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The United States Environmental Pro-tection Agency (EPA) is strengthening theregulations that govern the shipping of haz-ardous waste for recycling between theUnited States and other countries. The newmeasures are meant to increase the level ofregulatory oversight, provide stricter con-trols, and greater transparency.

The final rule aligns EPA’s hazardouswaste import/export/transit shipment regula-tions with the procedures of the Organizationfor Economic Cooperation and Development(OECD), an international consortium that com-prises 30 countries including the United States.

EPA’s new measures bolster regulationsregarding hazardous waste shipments into orout of the United States and strengthen theextensive set of regulations under theResource Conservation and Recovery Act(RCRA) governing the shipment of haz-ardous waste within the United States.

Specifically, this rule revises existingRCRA regulation regarding the transbound-ary movement of hazardous wastes forrecovery among countries belonging to theOECD to conform to legally required revi-sions made by the OECD, such as:

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Massachusetts maintains incineratormoratorium. Page A5

Steel imports decrease. Page A15

Solar-powered electric car chargingstation now in New York. Page A7

India to test American-made rubberrail ties. Page B1

Alameda County bans plant debrisfrom landfills. Page A14

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Products from recycledtires decided harmless

Today, recycling tires by grinding themdown to crumb rubber and mixing into asphaltformulations is finding wider acceptance bymore state Departments of Transportation(DOT). And, as the price of oil goes up, sodoes the interest in A-R.

A-R is defined by ASTM (AmericanSociety Testing Materials) as a blend of hotpaving grade asphalt cement, reclaimed tirerubber and additives where rubber content isat least 15 percent by weight of the liquidasphalt binder, and has reacted sufficiently tocause swelling of the rubber particles. Rub-berized asphalt has less than 15 percent byweight rubber content. Both terms are usedinterchangeably in this article.

Proponents of using old automobile tiresto make A-R claim that the practice is betterthan landfilling, and cleaner than burning thetires as a fuel. Used A-R can also be recycledendlessly by milling it off roads and adding itto new asphalt mixes. According to the Rub-ber Pavements Association (RPA), a 2-inchthick overlay of A-R hot mix will consumeabout 2,000 tires per lane mile. In the sprayapplied method for seal coats, about 500 tiresare used in a lane mile. Approximately 18million tires are recycled annually in pavingapplications.

What you don’t knowabout rubberized asphaltby MIKE [email protected]

A rubber mix being compacted in Puerto Rico in November 2009.

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EPA issues tougher rules forshipping hazardous waste

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The Steel Recycling Insti-tute (SRI) announced that theoverall steel recycling rate forthe world’s, and America’s,most recycled material – steel –reached a record high of 83.3percent. This means that morethan 82 million tons of domesticsteel scrap was charged into fur-naces, both in the United Statesand abroad, to make new steelproducts to be used by the steelindustry’s customers in meetingconsumers’ needs.

It is important to note thatthe steel recycling rates are for2008. Steel recycling rates arecompiled based on data fromscrap processors, steel produc-ers, the United States GeologicalSurvey and the United StatesEnvironmental ProtectionAgency, which can take up to ayear to compile.

The first three quarters of2008 marked high levels of pro-duction and scrap usage in theUnited States and that, along witha full-year of high levels of steelscrap exporting, contributed tothese record numbers. These highlevels of production drew uponrecord levels of steel scrap, asnew steel simply is not madewithout steel scrap.

Steel recyclingrate hits record

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The New York State Association forReduction, Reuse and Recycling(NYSAR3) announced their 2009 Recy-cler of the Year awards in Cooperstown.Recognition went to Resa Dimino of thestate Department of Environmental Con-servation (DEC) as 2009 Public SectorRecycler of the Year; to Jean Bonhotal as2009 Private Sector Recycler of the Year,and to Tompkins County Waste Reduc-tion and Recycling Team for the TeamRecycler of the Year.

Dimino, who works in the DECCommissioner’s Policy Office, was hon-ored for her successful efforts toenhance municipal recycling programs,increase public awareness, and developwaste reduction policies.

She is currently drawing on heryears of expertise to update DEC’s SolidWaste Management Plan for New YorkState. Dimino’s most recent accomplish-ment has been working with others toform the New York State Product Stew-ardship Council, which focuses wastereduction strategies on the design, pro-duction, sale and use of a product, ratherthan solely on the disposal. She was alsoelected to the national board of directorsof the Product Stewardship Institute.

Winning for Recycler of the Year,Private Sector, was Jean Bonhotal of theCornell Waste Management Institute.Bonhotal has been an untiring advocateof recycling and composting for overtwo decades. Her main goal has been tohelp bridge the gap between thoseresponsible for managing wastes anddeveloping policy with the researchworld, of which she is an integral part.

The Tompkins County WasteReduction and Recycling Team, (madeup of Leo Riley, Linnett Short and KatMcCarthy), was awarded the newlydeveloped 2009 Recycling Team prize.The Tompkins County team combinedtwo successful programs to developexceptional recycling programs inschools, significantly reducing waste inthe County school districts.

By promoting the international GoGreen Initiative and ReBusiness Part-ners, the team has impacted 25 countypublic schools to date. As a result, onaverage, schools in Tompkins Countyhave increased their waste diversion rateto 34 percent, up from 21 percent previ-ously. In 2008 alone, 105 tons of organicwaste was composted. Further, a cultureof environmental sustainability has beencreated in schools at all levels.

EPA Region 10 administrator chosenUnited States Environmental Pro-

tection Agency (EPA) AdministratorLisa P. Jackson announced PresidentBarack Obama’s selection of Dennis J.McLerran to be the Agency’s regionaladministrator for EPA’s region 10. Thisregion encompasses Alaska, Idaho, Ore-gon, Washington and Pacific NorthwestIndian Country.

Dennis J. McLerran has over 20 yearsexperience as an advocate, attorney andadministrator. Most recently, McLerran

served as executive director of the PugetSound Clean Air Agency, a state charteredregional agency that adopts and enforcesair quality standards.

As executive director, McLerran ledthe development of a strategy to reduceemissions at the ports of Seattle, Tacomaand Metro Vancouver. Prior to that,McLerran served as city attorney for theCity of Port Townsend and director of theSeattle Department of Construction andLand Use.

Florida DEP releasesrecycling goal report

After gathering extensive publicinput, the Florida Department of Envi-ronmental Protection (DEP) released itsreport with recommendations to achievea new statewide recycling goal of 75 per-cent by the year 2020 to Governor Char-lie Crist and the Florida Legislature. TheEnergy, Climate Change and EconomicSecurity Act of 2008 established thisnew goal and directed DEP to submit acomprehensive program to achieve it byJanuary 1, 2010.

“The 75 percent recycling goal isthe highest of any state,” said DEP Sec-retary Michael W. Sole. “It will be achallenge to achieve, but it can bereached through partnerships amongstate government, local governments,trade organizations, schools, businessesand industries as well as the people ofFlorida.”

The information and recommenda-tions in the report were developed basedon broad research and contributions ofmore than 500 stakeholders who partici-pated in four public workshops. An evenwider range of ideas were submittedthrough e-mails and DEP’s web forum,which received nearly 12,000 visits.

Florida generates more than 32 mil-lion tons of municipal solid waste annu-ally, almost two tons per resident peryear. Today, more than two decades afterthe Legislature passed Florida’s first 30percent recycling goal, Floridians collec-tively recycle only 28 percent of theirsolid waste. The report explores ways toincrease the percent of material recycledin an economically responsible waythrough heightened public awareness,state leadership, development andexpansion of recycling markets as wellas increased investments throughout thelocal government and commercial sec-tors.

The report outlines initial steps lowin financial impact but high in recyclingvalue in order to make the report practi-cal in today’s economic climate. Someof the key recommendations in thereport include:

•Require state agencies to meet the75 percent goal.

•Apply the new recycling goal tocounties with a population greater than100,000 and cities with a populationgreater than 50,000.

•Require commercial recycling inlarge counties and cities to include multi-family residential units such as apartmentsand condominiums, as well as institutionalfacilities such as schools and hospitals.

•Direct school districts to implementrecycling programs.

•Create a Recycling Grants orRevolving Loan program to help localgovernments reach a 75 percent recyclinggoal in their jurisdictions.

•Require that all unlined constructionand demolition debris (C&D) disposalfacilities be modified to incorporate aMaterials Recovery Facility (MRF). AMRF is a specialized plant that receives,separates and prepares recyclable materi-als for marketing to end-user manufactur-ers. By incorporating a MRF or somesimilar sorting and separating operation atC&D facilities, recyclable materials suchas wood waste, asphalt, concrete, etc.,would not end up in traditional landfills.

•Create a recycling business assis-tance center to promote markets for theentire spectrum of recyclable municipalsolid waste materials.

The next step in the process is for theLegislature to consider these recommen-dations during the 2010 legislative session.

Florida generates almost 2 tonsof waste per resident annually

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Lockheed Martin’s facility in Cam-den, Arkansas, has been selected as theArkansas Corporate Recycler of the Yearby the Arkansas Recycling Coalition.

The award, along with the plant’srecent Shingo Silver Medallion award formanufacturing excellence, places Lock-heed Martin’s Camden facility among aselect group of World Class Lean Manu-facturing companies focused on manufac-turing excellence.

The Corporate Recycler of the YearAward recognizes businesses or organiza-tions that have developed successful wastereduction programs, which include benefi-cial reuse and recycling practices, and thepurchase of recycled products for theirown operation. The award is intended torecognize businesses and organizations forimplementing recycling into the office andmanufacturing setting as a method of sav-ing landfill space, preserving resourcesand reducing waste disposal costs.

As part of Lockheed Martin’s pro-gram, Camden Operations has recycledover 85 percent of its waste products andreduced landfill waste by more than 30percent. More than 384 tons of total wastehas been diverted from the local landfilland 63,966 pounds of recycled materialsare diverted on a monthly basis, reducingthe facility’s environmental footprint.

Lockheed Martin’s Camden Opera-tions is the final assembly site of thePatriot Advanced Capability-3 Missile, theworld’s only fielded, combat-proven ter-minal air defense missile employing hit-to-kill technology.

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One of the predominant uses of A-Ris in Asphalt-Rubber Open Graded Fric-tion Course (AR-OGFC) To appreciateone of AR-OGFC’s most outstandingqualities, you have to drive on it. It’s muchquieter than conventional asphalt or con-crete.

“A few years ago, we did a projectthat was a 7-mile section on Interstate 95near our Ewing offices. We receiveddozens calls from drivers asking what isthat stuff? It’s great, the noise is less. Peo-ple driving on it can tell the differenceover regular asphalt and they say, ‘Wow!What a big difference.’ It’s very unusualfor us to get that kind of positive publicreaction,” said Eileen Sheehy, manager ofNew Jersey’s DOT Bureau of Materials.

Mike Harrington, sales manager forCRM told a similar story. His companyhas been supplying crumb rubber forasphalt for over 20 years and is the largestcrumb rubber producer in the westernUnited States. “Several years ago, theypaved about a quarter mile of Loop 101 inPhoenix with rubberized asphalt. The peo-ple who lived next to the freeway saidthings like: ‘What happened, it’s so quiet?’Then, the people in the next communityasked why they didn’t have it. There wassuch an outpouring of demand, that overthe next few years the state wound up hav-ing to pave the whole thing.”

“With rubberized asphalt, we weregetting about a three decibel reduction innoise over conventional asphalt, but overconcrete you may get up to a ten decibelreduction. And, that’s really significant,”said Sheehy.

According to NJDOT, tires on con-crete pavement generate between 100 and110 decibels of sound, depending on theage and surface texture. On conventionalasphalt the noise is in the high 90s to low100s. Rubberized open-graded frictioncourses are in the 95 to 97 decibel range.

Doug Carlson, executive director ofRPA put it this way – “Sound reductionlargely depends on what method is used tomeasure the sound. There are many differ-ent ways. From feedback we have receivedfrom numerous wayside data sources,noise reductions can be in the 40 to 70 per-cent range, depending on the preexistingsurface type and condition.”

A-R helps reduce noise emanatingfrom tires at higher speeds. At speeds over35 mph, the predominant noise is made by

the tires. At lower speeds much of thesound comes from the engine, exhaust andrattles. The quietness of A-R is largely dueto its smoothness. A Texas DOT studyfound that ride quality improved by 61percent on A-R. Because this pavementlasts longer and cracks less over time,smoothness is maintained. WesTrack, aNevada road test facility built under agrant from the Federal Highway Adminis-tration, found a 4.5 percent fuel efficiencyincrease riding on smoother pavements.

“What we are really trying to do is cutthe noise at the source,” said Sheehy. NewJersey has completed most of the soundwalls and barriers mandated by federalrequirements to mitigate noise pollution.Sound walls and other types of barriers areexpensive, costing between $200 to $400dollars per linear foot. In many urban areasthere is not enough space to build them.“Now we are dealing with what we con-sider nuisance noise – noise not highenough for mandated sound barriers, butnevertheless bothersome to residents.That’s why we put rubberized asphalt onRoute 280, because of noise complaints.It’s also useful in areas where it’s veryhilly, because we can’t always build soundbarriers tall enough,” Sheehy said.

“The noise benefit has been theunsung hero. It’s kind of a perfect mar-riage between the business and the envi-

ronment. Here is something that is ecolog-ical viable and technologically sound so itreally turns out to be a win-win,” saidCRM’s Harrington.

According to the United States Envi-ronmental Protection Agency (EPA), rub-berized asphalt is the single largestconsumer of ground rubber. California andArizona use the most in highway construc-tion, jointly accounting for over 70 percentof crumb rubber used.

“Over 90 percent of state highways inArizona are paved with it. In California it’shuge. They don’t have good data, but of65,000 miles of roadway I would say thatabout 20 percent has been rubberized atone point or another,” said Carlson.Florida uses A-R exclusively on everystate highway for friction courses. Amongothers, Texas, Nebraska, South Carolina,New York, New Jersey, New Mexico,Maryland, Massachusetts and Puerto Ricoare currently testing or using A-R. InCanada it’s being used in British Colum-bia, Alberta and Saskatchewan.

Naturally, each state DOT must testand approve various formulations beforegeneral use. This can take years, and insome cases decades. Like many states,New Jersey began testing rubberizedasphalt in the early 90s in response to theIntermodal Surface Transportation Effi-ciency Act of 1991 (ISTEA)

The act suggested there would bemandates for states to use one percent rub-ber in asphalt in order to receive federalfunds. Later, the mandate was dropped,but ISTEA had the effect of getting manystates to test A-R. “We did some projectsat that time to see how it would work. Twoprojects were quite successful usingasphalt rubber in an open-graded frictioncourse. There are benefits with the open-graded friction course. It has a very opentexture so it drains very well. You don’thave as much spray off the surface in rainyconditions. Because you do not have asmuch water on the surface you don’t get asmuch hydroplaning. So it’s safer in therain. We identified that as a very valuableasset for those areas that have high wet-weather accidents,” said Sheehy.

New Jersey’s oldest project, a shorttest section of Route 195, was constructedin 1992 and is scheduled to be removedand replaced this year. Like conventionalasphalt, when a rubberized road reachesend of life, it can be milled up and recy-cled into new mixes of A-R, or into newmixes of regular asphalt. “We did a projectback in 1991 where we took an asphaltrubber road and recycled it. We tested theemissions and properties of the mix andfound no problems with recycling. It cango to an asphalt plant and be mixed in withunrubberized asphalt. We are confidentthat the percentage in the mix after repro-cessing won’t make any difference at all,”said Sheehy.

New Jersey uses between 15 to 20percent crumb rubber in the asphalt binder,which constitutes about 8 percent of theoverall pavement mix. The state uses con-ventional asphalt plants and paving equip-ment, but out-of-state blending units arecurrently being trucked-in to make A-R.Sheehy said that New Jersey asphalt pro-ducers are waiting to see how A-R devel-ops before investing in equipment.

The A-R on Route 195 lasted 18 yearsas compared to the average 12 year life

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Rubber being added to the hopper for a project inPuerto Rico.

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Waste Management has expandedthe recycling services it provides to con-struction and demolition contractors byacquiring City Wide Recycling LLC.

City Wide Recycling developedsoutheastern Wisconsin’s largest, andonly automated, processing facility forrecyclable wastes collected at construc-tion and demolition job sites, said JohnKelly, Midwest group recycling directorfor Waste Management.

