scrap tire News
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EPA and State Partners Help Border Area Manage Scrap Tires
This week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, along with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and the State of Texas Alliance for Recycling (STAR), held a workshop in El Paso to help turn a source of pollution into a resource. Each year, the U.S.-Mexico border region deals with millions of discarded tires, which pile up and attract pests. Finding ways to manage these scrap tires ...
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Recycled Tires: How they are Recycled and Disposed of.
You use them every day. Whether you drive a car, take a bus, ride your bike, or fly in a plane, all of these methods of transportation rely on rubber tires. This applies to billions of other people across the world each day, too. It might surprise you to know just how many scrap tires are produced each year around the world, and how those previously used tires are effectively being put to use in ...
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Zeppelin Systems Announces Another Recycling Partnership
The Italian Technology group formed by RubberJet and Vertech specialise in recycling particularly large scrap tyres, for example from trucks and construction and mining machinery. High quality rubber recyclates can be made from scrap tyres measuring up to four metres in size, which can later be used to manufacture new tyres.According to current figures from the AZuR network (innovation forum for ...
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Michigan Works to Clear Dumped Tyres
The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) Scrap Tire Program cleaned up the equivalent of 287,377 passenger tyres in 2022. Scrap tyres can be hazardous to the environment and public health if not properly managed. Runoff from tyre fires can contaminate water, and scrap tyre sites are an ideal habitat for the breeding of mosquitoes carrying diseases such as West Nile ...
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Abolition of the heating value regulation in the laws of life-cycle management
Automatic sampling system facilitates fuel quality testing The use of substitute fuels (SF) had previously been regulated in § 8 (3) of the laws of life-cycle management (Kreislaufwirtschaftsgesetz-KrWG) and facilitated above all industrial companies with a high energy requirement to use SF such as scrap tires in the production of their products. But the so-called heating value regulation ...
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Constructing The Scrap Tire Pyrolysis Plant Design
A scrap tire pyrolysis plant design is integral to converting materials in tires and plastics into pyrolysis oils, hydrocarbon gas and carbon black for reuse as fuel for steam, heating and electricity. With out a proper layout and design, this process for efficiently transforming the types of materials could be hindered. A Little More About Scrap Tire Pyrolysis As many industrial chemists know, ...
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Liberty Tire Recycling Recognized for Recovering and Recycling More Than 1,000 Illegally Dumped Tires at Atlanta-Area Arts Center
Pittsburgh-based Liberty Tire Recycling, the premier provider of tire recycling services in North America, is pleased to announce that the company recently received recognition for the donation of its tire collection and reclamation services to The Arts Exchange, an Atlanta-area community center. The center gave Liberty Tire Recycling top honors at its first volunteer appreciation awards ...
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Ontario Environment Minister approves used tire plan
In a speech delivered at the Waste Diversion Ontario Annual General Meeting this week, the Ontario Minister of the Environment, the Honorable John Gerretsen, announced the approval of the Ontario Used Tire Program Plan, launching the most ambitious used tire stewardship program in the country. The Used Tire Program Plan will implement a managed scrap tire solution for On-road and Off-road tires ...
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Tire recycling system produces diesel-grade fuel
Disposal of scrap tires poses significant environmental and logistical challenges on a global scale, not excluding safety hazards, fires, overflowing landfills, health threats and severe atmospheric pollution. An estimate of over 800 million scrap tires is generated each year world-wide, and the total number of scrap tires in stockpiles is expected to be in excess of 10 billion. The GCC is no ...
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EPA Webinar on Rubberized Asphalt: Recycling Tires into Rubberized Asphalt the Triple Bottom Line of Sustainability
Dr. Serji Amirkhanian, Director of Research and Development of Phoenix Industries in Las Vegas, Nevada was one of four industry experts participating in an on-line informational webinar presented by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Scrap Tire Workgroup February 21, 2013. The focus of the webinar was on how the use of recycled scrap tires in rubberized asphalt advances sustainable ...
