CalRecycle held their 2018 Tire Conference at the Holiday Inn in Sacramento. CalRecycle invited McCoy Truck Tire Service Center, as a Californian retreader, to attend the conference. Some very interesting and informative presentations were made at the 2-day conference. Some of the take-ways for McCoy personnel in attendance were as follows: retreading is a great way to lighten waste tire managers’ workloads, whom are being over-run by waste tire flows even at this late day-in-age. By choosing to purchase new tires only for the steer axle, truck owners can significantly impact CO2 emissions, landfill capacity issues, water and oil consumption, hazardous stock-pile generation, American joblessness, and they cost less: now somewhat, but in the future- big time. Thanks for reading!
-
- Bandag dominates retreading
-
- What would this graph look like if the only new tires all truck owners ever bought were steers?
-
- Tires are more than just rubber, they present recyclers with a challenge
-
- 36% of Europe-generated waste tire material is burned, 9% is landfilled
-
- 43% of American-generated waste tire material is burned, 16% is landfilled
-
- Retreading all available wheel positions will reduce the height of these bars:
-
- Over half of Californian waste tire-flows are land-filled or burned
-
- California is reducing tire material land filling, but it still exists
-
- Scrap tire stockpiles still exist in North America
-
- Burning of Californian waste tire flows is on the rise, albeit exported
-
- The CEO of Boulder Black observes the benefit of his waste-tire processing enterprise
-
- Boulder Black’s CEO compared “virgin” black production to reclaimed black production
-
- Boulder Black’s CEO illustrates the potential benefit of sustainability
-
- China has a new “closed door policy” towards American waste (timeline part 1)
-
- Timeline for implementation of China’s new “closed door policy” towards American waste (2nd half)
