The Upper Peninsula communities have received over $760,000 in the last five years from the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy’s (EGLE) scrap tire program. This funding has been used for scrap tire recycling and removing abandoned tires. Ontonagon county has effectively used this program. In Ontonagon, an EGLE grant helped remove large mining, semi and passenger tires from a 1.5-mile stretch of Lake Superior shoreline. EGLE’s scrap tire coordinator, Kirsten Clemens, stated that all tires produced in Michigan are recyclable and can be converted into various products.