- What can you do with those big piles of used tires?
VICKSBURG - Each year about 2.7 million tires - an average of one tire for each resident of the state - is discarded in Mississippi. With space in landfills becoming increasingly rare and costly, there has been a critical need to find alternatives for disposing of waste tires. Thanks to ......
- Town Rubberizes School Field
Officials of Windsor, Conn., are hoping that millions of tiny slivers from shredded rubber tires will solve a long-standing problem at one of the town's busiest athletic fields. Workers of the Windsor Public Works Department recently mixed in a patented, soil-amendment product called Rebound with topsoil at O'Brien Field, the ......
- GVA Williams hired for landmark recycling
venture.
International property advisor GVA worldwide has been selected to assume responsibility for identification, acquisition and project management of a landmark recycling venture involving 130 sites around the world. The project has an estimated value of $19.5 billion over the next 10 years. Cyntech Technologies, Inc., a Houston, Texas-based petrochemical and ......
- Tires For Highway Projects
New York state has completed a comprehensive plan that will result in the cleanup of 95 waste tire stockpiles throughout New York state. As part of the plan, the state departments of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and Transportation (DOT) will partner on an initiative to recycle scrap tires for use on ......
- Grant money puts recycled tires to work in
Indiana.
* Two organizations in Randolph County, Ind., have received state grants to put recycled tires to use in paving projects, according to a report in the Palladium-Item (Richmond, Ind.). The Randolph County YMCA will receive $14,730 to pave the surface of a walking trail with rubber-modified asphalt. In addition, Randolph ......
- It's Made of Rubber, But Will It Ever Float?
It may be green, but is it gold? A Wisconsin company called Venture Development is trying to assemble a chain of tire recyclers and has its eye on Tony Canales of Egg Harbor, which has been one of the biggest recyclers in Southern New Jersey. But people in the recycling ......
- U.S. Recycled 71 Percent Of Scrap Tires In
1999.
Last year, scrap-tire management systems captured 71 percent of the 272 million scrap tires generated in the United States, according to Terry Noteboom, senior environmental engineer for Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. "These statistics demonstrate that the industry is doing a good job of capturing and beneficially recycling scrap tires," ......