The plant, located in Milwaukee,receives mixed loads of waste from jobsites, sorting the materials by type andpreparing them for shipment to manu-facturers that can use the reclaimed plas-ter, wood, masonry, plumbing, wiring,soil, rock, cardboard, plastics and othermaterials. It began operating in October2006.

City Wide founders John Hansen andEric Konik will become consultants toWaste Management, helping the companygrow its construction-sector recyclingservices around the country, Kelly said.

Construction and demolition workproduces about 1.4 million tons ofdebris annually, nearly 29 percent of thetotal waste produced statewide, accord-

ing to a 2006 report by the WisconsinGovernor’s Task Force on Waste Materi-als Recovery and Disposal.

Environmentally sensitive contrac-tors are fueling booming growth in recy-cling at construction sites insoutheastern Wisconsin, said Kelly, andthose companies are recycling voluntar-ily. Wisconsin laws mandating segrega-tion of materials such as cardboard andbeverage containers don’t require recov-ery of wood, cement and other wastetypes typically produced in large vol-umes during building and demolitionwork.

Contractors’ recycling initiatives arein turn driven by a growing demand forgreen building practices among the insti-tutions and homeowners purchasingbuilding services, Kelly noted. Forexample, on January 1 the state of Wis-consin began requiring construction con-tractors it hires to recycle at least 50percent of the waste produced duringconstruction of state building projects of$5 million or more and all demolitionprojects.

Some 61 percent of contractors ratewaste management plans as the second

most important aspect of green building,just behind energy efficiency, accordingto a November 2009 study conducted byMcGraw-Hill Construction with supportfrom Waste Management. The studyfound that waste diversion activity is

increasing despite the recession, with 20percent of contractors diverting half oftheir construction waste on 60 percent ormore of their projects, and 25 percentexpecting to do so within the year.


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The Patrick-Murray Administrationin Massachusetts announced that it wouldmaintain the existing moratorium on newfacilities for incineration of municipalsolid waste. In addition, Energy and Envi-ronmental Affairs Secretary Ian Bowlesoutlined Governor Patrick’s priorities forexpanding the recycling of key productslike water bottles and consumer electron-ics, as part of a push to reduce the amountof waste sent to landfills and incinerators.

“We are serious about managing thewaste we generate in a way that savesmoney for cities and towns, curbs pollu-tion and protects the environment for ourchildren and grandchildren,” said Gover-nor Deval Patrick. “There are better waysthan traditional incineration.”

“Focusing on incineration and land-fills is the wrong end of the waste equa-tion,” said Secretary Bowles. “WhileMassachusetts is ahead of the nationalaverage in recycling and some communi-ties like Nantucket are leading the way,there is a lot more we can do to increaserecycling and reduce disposal of usefulmaterials.”

The Department of EnvironmentalProtection (MassDEP) has had in place amoratorium on new municipal solid wastecombustion facilities since 1990. As Mass-

DEP prepares a new Solid Waste MasterPlan, which it is expected to issue as adraft in early 2010, the announcementspecifies that the new plan will maintainthe moratorium, but also strengthen it intwo ways – by reducing dramatically theamount of recyclable material going intothe waste stream, and by developing strin-gent new performance standards for exist-ing waste-to-energy facilities that requirehigher recycling rates in waste collectionareas, lower emissions of greenhousegases and other pollutants, and higher effi-ciency in energy recapture. MassDEP willwork toward developing these perform-ance standards for the next 10-year MasterPlan.

Secretary Bowles noted that anaero-bic digestion, advanced biofuels, and otherproven types of waste-to-energy technol-ogy applied to organic wastes, will con-tinue to be encouraged in the new MasterPlan, but that incineration of mixedmunicipal solid waste will continue to berestricted to existing facilities.

To complement the incinerator mora-torium, the Patrick-Murray Administrationis committed to an aggressive agenda ofrecycling and waste reduction that givescities and towns assistance to expand andimprove their recycling efforts and

requires greater responsibility from manu-facturers for products – ranging fromwater bottles to televisions – that end up inour waste stream.

The Patrick-Murray Administration’spriorities to expand recycling and wastereduction include:

•Consumer Electronics: The Admin-istration calls for passage of comprehen-sive producer responsibility legislation fordiscarded electronics, the so-called “E-Waste” bill, relieving municipalities of thisburden.

•Expanded Bottle Bill: The Adminis-tration urges approval of an expanded bot-tle bill to cover water and sports drinkbottles, which will reduce litter, increaserecycling rates for containers from thefastest-growing segment of beverages andprovide additional resources to supportlocal recycling efforts.

•New Protections for Communities:The Administration will seek greaterauthority for MassDEP to intervene inproblem landfills, such as the one on CrowLane in Newburyport, and new authorityto require waste haulers to provide fullrecycling services to their customers.

•Helping Municipalities IncreaseRecycling Rates: The Administration willwork with the Legislature, municipalities,

and stakeholders to devise new standardsand programs to help cities and townsreach higher rates of recycling by offeringassistance for municipalities to adopt moreeffective methods, such as single-streamrecycling, which eliminates the need forhouseholds to sort their recyclables.

At the same time, Secretary Bowlesannounced that he has directed MassDEPto suspend review of permit applicationsfor facilities proposing to use constructionand demolition materials (C&D) as fuelfor energy generation, including the pro-posed Palmer Renewable Energy facility,until a comprehensive assessment of theenvironmental impacts of using suchmaterials is completed. This assessmentwill include a review of potential for emis-sions of greenhouse gases and other airpollutants related to C&D, an analysis oflevel of contaminants commonly found inC&D feedstocks, and a review of the mosteffective means for minimizing, samplingand monitoring of toxics and other con-taminants of concern in these feedstocks.Further, the Secretary has directed Mass-DEP, in coordination with the stateDepartment of Public Health, to conduct areview of the potential public healthimpacts associated with the combustionC&D.

Massachusetts maintains incinerator moratorium

City Wide Recycling acquired by Waste Management

Pennsylvania DEP highlights benefitsof mercury-free thermostat law

Pennsylvanians are at lower risk ofexposure to mercury as a result of the Mer-cury Free Thermostat Act, which tookeffect in December 2009. The law bans thesale, installation and disposal of mercury-containing thermostats and requires con-tractors and homeowners to recycleout-of-service thermostats.

Under the new law, only mercury-freethermostats can be sold in Pennsylvania.In addition, manufacturers that have sold

mercury thermostats in the state must col-lect and recycle waste mercury thermo-stats at no cost.

Wholesalers located in Pennsylvaniamust serve as collection sites for the ther-mostats. The law also requires retailersand contractors to either participate as col-lection points or provide notice to cus-tomers that mercury thermostats must berecycled and identify locations of nearbycollection points.

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Beautiful Earth Group (BE), a NewYork-based sustainable energy companyannounced it has built New York’s firstsolar-powered electric vehicle (EV)charging station. The solar-poweredcharging station is the first in New YorkCity and one of only a few in the world.

The charging station sits on anindustrial lot near the company’s head-quarters in Red Hook, Brooklyn, over-looking New York Harbor anddowntown Manhattan. Designed andbuilt by BE, the station is off-grid, mod-ular, constructed with recycled, decom-missioned steel shipping containers andentirely powered by state-of-the-artSharp 235 watt photovoltaic panels. Theproject is part of BE’s effort to showcaseurban sustainable energy solutions inNew York City.

The charging station is currentlyused to charge BE’s 100 percent electricMINI E, making it one of the few cars inthe world to run exclusively on solarpower. BMW Group’s MINI E has a

range of just over 100 miles and takesaround three hours to charge.

“It never ceases to amaze me, whenI get behind the wheel of this 95 mphsports car, that it doesn’t use a singledrop of gasoline, and that all of itspower comes from the solar energy wecollect right here on the Brooklyn water-front,” said BE president and CEO LexHeslin.

With a capacity of about six kilo-watts, BE’s charging station also pro-duces enough energy to power a smallhome, and its battery bank stores elec-tricity 24/7 for on-demand usage. Manyof the major car manufacturers are plan-ning to launch electric or plug-in hybridcars starting next year. The BE chargingstation is a tangible example of how todramatically reduce carbon emissions.

First solar-powered electric carcharging station now in New York

Rentech, Inc. announced that it hassigned a Memorandum of Understanding(MOU) with thirteen domestic and inter-national passenger and cargo carriers thatwill serve as a framework for a futuredefinitive supply agreement for certifiedjet fuel from Rentech’s proposed syntheticfuels and power facility in Adams County,Mississippi (Natchez Project).

The non-binding MOU signed byRentech and Air Canada, AirTran Air-ways, American Airlines, Atlas Air, DeltaAir Lines, FedEx Express, JetBlue Air-ways, Lufthansa German Airlines, Mexi-cana Airlines, Polar Air Cargo, UnitedAirlines, UPS Airlines and US Airwaysincludes terms that are anticipated to serveas the basis of a possible definitive pur-chase agreement by these carriers for theNatchez Project’s entire synthetic jet fuelproduction of approximately 250 milliongallons per year.

Fuel based on the Fischer-Tropschprocess, including Rentech’s RenJet®, isthe only alternative jet fuel currently certi-fied for use in commercial aviation at up toa 50/50 blend with traditional jet fuel.

A recent study completed by AlcornState University concluded that theNatchez Project would create over 2,100direct jobs and over 3,400 indirect jobsduring the project’s construction phase.Once operational, the facility is expectedto create over 400 high paying direct jobsand over 3,200 indirect jobs, according tothe study.

Air carriersagree to usesynthetic jet fuel

Enerkem Inc. announced thatEnerkem Corporation, its wholly-ownedUnited States affiliate, has been selectedby the United States Department ofEnergy to receive $50 million in fundingfor the construction and operation of itswaste-to-biofuels facility to be locatedin Pontotoc, Mississippi.

Enerkem’s application is one ofonly four that have been selected in thelarger demonstration scale project cate-gory of the Recovery Act – Demonstra-

tion of Integrated Biorefinery Opera-tions Program.

Enerkem Corporation will build andoperate the 300 ton-per-day biorefineryin Mississippi, which will produce 10million gallons of ethanol annually, aswell as green chemicals, from sortedmunicipal solid waste and woodresidues and will reduce the pressure tolandfill. Since the announcement of itsMississippi project last March, the com-pany has made substantial progress on

the environmental permitting processand has further developed the projectwith its local partners, the Three RiversPlanning and Development District andthe Three Rivers Solid Waste Manage-ment Authority.

The project is expected to create130 jobs. The company also intends todouble the size of its Mississippi biore-finery plant by adding a second module,bringing the total production capacity to20 million gallons.

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More than 300 million tires are discarded annually in the United States. Michael Blumenthal, a vice president of the Rubber Manufacturers Association

(RMA), not only monitors the amount of tires that are discarded and how they arerecycled and reused, but also has a role in helping to find alternative uses for the rub-ber and bring together the various stakeholders to find effective solutions.

ON TOPIC Q & Aby Irwin Rapoport

Blumenthal: The last time that we did a market sur-vey, which was in 2007, we found that nearly 90 per-cent of all the tires generated annually are going toan end-use market. At that time there were only 128million tires remaining in stockpiles. When you con-sider that we started with over 1 billion in stockpilesthat is a tremendous decrease. Since we did the lastmarket survey, the number of tires in stockpilesdecreased even further. I’m confident there are lessthan 100 million remaining in these stockpiles.

Are steps being taken to tackle the issue of thestockpiled tires that were discarded in thepast?

Blumenthal: Over the last one and a half years, thenumber of tires going to TDF has decreased a littlebit because a number of cement kilns or the cogen-eration plants that were using TDF, have closedbecause of the recession. The current rate of tiresused as TDF is around 52 percent. There are a goodnumber of users still making use of TDF, but theincreases were not enough to offset the decreases.Is this going to be a temporary situation? It alldepends upon how quickly and how strong the econ-omy comes back. If it doesn’t come back in a waythat gets the construction industry going, we won’tsee too many cement kilns come on-line and that isgoing to have an impact on the overall percentage oftires used as fuel.

The air pollution control technology remains aboutthe same. TDF is a relatively clear burning fuel. Peo-ple have gotten to a great level of hysteria aboutTDF and there are myths about the fact that if youuse TDF, you will turn your smoke black. That is nottrue. Tires burn hot and burn clean, so they havealways been a relatively clean burning fuel.

Is the use of tire-derived-fuel (TDF) increasingor declining? Does the use of this alternativefuel source continue to raise objections? Havemeasures been developed to make it a cleanerburning fuel?

Blumenthal: These issues are dealt with by theindustry itself. The industry has developed a veryefficient transportation and processing capacity onits own. What the RMA has done is to work withstate regulatory agencies to make sure that the reg-

To what extent has the RMA been successful,working with the industry to develop more effi-cient systems for tire collection and storage?

Blumenthal: The vast majority of the people work-ing at the federal, state and local agencies, as wellas the public, are really not aware of what is goingon in the scrap tire industry, what the issues are andwhat needs to be done. There are a small number ofpeople at the federal and state level working with theissue of scrap tires, but when you look at the overallmarketplace for secondary products, scrap tires aretypically not a priority for most states or municipali-ties. This is because the industry is handling theproblem and the amount of tires produced are over-whelmed by larger issues such as e-waste recyclingand municipal recycling.

Are citizens, businesses and governmentaware of the issues surrounding the recyclingof tires and what more can be done to addressthe problem?

Blumenthal: I don’t think that we’ll see a federal feeon tires. A good number of states have cleaned uptheir tire stockpiles and have markets for all theirtires and they won’t want to see new fees. The ADFthat a state charges is not used for collection or pro-cessing of tires – that fee goes to the state agenciesfor the abatement of stockpiles, market developmentprojects and enforcing the regulations.

The cost of disposal is reflected in the disposal feesthat the retailers assess consumers when they buy anew set of tires. That money – $3 per passenger cartire – are used to cover the cost of transporting thetire from the point of purchase to the tire processor,because there are still negative costs when theprocessor gets the tire. The idea is to turn the tireinto a higher value added product and then sell it tothe market place. That helps the economics, so thefees that the states assess, are not a true indicatorof the costs of disposal.

Some state governments charge an advancedisposal fee (ADF) in the price of tires. Dothese fees reflect the true cost? Would anationwide fee on tires help to create fundingfor grants to deal with discarded tires?

expectancy of non-rubberized OpenGraded Friction Course. New Jersey isplanning to use more AR-OGFC becauseof its durability. Sheehy commented on195: “It’s lasted longer than expected. Wehave been happy with that performanceand believe it justifies the increased cost.”

In Phoenix, A-R is only about 5 per-cent more expensive per ton than conven-tional mixes. “An interesting thing hashappened as a result of recent economics.As the price of asphalt per ton increases,the cost saving value of recycled tire rub-ber in the asphalt increases. The crumbrubber market has been steady and stableat about $300 dollars per ton. Back in thelate 90s, liquid asphalt cost about $70 dol-lars a ton. Now it costs $500 a ton! Byusing crumb rubber there is about a 20 per-cent displacement of oil,” said Carlson.

Despite the higher initial cost in otherstates, RPA claims other significant costsavings based on several factors: longerlife cycle, decreased maintenance, and inmany instances half as much material isrequired.

“[California Department of Trans-portation] has a layer equivalency guide-line for rubberized asphalt based on almost30 years experience. If the conclusion is togive a roadway a 10 year service life, youcan pave it with four-inches of conven-tional asphalt, or use 2 inches of rubber-ized asphalt and expect the same results,”said CRM’s Mike Harrington.

There are climate and topographyissues related to the use and they can varygreatly from state to state. Each area must

test and evaluate which formulations bestsuit their roadways and conditions.Warmer weather in Arizona, California,Texas and Florida has undoubtedly led toheavier usages there. But A-R has beentested and successfully used in many coldregions.

Arizona routinely uses a combinationof gap-graded A-R hot mix and an opengraded A-R friction course in the Flagstaffarea at elevations over 7,000 feet with win-ter temperatures of 20 below zero. Califor-nia has also successfully used A-R in thehigh Sierra Nevada Mountains. “In 1992,one of the very first California highwaysusing rubber was at Donner Pass. At over7,000 feet elevation and snow up to 30feet, it has held up beautifully. It wasrecently repaved using rubber,” Carlsonnoted.

