How is the Border 2012 Program addressing the scrap tire problem?
Through Border 2012, EPA and SEMARNAT, are working together to clean the border’s scrap tire piles; finding efficient and environmentally sound options for using them. Through Border 2012, EPA and SEMARNAT promote partnerships with industry, academia, and local and state governments as they clean up tire piles (over 4 million scrap tires were eliminated from 2003 to 2009) and take steps to prevent further tire piles. Such steps include developing a scrap tire management framework, a scrap tire resource guide, a border-wide inventory of tire piles, a compendium of border scrap tire projects, and an supporting an ongoing multi-stakeholder group that meets annually to collaborate in finding solutions.
