Committee recommends extension of tire tax.
Committee recommends extension of tire tax. The fee funds the clean up of waste tire sites throughout the state. Ed Galbraith, enforcement section chief of Solid Waste Management, the agency that handles trash, said there are about 6.5 million waste tires in the state. Debate in the committee centered around the length of the extension to recommend. Rep. Gary Marble, R-Neosho, argued against the committee's planned five year extension.