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Such firms as Pullman Inc. are operating at full capacity for the first time in years, but it will be months before they can catch up with the demand...
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Easy, thought Pullman at first. He would simply give them to Fairfax County for landfill. "We're all sympathy," said the county engineer. "But tires don't make good material. Unless they're chopped up, they keep coming to the surface after being buried." It just so happens that the county does not have a tire-shredding machine, and would charge Pullman 50? per tire to remove them...
...Pullman soon grew desperate. He discovered that the county's air-quality laws forbid burning tires and that the "carcasses," as they are called, were much too old to give away to any tire-recapping firm. It occurred to him to pay the $300 fine and turn the tires over to the county. But the local judge has suspended the fine because the county does not know what to do with the tires either. "Everything I've looked into is illegal or expensive," sums up Pullman...