The Maryland Department of Environment is promoting participation in the Baltimore-Metropolitan region’s 15th Annual Bike to Work Day on Friday, May 18, 2012.
Bike to Work Day is a national effort to provide cyclists and potential cyclists with resources, support and encouragement to bike regularly to work. You can register to attend a Bike to Work Day event on the Baltimore Metropolitan Council’s website.
Biking to work is a great way to conserve energy, save money, reduce air pollution and greenhouse gases, get exercise and set an example for others. Continue reading
There are at least 275 million scrap tires stockpiled in the U.S., according to an EPA website. And even though markets now exist for about 80 percent of them – up from 17 percent in 1990 – Americans add millions of used tires each year to piles of various sizes in all 50 states, including some that can only be described as mountainous. 
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