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Article: California promotes reuse, recycling of scrap tires

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December 1, 2000
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Marketable products such as playground mats, track surfaces, septic tank filter media and levee reinforcement are made with

recycled rubber.

LAST YEAR, 20.1 million (64.5 percent) of the 31.1 million scrap tires generated in California were diverted from stockpiles or disposal. But 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 number diverted.

Based upon industry data and figures gathered by the California Integrated Waste Management Board (CIWMB), it is estimated that about 1.6 million or five percent of the scrap tires generated in 1999 were reused. Another 8.6 million tires ...

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