Michigan DEQ awards grant money for tire recycling

The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has awarded a total of $2.8 million in grant money to help develop new markets for scrap tires.

The grants cover three types of projects:

• road projects involving the use of rubber-modified asphalt in construction and repairs to improve existing Michigan roadways (Scrap tires used in these construction projects must come from Michigan sources.); 
• research projects involving finding new and better ways to incorporate scrap tire rubber into asphalt and concrete, improving the material’s performance; and
• equipment projects that have been designed to increase and find new ways to create commodities from scrap tires and to increase existing product generation (Examples of existing products include floor tiles, footwear and rubber-compounded feedstock for injection and blow molding.)

Click here to view the list of grant recipients, the type of project and the grant amount.

For more information about Michigan’s scrap tire program, visit www.michigan.gov/scraptires.