The Metropolitan Environmental Trust in cooperation with the Department of Environmental Quality AND RTR Environmental will host, “Tireless Tulsa”, a FREE tire-recycling event. The event takes place on Saturday, October 10 from 9:00 AM to 1:00PM in the Oakhurst neighborhood. The recycling event will be located in the parking lot of the former Addams Elementary School in West Tulsa at 5323 S. 65th West Avenue, Tulsa.
Residents of Bixby, Broken Arrow, Coweta, Claremore, Collinsville, Glenpool, Jenks, Tulsa County, Owasso, Sand Springs and Tulsa can bring their tires to this event to be recycled. No commercial tires are permitted and none of the tires can have rims. Drop-offs are limited to ten tires per person.
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, Americans wear out about 290 million tires a year and they recycle about 233 million of them. Tires left unrecycled attract mosquitoes and mosquito-born illnesses, they are toxic to the ground and water and are highly flammable. This free recycling event is provided as a service to the community in order to eliminate these risks.