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Atlanta (CNN) -- It's like an Easter eggs hound for grownups.

Volunteers race the timer, scouring their neighborhood for junked accustomed tires to be recycled for free. It's an Earth Day tradition in the Atlanta district of Council Member Natalyn Archibong. This year on April 16, more than 1,500 tires were collected. About 1,100 of those came from her East Atlanta neighborhood.

It's one in-town neighborhood that has more than its share of crime, graffiti and unlawful dumping. It also has more than its share of devoted residents -- this year about 20 -- ambitioning to give up a Saturday to get watery and filthy tramping via poison ivy to drag tires out of ditches, from behind vacant homes and off the curbs of neighbors unable to dispose of them.

One hazard is "tire juice," the rainwater that collects in dumped tires and makes them mosquito-breeding threats. Volunteers fast learn to keep their mouths shut for they vibrate and twirl the tires to get the water out and make them easier to heave into a truck.

Volunteers have fair four hours to drop the tires at Archibong's collection site. The repose of the year,dre headphones, it costs $1.25 to drop off a passenger tire at an Atlanta recycling facility. Archibong, who has been doing the roundup for 10 years on a Saturday close to Earth Day, usually pays for the accident through her council office's disbursement allowance. This year, she said, the recycling firm Liberty Tire became her "tire fairy" and picked up the tab.

Archibong began the roundup while the metropolis stopped tire collection. She was concerned almost the spread of mosquito-borne West Nile virus. The number of tires collected has gone down over the years, she said, from a tall of extra than 3,000. She said she thinks the roundup puts a public spotlight on tire dumping that aids prevent it.

Her gopher keeps count of the number of tires dripped off along each neighborhood in the committee area. East Atlanta has won the elapse four years.

It's a questionable honor, 1 that volunteers favor to think reflects their skill and organization by detecting tires rather than a neighborhood that has more dumping than others. Tire recon starts weeks ahead Earth Day. Dead-end streets, ditches, blank lots and foreclosed houses are always checked for tires. Piles of 50 or more tires are not unusual. This year, 1 smudge held about 400.

Perhaps amazingly, volunteers find this fun and rewarding. John Venneman, who collects tires in his Reynoldstown neighborhood and then helps friends in East Atlanta, said, "I pick up tires because I like alive in the city, but only certain portions of it. The additional portions will not change unless I change them."

Sheila Burau brought according a teenage neighbor. Burau said the roundup is a "positive path to construct a sense of community spirit."

"The 15-year-old I was teamed up with had a explosion and can't wait until we do it repeatedly next year," she said.

Kevin Spigener, who leads cleanup exertions for the neighborhood coalition, said he feels it's his municipal responsibility to help "tackle a quite solemn and troubling issue."

The daily tire collection is hard to comprehend for friends and home who live in city center condo districts or suburban subdivisions. "I am so disturbed as to where and why these tires show up. How does this occur?" queried one volunteer's brother.

Southeast Atlanta has many low-income dwellers, and the elimination fare disbursed to a tire store because a set of tires namely generally $12. Some people prefer to reserve their old tires prefer than paying the fare. Some are dumped. Others are stashed behind the house.

There also are many stores that sell used tires in Archibong's district. Volunteers guess some of those marts collect the tire disposal fee yet dump the tires. Volunteers pass the residences of great piles on to Archibong for inquiry, but statute enforcement officials have said it is difficult to find the sinners. Resources aren't obtainable to peg out multiple sites 24/7 to see for tire dumpers. Other crimes take prerogative.

In the meanwhile, the volunteers will save their old clothes and go mittens for Earth Day 2012 and hope there won't be as many tires to circular up then.
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