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Article: BILL DEEMS SCRAP TIRES NON-HAZARDOUS WASTE .
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- Rubber & Plastics News
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- July 12, 1999
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NASHVILLE, Tenn.--The Connecticut legislature has passed a bill reversing the effects of a 1998 state court decision that could have seriously hindered the tire recycling industry and burdened tire dealers.
Passed June 9, the measure contains a provision that narrowly defines hazardous waste so that scrap tires are excluded from the state statutory definition.
The legislature enacted the bill because of a state court's ruling that the business of transporting scrap tires was not subject to a Connecticut service tax because scrap tires were a hazardous waste.
The ruling favored Oxford Tire Supply Inc., a scrap tire hauler that claimed it ...