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EPA Resources
Comprehensive Procurement Guideline
(CPG) Program
This program is part of EPA's continuing effort to promote the use of
materials recovered from solid waste. Buying recycled-content products
ensures that the materials collected in recycling programs will be used
again in the manufacture of new products.
The CPG Web site includes a Retread Tires page that provides recommended guidelines to agencies for buying retread tires and retreading tire services. The page also lists manufacturers and suppliers of retread tires, and provides referrals to retread tire documents. The 2007 Buy-Recycled Series: Vehicular Products fact sheet (8 pp, 455K, About PDF) provides additional information on purchasing retread tires.
The site also includes EPA's current list of designated products and the accompanying recycled-content recommendations. In order to find out what products can be made from recovered scrap rubber, review the appropriate product guidelines such as floor tiles, patio blocks, playground surfaces, running tracks, and retreaded tires. More products containing recycled rubber may be designated in the future.
Environmentally Preferable
Purchasing (EPP)
EPA' EPP Web site serves as a clearinghouse of information and tools to
facilitate Federal agencies' purchases of environmentally preferable products
and services. Businesses, non-profit organizations, and state and local
government agencies also have an interest in environmentally preferable
products. This Web site includes an online searchable database of environmental
information for
environmentally preferable products including tires and products made
from recycled tires.
Product
Stewardship/Extended Product Responsibility
Product stewardship is a product-centered approach to environmental protection.
Also known as extended product responsibility (EPR), product stewardship
calls on those in the product life cyclemanufacturers, retailers,
users, and disposersto share responsibility for reducing the environmental
impacts of products, including vehicles.
Superfund
Through this Web site, users may search for Superfund
National Priority List (NPL) sites in the United States, such as the
Rhinehart
Tire Fire Dump Site in Virginia. EPA Regional offices also have detailed
information on Superfund site remediations in their areas, (for example,
Region
3). States may also have information on clean-up
programs being handled at the state or local level.
Superfund
Emergency Response Program
Tire fires can be particularly challenging because they are very hard
to control and extinguish. Responders must cope with threats of contamination
from a variety of harmful substances through multiple pathways, including
releases into the air, soil, and water, as well as the fire itself. This
Web site provides information EPA's Emergency Response Program and details
the many hazards associated with tire fires.
State Resources
Many state solid waste departments address scrap tire management and recovery through their Web sites. The following Web sites are particularly extensive or contain unique information:
- California Integrated Waste
Management Board
- Pennsylvania
Department of Environmental Protection
- Texas
Natural Resource Conservation Commission
- Washington State Department of Ecology, Scrap Tire Report
For additional links to state scrap tire management programs and information, visit Where You Live.
Organizations
Bureau of International Recycling (BIR)
BIR is an international trade federation representing the world's recycling
industry. This site contains information on the Basel Convention, an international
agreement that affects the import and export of scrap materials and waste,
including rubber and tires.
Portland Cement Association
The Portland Cement Association represents cement companies in the United
States and Canada. It conducts market development, engineering, research,
education, and public affairs programs.
Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries
(ISRI)
ISRI is the trade association of the scrap processing and recycling industry.
It represents 1,300 companies that process and use scrap commodities,
including metals, paper, plastics, glass, rubber, and textiles.
Los Angeles Rubberized
Asphalt Concrete Technology Center (RACTC)
A cooperative effort by the County of Los Angeles, County of Sacramento
and the California Integrated Waste Management Board (CIWMB) to promote
the use of crumb rubber from scrap tires in roadway rehabilitation projects
by providing education, training and consultation services to local agencies
within California. This program is funded by the CIWMB in an effort to
reduce the state's stockpile of scrap tires and help conserve the state's
landfills.
National Automotive Environmental
Compliance Assistance Center
This Web site is designed to help persons engaged in automotive service,
collision repair, and other sectors of the automotive industry achieve
compliance with environmental requirements. The site includes information
on scrap tire disposal.
