The vehicular inspection service, Riteve and the Caja Costarricense del Seguro Social (CCSS), will continue their campaign to collect discarded tires this week, in a campaign against Dengue.
Riteve will accept used tires at its stations in Alajuela, Santo Domingo de Hereida and Lagunilla from 6:00 am to 9:00 pm.
The campaign aims to prevent the spread of Dengue, as discarded tires are a favourite breeding place for mosquitos.
All the tires collected will be recycled and used as fuel by the Holcim cement plant in Cartago.
All types of tires not exceeding 22 inches in diameter will be accepted.
Yeah, the tires will get sold to Holcim as fuel for their cement plant… lets just hope they are SMOKELESS tires. And for the other tires, those just “laying around”, they will still be there when the mosquitos come to breed… MinOfHealth says that they have had cases in San Sebastian… But what about the OUTDOOR car stops (yep, old tires) in many parking lots? Appears that they will be around for a LONG time as surely a parking lot owner isn’t going to give up his “bumpers” nor is the Association of Parking Lots the least bit interested in cooperating to get those future breeding grounds picked up, modified with drain holes or anything of the kind. In that there is a fine for everything else, why not a fine for having old tires out in the rain? And couple that with a municipal pick up program because surely to avoid the fine, they will be thrown out into the street. Oh, but then there is no government agency that can legally enter your property to recover old rain-soaked tires…. So just like last year and the year before and even before that, the halls of the hospitals will be jammed with Dengue patients thanks to muni’s like San Jose that just dumps them in “their” part of the Cemetary Calvo (photos available). At least do your part, don’t allow any standing fresh water on your property for more than 24 hours.