A trio of Summit County school buses is finding new life as scrap in Steamboat Springs.
Steamboat Radio reports on school bus recycling at D&D Metal Recycle, where earlier this month the old diesel buses were smashed into squares a fraction of their original size.
D&D removes the engine and dismantles the chassis. What’s left is then crushed, bailed and shipped to a smelter.
But that is only half the story. These buses earned early retirement through the Clean School Bus Incentive Program from the Environmental Protection Agency. In coming years, the EPA awards $965 million to school districts swapping diesel fleets for new, clean-energy buses.
Summit School District won grant money through the program – and the folks at D&D won new business. Owners Emily and Joe Duksa have already crushed buses from Steamboat and now Summit schools.
Steamboat news director Shannon Lukens believes they will keep doing it as long as they have buses to crush.
