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Waste tire inventory<br />

Processed tire products<br />

Processed rubber products<br />

Crumb rubber for pavements<br />

Playground gravel substitute<br />

Sludge composting<br />

Split tire products<br />

Used export<br />

Whole tire applications<br />

Reefs <strong>and</strong> breakwaters<br />

Playground equipment<br />

Erosion control<br />

Highway crash barriers<br />

L<strong>and</strong>fill (whole <strong>and</strong> shredded)<br />

Stockpile<br />

Illegal dumping<br />

Chapter 7 Environmental Trends <strong>and</strong> the U.S. Transportation System � 159<br />

FIGURE 7-14: DISPOSITION OF U.S. SCRAP TIRES, 1990<br />

10 million tires<br />

0.3<br />

(0.1%)<br />

Vehicles Retread<br />

16 (6.6%)<br />

12 (5.0%)<br />

Combustion<br />

Powerplants<br />

Tire plants<br />

Cement plants<br />

Pulp <strong>and</strong> paper mills<br />

Small package boilers<br />

25.9 (10.7%)<br />

187.8 (77.6%)<br />

New tires<br />

33.5 million tires<br />

242 million tires (100%)<br />

SOURCE: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Solid Waste <strong>and</strong> Emergency Response, Summary <strong>of</strong> Markets for Scrap Tires<br />

(Washington, DC: 1991).

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