Waste management - England Golf

The Maintenance Facility:
Best practice guide to the management of selected maintenance streams
Best Practice Guidelines
Tyre storage
Spare tyres should be stored inside, in a
secure area in order to prevent health and
safety issues.
Storage of used tyres prior to disposal
should be indoors, on a hard standing
impervious base and safely stacked in a
secure area.
Tyre disposal options
If you transfer waste tyres to someone
else, you must be sure they are authorised
to take them.
All authorised waste carriers are registered
with The Environment Agency and have a
certificate of registration.
A list of licensed waste tyre handlers is
available at www.tyredisposal.co.uk.
Ensure that your waste tyres will be reused,
recycled or recovered.
Re-use of part-worn tyres
Extracting the maximum safe life from a
tyre saves valuable resources (oil, rubber,
steel, etc.). Before the tyre can be resold it
must be checked. Part-worn-tyres must
have a minimum of 2 mm tread remaining
and be marked as part-worn on both sides
at the time of sale.
Tyres
The problem with tyres
Over 50 million tyres (just over 480,000 tonnes) are scrapped in the UK each year
and around 80,000 tonnes are disposed of in landfill. Although golf clubs are not
recognised as a major producer of tyre waste, the safe disposal of used mower,
tractor or other machinery tyres is an important issue, especially given the high
polluting effect of improper disposal and the new stringent legislation.
Tyres use non-renewable resources in their production, cause emissions to air,
land and water as fine particles are worn off during their use, and require
management at the end of use (Environment Agency, 1998f). It is tyres, rather
than engines, that are the major source of noise pollution associated with roads.
Legislation relating to tyres
The EU Landfill Directive will ban the disposal of tyres to landfill. In brief, whole
tyres were banned from July 2003 and shredded tyres from July 2006. The ban
applies to almost all tyres including car, commercial, motorbike, aircraft, and
industrial (including solid tyres). However, tyres above 1.4 metres outside
diameter (e.g. larger agricultural and earthmover tyres) will not be subject to the
ban.
The Duty of Care is a legal requirement under the Environmental Protection Act
1990. It applies if you produce, import, carry, keep, treat, or dispose of waste
tyres. It requires you to take all reasonable steps to ensure that waste tyres are
not handled illegally and that they are only transferred to an authorised person
together with a waste transfer note.
Recycling through re-treading
Tyre re-treading is a major industry in the
UK. Re-treading involves either replacing
only the tread section or replacing rubber
over the whole outer surface of the tyre.
Manufacturing a re-tread tyre for an
average car takes 4.5 gallons less oil than
the equivalent new tyre and for
commercial vehicle tyres the saving is
estimated to be about 15 gallons per tyre.
Car tyres can only be re-treaded once but
truck tyres can be re-treaded up to three
times.
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