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New Phoenix/Liberty Crumb Rubber Supply Agreement
Phoenix Industries, a leading manufacturer of pelletized, rubber-modified binder material for the asphalt paving industry, is pleased to announce it has entered into a supply agreement with Liberty Tire Recycling, headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA. Under this agreement, Liberty will supply various types and sizes of crumb rubber, derived from scrap tires, to Phoenix for the manufacture of their ...
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4m scrap tires removed from US-Mexico border this year
Environmental Secretaries from all ten US – Mexico border states met this week in Hollywood, Calif., to sign the Tire Initiative Letter of Understanding, which implements tire pile prevention measures and strives to eliminate tire piles public health risks. To date, 4 million tires have been removed by Border 2012 Program Partners. The Border Governors Conference features representatives from ...
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Waste tire recycling plant manufacturing and shipping to Colombia.
The Technokomplex company informs on starting the development of South American market of equipment for recycling and utilization of scrap tires, plastics, waste oils and oil sludge. The first shipment of Pirotex pyrolysis plant with capacity of 20 tons of feedstock per day took place in June 2013 July 1st, Rostov-on-Don, Russia. The Technokomplex company (www.tkomplex.ru) has done a number of ...
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Ecore to Expand in Alabama
Ecore International plans to invest $25.5 million to open a state-of-the-art manufacturing and recycling facility in Ozark, where it will create 84 jobs, according to Alabama State Gov. Kay Ivey. Pennsylvania-based Ecore specialises in transforming reclaimed materials into high-performance flooring and surface products. The privately company is said to be the largest converter of reclaimed rubber ...
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Columbus McKinnon Corporation announces sale of CM Stationary Tire Shredding System
Columbus McKinnon Corporation, Sarasota Florida has announced the sale of a new CM Stationary Tire Shredding System to SPSA (Southeastern Public Service Authority) in Suffolk, Virginia. In a government bid process, Columbus McKinnon Corporation equipment was chosen as the successful bidder. After an extensive search and numerous visits to other processing facilities and as a result of the ...
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Liberty Tire Recycling to Clean Up Illegal Tire Dump at Site of Atlanta-Area Arts Center
PITTSBURGH, May 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Pittsburgh-based Liberty Tire Recycling, the premier provider of tire recycling services in North America, is donating its tire collection and reclamation services to help an Atlanta-area community center facing a dilemma. Crews from the company's plant in Atlanta will collect and recycle as many as 1,000 scrap tires that were illegally dumped on the ...
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Tire playgrounds, not tire piles
Each year, about 26% of discarded tires are ground up to create new surfaces for athletic fields, running tracks, and playgrounds or to be mixed into road asphalt. Another 62% are turned into other products or used as fuel. Overall, that’s about 88% of discarded tires that are reused and recycled! If 88% of tires are being recycled, then the other 12% are not. When you have 246.43 ...
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Environmental project on utilization of scrap tires.
As part of contribution into environmental problems solving the Technokomplex company offers clean technology treating the problem of scrap tires utilization. Small scale pyrolysis plants manufactured by the company are designed for recycling and utilization of scrap tires, mechanical rubber goods, plastics, oil sludge and waste oils with possibility to further process obtained products on ...
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Liberty Tire Recycling Announces Nationwide Partnership with The Hertz Corporation to Recover, Recycle Scrap Tires at Car Rental Outlets
Liberty Tire Recycling, the premier provider of tire recycling services in North America, has signed an agreement with The Hertz Corporation (NYSE: HTZ), the largest worldwide airport general use car rental brand, to recover and recycle scrap tires from all of the rental agency's locations in the United States. It is the first agreement of its kind in the car rental industry and will result ...
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2,000 Tires Re-Used for Each Lane Mile of Rubberized Asphalt - Sustainable Paving Alternative Proves Longer Lasting, Safer and Less Costly
PITTSBURGH - Rubberized asphalt is a high-performance alternative to traditional paving material that combines the strength and versatility of asphalt and the longevity and flexibility of recycled rubber. Derived from scrap tires, rubberized asphalt is longer lasting, safer, less costly and friendlier to the environment than traditional paving materials. Rubberized asphalt provides an outlet for ...
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