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 +Environmental Facts
Scrap Tire Facts Number of scrap tires generated annually (2005): 297 Million - Number of scrap tires in stock piles (2005): 250 million
- Number of scrap tires going to a market (2005): 240 million
- Number of scrap tires used for fuel (2005): 129 million
- Number of facilities using tire-derived fuel (2005): 92
46 cement kilns, 16 pulp & paper mills, 10 industrial boilers and 20 utility boilers
- Scrap tires used in civil engineering applications (2005): 54 million
- Number of scrap tires exported (2005): 7 million
- Scrap tires processed into ground rubber (2005): 48 million
- Growing markets: surfacing & ground cover, landfill & septic drainage, molded products, rubber modified asphalt
- Average weight of a passenger car tire: 22 pounds
- Average weight of a light truck scrap tire: 30 pounds
- Average weight of a heavy truck scrap tire: 100 pounds
- Percent of scrap tires that are passenger car tires: 84 %
- Percent of scrap tires that are from light and heavy trucks: 15 %
- Percentage of heavy equipment, aircraft and off-road tires: 1%
- Btu’s per pound of scrap tire rubber: 15,000
- Oil (equivalency) in a passenger car tire: 7 gallons
Best ways to reduce the number of scrap tires generated: - Purchase longer-tread life tires
- Rotate tires every 5,000 miles
- Check air pressure levels once a month or before a long trip
- Balance tires when rotating them
- Number of passenger car tires to equal one ton: 100
- Specific gravity of tire rubber: 1.15
- Number of new products that contain recyclable tire rubber:110 and counting
- Properly handled, scrap tires do not present any major environmental problems.
- If improperly handled however, scrap tires can be a threat to the environment. Tires exposed to the elements can hold water and be a breeding space for mosquitoes that carry disease.
- Tire piles can be set on fire through arson or accident. These fires are difficult to put out, and produce heavy smoke and toxic run off to waterways. Tire piles can also harbor other vermin, such as rats and snakes.
- Number of states that ban whole tires from landfills: 35
- Number of states that ban all scrap tires from landfills: 8
- Number of states with no landfill restrictions: 6
- Number of states with a fee: 30
- States that allow Tire Monofills (Tire Monofill is a Landfill only for tires): 6
High Tread International, LTD 490 Ohio St. Lockport, New York 14094 1.716.433.9294
Recycling today for a better tomorrow
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