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Direct Tire Disposing of Old Tires for Free at its Watertown Store

People can bring up to 6 tires to be recycled to the tire store on Galen Street.

Looking to get rid of some old tires – you can drop them off free at Direct Tire in Watertown and they will be recycled. 

The effort helps keep tires out of landfills and is a thank you to the Watertown community, said Direct Tire CEO Barry Steinberg.

"With all the stories about landfills be overloaded with scrap tires we thought this would be a good 'green' thing to do for the town that has been so good to us since 1974 when I first opened," Steinberg said.

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People can bring up to six tires at a time to , located on Galen Street. The store provides the service automatically to customers buying a new set of tires, but this allows people to dispose of additional tires.

"It is very simple and it also makes life easy for the town," Steinberg said.

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