for scrap tires, the company said. BFS Retail & Commercial is a subsidiary of Bridgestone Americas Holding Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of Tokyo-based Bridgestone Corp.