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State officials and business owners took the first steps Thursday to close a loophole in a program designed to encourage recycling used tires but instead paid companies to dump them.
With an eye toward paying companies who actually recycle the shredded tires, officials and members of the state’s Waste Tire Advisory Committee began cobbling legislation to shut the loophole in the year-old program.
“This program is not an entitlement,” Rep. Marsha Looper told the committee during a monthly meeting. “There is enough pressure out there to get rid of the fee.”
