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Article: Proposed State Tire Fee Hike Won't Clean Up Scrap Tires.
- Article from:
- Science Letter
- Article date:
- March 17, 2009
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Buying a set of four tires will cost Colorado consumers an additional $13 if lawmakers approve a proposed increase in the state tire fee to $3.25 per tire (see also Rubber Manufacturers Association).
State tire fees are typically used to pay for the cleanup of discarded tires and creation of markets for scrap tires. Unfortunately, Colorado diverts 80 percent of the current tire fee to other purposes and has not been active in either stockpile abatement or developing markets for the 4.5 million scrap tires the State generates each year.
A state-by-state survey of scrap tire management progress conducted by the Rubber Manufacturers Association (RMA) shows ...