OLYMPIA, Wash. — Vernon Stoner has grown accustomed to the rhythmic industrial symphony outside his Olympia waterfront home.
The noise recently heard on Puget Sound is the groan of hydraulics, the splash of chains, and the thud of rubber against metal.
Day after day, a massive cleanup barge glides along Puget Sound, its deck piled high with an unusual cargo — thousands upon thousands of old tires…