New Jersey, however, is working onthe issue of snow and ice removal. Theyfound that salt seeps into the pores of theopen-grade and does not stay on the sur-face and continue to work. This resulted inthe need for more frequent salt applica-tions. “Unless that issue is resolved, wewill probably see it only in areas that weidentify as either a wet weather problem,or a noise problem that we want to miti-gate. Our maintenance people are lookingat different snow and ice removal tech-niques. We are also considering a slightchange in the gradation, porous enough towork well in wet weather, but not asporous to work well in ice and snow.”

NJDOT has more asphalt rubber proj-ects planned for 2010. “Generally, we areoptimistic about rubberized asphalt. It hasbeen performing well for us and I think weare going to be using it more,” concludedSheehy.

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•Requiring United States recoveryfacilities to submit a certificate afterrecovery of the waste has been com-pleted,

•Adding provisions to ensure thathazardous wastes are returned to thecountry of export in a more timely anddocumented manner when it is necessaryto do so, and

•Adding new procedures forimported hazardous wastes that are ini-tially managed at United States accumu-lation and transfer facilities to bettertrack and document that subsequentrecovery by a separate recycling facilityis completed in an environmentallysound manner.

RCRA regulations for spent lead-acid batteries (SLAB) have also beenrevised to add export notification andconsent requirements to provide stricter

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Hazardous waste import-relatedrequirements for U.S. hazardous wastemanagement facilities are now to con-firm that individual import shipmentscomply with the terms of EPA’s consent.

Finally, the address to which exportexception reports are to be sent has beenrevised as well.

The United States participates in anumber of bilateral waste agreementsbetween countries and in the multilateralwaste agreement controlling the ship-ment of hazardous waste for recoverybetween OECD member countries.

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Summit attendees set a 2020 goalthat 40 percent of all manure from NewYork dairy farms goes through the anaer-obic digestion process, which capturesmethane from manure and generatesclean, renewable energy. The energy pro-duced from this effort could power32,000 homes while strengthening theeconomic vitality of New York’s dairyfarms. It also would reduce New York’sgreenhouse gas emissions by 500,000metric tons of carbon, equivalent to tak-ing 100,000 cars off the road.

The Innovation Center for UnitedStates Dairy, with sponsorship from GEEnergy, coordinated the Dairy PowerSummit in order to identify and act onopportunities to increase anaerobicdigester adoption by dairy farms of allsizes. Participants represented dairyfarms, utilities, milk cooperatives,digester developers, financial institutions,academia, and local, state and federalgovernments.

Governor Paterson’s “45 by 15” pro-gram is one of the nation’s most aggres-sive energy efficiency and renewableenergy initiatives. By 2015, New YorkState will meet 45 percent of its electric-ity needs through improved energy effi-ciency (15 percent) and clean renewableenergy, such as methane (30 percent).This goal is in line with the commitmentof the Innovation Center for UnitedStates Dairy to reduce industrywidegreenhouse gas emissions associatedwith fluid milk by 25 percent by 2020.

To achieve 40 percent anaerobicdigester use by 2020, attendees of thesummit collaborated to develop an actionplan made up of more than a dozen proj-ects. Some of the projects include:

•American Agricultural BiogasCoalition – Form a nationwide, cross-industry alliance to provide a unifiedvoice promoting renewable, sustainablebiogas solutions. This new organizationwould advocate at the local, state andnational levels.

•Small-Farm Digester Initiative –Host an innovation contest that wouldaward $1 million toward the developmentof a digester system for a smaller-scalefarm with between two and 200 cows.

•NY Cow Power – Develop a volun-tary rate-payer program to enable electricconsumers to support anaerobic digesters(e.g., residential or commercial cus-tomers pay 4 cents per kWh extra on util-ity bills to help fund digesters). Thisprogram would be modeled on the suc-cessful program of Central Vermont Pub-lic Service.

•Digester Implementation Project –Collaborate with 20 farms to issue a jointrequest for proposal to install 20digesters. This will reduce the cost andcomplexity that farmers could experienceindividually.

•Model Community Digester Sys-tem – Develop a best-in-class model for acommunity digester. Projects will beexplored in Lowville, New York, andpotentially near Skaneateles, New York.

•Rolling Biogas – Research opportu-nities to clean and compress biogas foruse as natural gas in vehicles, a viablealternative to diesel fuel.

While the summit primarily focusedon anaerobic digester opportunities in thestate of New York, these pilot projectscould lead to solutions for farms andcommunities across the country.

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Wastewater authority dedicatestreatment plant solar system

Western Riverside County RegionalWastewater Authority, Wells Fargo andSunPower Corp. dedicated a onemegawatt solar power system at the WestRiverside Wastewater Treatment Plant inCorona. SunPower designed and builtthe high-efficiency system, and financedthe system with Wells Fargo through the$100 million sale leaseback program.

“Solar power systems help publicagencies reduce costs and benefit thecommunity by reducing the amountof greenhouse gases released into theatmosphere,” explained the Authority’schairperson, Brenda Dennstedt, whois on the board of directors atWestern Municipal Water District, anAuthority partner. “This system willgenerate the equivalent of about 25 per-cent of the power needed to run thewastewater treatment plant, which isalso about the same amount of power

that would supply roughly 200 homeseach year.”

Under the financing program used forthe project, SunPower enters into powerpurchase agreements with qualified cus-tomers, and Wells Fargo finances andowns the system that SunPower designs,builds, operates, and maintains. TheAuthority is buying the electricity at pricesthat are competitive with retail rates, andbenefiting from a long-term hedge againstrising power prices. The Authority is notusing the environmental claims associatedwith the system.

On the nine acre site, SunPower’ssolar panels were installed with the Sun-Power T20 Tracker® system. The Trackerfollows the sun’s movement during theday, increasing sunlight capture by up to30 percent over conventional fixed-tilt sys-tems, while significantly reducing land userequirements.

Landfill gas projectsrecognized by EPA

The United States EnvironmentalProtection Agency (EPA) is recognizingeight landfill methane capture projectsfor their innovation in generating renew-able energy and reducing greenhousegas (GHG) emissions. The winnersinclude one of the largest landfill gas(LFG) to liquefied natural gas facilitiesin the world, located in Livermore, Cali-fornia.

Methane, a primary component ofLFG, is a GHG with more than 20 timesthe global warming potential of carbondioxide. Using LFG provides a signifi-cant energy resource, prevents GHGemissions, and reduces odors and otherhazards associated with emissions.

This year’s Landfill Methane Out-reach Program (LMOP) winning projectswill avoid the emissions of 546,000 tonsof carbon dioxide equivalent per year, theequivalent of annual GHG emissionsfrom nearly 100,000 passenger vehicles.

Projects of the Year were given tothe University of New Hampshire EcoL-ine™ Project, Rochester, New Hamp-shire; Jefferson City, MissouriRenewable Energy Project, JeffersonCity, Missouri; The Altamont LandfillResource and Recovery Facility, Liver-

more, California; Ox Mountain LFGEnergy Project, Half Moon Bay, Califor-nia; Sioux Falls Landfill and Poet LFGPipeline, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, andthe Winder Renewable Methane Project,Winder, Georgia.

The State Partner of the Year wasgiven to the Kansas Department ofHealth and Environment, and the Com-munity Partner of the Year was awardedto the Kent County Department of Pub-lic Works, Byron Center, Michigan.

EPA’s LMOP has assisted withmore than 450 LFG energy projects overthe past 15 years. The United States cur-rently has about 509 operational LFGenergy projects. The LFG electricitygeneration projects have a capacity of1,563 megawatts (MW) and provide theenergy equivalent of powering morethan 920,000 homes annually.

The direct-use projects provide anadditional 304 million standard cubicfeet of LFG per day and provide theenergy equivalent of heating more than715,000 homes annually. Direct-useLFG energy projects do not produceelectricity, but instead use LFG as analternative to replace another fuel suchas natural gas or coal.

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Total printing-writing paper inventory lev-els increased 6,500 tons, less than half apercentage point, from October.

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Commercial property owners andmanagers concerned with sustainabilityand community recyclers have newresources to help them build andimprove upon their recycling programsthanks to updated recycling guidesrecently unveiled by the American For-est & Paper Association (AF&PA). Theguides are free and available at paper-recycles.org as part of AF&PA’s missionto increase paper recovery.

In 2008, 57.4 percent of the paperconsumed in the United States was recov-ered for recycling. The industry has set a60 percent recovery goal for 2012.

The workplace recycling guide pro-vides tips on establishing a workplacerecycling program and on educating andmotivating employees.

Since 1990, when the industry estab-lished its first recovery goal, paper recov-ery has grown by 78 percent.

AF&PA unveilsworkplace andcommunityrecycling guides AbitibiBowater announced the clos-

ing of the sale of its recycling division’smaterial recycling facilities located inArlington, Houston and San Antonio,Texas to Waste Management RecycleAmerica for $12 million.

The Company will continue operat-ing its recycling programs in Arlington,Houston and San Antonio, as well as in20 other major metropolitan areas acrossNorth America. With this transaction,AbitibiBowater will refocus its recyclingefforts on its innovative communityrecycling Paper Retriever program, aswell as on the EcoRewards recycling ini-tiative for commercial customers. TheCompany will ensure a smooth transi-tion and remains committed to deliver-ing top-quality service to its recyclingcustomers.

As part of the sale, the Company’srecycling division has also reached anagreement where Waste ManagementRecycle America will process the mate-rials generated by the Paper Retrieverand EcoRewards programs in Arlington,Houston and San Antonio.

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Smurfit-Stone Container Corpora-tion permanently closed its Ontonagon,Michigan and Missoula, Montanamills.

The Ontonagon mill ceased opera-tions in September when it began tak-ing market-related downtime. TheOntonagon mill has 182 employees andthe Missoula mill has 417 employees.

“These decisions were made toensure the Company’s long-termgrowth and profitability and do notreflect on the hard work and commit-ment of the employees at the Onton-agon and Missoula mills,” said SteveKlinger, president and COO.

The Ontonagon mill, which pro-duces 280,000 tons of medium annu-ally, and the Missoula mill, whichproduces 620,000 tons of liner annu-ally, are high-cost facilities that do notprovide adequate returns over the longterm for the Company.

The company expected to incur arestructuring charge of approximately$284 million, of which approximately$246 million is non-cash, in the fourthquarter of 2009.

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Choice Environmentallaunches CNG fleet for wastecollection in Fort Lauderdale

Choice Environ-mental Services rolledout a new fleet ofCNG compressed nat-ural gas (CNG) refusetrucks, becoming thefirst private wastehauler in southFlorida to abandondiesel fuel for a por-tion of its operationsin favor of cleaner-burning natural gas.

The ten-truck fleet will reduce harmful emissions by over 25 percent comparedto diesel-fueled trucks, according to company officials. The new trucks are also fullyautomated residential collection vehicles, with high compaction bodies that willreduce the number of trips they’ll need to make to the landfill. The Autocar chassisare equipped with Hercules ASL bodies supplied by E-Z Pack Manufacturing ofCynthiana, Kentucky.

The Autocar trucks feature Cummins Westbrook engines, designed for naturalgas. The refuse bodies themselves are mounted with four natural gas fuel cells – twothat are “saddle mounted” on the chassis frame and two additional fuel cells that areintegrated into the body above and behind the hopper, in a unique configuration thatdoes not increase the vehicle’s overall height.

E-Z Pack modified the ASL body with the additional fuel cells in directresponse to Choice Environmental’s request for greater fuel capacity. The total CNGfuel capacity is equivalent to 60 gallons of diesel, which gives each truck the rangeof a typical diesel-fueled vehicle. At the end of a workday, operators return to thefueling station in Pompano Beach, where the trucks are automatically refueled andready for work by the next morning.

The Hercules ASL features a high compaction body, a 6 cubic-yard hoppercapable of handling containers up to 400 gallons, simple controls without computersor PLCs.

The natural gas used to produce CNG fuel onsite at the station is supplied byTECO Peoples Gas, Florida’s largest natural gas distribution company.

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Motors and gear box refurbished 12/08. Double stacked and staggered hook knives.Includes support frame, feed hopper, hood and control panel. Opening 96” x 44” with (2) 75 h.p. motors $165,000

SHREDPAX AZ 160 MATERIAL SHREDDER1999 CAT 330B in good condition with a NEW, just installed 2007 MSR50R shear. Also includes stick and a bucket and thumb. REDUCED FOR QUICK SALE $115 ,000

CAT 300B W/NEW MSR50R SHEARGood operating condition. Priced to SELL. $95,000

2001 EZ METAL BALER

Portable with 5,900 hours. $395,0002005 SIERRA 500SL SHEAR/LOGGER/BALER

Extremely low hours, immediately available. $350,0002008 SIERRA RB6000 AUTO LOGGER/BALER

Good operating condition, available now. This loader is excellent for car bodies andloading bundles. Comes with car forks. 60 months financing available. $52,000

2001 JOHN DEERE 544H WITH CAR FORKS

This loader is in excellent condition with under 8,800 hours. This machine runs well and is ready to work in a scrap yard. $72,000

2003 CASE 621D WHEELED LOADER WITH FORKSVery low hours. Call to arrange a demonstration. $245,000

2007 ALJON MODEL 400XL METAL BALERFairbanks 70’ x 11’ 100-ton above-ground scale with printout, outside display and printer. $26,000

FAIRBANKS 100TON ABOVEGROUND SCALE

Left-hand stationary baler with extensive rebuilding and is ready to go. (2) 100 h.p. 480v with a new Accent Wire Tier, 12” main cylinder. Loaded on your truck. $195,000

LOGEMANN 245A1AT BALERDiesel power, portable or stationary. NO CRANE. Good condition and well-maintained. $49,500

1992 SIERRA MODEL 3500 METAL BALERREBUILT 4,000 H.P. Pellizzari wound rotor shredder motor. Rebuilt and never returned to service. This is an EXCELLENT motor for primary or back-up. $295,000

4,000 H.P. PELLIZZARI SHREDDER MOTOR

500-ton shear/logger/baler. 20’ x 24” shear throat for No. 1 bales. $265,0002002 SIERRA 500SL SHEAR/LOGGER/BALER

With 15kw gen-set. 2,097 hours, like new condition. $230,0002008 SENNEBOGEN 825M

2008 LaBounty MSD2500 shear. Low hours. Immediately available. $295,0002004 CAT 325C WITH SHEAR


2004 60 x 90 FERROUSAUTO SHREDDING SYSTEMCOMPLETE

RipSteel Pre-Shredder 200 h.p.

Infeed conveyor 80" wide with 35' incline load section, 5' top horizontal section, with hydraulic motor and gearbox.

Infeed belt replaced two years ago.

American Pulverizor 60 x 90 Top Feed Shredder.

DC 1500 HP Quad Plus Motor with controls (Primary Motor).

AC 1500 HP Toshiba Squirrel Cage Motor with starter (Spare Motor).

Transformer

Drive Shaft

Pin Puller

Dual Magnetic Separator - refurbished 4 years ago. Stearns 4272 drums, gearmotor/chain drives.

Undermill Oscillator

Vibratory Feeder, frame, and chutes.

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Osborn two stage Non Ferrous trommel (fines removal, and oversize scalping).

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Alameda County bans plant debris from landfillsTo facilitate composting and to

reduce the amount of yard trimmingsrouted to landfills, Alameda County,California, will begin enforcing its land-fill ban, which requires that plant debrisbe separated from trash and properlydeposited in designated “clean green”areas of disposal facilities.

The target audience of the AlamedaCounty landfill ban includes landscapersand gardeners who produce and haulsubstantial amounts of plant debris(grass, leaves, shrubbery and tree trim-mings) to Alameda County facilities.

Other large producers/haulers ofgreen debris, such as property managers,

municipalities, parks and institutions inAlameda County will also be impacted.The ban was issued in early 2009 byStopWaste.Org, the Alameda CountyWaste Management Authority. Fines forlandfill ban violations went into effecton January 1, 2010.

Enforcement of the landfill ban iscritical to helping Alameda County real-ize its goal of diverting 75 percent of allwaste from county landfills by 2010.Plant debris can be composted andturned into valuable soil amendment.However, if landscapers and other main-tenance workers mix even a smallamount of garbage, such as fast food

containers and construction materials,with the plant debris, the entire load iscontaminated, and cannot be accepted atthe designated clean green areas of dis-posal facilities.

