This post was originally published on The Washington Informer
By Kayla Benjamin
Eric Hayes is no stranger to trash. The 55-year-old Barry Farm resident has picked up garbage from the roads, sidewalks and green spaces of his neighborhood every week — sometimes every day — for a decade. There’s not much plastic pollution that surprises him anymore.
But late last year, Hayes and his neighbors woke up to find that someone had come along to Pomeroy Road SE and dumped 70 car tires.
“There were tires in the street, there were tires on the sidewalk,” Hayes said. “Basically — it was a lot of tires.”