Article: Scrap tires could be used in golf greens

Article: Illinois: Land of Scrap Tires?
Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL);  March 17, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... grind up most of its own scrap tires and millions more brought ... in sporting field and golf-course turf, running tracks ... such robust demand for scrap tires that they import millions ... ongoing management of scrap tires and the clearing of ...

Article: Tired On The Golf Course?
Boys' Life;  June 1, 2004 ;     352 words ... ... safe way to use the growing heaps of scrap tires that end up in our country's landfills ... tires can be ground and placed beneath golf course greens. The green is the area on a ... and it's meticulously maintained. Golf course groundskeepers use chemicals to keep ...

Article: California promotes reuse, recycling of scrap tires
BioCycle;  December 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... percent) of the 31.1 million scrap tires generated in California were diverted ... despite the nearly doubling of scrap tires recycled annually in the state between 1990 and 1999, the number of scrap tires generated continues to exceed the ...

Article: Growing markets for scrap tires
BioCycle;  October 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ...In 1996, more scrap tires than ever before found environmentally ... THE THREE major market segments for scrap tires - tire derived fuel, rubber products ... the number of annually generated scrap tires having markets has increased from ...

Article: Tire Industry Report Ranks States on Scrap Tire Progress; More ...
U.S. Newswire;  December 5, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... alleviate a serious environmental issue -- scrap tires. According to a report by the Rubber ... new use. In 1990, only 11 percent of scrap tires was consumed by a market. Additionally ... million in 2003. More than 1 billion scrap tires were stockpiled in 1990. RMA, which ...

Article: BILL DEEMS SCRAP TIRES NON-HAZARDOUS WASTE .
Rubber & Plastics News;  July 12, 1999 ;     678 words ... ... narrowly defines hazardous waste so that scrap tires are excluded from the state statutory ... 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 ...

Article: CONN. BILL DEEMS SCRAP TIRES NON-HAZARDOUS WASTE.
Tire Business;  June 21, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... narrowly defines hazardous waste so that scrap tires are excluded from the state statutory ... ruling that the business of transporting scrap tires was not subject to a state service tax because scrap tires were a hazardous waste. That ruling ...