We clean up illegally dumped trash in the high desert of Southern California. One of the biggest issues we face is tires. Tires must be handled separately and differently than trash, they are considered toxic waste. We are building with the help of state funding to build our Tire Abatement Facility. This facility will allow us to receive tires from anyone who brings them to us from the desert and we will compensate them for doing so.

The tires will then be shipped out to the Mitsubishi Cement Plant in Lucern Valley where they will be burned to fire Mitsubishi's kiln with no particulate matter coming out the chimney. Tires go in, but nothing comes out. This program will also allow us to staff a two-person Rapid Response Team whose purpose will be to go out five days a week and clean up trash and gather tires.

State funding will cover the cost of building and equipping the facility, but the fund cannot be sued for ongoing monthy expenses such as payroll or the three full-time employees, insurance, utilities, equipment fuel and maintenance, and any other reoccurring and ongoing expenses. We must raise that money through grants and general fundraising.

HDK Tire Abatement Program Donations

By High Desert Keepers Organization

HDK Tire Abatement Program Donations

Funding for ongoing monthly expenses