No one else wants used tires, why should the Valley?

No one else wants used tires, why should the Valley?
EDITOR:
Regarding the business of shredding tires and the process of usable material from tire chips, has Robert Carcelli forgotten Carbon Oil in Castlo and the cost to the city? We do not want another Carbon Oil in our town, we don't want jobs at the cost of our families' health.
Mr. Carcelli and others see dollar signs in recycling grants and other monies and want the people to look through rose colored glasses while they sneak more trash into our Valley. The truth is, tire recycling is a dirty, smelly, air polluting, health hazard. This process is EPA approved, but so was Carbon Oil before the good Lord blew it up. We don't want another in any form in Struthers, Campbell or Youngstown.
Why does the state of Ohio have a semi-trailer at every tire shop in town? Because the disposal of used tires is a statewide problem. There is no fast outlet for disposal of used tires. Landfills don't want them because of oil content, the state doesn't want rubber mixed into blacktop, power plants use only a small amount of tonnage per year. What's left to us -- another Carbon Oil.
There are millions of tons of used tires in and out of state that people will dump on us. They will be happy to pay a one time tipping fee to rid themselves of old tires. We will be stuck with them. Have you thought about tire dust from shredding tires? EPA is going to love you. The fires that will happen, as the one in Castlo or the one across from Diver Steel City, piles of shredded tires, 20 feet high everywhere. What do we do if we can't get rid of them? Give them back?
This deal is a bad deal and a very risky one. The people in favor of this have tires to get rid of or are looking for a fast buck at the people's expense. Mr. Carcelli should back away from this kind of deal.
ROBERT J. GORDON
Struthers
Strong campaign neededto win passage of sales tax
EDITOR:
A Vindicator editorial published on Feb. 28 bore the headline, "County's battle of the budget appears to be unwinnable." Sad to say, that may be the truth, because there seems to be no move on the horizon to mount a credible public information program to build voter support for restoring the urgently needed half-percent county sales tax.
The Regional Chamber mounted a modest program last year when the issue was on the ballot, but it was "sending a boy to do a man's job" and apparently won't be repeated this time around. The Vindicator has published a number of informative pieces on the subject, but they don't reach people who don't read newspapers. The TV stations aren't likely to give the matter the in-depth coverage it needs, and there's too much blather on talk radio to give listeners the full dimensions of the crisis.
Everybody seems to want to dump the problem on the county commissioners and other elected officials. They are already reaching out, of course, but it seems unlikely that they can do the job alone. The facts are obvious to anyone who reads The Vindicator or the informational materials prepared for the commissioners, but that's dry stuff that needs to be made attention-getting through the touch of skilled public relations people. Informative, eye-catching leaflets need to be cranked out quickly, in five-digit quantities. Much-needed newspaper and TV ads would require more money than the commissioners can raise. Ideally, many articulate, enthusiastic speakers would be recruited to reach out to community and church groups, and the situation would also justify mobilizing volunteers for a telephone promotion program.
The May 3 election is less than nine weeks away. Is anybody listening around here?
ROBERT D. GILLETTE
Poland