Outside observers who reason that scrap tires are relatively uniform could learn otherwise from Troy Hess, current president of the ISRI Scrap Tire Chapter and vice president of Mahantango Enterprises Inc.,
Hess, who has been working both on behalf of ISRI and his company to help set up a classifying system for companies involved in the collection and processing of scrap tires, was one of three presenters on the topic at the 2007 ISRI Scrap Tire Summit.
The system Hess is using includes classifications such as Clean Passenger Tires, Dirty Passenger Tires and Other Passenger Tires (contaminated and burned), as well as Radial Truck Tires and Bias-ply Truck Tires. Most of these classifications also have prepared or unprepared sub-classifications.
Tire hauler Bill Cook of Wholesale Tire Co., Clifton Forge,
Cook’s company classifies tires by their condition and, to some extent, by the date they were manufactured. He remarked, though, that “the date is not everything; some good, repairable tires have just been in storage for awhile.”
Anne Evans of EER Limted,
The most active used tire export regions are near the ports of Southern California, South Florida, the
Evans estimated that some 15 percent of the tires that a scrap tire processor handles could be classified as repairable or re-sellable and could be culled from the processing line.
The ISRI Tire Recycling Business Summit took place in mid-September at the Hyatt Regency O’Hare in
Latest from Recycling Today
- Aluminum Dynamics plans facility in Arizona
- OECD recommends Southeast Asia investments in plastic recycling
- AED opposes “right to repair” language in federal bill
- UP reaches agreement to acquire Norfolk Southern
- Republic adds electric trucks, new landfill gas projects in 2024
- Lindemann proposes equipment service subscriptions
- GMS receives Hong Kong Convention certification for vessel
- Nucor still chasing 2024 profit levels