The South Central Solid Waste Authority has opened a whole new avenue of recycling for the city and county with the purchase of a heavy duty mobile tire shredder.
“Scrap tires have always been problematic, but up until last week our only local management and disposal option was to landfill them,” says SCSWA Director Patrick Peck. “Now we have a way to turn old, worn out tires to beneficial use by shredding them.”The new $200,000 shredder was purchased with grant funds through the New Mexico Environment Department Recycling and Illegal Dumping Alliance. It was delivered on Tuesday of last week; on Wednesday it was grinding through a test run at the city’s Fleet Services Section, where 750 tires were waiting to be shredded. In one and a half days, the shredder filled two roll-offs with tire shreds which can be recycled into various products.
