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Tire tiff; Plan for new plant causes stir in Md.(to build scrap tire processing plant in...

By Moore, Miles
Publication: Waste News
Date: Monday, November 11 2002

Byline: Miles Moore

Maryland Environmental Service's plan to build a new scrap tire processing facility in Baltimore is making the rubber recycling industry nervous.

Officials of MES, a Maryland agency that operates as a nonprofit environmental management corporation, said they need the new plant to address a shortfall in tire recycling in the state.

The 100,000-sq.-ft. plant could handle about 1.5 million tires annually, producing nearly 24 million pounds of crumb rubber, said Tait Saderholm, an MES marketing manager. The operation should be up b

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