{"id":19566,"date":"2019-09-19T14:13:17","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T14:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=19566"},"modified":"2019-09-19T14:13:57","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T14:13:57","slug":"huntingdon-county-holds-tire-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=19566","title":{"rendered":"Huntingdon County Holds Tire Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/LoganHCCDTireWars.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19567\" width=\"297\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/LoganHCCDTireWars.jpg 542w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/LoganHCCDTireWars-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 297px) 100vw, 297px\" \/><figcaption> <em>Logan Stenger, Huntingdon County Conservation District Watershed Specialist and Affiliate Coordinator for KHCB, unloads tires during the 2019 Tire War Challenge. Photo provided by HCCD.<\/em> <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>On September 14, 2019, Keep Huntingdon County Beautiful (KHCB) volunteers collected 1,962 tires as part of the 14th Annual Tire War Challenge! The collection includes 1,852 car\/truck tires, 74 tractor-trailer tires, and 36 tractor tires. To put this in perspective, they filled two 53&#8242; long tractor-trailers from top to bottom! We await the results from the other participating counties to determine if KHCB retains the Gold Rim Award for most tires collected.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of polluting our land and streams, these tires go to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Mahantango-Enterprises\/778714148921885?fref=mentions&amp;__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARA5JNnf8oWJ1asEeRPKFMwjmQHTvC352muBYFJS7XBfHeiq0r7uACj_5J_xkn8aI7FKMDUNnGWFA597RZndAdjuq5xhFpTYuuCtckNB8rnnaMWDOop6NYSz2G1i5zK7YOkn6mS5YDt-BTqSVWG5lQ_J3Vt7fuZduwEG-inQN_yvuEigZ4OU0-7bZSM3DuaTdgn6ZUL0fhGvZbcMtMzuFE6IyFTFFRHGY_0T7oatkjCxKmuKYLH46piFIqo1Gzmk1mZvuBtpVFJ-_5MQAAlbOtry6eN9ZdA_RwcnGt-zfFM0dq0kiolq4Uc1S8-I_X9h7u-JT1W6nBp6E9gvEhETgweMZQ&amp;__tn__=K-R\">Mahantango Enterprises<\/a> in Liverpool, PA. The tires are then reclaimed and recycled into usable products such as rubber mulch for playgrounds or athletic tracks. This event was made possible by a grant from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PennsylvaniaDEP\/?fref=mentions&amp;__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARA5JNnf8oWJ1asEeRPKFMwjmQHTvC352muBYFJS7XBfHeiq0r7uACj_5J_xkn8aI7FKMDUNnGWFA597RZndAdjuq5xhFpTYuuCtckNB8rnnaMWDOop6NYSz2G1i5zK7YOkn6mS5YDt-BTqSVWG5lQ_J3Vt7fuZduwEG-inQN_yvuEigZ4OU0-7bZSM3DuaTdgn6ZUL0fhGvZbcMtMzuFE6IyFTFFRHGY_0T7oatkjCxKmuKYLH46piFIqo1Gzmk1mZvuBtpVFJ-_5MQAAlbOtry6eN9ZdA_RwcnGt-zfFM0dq0kiolq4Uc1S8-I_X9h7u-JT1W6nBp6E9gvEhETgweMZQ&amp;__tn__=K-R\">Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection&#8217;<\/a>s Household\/Small Business Hazardous Waste Collection Program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 14, 2019, Keep Huntingdon County Beautiful (KHCB) volunteers collected 1,962 tires as part of the 14th Annual Tire War Challenge! The collection includes 1,852 car\/truck tires, 74 tractor-trailer tires, and 36 tractor tires. To put this in perspective, they filled two 53&#8242; long tractor-trailers from top to bottom! We await the results from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation-district-project-spotlight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}