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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. Continued... WASTE MANAGEMENT Best Practice Approach for English and Welsh Golf Clubs 30
The Maintenance Facility: Best practice guide to the management of selected maintenance streams ...Continued Other uses of waste tyres Other uses account for about 20,000 tonnes of waste arising. These include: Boat and dock fenders. Under road surfaces. Useful contacts Retread Manufacturers Association: www.retreaders.org.uk Used Tyre Working Group: www.tyredisposal.co.uk Tyre Industry Council: www.tyresafety.co.uk WRAP: www.wrap.org.uk/materials/tyres Sports tracks. Weights on silage sheeting on farms. Crash barriers at motor racing circuits. Children's play surfaces and furniture. Protection for young plants and trees. Compost heap containers. Roof tiles. Noise control products. Structural support for earth walls. Motorway embankments. Artificial reefs and coastal defences. Around 10,000 tonnes of tyres are exported to other countries for use as part-worns or in overseas re-tread operations. Perhaps the most relevant to golf over the years has been the re-use of ground tyres as ‘rubber crumb’. WASTE MANAGEMENT Best Practice Approach for English and Welsh Golf Clubs 31
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