National Compliance Assistance
Center for Automotive Recyclers
A cooperative effort between the Automotive Recyclers Association
and the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences to provide detailed
information about the environmental rules that apply to automotive recycling
facilities. The site includes information on scrap tire disposal by state.
North American
Recycled Rubber Association
The North American Recycled Rubber Association was created to bring together
the various stakeholders affiliated with the recycled rubber industry,
including haulers, processors, manufacturers, distributors, dealers, government
representatives, consultants, and members of other Associations or Councils.
Northeast Recycling Council (NERC)
NERC's mission is to minimize the amount of materials requiring disposal
by promoting the environmental and economic benefits of recycling and
source reduction in the Northeast. Recycling and source reduction include
reuse, remanufacture, composting, and any other activity that decreases
the amount and toxicity of material in the solid waste stream requiring
disposal.
Cement Kiln Recycling Coalition
The Cement Kiln Recycling Coalition (CKRC) is a trade association which
represents U.S. cement companies currently using waste-derived fuels,
as well as those companies involved in the collection, processing, management,
and marketing of such fuels for use in cement kilns.
Rubber Division of American Chemical
Society
The Rubber Division of the American Chemical Society Inc. promotes efficient
and environmentally appropriate systems for the life cycle of rubber products
including tires. This Web site contains information on rubber recycling,
technical meetings, and links to related topics.
Rubber Manufacturers Association (RMA)
RMA represents companies that manufacture and use rubber. Through its
scrap tire program, the RMA works to develop markets for newly generated
scrap tires through collection and dissemination of information on scrap
tire research. The council also acts as a legislative and regulatory liaison.
The RMA Web site contains extensive information on scrap tire management
and markets, including their Recycled Rubber Products Catalog.
Rubber Pavements Association
The Rubber Pavements Association is dedicated to encouraging greater usage
of high quality, cost-effective asphalt pavements containing recycled
tire rubber.
Rubberized Asphalt Concrete
Technology Center (RACTC)
The center researches ways to advance the use of crumb rubber in paving
applications. Headquartered in Los Angeles, this center has become a one-stop
technical and educational clearinghouse for local California governmental
agencies curious about using rubberized asphalt in road projects. The
site contains detailed and extensive information on crumb rubber utilization
in highway and road applications.
Tire Industry Association (TIA)
TIA is an international association representing all segments of the tire
industry, including those that manufacture, repair, recycle, sell, service
or use new or retreaded tires, and also those suppliers or individuals
who furnish equipment, material or services to the industry.
Tire Retread Information Bureau (TRIB)
TRIB is a primary source for information about tire retreading and repairing.
TRIB is a nonprofit, member supported industry association with international
membership. Its goal is to provide the motoring public (both in the private
and public sectors) with the most up-to-date information about the economic
and environmental benefits of tire retreading and tire repairing.
General Resources
Recycler's World
The Tire and Rubber Recycling Section of Recycler's World provides information
on companies, associations, and publications related to the tire and rubber
recycling industry. More detailed links to these resources can be found
within each specific category.
Rubber Room
The Rubber Room Web site was established to promote trade in the rubber
industry.
Scrap Tire News
Scrap Tire News is a monthly publication devoted to providing news and
information about tire and rubber recycling. The site also contains information
on state scrap tire regulations and programs.
Automotive-Related Resources
Automotive Recyclers Association
(ARA)
Provides information on automotive recycling, including recycling statistics
and compliance information.
Environmental Compliance for
Automotive Recyclers (ECAR)
Provides a state-by-state breakdown of the requirements that apply specifically
to the automotive recycling and salvage industries.
EPA Municipal
Solid Waste: Automotive Parts
Offers information on automobile recycling opportunities for materials
such as steel, aluminum, plastics, antifreeze, and batteries.
EPA
New England: Salvage Yard and Auto Recyclers
Provides information about basic regulatory compliance, ongoing assistance
efforts, and best management practices. Includes stories that feature
the good, and not so good, side of this industry. Also includes information
and links to other excellent programs being implemented in states and
organizations outside of New England.