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SCRAP TIRES * USA - State tries to get a handle on
The used tire is almost as iconic to rural Wyoming as the cowboy boot
Wyoming,USA -The Wyoming's Star-Tribune, by DUSTIN BLEIZEFFER -February 11, 2009: -- It can be seen holding down trailer house roofs, serving as side bumpers on roadway cattle guards and inexplicably hanging alone on a barbed-wire fence... Keith Guille, spokesman for the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality, said DEQ will consider a statewide integrated management plan for waste tires, which will likely include meeting with public and private stakeholders to get a handle on how many waste tires are generated in the state and what happens to them... Envirotank in Campbell County is a state-permitted facility that handles industrial tires from some 21 different mines in the state, according to owner Michael Bulger. His company slices large haul truck tires in half to build stock water tanks and tanks used in the discharge of coal-bed methane water... Bulger said sidewalls are also used for erosion control in the construction of ponds, and even as bumpers on docks for boats and ships... Bob Doctor, program manager of DEQ's solid waste permitting and corrective action said a good example of a better beneficial use was the Wyoming Department of Transportation's recent use of tire bales from Campbell County for fill and drainage under the South Pass highway... (Photo by Tim Kupsick/The Star-Tribune - Wyoming Tire Inc. owner Dick Ayers drives through his tire yard in Mills late last week. State Department of Environmental Quality officials are concerned about the growing number of scrap tires around the state. Ayers has more than a million cubic yards of scrap tires but is only permitted to have 1,300 cubic yards)Labels: scrap tires
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