Landscapers and gardeners that vio-late the ban by mixing plant debris withtrash in collection bins or by bringingplant debris contaminated with othermaterials to disposal facilities are sub-ject to citations of $100, $200 or $500for first, second or additional violationswithin a year, or to equivalent penaltysurcharges on the dump fees.

Individual residents of AlamedaCounty can continue to place yard trim-

mings into their green organics carts,along with food scraps and food-soiledpaper, to be collected for composting.

Plant debris is defined as:•Grass•Leaves•Shrubbery•Vines•Tree branches and trimmingsPalm tree trimmings and sod are not

accepted at most composting facilitiesand should be separated from the plantdebris types listed above.

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Department of Labor reportsimproved safety in solid waste

According to recent reports by theUnited States Department of Labor, thenumber of injuries by solid waste collec-tion workers continued to decline in 2008.The Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics(BLS) announced that the injury rate dur-ing 2008 for both solid waste collectionand landfill employees continued todecline, as it has in recent years. Similarly,the United States Occupational Safety andHealth Administration (OSHA) announcedthat there was a decline in OSHA citationsissued to the solid waste industry duringfiscal year 2009.

The BLS report indicates that theinjury rate for solid waste collection work-ers decreased marginally to 7.4 from 7.5

per 100 full time employees, and that theinjury rate fell dramatically for landfillcompany employees from 7.1 to 5.4, a 24percent reduction.

In its industry-specific enforcementdata for fiscal year 2009 (October 1, 2008through September 30, 2009), OSHAreported that 279 citations were issued tothe United States solid waste industry,with about $250,000 in penalties assessed.The number of citations compares veryfavorably with fiscal year 2008, when 445citations were issued and more than$333,000 in fines were assessed. Viola-tions of the Hazard Communication,Lockout-Tagout and Respiratory Protec-tion standards were the most common.

WCA to acquire landfill, transferstation and rail haul operation

WCA Waste Corporation has signeda definitive agreement to purchase thesubsidiaries and certain assets of LiveEarth, LLC, including the Sunny FarmsLandfill, Champion City RecoveryTransfer Station and the related rail hauloperation.

The Sunny Farms Landfill is locatednear Fostoria, Ohio. The landfill is per-mitted to accept up to 5,000 tons per dayof municipal solid waste and construc-tion and demolition debris. The landfillis currently accepting approximately3,200 tons per day on average, most ofwhich is delivered by railroad from theeast coast.

Champion City Recovery transferstation is located south of Boston, Mas-sachusetts. The transfer station is permit-ted to accept 1,000 tons per day and iscurrently accepting and transportingapproximately 600 tons per day by railto the Sunny Farms Landfill.

The purchase price for the LiveEarth subsidiaries and assets consists of$18.75 million of cash, 3,555,556 sharesof WCA Waste Corporation commonstock to be issued at closing and up to anadditional 2,000,000 shares of commonstock that will be issuable in the eventthat the acquired Live Earth businessesobtain certain EBITDA thresholds.

Based on preliminary CensusBureau data, the American Iron andSteel Institute (AISI) reported that theUnited States imported a total of1,321,000 net tons (NT) of steel inNovember 2009, including 954,000 NTof finished steel (down 19 percent and23 percent, respectively, vs. Octoberfinal data). Finished steel import marketshare was an estimated 15 percent inNovember and is an estimated 22 per-cent year-to-date through elevenmonths.

Key finished steel products withincreases in November 2009 comparedto October include tin plate (6 percent),standard pipe (5 percent) and hot rolledsheets (4 percent).

In November, the largest volumes offinished steel imports from offshorewere from South Korea (105,000 NT,down 6 percent), China (61,000 NT, up10 percent), The Netherlands (60,000NT, down 39 percent), Japan (55,000NT, down 40 percent) and Brazil(49,000 NT, up 170 percent).


Scrap Metals

MarketWatch

DISCLAIMER: American Recycler (AR) collects pricing and other information from experienced buyers, sellers and facilitators of scrap metal transactionsthroughout the industry. All figures are believed to be reliable and represent approximate pricing based on information obtained by AR (if applicable) prior topublication. Factors such as grades, quality, volumes and other considerations will invariably affect actual transaction prices. Figures shown may not be con-sistent with pricing for commodities associated with a futures market. While the objective is to provide credible information, there is always a chance forhuman error or unforeseen circumstances leading to error or omission. As such, AR is not responsible for the accuracy or completeness of the informationprovided, or for outcomes arising from use of this information. American Recycler disclaims any liability to any person or entity for loss or damage resultingfrom errors or omissions, including those resulting from negligence of AR, its employees, agents or other representatives.

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Commodity Zone 1 Zone 2 Zone 3 Zone 4 Zone 5#1 Bushelings per gross ton $265.00 $220.00 $285.00 $265.00 $360.00#1 Bundles per gross ton 265.00 220.00 285.00 265.00 359.00Plate and Structural per gross ton 290.00 210.00 281.00 283.00 317.00#1 & 2 Mixed Steel per gross ton 289.00 210.00 286.00 280.00 294.00Shredder Bundles (t in) per gross ton 210.00 205.00 209.00 202.00 226.00Crushed Auto Bodies per gross ton 215.00 205.00 205.00 200.00 228.00Steel Turnings per pound 89.00 100.00 103.00 104.00 195.00#1 Copper per pound 2.89 2.72 3.00 2.65 3.08#2 Copper per pound 2.76 2.61 2.87 2.51 2.97Aluminum Cans per pound .68 .60 .71 .70 .79Auto Radiators per pound 1.75 1.50 1.51 1.68 1.80Aluminum Core Radiators per pound .55 .51 .53 .55 .60Heater Cores per pound 1.20 1.10 1.31 1.40 1.49Stainless Steel per pound .62 .60 .65 .68 .73All prices are expressed in USD. Printed as a reader service only.

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The Institute of Scrap RecyclingIndustries, Inc. (ISRI) announced that thecompetition for its Design for RecyclingAward is now open and entries from inter-ested companies are being accepted. Thisaward recognizes and honors those com-panies that design and manufacture goodsthat, at the end of their useful life, can berecycled safely and efficiently.

While many products are inherentlyrecyclable, other products – due to designor constituent materials used in production– are not. Manufacturers can eliminate orreduce these barriers to recyclability bysubstituting or altering these hard-to-recycle materials or components, therebyincreasing recycling yields and providingeven greater benefits to the environment aswell as economic benefits.

The Design for Recycling Award is ofparticular relevance with today’s desire fora more sustainable environment and econ-omy. For more than two decades, ISRI haspromoted Design for Recycling, a volun-tary program that encourages manufactur-ers to fully consider end-of-liferecyclability in the earliest stages of prod-uct design. The Design for RecyclingAward honors a program, company, orindividual whose product or programdesign has incorporated one or more of thefollowing:

A reduction in the number of differ-ent recyclable materials;

A reduction or elimination of haz-ardous constituents;

An increased yield of the product’srecyclables;

An improvement in the safety ofrecycling;

A design that allows for easy disas-sembly for recycling.

The most recent award was presentedin 2009 to furniture manufacturer HermanMiller for its 40-year commitment toimproving recyclability and reducingwaste in the design and manufacture of itsproducts.

The EPA was honored in 2006 for itsoverall leadership in creating innovativedesign partnerships, and its dedication toempower businesses and industry sectorsto incorporate environmental considera-tions, along with performance and costconsiderations, into decision-makingprocesses.

Computer manufacturer Hewlett-Packard was honored in 2005 for its docu-mented efforts to reduce the use ofhazardous substances, to simplify compo-nent design, and to build computers andprinting products for easy disassembly andrecycling.

Companies interested in being con-sidered should submit a letter outlininghow they have embraced the concept ofDesign for Recycling in their design andmanufacturing process to Mark Reiter,Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries,Inc., 1615 L Street, N.W., Suite 600,Washington, DC 20036 by March 2, 2010.

Entries beingaccepted forISRI award

U.S. IMPORTS OF FINISHED STEEL MILL PRODUCTS BY COUNTRY OF ORIGIN (Thousands of Net Tons)

CHINASOUTH KOREAJAPANINDIAGERMANYBRAZILNETHERLANDSITALYAll OthersTOTAL

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441241005837301638

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7221,243

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4,8212,3051,6141,1021,122

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Steel imports decrease

Valley Brass and Aluminumpenalized by Oregon DEQ

The Oregon Department of Environ-mental Quality (DEQ) recently issued apenalty of $7,382 to Valley Brass and Alu-minum Inc., Salem, for illegally disposingof foundry sand waste that was contami-nated with hazardous levels of lead.

DEQ had originally issued the penaltybecause the company stored piles of sandgenerated at the foundry at 1055 HilfikerRoad SE in Salem directly on the groundat its site, without cover and not contained.Valley Brass and Aluminum promptly cor-

rected the violation by having the lead-contaminated waste sand treated to renderit non-hazardous.

The $7,382 penalty was for disposingof the hazardous waste at the company siterather than at a permitted hazardous wastedisposal site. DEQ also cited the companyfor failing to determine if the waste it gen-erated was hazardous.

Valley Brass and Aluminum appealedthe penalty and is now negotiating withDEQ to settle the case.

The Environmental Protection Agency(EPA), other federal agencies and stateswill receive over $1.79 billion to addresscontamination at over 80 sites through res-olution of the American Smelting andRefining Company (ASARCO) bankruptcy.

For EPA, which is receiving approxi-mately $1 billion for future cleanup ofSuperfund sites, it is the largest bank-ruptcy settlement ever. The amount repre-sents full payment of EPA’s claims, plusinterest. Funds are being distributed pur-suant to settlement agreements approvedin 2007, 2008 and as most recently as Juneof 2009.

The cost recovery settlement for theOmaha Lead site in Nebraska providespayment of $130.4 million for past costsincurred by the agency, the largest amountachieved by the Superfund enforcementprogram for a single site.

Five settlement agreements wereapproved by the Bankruptcy Court inJune 2009, but the Bankruptcy and Dis-trict Courts had to approve ASARCO’sPlan of Reorganization before funds

from all the settlement agreements couldbe distributed.

ASARCO was originally organized in1899 and has operated for over 100 years,first as a holding company for diversesmelting, refining and mining operationsthroughout the United States and now as aTucson-based integrated copper mining,smelting and refining company.

ASARCO is a subsidiary ofASARCO Inc., itself a subsidiary ofAmericas Mining Corporation, which isowned by Grupo Mexico.

•On August 9, 2005, ASARCO filedfor reorganization under Chapter 11 of theBankruptcy Code in the United StatesBankruptcy Court for the Southern Districtof Texas, Corpus Christi Division.

•On August 1, 2006, the United Statesfiled a bankruptcy proof of claim on behalfof EPA with the United States BankruptcyCourt for the Southern District of Texas,Corpus Christi Division in the ASARCOChapter 11 bankruptcy.

•In March 2008, the BankruptcyCourt approved the process by which

ASARCO would pursue the selection ofa plan sponsor and sale of its operatingassets.

•After a bidding process for the pur-chase of ASARCO’s assets, Sterlite(USA), Inc. on May 30, 2008, executeda purchase and sales agreement in theamount of $2.6 billion for ASARCO’sassets. After the purchase and salesagreement was executed, copper pricesbegan to decline, and on October 14,2008, Sterlite representatives informedthe United States Bankruptcy Court thatthe company could not honor the con-tract.

•The Debtor and Sterlite, were ableto execute another purchase and salesagreement in March 2009.

•On June 5, 2009, the BankruptcyCourt approved five settlement agreementswhich provided recovery on environmen-tal claims at numerous Superfund sitesthroughout the country. See section on set-tlement agreements below

•On November 13, 2009, the Dis-trict Court for the Southern District ofTexas, Corpus Christi Division acceptedthe Bankruptcy Court’s Recommenda-tion to confirm the Parent Plan.

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When my partners and I boughtFord’s auto recycling subsidiary, itwas losing huge buckets of money. Aswe prepared our financial forecast onthe turnaround, the asset based lenderand venture capital firm that were ourstakeholders wanted to understandexactly how we were going to increasesales and reduce expenses.

The stakeholders required us toproduce a credible plan. For each linein our forecast, when we said wewould raise sales or lower expenses,we prepared a bridge plan. Howexactly would we achieve the numberswe were forecasting? What resourceswould be needed to meet the forecast?How would our initiatives affect eachmonth’s numbers going forward? Howmany months would the initiativetake? Our bridge plan spelled outanswers to each of these questions indetail.

To make a good bridge planrequires recognizing that some initia-tives take longer to execute than othersand that some initiatives bleed throughthe financials more than others. If wewere forecasting a 10 percent increasein parts sales (or cash flow), howwould it be achieved? Increased turns?Raising prices? Better close rates?Bringing in more customers for thatproduct or service?

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“All new steel made in the NorthAmerica contains a minimum of 28 per-cent steel scrap with some processesusing upwards of 90 percent steel scrapto make new steel,” said Bill Heenan,president of the Steel Recycling Institute(SRI). “Steel continues to be recycled ata higher volume than paper, plastic,glass, copper and aluminum combined,and the steel can still holds the distinc-tion of being food and beverage’s mostrecycled container.”

More than 1.5 million tons of steelcontainers were recycled in 2008 at arate of 65.2 percent, while more than14.8 million tons of steel were recycledfrom automobiles at a rate of 106 per-cent. Recycling rates for automobiles areoften near or over 100 percent as oldervehicles being recycled are often heavier

than new cars, which are more fuel effi-cient through use of advanced high-strength steels, which are now availableto automobile manufacturers.

Appliance recycling rates remainedstable at 90 percent as did structuralsteel at 97.5 percent, while constructionreinforcement steel (i.e., rebar) increasedslightly to 70 percent. These steel recy-cling rates accomplish much more thansimply saving landfill space. For everyton of steel recycled, 2500 pounds ofiron ore, 1400 pounds of coal and 120pounds of limestone are conserved.

Recycling is also key to energy sav-ings and other sustainable benefits. TheUnited States steel industry has been theonly major industry to reduce energydemands while still increasing produc-tion. In fact, the steel industry hasreduced energy consumption by 33 per-cent since 1990 along with a 45 percentreduction in greenhouse gases per tonsince 1975.

Steel record■Continued from Page 1

METALSASARCO parent pays $1.79 billion inenvironmental bankruptcy settlement

Metalico, Inc. announced that it hascompleted the purchase of the operatingassets of Youngstown Iron & Metal (YIM)and Atlas Recycling located principally inYoungstown, Ohio.

The acquisition includes all inventoryand equipment and will include all realestate owned by affiliates of the sellers andused in their businesses. The purchaseprice was not disclosed.

YIM, over the last two years, aver-aged $50 million of annual revenue andsold an annual average of 105,000 grosstons of scrap steel and approximately 15million pounds of non-ferrous products.The YIM operations complement Metal-ico’s Akron, Ohio scrap operations. Metal-ico’s Pittsburgh regional scrap operationsare headquartered only 70 miles east of thenew facilities. YIM will draw on Metal-ico’s extensive network of scrap suppliersand its capital resources to greatly increaseoperating capacity and utilization at theshredder and elsewhere in the operations.

YIM’s contribution to Metalico’sresults is expected to be accretive to earn-ings immediately.

Youngstownoperationsacquired

The Pennsylvania Recycling Mar-kets Center (RMC) at Penn State Harris-burg has played a key role in the creationof a $10 million electronics recyclingfacility, Kuusakoski Philadelphia, LLC.

At full production, the state-of-the-art electronics recycling facility will cre-ate approximately 30 skilled, technicaljobs while domestically recovering aminimum of 15,000 tons of recycled

consumer electronics annually. TheKuusakoski processing technology,which is presently operated at locationsin Finland, Sweden and Russia, is thefirst-of-its-kind introduced to the UnitedStates.

The new facility is anticipated to befully operational by late 2010.

The RMC provided managementsupport through all phases of the eco-nomic development project including:business planning; loan, grant, and taxcredit coordination; facilitation of oppor-tunities with the state Departments ofEnvironmental Protection and Commu-nity and Economic Development; intro-duction to the Governor’s Action Team;introduction to the Philadelphia Indus-trial Development Authority; introduc-tion to the Center for InternationalRegulatory Assistance; and technologyand process validation.

