State Senator Patty Ritchie announced that nearly 4,500 waste tires totaling nearly 70 tons have been eliminated as a result of the recent free waste tire drop off events, held in Oswego County. Tires disposed of brings the two year total of tires eliminated through the Senator’s initiative aimed at protecting public health and the environment, as well as cleaning up our region, to nearly 40,000, which translates to roughly 560 tons of tires.
SOUTH AFRICA is slowly eating into its mountain of scrap vehicle tyres, with 19 percent of old tyres recycled last year – a jump from just 4 percent two years ago.
Yesterday, the Recycling and Economic Development Initiative of SA (Redisa), a non-profit company responsible for building a viable recycling industry with the focus on recycling vehicle tyres, said 2 318 jobs had been created by tyre recycling since the inception of Redisa in June 2013, and 190 small and medium businesses had been created.
In that time, Redisa had diverted about 130 000 tons of waste tyres from the waste stream.
Redisa director Stacey Davidson said between the start of December last year and the end of April, 70 423 tons of waste tyres had been collected. In addition to the jobs created, 45 depots had been established for scrap tyre collection.
The Manitowoc County Recycling Center will hold its annual tire collection Sept. 14-26 for Manitowoc County residents and businesses to properly dispose of their tires at a reduced rate.
The program started in 1998 and has collected approximately 3.05 million pounds of waste tires. Waste tires can be reused. They can be shred into rubber chips and used as artificial turf or as a groundcover in playgrounds. Tire rubber can be incorporated into asphalt roads, running tracks and used in other rubber products. Depending on what other materials are in the tire, they may also be used as a fuel source.
BEIJING—China Rubber Industry Association foresees a 6 percent annual growth rate in the country’s rubber recycling sector from 2016-20, with profit margin increasing from today’s 5 percent to 7 percent in 2020.
Under a proposal by CRIA’s reclaimed rubber comprehensive utilization subcommittee for the country’s 13th five-year plan, last year China produced 4.1 million tons of regenerated rubber, 550,000 tons of rubber powder and 15 million sets of retreaded tires.
The agricultural community will once again have an opportunity to recycle their unwanted farm tires through a collection sponsored by the Ottawa, Sandusky, Seneca Joint Solid Waste District. This collection is open to farm owners, operators and residents in the three county area. ABSOLUTELY NO DEALERS OR AGRI-BUSINESS WILL BE PERMITTED.
