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The Board's Market
Status Report: Waste Tires, identifies two key strategies and supporting priority
actions, for promoting markets for waste tires in California. Strategy: Increase
waste tire landfill diversion by developing alternative uses, including use as a fuel
supplement at cement kilns, cogeneration facilities, and through pyrolysis and
devulcanization if economically feasible.
Actions:
- Provide financial assistance for emissions testing to better understand the impact of
tire derived fuel on air emissions.
- Provide financial assistance for fuel handling equipment at facilities using
tire-derived fuel to reduce processing costs and increase tire diversion as a result.
- Allow use of grant funding for research and development projects to evaluate new and/or
improved pyrolysis and devulcanization facilities.
For more information contact David Volden at (916) 341-6433 or dvolden@ciwmb.ca.gov.
Strategy: Increase the use of recycled crumb rubber by promoting and developing
crumb rubber markets through the Board's Tire Grant and
Recycling Market Development Zone (RMDZ) Loan programs.
Actions:
- Facilitate contacts between end users and suppliers of crumb rubber through outreach
programs, including workshops and conferences, to disseminate information on emerging
technologies for using waste tires.
- Encourage industry efforts to establish quality standards for crumb rubber production to
address concerns by product manufacturers and coordinate meetings to establish an industry
group that would develop these standards.
- Encourage industry efforts to establish a waste tire recycling advisory council to
promote waste tire reuse/recycling industries.
- Promote the use of rubberized asphalt by providing information to local governments
about production methods, proper application techniques to street surfaces, and potential
cost savings through its longer life span compared with conventional asphalt.
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