Tire piles not so high anymore

The ground up rubber might also be added to asphalt mixtures as well – given the skyrocketing cost of oil (which is where the asphalt comes from), that might help keep paving costs down as well as reuse the old tires.

Anyone come up with a use for the steel cords?

Good story. It let us know good things are happening to a once troublesome issue. It was encouraging and informative. I did not know tires were used for fuel. This is what Americans want to hear – that there are good things happening and not the standard gloom and doom the media is always giving us. Thanks for giving us a break.

Check out this link too for reusing tires:
http://www.earthship.net/

From what I understand, some states are using recycled tire material in their roads with fabulous results. If this is the case, California should try it. We have some of the worst roads in Merced, CA. Our cars and travel trailer bounce around like popcorn in hot oil.

I know this doesn't fit you agenda. But is it possible for you to broadcast some facts about global warming, since it is a myth?

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2008/20080313_coolest.html

The tires in my town may be getting smaller, but the town is not. Last year, two or three more people bought cars that already had a house and now they have more tires than we did when they lived in a smaller house. This house/tire association is really a messy thing if tires are recycled and cars and houses are bought in big neighborhoods.

Steel can be recycled into any other steel item. The difficulty might be in getting it out of the tire, but once that's done it can be melted down and turned into anything.

steel is melted down I would imagine.

Someone in my state of ND has found an ingenious way to use old tires – please check out this website:

http://www.tiredoutranch.com/index.htm

The problem is, the state is in the process of making him remove ALL the tires and he's at risk of losing everything he's ever worked for. The pictures don't do justice to seeing the real thing – it is unbelievable.

Tires are ground into either pellets or powder and placed into asphalt pavement to improve the friction of road surfaces in many states. This makes the road surfaces safer. Unfortunately, ground tires do not save any oil since they don't displace the liquid "tar" that holds the road together. Thankfully, all of the road surface is recyclable. Recycling as much of the pavement as possible would save and ENORMOUS amount of oil annually.

If they would now start instlling more solar hot water heaters like Carter did at the White House thirty years ago, before that loser Reagan took it down out of spite, we would be way ahead of where we are now with the green movement.

188 million neglected tires is most likely a gross understatement. I work in the mosquito industry, and there are at least that many in my state alone. Many piles have 1-2 million abandoned tires.

Hey PJ.... wow one year that really makes a trend there PJ... you republicans are so good an economic and weather estimation... the war will only cost 50 billion right?

Did you neglect to mention that some of the hottest winters have occurred in the past few years as well? No of course you didn't... republicans have a problem with statistics and scientifical thingies... it makes em' all confused.

There is an incredible and unique technology that uses tires to create electricity with emissions that will exceed California's 2016 emission requirements. It can produce 20 megawatts of electricity, produce carbon black that it used in the manufacuring of new tires, reuse the steel and produce an aggregate that is used in roads. Nothing goes to waste. http://www.alliancerecoverycorporation.com Check it out!

Anyone remember the great tire fire of Hamilton, Ontario, several years ago? Tire fires are very hard to put out, and far more dangerous than mosquito dens. Tire recycling truly is the way to go, and we need to expand this technology now so we don't have millions of tons of tires waiting to go up in smoke and pollute our environment. Asphalt use and steel recycling sre the best uses for tires as well as energy production. I agree with you, Peter.

nice to see discussion on recycling.. the greater the awareness the more we can keep the environment healthy. I have seen many articles on computers, mobile phone recycling and on many other gadgets but never on tire.

great thread.
Jaymonds