Muddy army of volunteers clean up major tyre dump in the US


By AGENCY
  • People
  • Wednesday, 23 Apr 2025

City workers and volunteers working together to move dumped tyres towards the garbage trucks for the Philly Spring Cleanup at Tacony Creek Park in Philadelphia. Photos: Tyger Williams/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS

Wherever used tyres are dumped by a waterway or piled high in urban dead-ends, look for Jon Merryman; he’ll be there.

Merryman, 62, drove 115 miles (185km) on a recent Saturday from his home near Baltimore to Tacony Creek Park in the Crescentville section of Philadelphia, the United States to participate in a major tyre cleanup sponsored by the city and several non-profits.

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