Scrap Auto Tire News
Scrap Auto Tire News
One often challenging aspect of the vehicle scrap market for buy my junk car companies is what to do with old tires. When paying cash for cars, the price for scrap cars fluctuates among the demand for various valuable components. In most cases scrap auto tires have little value and are burdensome to store and dispose of. On February 2, 2015, Dave Detore posted a story on tirebusiness.com titled ‘Scrap tire management rules vary across world’, which addressed the topic as follows: “Each country, as well as in each state in the U.S. and province and territory in Canada, has its own set of regulations that address discarded tires or, in some cases, what to do with stockpiles. During a session at the Rubber Recycling Symposium recently in Montreal; The Rubber Manufacturers Association (RMA) & the Tire and Rubber Association of Canada (TRAC), along with Recyc-Quebec, sponsored the biennial symposium. The difference in programs is particularly striking in the U.S., where each state, rather than the federal government, regulates scrap tires. That includes market development, cleaning up stockpiles, developing regulations & initiating and implementing incentive& grant programs. The U.S. generates about 6 million scrap tires annually.
Tracey Norberg is senior VP and general counsel for the RMA. Ms. Norberg said some states offer subsidies & grants and enforce the ground rules, while others don’t. She highlighted two states that are in different stages of dealing with scrap tires: Colorado and California. Colorado recently passed legislation to clean up 60 million stockpiled scrap tires, adopting an approach to dealing with the problem. For every tire sent to a monofill, 2 have to be recycled. By 2018, tires no longer can be sent to a monofill. In addition, she said the law set the scrap tire ceiling fee at $1.50 per tire until 2018, when the fee will be reduced to 55 cents per tire. The law applies to automobile, trailer, truck, motor home & motorcycle tires. California, meanwhile, is patterning its stringent scrap tire program after Ontario, but the California Department of Resources Recycling & Recovery does not have the authority to legislate the industry.
According to the RMA, almost 54 percent of all scrap tires were used for tire derived fuel (TDF) in 2013, while 24 percent were converted to ground rubber. Ms. Norberg noted the ground rubber market is also viable for scrap tires, with playground mulch & molded/extruded goods being the2 largest markets for ground rubber, while the sports surface market ranks 3rd. Europe experiences the same issues, according to Jean-Pierre Taverne, tech coordinator, end of life tires, for the European Tyre & Rubber Manufacturers’ Association (ETRMA). He noted that a European Union directive enacted in 1999 prohibits whole & shredded tires from entering landfills, as of 2006.”To see the complete article on this aspect of vehicle scrap, visit this link: http://www.tirebusiness.com/article/20150202/NEWS/150209990/scrap-tire-management-rules-vary-across-world
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