CORRECTION!  NOTE THE TIME CHANGE BELOW!

In keeping with the spirit of our Trash Tip of the Week campaign, here’s the next tip.  Thanks for all your help!

City of Laredo
Public Announcement Service Campaign:  “Let’s Talk Trash!”
For Week of August 30, 2004

Trash Tip of the Week:
Get rid of mosquito breeding grounds and unsightly mess in your neighborhoods and area creeks and recycle those old tires.  Every Saturday, you can dispose up to four passenger tires to the City of Laredo Landfill for free; after four, there is a $2.00 charge per tire.

In fact, this Saturday August 28, 2004, you can take tires to the Cash for Tires Mosquito Abatement & Recycling Program at the Recycling Drop-Off Center located at Clark Boulevard and McPherson Avenue from
9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. and get $0.50 for each tire you recycle.  

Tractor truck tires will be charged $6.00 per tire at the landfill.

Passenger tires are shredded and buried in the landfill.  It is against state regulations to bury a tire whole in the landfill because they float their way up, posing potential environmental hazards and other dangers.  The City of Laredo Solid Waste department contracts a company to haul away tractor truck tires and properly disposes of them.  

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Tip de la Semana
Mantenga su vecindad libre de mosquitos y de mal aspecto, y desagase de las llantas que ya no den uso, y recyclelas.  Todos los sabados puede desaserce hasta de cuatro llantas en el Departament de Desechos Solidos ubicado en HWY 359, por solo $2.00.

Pero incluso, puede de desaserce de todas sus llantas este sabado Agosto 28, 2004, y dejarlas en el Centro de Reciclaje ubicado en 1201 Clark en contra esquina de McPherson, y se le pagara $0.50 por cada llanta que lleve.  Asi es que no pierda la oportunidad!