Tire-Derived Fuel Resources and Links

TOPICS WITHIN THIS PAGE
Alter­na­tives
Anti-TDF papers, etc.
Gen­er­al Infor­ma­tion
Gov­ern­ment Pol­i­cy
Haz­ardous Chem­i­cals
Legal Doc­u­ments
Offi­cial Stud­ies
TDF in the News
Tech­ni­cal Infor­ma­tion about Tire Incin­er­a­tion Process
Under­stand­ing the Cor­po­rate Perspective

Below is a some links about tire derived fuel and relat­ed issues. Not all of the pages linked to are against tire derived fuel.

ALTERNATIVES

RECYCLING
“Increas­ing the Recy­cled Con­tent in New Tires” Cal­i­for­nia Inte­grat­ed Waste Man­age­ment Board, May 2004.

CRUMB RUBBER/RUBBERIZED ASPHALT CONCRETE (RAC)
Date­line NBC sto­ry on RAC. Octo­ber 23, 1998.

Joyce Eden: Let­ter about RAC.

Scrap Tire News: Crumb Rubber

RAC Health Problems

DEVULCANIZATION
AOL News: “Goodyear Patents Process to Recov­er Rub­ber from Tires.” Wednes­day, Sep­tem­ber 8, 1999.

Con­tin­u­ous Ultra­son­ic Devul­can­iza­tion of Vul­can­ized Elastomers

Dr. Aavram I. Isayev’s devul­can­iza­tion page

ANTI-TDF LETTERS/REPORTS/POSITION PAPERS FROM SCIENTISTS AND ORGANIZATIONS

Joyce Eden (West Val­ley Cit­i­zens Air Watch): Let­ter to Cal­i­for­nia Inte­grat­ed Waste Man­age­ment Board. Octo­ber 4, 1999.

Joyce Eden (West Val­ley Cit­i­zens Air Watch): Let­ter to Cal­i­for­nia Inte­grat­ed Waste Man­age­ment Board. March 7, 2003.

Dr. Neil Car­man: “Haz­ards Asso­ci­at­ed with Burn­ing Syn­thet­ic Rub­ber Used in Mod­ern Tires”

Dr. Neil Car­man: “Haz­ards of Burn­ing Tires.” June 1997.

Dr. Sey­mour I. Schwartz: Let­ter to Cal­i­for­nia Inte­grat­ed Waste Man­age­ment Board. Jan­u­ary 21, 1998.

Dr. Sey­mour I Schwartz: Let­ter to Cal­i­for­nia Inte­grat­ed Waste Man­age­ment Board. August 31, 1999.

Green­peace: “Tire incin­er­a­tion and Tox­ic Emis­sions: New data from the Modesto Incin­er­a­tor, West­ley, CA.”

Tire Burn­ing in Cement Kilns — Part I (PDF file 750K) Com­mu­ni­ties for a Bet­ter Envi­ron­ment in the San Fran­cis­co area argu­ments against the Kaiser Cement Com­pa­ny for burn­ing tires in their cement kiln.

Tire Burn­ing in Cement Kilns — Part II (PDF file 646K)

Sier­ra Club Part I (PDF file 757K) Com­ments on tire burn­ing in Kern Coun­ty, Cal­i­for­nia. Offers sup­port for the Cal­i­for­nia groups protest­ing the Kaiser Cement Kiln. (120K)

Sier­ra Club Part II (PDF file 728K)

Sier­ra Club Part I Com­ments on tire burn­ing in San­dusky Coun­ty, Ohio. (PDF file 800K) Infor­ma­tion and data offer proof health and envi­ron­men­tal haz­ards.

Sier­ra Club Part II (PDF file 832K)

Sier­ra Club Part III (PDF file 642K)

GENERAL INFORMATION
Tire Burn­ing Fact Sheet

West Val­ley Cit­i­zens’ Air Watch, “Tire Derived Fuel Issues Sum­ma­ry.” March 1999.

GOVERNMENT POLICY

US EPA: (July 18, 1988) Use of the Alter­na­tive Fuel Exemp­tion Under PSD for Tire Derived Fuel

US EPA: (August 11, 1992) PSD Exemp­tions for Tire-derived Fuel (TDF) Clas­si­fied as Munic­i­pal Sol­id Waste (MSW)

Nation­al Emis­sion Stan­dards for Haz­ardous Air Pol­lu­tants: Rub­ber Tire Manufacturing

PA Bill Pro­vides For Tax Cred­its, Asphalt Rub­ber (Scrap Tire News March 2, 2000)

HAZARDOUS CHEMICALS

Diox­ins:

US EPA Diox­in Documents

IARC Mono­graphs Pro­gramme on the Eval­u­a­tion of Car­cino­genic Risks to Humans

Poly­cyclic Aro­mat­ic Hydro­car­bons (PAHs)

Envi­ro­Tools Fact­sheet: Poly­cyclic Aro­mat­ic Hydro­car­bons (PAHs) [Local copy]

PAH Primer

LEGAL DOCUMENTS

Affi­davit on tire derived fuels. (PDF file 36K) Neil Car­man’s affi­davit on the haz­ards asso­ci­at­ed with tire burn­ing in cement kiln.

Envi­ron­men­tal groups’ legal suit against the Kern Coun­ty Air Pol­lu­tion Con­trol Dis­trict to allow pub­lic hear­ings before per­mit­ting tire burn­ing in cement kilns. Part I (PDF file 526K)

Part II (PDF file 604K)

Part III (PDF file 569K)

Part IV (PDF file 568K)

Part V (PDF file 521K)

Part VI (PDF file 481k)

Part VII (PDF file 643K)

Part VIII (PDF file 334K)

OFFICIAL STUDIES/POSITIONS

US EPA: (April 1994) Pilot-Scale Eval­u­a­tion of the Poten­tial for Emis­sion of Haz­ardous Air Pol­lu­tants From Com­bus­tion of Tire-Derived Fuel (PDF file)

US EPA: (Octo­ber 1997) Air Emis­sions from Scrap Tire Com­bus­tion (PDF file)

Joel I. Reis­man, Paul M. Lemieux, “Air Emis­sions from Scrap Tire Com­bus­tion.” Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion Agency, Oct. 1997. (PDF file) [Local copy]

TDF IN THE NEWS (News about alter­na­tives is list­ed in “Alter­na­tives” section)

Scrap Tire News

Kaiser Offi­cial­ly Quits (Cuper­ti­no Courier)

TECHNICAL INFORMATION ABOUT TIRE INCINERATION PROCESS

Tire Derived Fuel Use in Cement Kilns

UNDERSTANDING THE CORPORATE PERSPECTIVE

Rub­ber Man­u­fac­tur­ers Association

“U.S. Scrap Tire Mar­kets 2005,” Nov 2006. (796 KB PDF file) [Local copy]