LANSING, Mich. (Feb. 23, 2009)—The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality has issued a 28 grants worth a total of $2.5 million to clean up scrap tire stockpiles around the state.
When completed, the cleanups will remove more than 2.4 million passenger tire equivalents from the state, the DEQ said.
The largest grants were two totaling more than $1.9 million to Mecosta County, to clean up an equivalent number of scrap tires at two related stockpiles.
Grantees—which included individuals as well as county governments and municipalities—have until Aug. 29 to remove and process all tires, the agency said.