Organized as a non-profit 501c(3)corporation, the Pennsylvania RecyclingMarkets Center, Inc. is a leader in develop-ing and expanding recycling markets. TheRMC is Pennsylvania’s keystone portal ofenvironmental, economic development,and manufacturing resources leading toend use of recycled commodities andproducts. Headquartered at Penn StateHarrisburg with satellite offices near Pitts-burgh, the RMC can be contacted at 717-948-6660 or [email protected]. The RMCis supported in part by grant funds fromthe Pennsylvania Department of Environ-mental Protection.

EventsCalendar

February 23rd-25thRenewable Energy World Conference &Expo North America. Austin ConventionCenter, Austin, Texas. 918-831-9736www.renewableenergyworld-events.com

March 7th-10thThe Southeast Recycling Conference &Trade Show. Hilton Sandestin Beach GolfResort & Spa, Destin, Florida.334-356-0200 • www.southeasterecycling.org

March 10th-12thWaste & Recycling Expo Mexico. CIECWorld Trade Center, Mexico City, Mexico.+52 (55) 5545 4488www.wasterecyclingmexico.com

March 14th-17thICSW 2010: The Twenty-Fifth InternationalConference on Solid Waste Technologyand Management. Radisson Warwick Hotel,Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.www2.widener.edu/~sxw0004/24agenda.html

March 18th-20thShowpower 2010 Transmission/UndercarExpo. Nashville Convention Center,Nashville, Tennessee. 800-274-7890 • www.showpowerexpo.com

March 23rdNERC’s Spring 2010 Workshop.Northampton, Massachusetts. 802-254-3636 • www.nerc.org

March 28th-30thC&D World Annual Meeting of the CMRA.Rio Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada.630-585-7530 • www.cdrecycling.org

April 12th-13thAluminum Association’s 2010 SpringMeeting. The Westin Alexandria, Alexandria,Virginia. www.aluminum.org

April 26th-28th8th Annual CARE Conference. La PosadaDe, Santa Fe, New Mexico.www.carpetrecovery.org

May 3rd-6thWaste Expo 2010. Georgia World CongressCenter, Atlanta, Georgia. 800-927-5007 • www.wasteexpo.com

May 4th-8thAnnual ISRI Convention and Exposition.San Diego Convention Center, San Diego,California.919-563-5291 • www.isriconvention.org

May 16th-19thFederation of NY Solid WasteAssociations Solid Waste & RecyclingConference with Trade Show. TheSagamore, Bolton Landing, New York.631-288-2480 • www.nyfederation.org


INTERNATIONALCereplast hikes distributionof bioplastic resin in Europe

Cereplast, Inc., a manufacturer of pro-prietary bio-based, sustainable plastics,announced that it has extended its distribu-tion agreement with A. Schulman, Inc.(Schulman) to include all of Europe.Schulman is a supplier of high-perfor-mance plastic compounds and resins usedas raw materials in a variety of markets.

Cereplast’s variety of bioplastic resinswill enable Schulman to launch a newoffering composed of bio-based materialsto customers interested in more environ-mentally-friendly solutions. Under theagreement, Schulman will distribute Cere-plast Compostables® and Hybrids Resins®

throughout Europe.

According to the European BioplasticMarket report by Frost & Sullivan, the bio-plastics market in Europe has experiencedan exponential growth and demand hasoutstripped supply, as converters and end-users are rushing to take advantage of thisresurgent technology.

Currently, bioplastics account for lessthan one percent of the European plasticsmarket. All Cereplast resins replace a sig-nificant percentage of petroleum-basedadditives with starches made out of corn,wheat, tapioca and potatoes, allowing bio-plastics to return back to nature within 180days.

United States-Asia containerlines to raise dry cargo rates

Cargo demand continues to rise inthe United States-Asia freight market,but transpacific freight rates remainseverely depressed in both directionsand container lines find themselvesunder mounting pressure to improve rev-enues in order to meet customers’ serv-ice requirements.

Effective February 15, memberlines in the Westbound Transpacific Sta-bilization Agreement (WTSA) are rec-ommending a new 2010 general rateincrease (GRI) for dry cargo rates –including rates for commodities exemptfrom tariff filing – in the amounts of

US$100 per 40 foot container (FEU) and$80 per 20 foot container (TEU) forcargo originating at the ports of LosAngeles and Long Beach on the UnitedStates West Coast; and by $150 per FEUand $120 per TEU for all other dry cargo,including shipments from other WestCoast ports, all-water shipments via theUnited States East and Gulf Coasts, andinland point intermodal moves.

WTSA lines indicated that the Feb-ruary adjustments are part of a larger2010 revenue program which is toinclude quarterly increases throughoutthe year as market conditions dictate.

ELECTRONICSElectronics recycling facilitylaunched in Pennsylvania

Waste Management, Inc. announcedthat its subsidiary WM Recycle Americais implementing the Responsible Recy-cling (R2) Program for electronics recy-clers. The program establishes a set ofaccepted practices that helps protect theenvironment and workers’ health andsafety during the handling of e-waste,provides the ability for third parties tomonitor activity and offers greater trans-parency in the fast-growing electronicsrecycling sector.

The Environmental ProtectionAgency facilitated the development of theR2 Program which is accredited by theANSI-ASQ National Accreditation Board.

To ensure proper handling of e-waste,the R2 program requires participatingcompanies to implement an environmen-tal, health, and safety management systemthat tracks materials and minimizes emis-sions and worker exposure during elec-tronics recycling operations.

Waste Management’s MinneapoliseCycling facility is one of the first facili-ties in the industry to be certified to theR2 Program standards and the companyis in the process of certifying all of itselectronics recycling facilities.

WM RecycleAmerica adoptselectronic wasterecycling program


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A16 ARPI

A5 Benlee

A7 Buddy Innovations

A6 C&D World

A10 Call Shaughnessy

A13, B8 DADE Capital Corp.

B4 Desco

B1 Excel Manufacturing

A11 Flip Screen

A23 Government Liquidation

A11 Granutech-Saturn Systems

A2 Iron Ax, Inc.

A9 Jordan Reduction Solutions

B5 Mill Power, Inc.

B3 Multitek

A24 OverBuilt, Inc.

A18 Pemberton

A3 ProTainer

A15 Recycling Svcs Intl

A12 RM Johnson Co.

A10 SERC 2010

A8 Trojan Tire, Inc.

A4 Tryco

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BUSINESS BRIEFS

Valdis Martinsons will join theboard of Environmental Waste Interna-tional Inc. (EWI), subject to regulatoryapproval. Martinsons brings a wealth ofexperience in high tech businesses toEWI. He is presently chief operatingofficer of iTMethods, a provider of busi-ness agnostic technology infrastructureoperations for the small-medium busi-ness market.

Martinsons is a professional engineerwith a Master of Applied Sciences engi-neering degree and a Master of BusinessAdministration degree. He was chief infor-mation officer of Virgin Mobile Canada,where he oversaw their launch as well asdeveloping their multiyear infrastructureand foundational roadmap. Prior to that, hewas chief information officer of Researchin Motion, responsible for all Blackberryoperations worldwide.

Environmental Wasteappoints new director

Tube City IMS, LLC, a provider ofproducts and services to steel mills andfoundries globally, announced the appoint-ment of Hideto Hata as director of out-source purchasing and sales for Centraland South America.

Hata will be working with the Com-pany’s raw material and optimizationgroup to generate new business.

Prior to joining Tube City, Hataworked in a variety of positions for SojitzCorporation in Tokyo, Japan, Caracas,Venezuela and New York City. Hata isbased in New York City.

Tube City appoints directorof outsource purchasing

VisionMonitor Software has hiredMax D. Jones as executive director ofBusiness Solutions. Jones joins Vision-Monitor Software after a successfulcareer as senior consultant at the firmEnvironmental Resources Managementin Houston, Texas.

Jones has more than 23 years of expe-rience in the petrochemical manufacturing,petroleum refining and exploration andproduction sectors with over 19 years ofexpertise in all aspects of environmental,health, safety and risk management. Hisexperience includes strategic developmentand implementation of compliance assur-ance management systems (CAMS),behavior-based employee programs,process safety management and correctiveaction tracking systems. In addition, Joneshas extensive experience in developingstrategies for reducing costs associatedwith acquiring property/casualty insurancefor manufacturing sites. Previously Jonesheld the position of director of EHS &Security for Texas Petrochemicals inHouston, Texas.

VisionMonitor Softwarehires new senior executive

Oil Purification Systems (OPS)announced that it has been selected as awinner of the annual New England Ven-ture Summit Top Innovator award byyoungStartup Ventures. The list of pri-vately held companies recognizes thosethat play a leading role in innovation forthe Technology, Life Sciences andClean-tech sectors.

Oil Purification Systemsnamed as a top innovator

Morbark announced the signing of adealership agreement with StrongcoLimited Partnership in Western Canada.With Strongco’s five locations inAlberta, Morbark customers in westernCanada now have convenient access toequipment, service and sales.

Strongco Limited Partnership is oneof the largest multi-line industrial equip-ment distribution providers in Canada.

Strongco sells, rents and servicesmobile industrial equipment in the con-struction, road building, mining, forestry,utilities and municipal sectors of the econ-omy. It also represents several leadingequipment manufacturers, such as Volvo,Dressta and Manitowoc.

Morbark and Strongcoform Canadian alliance

Houston-based Greenstar NorthAmerica announced the appointment ofMichael Simmons as its chief executiveofficer.

Simmons, who joined Greenstar inDecember 2009, brings an exceptionaltrack record with 20 years operationalleadership experience in senior posi-tions. Most recently, Simmons came toGreenstar from Q Investments where heserved as senior operating partner.

Simmons will replace Mike Wynne,who has been serving as interim CEO dur-ing Greenstar’s chief executive search.Wynne will continue in his role as chair-man and chief executive of NTR’s Interna-tional Recycling Operations. NTR, arenewable energy group, is a leadingdeveloper of renewable energy and recy-cling, based in Dublin, Ireland.

Greenstar appointsMichael Simmons CEO

Glantz Iron & Metals, Inc., located inGreat Neck, New York will celebrate its100th year anniversary in 2010.

The business was started in 1910 byHarry Glantz, using a horse and buggy, topick up scrap metal in and around NewYork City. At that time, they servicedstrictly plumbers. When Harry’s son, HyGlantz, came into the business, theystarted handling scrap metal generated bybreweries and shipyards. Three genera-tions later, the company now purchasesscrap metal from manufacturers, genera-tors, dealers and processors, and markets itdomestically and internationally.

Paul Glantz, president of MRC, says“Our centennial celebration is a tremen-dous milestone. 100 years of environmen-tally-sound scrap metal recycling makesus a pioneer, a trailblazer some say, in therecycling industry. We are one of the old-est recycling companies in the UnitedStates. We were recycling decades beforeit became popular, and years before theterm ‘recycling’ was coined.”

Glantz Iron & Metals hits100th year anniversary

Why is it that when you transportsomething by car, it's called a shipment,but when you transport something byship, it's called cargo?

Live Nation, a live music company,and Waste Management, Inc. announceda multi-year agreement encompassingLive Nation’s venues, concerts, ticketsand online platform.

Under the agreement, Waste Manage-ment becomes the official waste servicesand recycling sponsor of 66 Live Nationvenues across the country. Waste Manage-ment will be providing waste assessmentsto help minimize waste and promote recy-cling at all Live Nation venues, includingconcessions and backstage areas.

Partnership launchesRecycling Rocks program

Electronic Recyclers International(ERI), located in Fresno, California, hasformed a partnership with copper smelterLS-Nikko, Seoul, South Korea underwhich LS-Nikko will accept commoditiesfrom ERI’s electronics recycling facilitiesfor further processing. As part of theagreement, LS-Nikko will also take aminority investment position in ERI.

Electronic Recyclers topartner with LS-Nikko

Cowin Equipment Company ofBirmingham, Alabama, now offers thefull line of Doosan Infracore PortablePower products in the Atlanta market.The company offers Ingersoll Rand-branded air compressors, generators,lighting systems and light compactionequipment.

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Zebra Skimmers Corporation, a full-linemanufacturer of oil skimmers and fluidmaintenance equipment, expands its Mus-cle™ Coalescer line to include a new modelfor servicing air compressor condensate.

“The Muscle Coalescer line has beensolid for many years, servicing our cus-tomers' needs for separation and removalof contaminate oil from water-based fluids.Due to environmental concerns, manyindustries desire or are required to treattheir compressor condensate before itsrelease to the water table. This new coa-lescer model is a simple and cost-effectivesolution, preventing environmental contami-nation while reducing the overall compres-sor waste stream,” stated Meg Grant, Sales& Service Manager of Zebra SkimmersCorporation.

Benefits of the Muscle Compressor Coalescer include:Robust, yet simple, design fits any budgetAutomatic air release valve and de-oiled water exitReduces compressor waste stream up to 98 percentWorks with almost any size compressorLifetime warranty

Zebra Skimmers, the leader in fluid maintenance for over a decade, invents newtechnology to save its customers money on fluid while reducing waste, and sellsand supports its equipment worldwide. Most products are guaranteed for at least ayear, and some for life.


Innov-X Systems, Inc. continues toextend the reach of XRF by introducingits Omega Xpress XRF metal analyzerwith breakthrough silicon drift detector(SDD) technology for superior highspeed material sorting and 100 percentpositive material identification (PMI).

The Omega Xpress couples an ultrahigh resolution SDD detector with a safe,yet powerful 40 kV / 4 watt x-ray tube,delivering the fastest, most precise andsensitive analysis available today in ahandheld x-ray fluorescence (XRF) ana-lyzer for metal and alloy applications.

The Omega Xpress provides a rapidchemistry and grade match with manyalloys in just one to two seconds. It also:

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Available in two rotordimensions, 39” and 56”,Cumberland’s new CPSSeries is equipped withrotary cutters operating atlow speed, for smooth andefficient size reduction.With no need to pre-cutmaterials up to 25’ in

length – he CPS was developed for reducing the size of pipes up to 47” in diameterfor materials such as UPVC, PE and PP.

The CPS Series pipe shredder reduces material to approximately 1” to 4” whencombined with a Cumberland granulator, which can be stacked 2 stage or in-linewith conveyors. Output material sizes can range from 1/8” to 1/2", with the granula-tor averaging 150 percent of its stated throughputs without using heavy power con-sumption.

A low speed rotor (43 rpm on CPS1000 and 28 rpm on CPS1500) transmits highcutting torque for processing solid, thick wall, or corrugated pipe. The low speed cut-ting action provides smooth operation with processing the heavy wall or solid pipeand reduces noise levels that typically occur. Dual drive motors provide even distri-bution of horsepower along the rotor, maximizing the transmission of torque throughthe heavy-duty gearbox system.

The heavy-duty self-aligning outboard mounted bearings on the CPS Seriesreduce the possibility of material contamination. The three stage telescoping 20 h.p.hydraulic ram pushes the pipe into the shredder, maintaining pressure to maximizethroughput. The laser measurement device on the ram records the exact position ofthe ram at each step of the process.

Jordan Reduction Solutions’ shreddersuse low speed, high torque hook shearblades manufactured of high alloy heattreated material mounted on hexagonalshafts.

Counter rotating shafts turn at slightly dif-ferent speeds increasing the efficiency of thecutting action. Overloads caused by foreignmaterial stop the forward motion of the motorand then reverse to clear the foreign matter,before forward motion is resumed. Shockloads are negated by a patented “shockabsorber” drive train. JRS™ offers shredderswith cutting chambers ranging in size from17” x 14” to 60” x 40” with motors from 10 h.p.to 450 h.p.

Features and benefits include:•Built tough to handle the most severe applications•Knives constructed from high alloy heat treated steel for extra long life•Adjustable blades for optimum “rip-shear” action and end product size•Overload protection with automatic reversal•Engineered for economical low maintenance•Simple operation with many automatic features•Less space required due to a modular design, adaptive to the work area•Heavy-duty design and fewer parts for trouble-free operation and reliability•JRS Patented Cushion Drive System absorbs minor shock loads and automati-

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CASE ADDS HIGH PERFORMANCE650L TO CRAWLER DOZER LINE

Case Construction Equipment, Inc.700 State StreetRacine, WI 53404866-542-2736www.casece.com

ECOTOWERSORT FROM ERIEZIDEAL FOR E-SCRAP RECOVERY

Eriez introduces the innovative EcoTowerSort, amulti-stage, total metal recovery system ideal for autoand e-scrap processing.

