Magnum D’Or to Recycle 30 Million Old Tires into…New Tires

[Rick Rowlands]

When the time comes that tires have a positive value, the problem of tire dumping will have been solved!  You don't see any scrap metal laying along secluded roads do you? 

If some government agency with more money than brains decided to start paying $1.00 each for every tire turned in, Youngstown would be scrap tire free within a month! 

[Towntalk]

QUOT ME IF I'M WRONG

There have been several local tire recycling drives right here in Youngstown. Isn't Youngstown in America? 

Number of scrap tires generated annually: 290 million 
Percentage of total solid waste generated: 2.0 percent
Number of scrap tires going to a market: 233 million
Number of scrap tires used for fuel: 130 million
Number of scrap tires used in civil engineering projects:  56 million
Number of scrap tires used in ground rubber applications:  28 million
Number of scrap tires punched/stamped into new products:  7 million
Number of tires exported:  9 million
Number of tires in stockpiles:  265 million
[2003 statistics, Rubber Manufacturers Association]

US state laws and regulations dealing with scrap tires are currently enacted in 48 states. Here are some common features of state programs that deal with scrap tires: source of funding for the program; licensing or registration of scrap tire haulers, processors, and end users; manifests for scrap tire shipments; limitations on who may handle scrap tires; financial assurance requirements for scrap tire handlers; and market development activities.[11] Some state programs are now supported by fees charged to the consumer at purchase or disposal of each tire. These fees, sometimes called "tipping fees", help to support recycling costs. When the disposal rates charged to consumers are set high, this in turn discourages landfill disposal, a simple solution encouraging more affordable tire recycling programs.

Scrap Tires in Region 5

http://www.epa.gov/reg5rcra/wptdiv/solidwaste/tires/index.htm

[Rick Rowlands]

Years ago a tire recycler operated at the Castlo Industrial Park. A huge pile of tires were deposited there, and the recycler was going to mulch these up into power plant fuel.  I think the EPA nixed the idea and as a result Castlo was left with a big pile of tires, people lost jobs and the company went belly up. 

Its extremely difficult to start such a business these days with onerous government regulations shutting out all but the most well connected and deep pocketed players.  Those people no longer exist in this valley, unless artificially propped up by Tim Ryan.

[Why?Town]

What do you mean "Why can't the same ideas be brought to America?"

A .2 second Google search turns up many tire recyclers in the United States including Pittsburgh based Liberty Tire Recycling with a network of fourteen facilities and claiming to recycle almost 25% of America's scrap tire production.  If your 290 million number is accurate, that's about 70 million tires. They also claim to have cleaned up over 450 abandoned tire piles containing nearly 50 million tires.

Now you can ask your typical, "Why is Ohio lagging behind?"

Liberty has two plants in Ohio, Located in Canton and Cleveland.

Considering that it also has one in Pittsburgh, maybe the reason we see so many tires laying around Youngstown is that we are the hub of distrubution to these three facilities.

[irishbobcat]

Magnum D'Or to Recycle 30 Million Old Tires into...New Tires
Written by Tina Casey
Published on August 22nd, 2009

Magnum D'Or Resources, Inc. has just announced that it is on the verge of buying one of the biggest tire dumps in the world located in Hudson, Colorado.  More than 30 million tires are estimated to reside in the 120-acre parcel, and Magnum believes that nearby rail and and other transportation facilities make it ripe for the picking.  The company plans to use its next-generation tire recycling facility in Canada to convert the "black gold" into high grade rubber nuggets that could be used in the manufacture of new tires.  With an estimated 290 million scrap tires generated annually in the U.S. alone, it looks like Magnum D'Or has tapped into a virtually endless supply of sustainable feedstock for its operations.

Recycle, Reuse, Regenerate. Why can't the same ideas be brought to America? Now even our scrape will be used to produce jobs in other countries.
Dennis Spisak
Mahoning Valley Greens
Ohio Green Party
www.ohiogreens.org
www.votespisak.org/thinkgreen/