DOUBLE ISSUE: Scrap Tire Markets & Plastics Recycling

Scrap Tires
Scrap Tires: Markets Are Improving, But Much Work Remains To Be Done

Plastics Recycling
States, Associations Devise Varying Solutions For Recycling Arrays Of Plastics

ISSUE: Volume 12, Number 12 December 2002

ABSTRACT:

Scrap Tires:
No nation in the world has quite the love affair with the automobile as the United States. In a positive light, the automobile embodies the national promise of freedom on the open road. There are, of course, plenty of automobile detractors, who protest that the car’s many byproducts are an environmental black mark.

Plastics Recycling:
In the 1967 movie “The Graduate,” Dustin Hoffman’s character learned that the future lay in plastics. The future is here now, and the variety of plastics on the market is matched only by the ways in which companies and governments are handling their recycling.

Scrap Tires

SECTIONS:
-A Growth Market
-Other Scrap Tire Options
-Surviving Economic Downturn
-Solving Scrap Tire Problems
-State Tire Management: Virginia
-State Tire Management: South Carolina
-Scrap Tire Difficulties
-Reference Links

DATA:
-Number of Scrap Tires Annually
-Source of Scrap Tires
-Number & Type of Facilities That Use Tire-Derived Fuel (2001)
-Markets for Scrap Tires
-What the States are Doing
-The Typical Scrap Tire

Plastics Recycling

SECTIONS:
-Plastics Redesign Project: A New Way Of Looking At Packaging
-Coca-Cola: Making a Difference
-Ohio: Helping The Market Work
-Maine: Facing Up To Logistical Challenges
-More resources

DATA:
Table: US Plastic Recovery by Resin and by Year (Thousands of Short Tons)
Figure: US Plastic Recovery by Resin and by Year (Thousands of Short Tons)

COMPANY PROFILE:

BACS Composting
-Now, a UK company, Biological Accelerated Composting Systems (BACS) believes it has developed a method to make composting more efficient and less costly, using an additive that significantly accelerates the composting process.

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