EcoTowerSort can be used for the sorting of alu-minum, stainless steel, copper cables and heavy frac-tions. It even recovers stainless steel and plasticcoated wires. The compact machine is available inwidths of 24” to 118” and enables total recovery ofvaluable metals at a lower investment.

Different modular sorting technologies are utilizedwithin the system. Common configurations includerare earth drum separators, eddy current separators,inductive sensor sorter or combinations.

Eriez 2200 Asbury RoadErie, PA 16506888-300-3743www.eriez.com

FECON, INC. ANNOUNCES THEBULL HOG HDT ROTOR SYSTEM

The Fecon® Bull Hog® is now available with the newHDT rotor system. The improved efficiency of the rotorenables more production for the same horse powerwhile maintaining maximum durability to improve pro-duction levels. The Bull Hog HDT offers optimal cuttingefficiency.

Fecon’s HDT rotor system can be equipped withfour different tool options including three unique car-bide options and a knife tool that allows contractors toquickly configure their mulcher to diverse conditions.

Fecon, Inc.3460 Grant DriveLebanon, OH 45036800-528-3113www.fecon.com

BOBCAT E60 EXCAVATORPROVIDES ERGONOMIC COMFORT

Bobcat’s new E60 has a spacious cab with an oper-ator seat that adjusts multiple ways and providesergonomic comfort suited to the individual.

Features include a high-capacity heat and air condi-tioning system with five operation modes, a pin cou-pler system for quick attachment changes andpolymer shims in lateral joints that prevent pin wearand create tighter attachment workgroup.

The in-track boom swing allows the operator towork in constricted conditions with confidence with adig depth of 13’ 7”.

Bobcat Central Inc.3237 W Miller RoadLansing, MI 48911800-344-1228www.bobcat/com/excavators

ATLAS COPCO ADDS SBU 340 TOSOLID BODY BREAKER LINE

Atlas Copco’s SBU 340 hydraulic breaker is for car-riers in the 9,920 lb. to 19,840 lb. weight class. Thesolid body design removes the weakest parts of tradi-tional hammers. Double retainer bars last much longerthan the retainer pins used on other breakers.

The full-length floating tool bushing reduces wearon the bushing and working tool and helps preventtool breakage, and the simple tool retainer lock mech-anism allows both components to be changed in thefield with simple hand tools.

The new Case 650L crawler dozer delivers a loweroverall operating height and weight and superior main-tenance features that boost productivity.

The 650L delivers 74 net h.p. through a Tier 3-certi-fied, four-cylinder, 4.5-liter turbocharged Case familyIV engine with electronic fuel injection for maximumfuel efficiency and easier starts in cold weather. Ahigh-pressure common-rail injection system deliversexcellent combustion. A charge air cooler reducesemissions and provides a more efficient fuel burn.

The shorter track means easier turning, making themachine extremely maneuverable on the job site.

Atlas Copco Construction Equipment 3700 East 68th AvenueCommerce City, CO 80022800-760-4049www.atlascopco.us

NEW PRODUCT SHOWCASEBUSINESS BRIEFS

Mascoma Corporation announcedthe appointment of William J. Brady asthe new chief executive officer, effectiveimmediately. Brady will also join theboards of directors of Mascoma andFrontier Renewable Resources, LLC.

With twenty-three years of experi-ence at Cabot Corporation, a chemicalindustry leader, Brady is poised tolead Mascoma into full commercialoperations.

Until assuming his new role at Mas-coma, Brady served as executive vice pres-ident and general manager of severaloperating divisions at Cabot Corporation,leading business units from technicaldevelopment through successful commer-cialization, as well as managing globalcapital-intensive businesses and develop-ing strategic relationships with largeglobal customers.

Mascoma appoints Bradyas CEO and to board

Metalico, Inc. announced that SeanP. Duffy, a long-time recycling execu-tive, has been elected to the Company’sboard of directors.

Duffy will fill a vacancy created bythe retirement of Earl B. Cornette, whois stepping down from the board as ofthe end of the year.

Duffy is the president of FCR Recy-cling based in Charlotte, North Carolinaand a regional vice president of its par-ent, Casella Waste Systems, Inc. FCRprocesses and resells recyclable materi-als originating from the municipal solidwaste stream, including newsprint, card-board, office paper, containers and bot-tles. Duffy co-founded FCR in 1983 andserved that company in various capaci-ties, including president, until it wasacquired by Casella in 1999.

Cornette has been a director of Metal-ico since the Company’s founding in 1997.He is a retired executive in the lead andenvironmental industries.

Metalico elects Sean Duffyto board of directors

Waste Management, Inc. announcedthat its board of directors has approvedan 8.6 percent increase in the quarterlydividend rate, from $0.29 to $0.315 pershare. This marks the sixth consecutiveyear that the Company has increased itsquarterly dividend. Future quarterly div-idends must first be declared by its boardof directors prior to payment.

“This announcement reflects ourcontinued commitment to returning cashto our shareholders,” said David P.Steiner, chief executive officer of WasteManagement, Inc.

The Company noted that the boardof directors will declare the first quarter2010 dividend in February, at whichtime the record and payment dates forthe first 2010 quarterly dividend will beannounced. It is expected that the firstpayment of the higher dividend willoccur in March of 2010.

Waste Management’sdividend payment raised

President Barack Obama hasselected Karl Brooks to be the Environ-ment Protection Agency’s (EPA)regional administrator for EPA’s Region7. This region encompasses Iowa,Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and nineTribal Nations.

Regional administrators are respon-sible for managing the Agency’sregional activities under the direction ofthe EPA Administrator.

Karl Boyd Brooks has taught historyand environmental studies at the Univer-sity of Kansas for the past decade. Previ-ously, Brooks was the executive director ofthe Idaho Conservation League and servedsix years in the Idaho State Senate.

Karl Brooks selected tolead EPA’s Region 7

Routeware, Inc. announced thatDave Wagers has joined the Company asvice president of operations.

Wagers brings more than 35 yearsof experience in both management andoperations, making him an ideal additionto Routeware’s executive team.

Wagers comes to Routeware fromthe high technology information servicesand software industry. He has extensiveknowledge in client services, operations,hardware engineering, general manage-ment, business development and strate-gic planning with both Fortune 500companies as well as start-ups.

As vice president of operations,Wagers will manage all areas of customersupport, including the development of aBusiness Services operation dedicated tothe delivery of analytical tools for Route-ware’s customers.

Wagers joins Routewareas VP of operations

Patrick J. Moore, Smurfit-StoneContainer Corporation chairman of theboard and chief executive officer, hasnotified the board of directors that heintends to retire within one year follow-ing the Company’s emergence fromChapter 11 proceedings.

Moore will continue to serve on theboard of directors. The Company hasfiled amendments to its Plan of Reor-ganization documents in United StatesBankruptcy Court that provides for anon-executive chairman of the boardupon emergence from Chapter 11. It isanticipated that the new board of thereorganized Company will designatea successor to Moore after the Companyand its subsidiaries emerge fromChapter 11.

President and chief operating officerSteven J. Klinger, will continue to servein his current role as well as on the Com-pany’s board of directors.

Smurfit-Stone filed its Plan of Reor-ganization on December 1 and plans toemerge from restructuring proceedingsin both the United States and Canadaeither late in the first quarter or early inthe second quarter of 2010.

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It’s been a long wait for the UnitedStates Environmental ProtectionAgency (EPA) to weigh in on the safetyof recreational products made fromrecycled tires. Finally, it released theresults of a limited field monitoringstudy of artificial turf playing fields andplaygrounds using recycled tire materi-al or tire crumb. EPA plans to use thestudy information to help determine thenext step to address questions regardingthe safety of tire crumb infill in recre-ational fields.

In short, the EPA study found thatusing the material does not point to aconcern for the agency at this time.This is another positive reinforcementfor this sector of the recycling industry,which already knew from numerouslaboratory analyses, state studies andindependent field studies that the mate-rial posed little or no environmentaldanger or health risks.

Liberty Tire Recycling, the coun-try’s largest recycler of scrap tiresprocesses 110 to 120 million tires peryear. Company president Don Reacommented on the EPA study, “Therehas been somewhere between 50 to100 studies on crumb rubber. Therehas been so much study done that itdoesn’t seem possible that someone isgoing to come up with another conclu-

sion. It would have been nice if theEPA had just said this stuff is fine, for-get it. If EPA was the least bit suspi-cious they would not have said whatthey said.”

Over the years, shredded andcrumb rubber processed from recycledtires has found its way into many usefulrecreational and architectural applica-tions. These include rubberized ground

covers under playground equipment,running track material, soil additivesfor playing fields and sports flooring.Crumb rubber is also used in artificialturf fields between turf fibers to pro-vide stability and resiliency.

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EPA study OKs recycled rubber surfacesby MIKE [email protected]

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A major Indian company whichsells railway equipment to the variousrail companies will be testing morethan 500 Tire-Tie™ rubber rail ties,manufactured by Cazenovia, New Yorkbased NP&G Innovations throughout2010, said NP&G president and co-owner Cal Nichols.

“The Indian rail system is thelargest in terms of miles in the world,”he said, “and they just appropriated $3billion for research and development ofnew technologies. We’ve shipped 20

ties so far. The company we are dealingwith has serious rail capabilities andthey are hoping to expand their mar-kets.”

Nichols was recently in India tomeet with officials and participate in atrade show where he displayed six tiesthat are made from discarded tires.Should the rubber ties pass Indian stan-dards and regulations, the market forreplacement ties could be huge.

And while discarded tires are avail-able in India to manufacture ties,Nichols said ties made in Americawould still be needed to meet Indiandemand.

“Their disposal and collection sys-tem is not as developed as ours, andbecause of that we will still be process-ing tires in this country,” he said.

India experiences extreme weatherconditions, including the monsoon sea-son which brings torrential rains andmoisture, and has track that runs alongcoastal areas and sections of the coun-try where it is very hot and dry forlengthy periods of time.

“They have similar situations towhat we experience in the UnitedStates,” said Nichols, who notes thatIndian standards are similar to thosefound in North America and Europe.

In addition to the Indian market,there is also China, which has an exten-sive rail network.

“Both India and China cannot getenough wood to build standard cre-osote treated ties and concrete ties aretoo expensive,” said Nichols.

“We are coming in lighter thanconcrete and as strong as concrete.Our big claim to fame in these coun-tries, and in general, is meeting ornearing the structural strengths of con-crete, while at the same time being 40to 50 percent of the weight of a con-crete tie.

India to test American-made rubber rail tiesby IRWIN [email protected]

See RAIL TIES, Page 2

See RUBBER SAFETY, Page 7

According to the Synthetic Turf Council, artificial turf has been installed in approximately 4,500 American fields, tracks and playgrounds. The new study conductedby the EPA indicates that this artificial turf poses no significant health or environmental issues.

A Letter fromthe Editor

Dear readers,From athletic fields to shipping

to more comfortable commutes, tireshred and recycled rubber is revolu-tionizing the way we get around.Tires have an almost poetic lifecycle– they convey us daily over asphalt,concrete and less-friendly terrain, andnow, at the end of their useful lives,they can be made part of those sur-faces they once traveled over.

Amazing things are being donewith end of life tires. Rather thanmerely being a difficult-to-dispose-ofitem, old tires have quickly become ahighly reusable, desirable material. Inthis issue of American Recycler,we’ve tried to highlight a few of thecurrent processes that call for tire andrubber shred in order to improve oth-erwise ordinary products.

If you’ve ever driven over brandnew, smooth asphalt, the lack of roadnoise becomes immediately notice-able – as does its inevitable return assoon as your vehicle gets to the nextsection of old road. However, in thecover article by Mike Breslin, we’velearned that the return of the roadnoise does not have to be inevitable.Roads are now being constructed withasphalt that utilizes rubber in its com-position that improves many of itsqualities, including reduced roadnoise.

Roads aren’t the only travelingsurfaces that have seen improvementswith the addition of recycled tires.Stronger, safer sidewalks that utilizerubber or plastics are being installedin select places across the country. Asthe process spreads, you can expect tosee neighborhood sidewalks, onceplagued by tree roots and weather-induced wear, replaced with tree-and-weather-proof rubber walkways.

Rubber has also come to the res-cue of railroads around the world bybeing used in ties that are strongerthan their wooden predecessors, andthat potentially have better longevitythan concrete ties. And the fewer tiesthat the railroads have to replace, thelower their cost of business, whichmay translate to savings on shippingcosts.

And now that the EnvironmentalProtection Agency has weighed inand found recycled rubber products tobe generally safe, expect to see thenumber of applications for rubbergrow exponentially.

I hope that you enjoy this issue ofAR. As always, feel free to get intouch.

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“China and India have bridges thatare posted to certain weights,” headded. “If they go in with concrete tiesat 900 pounds apiece and our ties weigh400 to 500 pounds, there is an immedi-ate weight savings and capacityincrease in the types of loads that couldbe carried across the bridges. Our tiesabsorb more energy and do not experi-ence the stresses that affect concreteties.”

The company has been manufac-turing rail ties since 2003. On June 14,2004, cross ties were installed on a spurline of the New York Susquehanna RailWay, which includes straight track anda three degree curve section.

“The ties continue to hold up withno signs of degradation after years ofsteady use,” said Nichols. “Our currentdesign has never failed a rail test andwe recently succeeded the electricalindependence test at the Federal Rail-road Administrations’ TransportationTechnology Center, Inc. (TTCI) inPueblo, Colorado – we had to makesure that we were non-conductive.

“We’ve done all of the RochesterInstitute of Technology’s (RIT) Centerfor Integrated Manufacturing Studies’tests, TTCI tests and laboratory testinghas been completed at the VosslohSwitch Systems Laboratory in France,”he added. “We just did an RIT test toquantify the energy absorption of a rub-ber tie. Our tie is more rigid andstronger than wood and close to con-

crete in terms of rigidity of structuralstrength. The results will compare thedifferences between wood, concrete,plastic and our rubber tie. The next testwe have to pass is an in-track “realtime” test, equivalent to 100 milliontons. We are arranging it now to bedone at the TTCI.”

The Vossloh testing included static3 point bending, screw pullout and later-al load cyclic fatigue testing toEN13146-N specifications. A compari-son was made using a European woodstandard tie. All tests on the Tire-Tiepassed the EN criteria for static stiffnessand durability. The testing at the RITCIMS laboratory was done using a 2-axis dynamic test machine designed byNPG Innovations. Furthermore, severalvariations of the Tire-Tie were tested tothe AREMA and TTCI recommendedtest conditions, with comparative testingdone on a standard red oak tie.

Each rubber rail tie uses the equiv-alent of 25 tires.

“We ultimately use about 50 percentof the tire, with the remainder recyclableas crumb rubber and such,” said Nichols.“It all winds up being recycled.”

The upcoming test at the TTCI,combined with the results of the Indiantesting, said Nichols, should allow thecompany to start selling ties in the Statesthis fall.

“Meeting all of the TTCI standardsand having its certification is therequirement for anything used in therail industry in the States,” saidNichols.

Between 18 and 20 million rail tiesare replaced annually in the UnitedStates, with 90 percent being standardcreosote treated ties, 9 percent beingconcrete ties and the remaining 1 per-cent being made of steel, compositesand other materials.

A standard wood tie, said Nichols,has an average lifespan of 7 to 12 years,with some lasting as few as four yearsalong the gulf coast where they are sub-ject to humidity, moisture and insects.

Concrete ties, said Nichols, arealso having problems and this has led tolawsuits and costly replacements.

“CSX just settled a lawsuit againstRocla Concrete Tie, Inc.,” he said. “Itwas a huge amount of money because200,000 of their ties were failing. Andnow AMTRAK is in the middle of alawsuit. The Washington, D.C. – NewYork City corridor has 1.3 million con-crete ties and about 250,000 are suspectat this point.”

A concrete tie in Europe, saidNichols, who consulted rail industrysuppliers, costs around $130 andbetween $80 and $100 domestically.

Should rail companies use rubberties, it could go a long way towardsusing up the annual amount of tires thatare discarded. Nine million rubber tieswould use the equivalent of 205 milliontires.

