DECATUR, GA– – CEO Lorraine Cochran-Johnson , county leaders and operational teams, on Dec. 12 announced a new $250,000 initiative to clean up eight of DeKalb County’s most severe illegal tire dump sites. The effort has already resulted in the removal of more than 37,000 illegally dumped tires from neighborhoods, commercial corridors, and private property.

“This is not just a cleanup — this is a reclaiming of our communities,” said CEO Cochran-Johnson. “To put this into perspective: if the 37,000 tires we have removed were laid end to end, they would stretch 20 to 25 miles — the equivalent of the entire Atlanta Beltline loop or the distance from Midtown Atlanta to Hartsfield-Jackson Airport. That is what our neighborhoods have been forced to live beside.”

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