Environment Minister Nick Smith is offering funding grants for new ideas to recycle about three million old tyres each year that currently end up at the landfill or illegally dumped. Dr Smith said New Zealand went through about four million tyres each year and while one million were re-exported for recycling or waste energy the … Read more
Tyres are being dumped secretly all over the country, poisoning the environment and wasting economic opportunities, recyclers say. Dave Youngson of Ecoretainer said he knew of tyres dumped in mangroves and off cliffs. Despite various attempts to improve the ways Kiwis dispose of tyres, Mr Youngson said tyres that could be recycled locally were still … Read more
WASHINGTON—John Sheerin has been director, end-of-life tires, for the Rubber Manufacturers Association for only about six months. His involvement with the RMA’s scrap tire management program, however, goes back much longer than that. As environmental manager, then environmental director, for Bridgestone Retail Operations L.L.C., Sheerin had extensive experience aiding the RMA’s scrap tire management efforts … Read more
Editor’s note: This story has been updated to include DEP comments that its regulations do not prohibit it from issuing permits for waste tire processing plants that are located near other plants.
Glendon has given its approval to a conditional use requested by a tire recycling plant on Island Park Road.
The South Central Solid Waste Authority has opened a whole new avenue of recycling for the city and county with the purchase of a heavy duty mobile tire shredder.
“Scrap tires have always been problematic, but up until last week our only local management and disposal option was to landfill them,” says SCSWA Director Patrick Peck. “Now we have a way to turn old, worn out tires to beneficial use by shredding them.”The new $200,000 shredder was purchased with grant funds through the New Mexico Environment Department Recycling and Illegal Dumping Alliance. It was delivered on Tuesday of last week; on Wednesday it was grinding through a test run at the city’s Fleet Services Section, where 750 tires were waiting to be shredded. In one and a half days, the shredder filled two roll-offs with tire shreds which can be recycled into various products.