“I am frequently asked the ques-tion ‘what would we do if there werenot enough tires,’ and I reply ‘I’d loveto have that problem,’” said Nichols.

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Rail ties■Continued from Page 1

Crumb rubber may face newcompetition in infill market

The Motz Group has purchased theassets of U.S. Greentech, LLC, acquiringthe intellectual property rights for coatingand pigmenting silica sand for use as aturf infill. The newly formed companyhas been incorporated as USGreentech,L.L.C., and has brand-named their coatedsand infill, Envirofill®.

Envirofill is positioned to challengecrumb rubber as the infill of choice in 4thgeneration sports and leisure syntheticturf systems. The company claims thatthe product addresses the growing con-cerns surrounding crumb rubber infill.

Envirofill is a naturally occurring,highly rounded silica sand. It is non-toxic, dustless and heavy metal free. Theproprietary coating process locks outmoisture, reducing microbial survival inthe turf canopy. The coated grains have alow abrasion index and resists com-paction and displacement mounding. Ininfill heat build-up studies, clear coatedEnvirofill tested 80 degrees cooler thanblack crumb rubber and has proven tolower outdoor playing surface tempera-tures as much as 20 percent compared tocrumb rubber.

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Should rail companies use rubber ties, it could go a long way towards using up the annual amount of tiresthat are discarded. Nine million rubber ties would use the equivalent of 205 million tires.

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LANXESS plans new rubberfacility project in Singapore

LANXESS, a synthetic rubbercompany, has brought forward its plansto build a new butyl rubber facility inSingapore. The company will hold agroundbreaking ceremony in May,2010, and production is expected tostart in the first quarter of 2013. The100,000 tons per annum plant onJurong Island will require an invest-ment of up to $575 million.

The plant will help serve the risingdemand for tires that is being driven bythe trend towards greater mobility, inparticular among the growing middle-class in countries such as China andIndia. In addition, the distinct proper-ties of butyl rubber make it an impor-tant product of choice for the pharma-ceutical industry, particularly in Asia.

In June 2009, LANXESS post-poned the production start of the plantuntil 2014 due to the effects of theglobal economic crisis. This led to aperiod of de-stocking and high volatili-

ty of customer ordering. However,demand has stabilized in the last sixmonths and the global butyl rubbermarket is expected to grow again annu-ally by an average of more than threepercent in the coming years.LANXESS’ two existing butyl rubberproduction facilities in Zwijndrecht,Belgium, and Sarnia, Canada, are cur-rently running at high capacity rates.

Global tire sales are expected toreturn to pre-crisis levels in 2011 asthe tire replacement market and newvehicle production levels graduallyrecover. In order to meet this growingdemand, LANXESS’ customers areplanning capacity expansions in theBRIC markets.

LANXESS will lease about200,000 square meters of land from the

JTC Corporation, an authorized agentof the Singapore Ministry for Trade andIndustry, to build the plant. The neigh-boring petrochemical refinery belong-ing to Shell will supply the feedstockfor the key raw material isobutene toLANXESS’ rubber plant as part of along-term agreement. In addition, thecompany will create about 200 highly-skilled jobs for the new facility andplans to fill the majority of positionslocally. At peak construction times,around 1,500 workers will be employedat the construction site.

A complete evaluation of theexisting process to manufacture butylwas carried out for the new Singaporefacility and a radical redesign will beimplemented. The process is expectedto be best in class. As a result, thebutyl plant will be more energy andresource efficient as well as environ-mentally friendly.

Additionally during 2010,LANXESS will relocate the globalheadquarters of its Butyl Rubber busi-ness unit to Singapore from Fribourg,Switzerland, in order to better serve therising demand in Asia. The headquar-ters, including all global managementfunctions such as marketing, control-ling and supply chain, will have about35 employees initially. More than halfof the company’s butyl rubber sales arecurrently generated in the Asia region,with especially China, India and SouthKorea showing strong growth rates.

“We will be focusing our attentionespecially on Asia this year, which hasalready emerged strongly from the eco-nomic crisis,” said LANXESS’ Heit-mann.

From left to right, Julian Ho of Economic Development Board, Dr. Ron Commander, global head of LANXESS'Butyl Rubber business unit and Ian Wood, managing director of LANXESS Pte. Ltd.

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Goodyear comments onVenezuelan devaluation

On January 8, the Venezuelan govern-ment announced the devaluation of its cur-rency (the bolivar fuerte) and the establish-ment of a two-tier exchange structure.

The official exchange rate has beendevalued from 2.15 bolivar fuerte toeach United States dollar to 4.30, exceptin the case of essential goods, for whichthe rate is 2.60. Some of the tires andraw materials The Goodyear Tire &Rubber Company imports intoVenezuela have been classified as essen-tial, while others have not. The companyis evaluating the list of goods classifiedby the Venezuelan government as essen-tial to determine the exchange ratesapplicable to its imports.

Separately, Venezuela has been desig-nated hyper-inflationary effective January1, 2010, and as such, all future foreign cur-rency fluctuations will be recorded inincome.

Goodyear expects to record a chargeassociated with the devaluation, which ifcalculated at the 4.30 exchange rate wouldbe approximately $150 million ($.62 pershare) in the first quarter of 2010.

This charge relates to the remeasure-ment of its balance sheet, net of tax. To theextent that Goodyear imports are classifiedas essential, this impact could be reduced.

On December 31, 2009, without givingeffect to the devaluation, Goodyear hadapproximately $370 million in cashdenominated in bolivar fuerte inVenezuela. The devaluation will not haveany impact on Goodyear’s 2009 results ofoperations or financial position.

The future results of Goodyear’sVenezuelan operations will be affected bymany factors, including the company’sability to take actions to mitigate the effectof the devaluation, further actions of theVenezuelan government, economic condi-tions in Venezuela such as inflation andconsumer spending, and the availability ofraw materials, utilities and energy.

“We have a strong business inVenezuela with an outstanding and experi-enced leadership team that is focused onmanaging through the changes takingplace in the Venezuelan market,” saidRobert J. Keegan, Goodyear’s chairmanand chief executive officer.

Goodyear expects to record a 1Q charge of $150 million associated with Venezuelan currency devaluation.

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One night a police officer was staking out a particularly rowdy bar for possibleDUI violations. At closing time, he saw a fellow stumble out of the bar, trip on thecurb and try his keys on five different cars before he found his. The man sat in thefront seat fumbling around with his keys for several minutes.

Meanwhile, all the other patrons left the bar and drove off. Finally he started hisengine and began to pull away. The police officer was waiting for him. As soon as hepulled onto the street, the officer stopped him, read him his rights and administeredthe breathalyzer test to determine his blood-alcohol content.

The results showed a reading of 0.0.The puzzled officer demanded to know how that could be. The driver replied,

“Tonight I'm the designated decoy.”

Tires can be one of the mostproblematic materials to recycle dueto their extreme durability and thelarge number of scrap tires generatedby consumers. In spite of that, once atire is no longer fit for its original pur-pose, it is also one of the materialsmost likely to be recycled, since theresulting material is so resilient andworks well for many secondary usessuch as roadways, recreation surfaces,

and even new tires (retreads). TheUnited States Environmental Agencyreports notes that upwards of 290 mil-lion scrap tires are generated annual-ly, of which roughly 15 percent wereused to make auto and truck retreads.

Refuse tires are typically anundesirable item at landfills. Theircumbersome shape takes up excessivespace and the methane gas they emitcauses them to bubble to the surface.This can damage landfill liners andpollute nearby ground and surfacewater.

These are likely some of the rea-sons for the following restrictions,described in a Rubber ManufacturersAssociation report in 2009: 38 statesbanned whole tires from landfills, 35allowed shredded tires, 12 banned alltires from landfills and 20 allowedprocessed tires in mono-fills. Thesedevelopments and other variableshave contributed to an emergence invarious recycling markets for scraptires, and equipment such as tire der-immers and shears are used in manyof those markets.

Multitek has manufactured rimcrushers since 1983 and still havemany of the original machines in thefield today. According to MarcusSteigerwaldt, the firm’s businessdevelopment manager, “Our line ofrim crushers consolidates the rim ateither one or three points, dependingon the model. The rims are crusheddown and the tire is removed at the

same time. With an easy-to-use, onelever, detented hydraulic cylinder, theoperator is a safe distance from thecrushing action. We offer a heavy-duty, single-cylinder truck rim crusheras well. Our TRC-460 product offersa 48” opening, a 6” custom-madecylinder and a diesel engine to crusheven stubborn truck rims.”

Multitek’s best-selling, high-vol-ume wheel crusher is the WC-500model. “It is designed for light truckand car rims. With a 3-ram design, themachine removes the tire and effi-

ciently crushes 120wheels per hour. Thishas been our numberone rim crusher for 30years and is popularthroughout North Amer-ica, Europe and Asia.”

To meet end-userrequirements, all of thecompany’s wheel crush-ers are offered in either

stationary electric or diesel configura-tions. “Our machines are built towithstand years of heavy use, andonly the highest grade componentsare put into our products, includingMultitek-manufactured hydrauliccylinders, AR-400 crushing rails, Yan-mar or Kubota diesel engines, and aset of wear pads to ensure no steel onsteel wear,” said Steigerwaldt.

A family-owned and operatedIowa-based company, Desco has beenmanufacturing and selling tire andwheel recycling equipment for over25 years. “We’re proud that our com-plete line of tire shears and derimmersare designed and built to last, andeasy to operate and maintain,” saidLew Smith, a co-owner.

Desco’s customer base “rangesfrom tire shops that need to reducecost on disposing of up to 400 tiresweekly, to waste haulers. Haulersoften look for ways to turn the never-

ending flow of tires in their containersinto a profit center. Cutting tires alsosaves on hauling costs – you can haula lot more cut tires in a container then

you can whole tires. We also servethose with a landfill, who cut up and

use refuse tires for filtration and dailytop cover, and tire recyclers use ourproducts to cut up large semi tiresbefore shredding them,” Smith said.

He added, “Our company pro-vides equipment to anyone who needsto cut scrap tire disposal cost. Theease of operation we’ve built into ourmachines allow the shears to cutaround 80 to 100 tires an hour. Ourderimmers are just as effective, derim-ming around 115 to 145 wheels with-in an hour.”

Wally Welander, sales manager,said that Eagle International providescar and truck tire derimmers, and thatboth offer several operator safety fea-tures along with aspects such as littleto no lifting required, industrial quali-ty hydraulic components, Kohlerindustrial gas, and Kubota (car) andIsuzu diesel (truck), and electricengine motors.

Eagle, started in 1991, providesequipment to meet the worldwideenvironmental needs of the waste tireindustry. One of their products, theTru-Cut, is for car, truck and rear trac-tor tires. Eagle’s Titan II cuts OTRand mining tires up to 48” across thetread and up to 13’ in diameter. “Thedesign and location of our cylindermount is one example of the unique-ness of our product,” Welander said

and he added, “That designallows our product blades tocut with equal cutting pres-sure throughout the cutcycle. Our entire line of cut-ters has registered patents.”

Other products offeredinclude debeaders, side wallcutters, balers and hoppers.With an eye to the future of

the industry, Eagle is active with allgovernment agencies in the develop-ment of beneficial uses for wastetires. For instance, the unique features

of the “Enviro-Block” product offersmany uses for discarded tires.

Regarding thefuture of the industry,Steigerwaldt comment-ed, “We saw a slow-down in demand for rimcrushers in 2009, largelydue to scrap steel fetch-ing lower prices. Look-ing forward, we see anuptick in scrap pricesand industrial output inAsia and North Ameri-ca.”

Smith stated that 2009 was tryingand “We’ve learned that now, morethan ever, we have to find ways tosave money every chance we can, andfind new ways to grow our business.We know our products have a proventrack record to meet those objectives.”

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Desco, Inc. Lew Smith800-344-0814www.desco-usa.com

Eagle International LLCWally Welander800-755-8473www.eagle-equipment.com

Multitek North America, LLCMarcus Steigerwaldt800-243-5438www.multitekinc.com

The R.M. Johnson Co.David VanVleet800-328-3613www.ezcrusher.com

Tire Service Equipment Mfg Co. Inc.Randy Kindel800-223-4540www.tsissg.com

Multitek North America, LLC

Eagle International LLC

Desco, Inc.

Carbon Green Inc. has announcedthe completion of the acquisition of allof the shares of Greenwood CommerceLtd. from CBp Carbon Industries, Inc.The transaction closed on January 15,2010 pursuant to the terms of a sharepurchase agreement dated November 30,2009 among Carbon Green, CBp Carbonand Greenwood.

Carbon Green acquired all of theissued and outstanding common sharesof Greenwood from CBp Carbon inexchange for the issuance by CarbonGreen to CBp Carbon of 33,346,262shares of Carbon Green’s common stockand 1,056,041 share purchase warrants,with 868,541 of the warrants entitlingthe holder thereof to purchase one shareof Carbon Green common stock at anexercise price of $2.50 per share and187,500 of the warrants entitling the

holder thereof to purchase one share ofCarbon Green common stock at an exer-cise price of $2.00 per share, all untilJanuary 15, 2013.

In connection with the closing ofthe agreement, the Company acceptedthe resignation of J. David Brow as pres-ident of the company, and has appointedJohn T. Novak as president and Ken Leeas secretary. In addition, on January 13,2010, the Company mailed to each of itsshareholders and filed with the UnitedStates Securities and Exchange Com-mission (SEC), an information statementwith respect to the proposed appoint-ment of John Novak, Ken Lee, AdiMuljo and Peter Jensen to the Compa-ny’s board of directors and the resigna-tion of J. David Brow as director. Theseresignations and appointments tookeffect January 23, 2010.

John Novak, newly appointed presi-dent of Carbon Green Inc. stated, “Over10 billion tires are stockpiled around theworld and this number is growing at analarming rate. The disposal and manage-ment of these tires has become a crisis ofglobal proportion. Through the acquisi-tion of Greenwood and its state of the artcommercial production plant, CarbonGreen has acquired a technology thatwill dramatically change how tires arerecycled and positions Carbon Green asa leader in the clean tech recyclingindustry.”

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New environmental advisorycouncil implemented by TIA

When Wayne Croswell took thepresidency of the Tire Industry Associa-tion (TIA), one of goals for his term wasto increase the organization’s presencein tire recycling and other green issues.To achieve this goal, TIA has announcedthe creation of their new EnvironmentalAdvisory Council (EAC). The EAC willprovide strategic information, advisoryservices, educational programs, and gov-ernmental assistance that promote envi-ronmental awareness throughout the tireindustry.

The EAC replaces the Tire and Rub-ber Recycling Advisory Council(TRRAC), which for 15 years hasbrought together the brightest minds inthe tire and rubber recycling sector. But,the EAC will go further than TRRAC byexpanding this initiative to include allfacets of the tire industry. For TIA mem-bers and the tire industry, this meansexamining every aspect of their business

to be energy efficient, insure safety,reduce waste and to use methods thatreduce, reuse, repair and recycle tires.

“It’s clear that green issues arebecoming more and more enmeshed inboth our personal and professional lives,and thus, I wanted to take a broader,more holistic approach to how tire deal-ers and the tire industry can better under-stand and implement green concepts andpractices into every aspect of the indus-try – from cutting down on paper use inthe office to the utilization of environ-mentally-friendly technologies on theshop floor, to finding new and excitingways to utilize scrap tires,” saidCroswell.

The EAC will meet on a regularbasis, and plans for this year are current-ly being formulated. Interested personsare encouraged to check www.tireindus-try.org for the latest developments.

Carbon Green Inc. acquiresGreenwood Commerce Ltd.

Phoenix and GBRC team up toprocess TDF with microwave tech

Global Resource Corp. (GBRC), adeveloper of patented energy-efficientmicrowave-based technologies for recyclingtires, has announced a joint venture (JV) todevelop, build, own and operate several facil-ities with Phoenix Renewable Energy for theprocessing of scrap tires. The first facility aspart of the JV will be located in Jonesboro,Arkansas and is estimated to be worth $12million.

