KWCB HOLDS TIRE AMNESTY DAY
IN JUST A FEW HOURS, KWCB HAD COLLECTED MORE TIRES THAN TWO DUMPSTERS COULD HOLD.
KWCB volunteers at the Tire Amnesty Day on Jan. 14.
A Dumpster filled with tires.
By TAMMIE NASON Special to The Sun
Over the Martin Luther King Day weekend, Keep Wakulla County Beautiful held a Tire Amnesty event and road cleanup. On Saturday, Jan. 14, Keep Wakulla County Beautiful hosted Tire Amnesty at the Wakulla Community Center. KWCB Board members, Wakulla Road & Bridge and Interact students from Wakulla High were on hand to help unload tires for residents. This 4-hour event filled to over-capacity within 3 hours. Over two Dumpsters of tires were collected. We are currently still waiting on the total weight from Marpan. The tires ranged from yard wagon tires to a large tractor tire, and everything in between. There were about 60 vehicles that came through to take advantage of the event. After about 12:15 p.m., the second Dumpster was full and we had to turn some away with information about the next event. KWCB will be working with Panacea Waterfronts to do a community cleanup on March 11, 2023. We will be accepting tires at this time also. It will be held at the Panacea Community Center, formerly the Women’s Club, on Otter Lake Road. Watch Keep Wakulla County Beautiful on Facebook or the website at kwcb.org for more information. On Martin Luther King Day, Jan. 16, KWCB board members cleaned along the roadway that is named in his honor. There were several bags of trash collected and totaled approximately 300 pounds. This portion was from the courthouse to a mile towards U.S. 98. Collected were items such as plastic bags, cans, bottles, cigarette litter (not all, that would take a year), a pipe, old tools, wheel center caps, fast food containers, and a broken bird bath that still needs to be removed. Lewis and Marty DeAngelis that have adopted a section of MLK from Tiger Hammock to 98, cleaned that section of road a few days prior. They collected about 75 pounds of trash including garbage and car parts. There are many sections of roadway available for adoption. The volunteers that help by adopting a road are so helpful in the effort to keep Wakulla County litter free. We are growing so fast and there is still much to be done, but all starts with one piece of litter. Anyone – be it person, family, group, organization, church, etc. – is encouraged to take a stance against litter and adopt a section of roadway. More information can be found on kwcb.org, including an application and a map showing roads with current adopters and the many still available.