Keep Pickens Beautiful – April is Tire Amnesty Month

April 2015 will be a month to clean up and get rid of old tires in Pickens County, GA. During the recent Board of Commissioner’s meeting a tire clean up program called Tire Amnesty was approved for Pickens County for the month of April. If you bring your old tires to the recycling center the county will take up to 4 tires per family at no charge. Chairman Jones estimated the cost to accept the tires at no charge during the month of April would be approximately three thousand dollars. The Pickens County recycling center is located at 3141 Camp Road, Jasper, Georgia 30143 Phone: 706-253-8871 or visit online Pickens County Recycling

While getting rid of old tires certainly helps the landscape appearance it also helps prevent possible problems. Disease carrying pests such rodents can inhabit tire piles. Mosquitoes can also breed in the stagnant water that collects inside tires. Several varieties of mosquitoes can carry deadly diseases, including encephalitis and dengue fever.

Tire fires also release thick black smoke and air pollutants, and ground and surface water pollution that can be harmful to human health and the environment. So if you have old tires you want to get rid of take advantage of the tire amnesty this month!