The JV will be for the processing ofscrap tire derived fuel (TDF) into highmargin commercial hydrocarbons and car-bon products utilizing GBRC’s patentedmicrowave technology. Phoenix Renew-able Energy and GBRC will leverage theirtechnical and commercial capabilities tofund, develop and operate a Patriot Facili-ty. The facility will have a nameplatethroughput capacity of 20,000 tons of TDF

with projected annual, recurring revenueof approximately $13 million and environ-mentally positive outputs of electricity andcarbon products.

Under the JV agreement GBRC willprovide research and development, design,engineering and construction of the Patriotmachine that is capable of processing 3tons per hour.

Phoenix Renewable Energy will beresponsible for all other aspects of thefacility, including the design, construction,and commissioning the physical facility,all auxiliary equipment including all gas,oil, and carbon black processing outside ofthe GBRC reactor. The joint venture alsoallows an equal 50/50 split of revenue gen-erated from each plant between GBRCand Phoenix Renewable Energy.

An aged farmer and his wife wereleaning against the edge of their pig-penwhen the old woman wistfully recalledthat the next week would mark theirwedding anniversary.

“Let’s have a party, Homer,” she sug-gested. “Let’s kill a pig and have aroast.”

The farmer scratched his grizzledhead and replied, “Gee Ethel, I don’tsee why the pig should take the blamefor something that happened fifty yearsago.”

Mike Demski didn’t start out in the tire business or the recycling business. “I havean excavating company,” he explained, “and we could not find aggregate.” Demski’sfirst foray into the rubber recycling business was when he bought out a small compa-ny, and he followed that purchase with another when he purchased equipment from aCanadian company that had gone out of business. That purchase expanded his rubberprocessing capabilities five-fold immediately.

“Now I’m a full-fledged recycler,” he said. While other companies process tiresstrictly to landfill them, Demski uses the landfill as the last resort. He explained thatsome over-the-road tires can’t be recycled effectively, and extremely dirty tires can’tbe recycled because it’s not cost-effective to wash them, but all of those tires still haveto be chopped up before they can be landfilled.

According to Demski, Deerpath Recyclers handles whole tires “from a loaderdown to a bicycle” and that after they’ve done their work, only about 10 percent ofwhat comes in will end up in a landfill.

Material is sold to regrind shops who according to Demski, “take it down to 180mesh crumb rubber.” One of the more interesting uses is for railroad ties that are guar-anteed to last at least 60 years, compared to the 10-year lifespan of wooden ties.

Demski said that extruding companies and plastics manufacturers are also veryinterested in using recycled rubber. The recycled rubber chips are used as a filler mate-rial at less than half the cost of plastic filler material. The disadvantage to using tires isthat it turns the finished product gray or black, which might not be as estheticallypleasing. But when the end product is something like the plastic blocks behind high-way guardrails, the color isn’t important.

When Demski decided to use recycled rubber in place of aggregate as septicchips, he needed to do a lot of legwork to get the rubber accepted in his home state ofMichigan. It took 2 1/2 years to get approval, but the advantage of using rubber chipsis that they run about 1/3 the cost of aggregate.

Like many other operations, Demski said the tire recycling business is affected bythe economy. He explained that when times are bad, people don’t spend money onnew tires, so he doesn’t get as many used tires coming in. When times are good, heemploys “upward of 20 people” and at one time he was running two shifts a day. Hehas trailers at about 80 accounts where he picks up tires, and he also accepts tires fromthe public and from municipal cleanups.

With two lines running, Deerpath processes about 4,000 tires a day. “We try to doat least a million tires a year,” Demski said, but 2009 saw only about 3/4 million tiresprocessed.

Things are getting better, though, and Demski is looking at expanding his tirepickups. He recently applied for a license to pick up in Ohio, adding to his business inhis home state of Michigan and neighboring states of Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin.

It’s not all about distance, though. “We just purchased a building across thestreet,” he said, which almost doubled his space. He also plans on expanding his prod-uct line by selling rubber buffings. The market for the railroad tie manufacturers isalso expanding, and Deerpath is expanding along with it. His goal is to process 2 mil-lion tires per year within two years.

On the fun side, the company is doing some R&D work alongside another com-pany. The R&D has been going on for three years, but the payoff will be huge. “Onceit’s perfected,” Demski said, “we will not make enough product at our plant to fill theneed.” At that point, Deerpath will probably bring in material from other companies toreprocess it.

Most of all, though, Demski is happy that he is able to keep so much material outof landfills, and instead is “turning it into a product that’s reusable for the next gener-ation.”

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Scrap tires find their wayinto alternative sidewalks

Since 2005, Fountain Valley, Califor-nia-based Rubbersidewalks, Inc. has soldmore than 250,000-square-feet of side-walks made from discarded tires and plas-tic recyclables via its Rubbersidewalks andTerrewalks® products. This has reducedthe need to produce new concrete, whichis considered to be a major producer ofcarbon emissions.

“In 2009 we quadrupled our salesfrom 2005,” said Lindsay Smith, presi-dent/CEO of Rubbersidewalks, Inc., whichis the only company in the United Statesthat utilizes rubber and plastics to manu-facture urban-worthy sidewalks. “We suc-cessfully introduced Terrewalks last year,and we continue to find a strong customerbase for 100 percent waste tire Rubber-sidewalks, especially in seniors’ communi-ties where a really safe sidewalk is desired.Programs which target tire diversion andoffer ‘green dollars’ also help promotesales.”

The company’s goal is to see munici-palities and builders replace traditionalconcrete sidewalks with alternative-mater-ial sidewalks and by doing so, use up alarge portion of the nearly 300 milliontires that are discarded in the United Statesannually.

Smith noted that state programs suchas California’s Tire Product Grant, whichawards around $3 million annually, hashelped promote the use of alternative prod-ucts made with waste tires. Public agen-cies can receive up to $5 rebate for eachtire diverted by their purchase of productsmade with waste tires.

The company has sold non-concretesidewalks to cities, universities, state agen-cies, senior facilities, schools, corporatecampuses, and commercial developers inover 30 states, including Virginia, Georgia,Washington Colorado, Oregon, Wisconsinand Washington, D.C. Flushing Meadowsboasts the first Rubbersidewalks installedin New York City, and Staten Islandinstalled over 3000 square feet of Terre-walks last fall.

A Rubbersidewalks paver weighs 54pounds and consists of 4.8 tires, colorantand polyurethane resin, while Terrewalksweigh 36 pounds and diverts 1 tire andover 30 pounds of waste plastics.

Both Rubbersidewalks and Terre-walks pavers measure 2 feet by 2.5 feetand 1.875 inches in height – allowing forsidewalk widths of either 4 feet or 5 feet.Both products are manufactured in NewYork and California, with a third produc-tion site coming soon in Texas.

So far Terrewalks, which accountedfor 40 percent of the company’s 2009sales, can be found on public streets and inplazas and corporate campuses. The inter-locking paver design allows for fast andeasy installation and the next-gen productcomes in a variety of colors that do notfade. One style, TerreClassic, looks identi-cal to concrete.

“We have strong markets for bothproducts,” said Smith.

Both products are designed to with-stand extremes in terms of hot and coldtemperature and unlike concrete, are notvulnerable to vibration and freeze/thawdamage.

“Concrete sidewalks,” said Smith,“are often not cost-effective. You can getconcrete materials for a relatively lowprice, but the actual use of concrete incities is more expensive than people real-ize,” she says. “A concrete sidewalk lastsless than 10 years near a growing tree or infreeze-thaw and often less than 5 years. Ifyou have trees, or a freeze/thaw climate,concrete will crack, break and uplift, oftenbecoming a trip hazard.

“Our products never break,” sheadded. “They become a permanent featureand because they complement the plantingof trees, allow cities to preserve andexpand the urban forest that providesshade, reduces the heat effect and createshabitat for wildlife. While we love con-crete as a building material, let’s not use itany more than we have to. Sidewalks areone of those things that don’t need to bemade of concrete.”

A square foot of installed Terrewalkscosts $12 ($7 for the material and $5 forthe prep and installation), while a squarefoot of Rubbersidewalks costs $16 ($9 forthe materials and $7 for prep and installa-tion).

“Installing Terrewalks goes quicklyand does not require much traffic control,”said Smith. “It eliminates running vehiclesand machinery, and waiting a day toremove the forms used with concrete.Concrete is 8 percent less expensive thanTerrewalks based on 100,000 square footplus contracts for concrete and maybe6,000 square feet of Terrewalks. AlthoughRubbersidewalks and Terrewalks initiallycost slightly more than concrete, ‘breakeven’ is reached the first time concretedoes not have to be repaired and replaced.After 18 years, our products give a 48 per-cent savings.”

While Rubbersidewalks and Terre-walks are a proven alternative green prod-uct, Smith says that many cities still wantto conduct their own pilot projects todetermine the public acceptance of theproduct.

“We honor small orders,” she said.“We know that after enough exposurecities will make our non-concrete side-walks part of their annual maintenanceprogram.”

This may happen even faster, consid-ering that the United States EnvironmentalProtection Agency is working with thecompany to produce a White Paper, which,when completed, should help support theuse of non-concrete alternatives in pedes-trian pavement.

For Smith, the idea of large urbancenters and regions being able to use local-ly discarded tires and plastic, and close therecycling loop via local manufacturingfacilities is a real possibility.

Terrewalks can use a wide of varietyof unsorted and unprocessed post con-sumer plastics, including beverage bottles,various polyethylenes, and all types of

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commercial applications, a growingmarket that exposes more people eachyear to the material.

This rubberization of surfacesoffers many benefits to help preventinjuries and reduce stress on leg mus-cles, ligaments, tendons and joints, andaccounts for its widespread andincreased use. This ability to absorbshock has taken rubberized surfacinginto homes, workplaces, tennis courts,weight rooms, gyms, fitness centersand even to the equine and bovineworlds. And because it’s easier to cleanand cleans more thoroughly, it’s morehygienic than other flooring materialssuch as wood or concrete.

Cow mats made from recycled tiresare increasingly being used in dairybarns all over North America. Just likepreventing injuries for humans in recre-ation and sport, cow mats preventcalves from getting hurt when they fallon concrete barn floors. The insulatingproperties also reduce cold and humidi-ty on concrete floors to help protectcows against rheumatism and fatigue.Some diaries even attribute increasedmilk production to rubber flooring.

Abacus Sports Installations, Ltd.,for instance, markets a wide variety ofrubberized sports flooring made fromrecycled tires. Their seamless, texturedequine flooring for stables is very pop-ular because it’s easier to clean andminimizes bacteria. It’s even installedon stable walls and columns for addedprotection.

Spencer Proud, owner of Abacussaid that his customers have nevervoiced any concern about the safety ofhis company’s products. “We’ve neverhad any complaints or issues in over20-years of contracting. From an archi-tectural standpoint many of our cus-tomers are interested in earning LEEDcredits (Leadership in Energy and Envi-ronmental Design Green Building Rat-ing System) It’s recycled material, verydurable, very sustainable. Schoolboards and everyone else these dayswants everything to be green for verygood reasons. Having this recycledcontent brings serious contributingpoints.”

Nevertheless, over the past severalyears, a number of concerns have been

raised over the use of tire crumb mate-rials in turf fields and playgrounds.

Parents in Colorado were con-cerned about children carrying homesmall particles of tire crumbs on theirclothing. High levels of lead weredetected on some artificial turf fields inNew Jersey. To address various publicconcerns, a number of cities and statesengaged in sampling, testing and evalu-ation of products containing recycledtire rubber.

In 2007, the California Office ofEnvironmental Health Hazard Assess-ment issued a report, Evaluation ofHealth Effects of Recycled Waste Tiresin Playground and Track Products. Itconcluded that there appeared to be lit-tle long-term risk to human health.

In 2008, the Centers for DiseaseControl and Prevention issued a low-level public health advisory, due tosome negative publicity surroundingartificial turf.

The Consumer Product SafetyCommission investigated reports oflead contamination from artificial turfand, in July 2008, concluded that“young children are not at risk fromexposure to lead in these fields.”

A July 2009 California EPA studyfound no significant health risk to peo-ple who breathe the air above syntheticturf that contains crumb rubber. Thestudy looked at the chemicals found inthe air above the turf and the chemicalsfound in the air upwind from the fieldsanalyzed. The conclusion: chemicalswere found in similar concentrations inboth samples.

A May 2009 study by the NewYork departments of EnvironmentalConservation and Health found thatcrumb rubber used in synthetic turffields poses no significant environmen-tal threat or health concerns.

Finally, in December, the nationalresponse came with the release of theresults of EPA’s limited “scopingstudy” of tire crumb. The study consist-ed of collecting air and wipe samples atlocations near EPA laboratories inRaleigh, North Carolina, Athens, Geor-gia, and Cincinnati, Ohio. Samplingwas also was done in Washington, D.C.

Conducted from August to October2008, the study found that the concen-trations of materials that made up tirecrumb were below levels consideredharmful. “The limited data EPA collect-ed during this study, which do not point

to a concern, represents an importantaddition to the information gathered byvarious government agencies,” saidPeter Grevatt, director of EPA’s Officeof Children’s Health Protection “Thestudy will help set the stage for a meet-ing this spring, where EPA will bringtogether officials from states and feder-al agencies to evaluate the existingbody of science on this topic and deter-mine what additional steps should betaken to ensure the safety of kids whoplay on these surfaces,” he added.

As usual, EPA qualified the find-ings of its study: “Given the limitednature of the study (limited number ofconstituents monitored, sample sites,and samples taken at each site) and thewide diversity of tire crumb material, itis not possible, without additional data,to extend the results beyond the fourstudy sites to reach more comprehen-sive conclusions.”

However, the EPA study did con-firm, most importantly, that most of themethods tested were accurate, repro-ducible and appropriate for measuringconcentrations of tire crumb con-stituents and can be used in future stud-ies.

EPA is aware that studies by otheragencies were undertaken or completedwhile its survey was being conducted.EPA is planning a 2010 meeting withfederal and state agencies to review allnew study data and determine nextsteps.

The next steps will likely involvemore government spending for morestudies to arrive at essentially the sameconclusions. Meanwhile, more productsmade from recycled tires will keepmore old tires out of landfills and con-tinue to find new and useful applica-tions.

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consumer plastics and waste from plasticmanufacturing facilities.

“We use all the material that nobodywants,” said Smith, “and convert thesematerials into product. Our carbon foot-print is low because our feedstock doesn’tneed to be sorted and cleaned, whichreduces energy and water consumption.”

Asked what it will take to have largeurban centers and cities such as New York,Los Angeles County, Chicago and Dallasto start using green alternatives on a mas-sive scale, Smith replied, “In L.A. we didthe Dorothy Chandler Music Center andwe recently installed 1,400-square feet ofTerrewalks in Greg Smith’s district in

Northridge, California. We are specified inNew York – where we installed 3,000-square feet in Staten Island and we alreadyhave Rubbersidewalks in Chicago. Everycity has their own rules and regulationsand we are taking them one at a time.

“In California non-concrete alterna-tives are in demand because year-roundtree growth means roots are breaking con-crete sidewalks all the time.” she added.“With state and municipal budgets impact-ed by the economic downturn, findingways to downsize and save money isimperative. What is good for Californiacities applies across the country. Reducingsidewalk construction and replacementcosts, and helping the environment at thesame time by using closed loop wastetire/plastic-to-products is a win-win situa-tion for all.”

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Rubber Innovators brings KeithBusse into board of directors

Rubber Innovators, LLC announcedthat Keith Busse, chairman and chief exec-utive officer of Steel Dynamics, Inc., hasjoined the Rubber Innovators’ board ofdirectors. Busse also serves on the boardof directors of Tower Financial Corpora-tion and is a member of the Boards ofTrustees of the University of St. Francisand Trine University.

Busse founded Steel Dynamics, Inc.with two colleagues in 1993. From thetime of its founding until May 2007, heserved as president and CEO. He has beena director of the company since it wentpublic in November 1996. Under his lead-

ership, Steel Dynamics has grown to morethan $3 billion in revenues. The corpora-tion’s impressive business results earned acitation as the “Most Admired Company inthe Metals Sector” for 2008 as well as alisting in the FORTUNE 500 for 2009.

Prior to starting Steel Dynamics,Busse joined Nucor Corporation in 1972,served in various management positions,and achieved the rank of vice presidentand general manager. At Nucor in the late1980s, he led the team in Crawfordsville,Indiana, that built and successfully operat-ed the world’s first mini-mill capable ofproducing flat-rolled steels.

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