For those who need or want to recycle tires, there is good news and better news.

Many have seen the flyer from the County’s Waste Resources Department and CR&R, who operates the Idyllwild Transfer Station, announcing the resumption of the annual free tire collection days. This year it will be Saturday, Nov. 9, from 8 a.m. until noon at the Transfer Station.

Perhaps more importantly, CR&R now has a permanent bin or roll-off available every day for collection of tires to be recycled. This started last week and will continue after the Nov. 9 special collection day, according to Nate Woods, CR&R general manager.

Henry Negrete, who has been instrumental in the resumption of tire recycling at the Transfer Station noted that the new process was not fully implemented. When he took the four tires, which he has been trying to bring to the Station for two months, the new bin was not available.

“There was no dumpster in place for tires. But they are accepting them, to be stacked by the office building,” he wrote in a message to the Town Crier.

As a reminder, Janet Moreland, Supervising Recycling Specialist for the County’s Riverside County Department of Waste Resources, said, “By state law, individuals are limited to nine tires per trip.”

When asked about the choice of nine tires as a limit, rather than four or eight, Moreland replied, “Many residents, especially in the unincorporated areas, try to do the right thing for the environment and their neighborhood. They find and pick up discarded tires and bring them to a transfer station. So, the state set the limit of nine per trip.”

At the Idyllwild Transfer Station, the limit will be four tires per day according to Woods, except for the Nov. 9 event.

“This will continue five days per week beyond Nov 9,” Woods stressed.

Other restrictions include no rims on the tires, automobile tires only and they must be less than four feet in diameter.