Sub: Suggestion for Recycling The Rubber ScrapeDear Sir,
I take this opportunity and highlight the issue of Environment. Now every country is concerned about and discussing this issue . As an individual responsibility we also have to think about.
While I was in middle east I had seen there is no provision to Recycle the Rubber or it related items. I had seen Million Tons of Vehicle used Tire are dumped in open space. No one bother for this if any uncertainty happened what will be the effects.
How much it affect to the environment and wealth of the country . Lot of air pollution will occurred that will cause several types of diseases to the masses.
My point of suggestion is that the country should think on this issue related to the waste tire and other related product.
Now days very compact plant and machinery are available to recycled these product.
I am quoting an example of America,
Even before the tire recycling business collapsed during the 1960s and early 1970s, scrap tires began accumulating in landfills, illegal dumps, vacant lots, abandoned buildings and roadsides around the nation.
The Rubber Manufacturers Association estimates that between two and three billion scrap tires are in landfills or are otherwise "stockpiled" across the United States. The Ohio EPA estimates that over 40 million scrap tires in large dumps around the state, with perhaps another 60 million more in roadside dumps, rural lots and warehouses around the state.
Even those that were dumped in sanitary landfills created environmental problems. Sometimes landfilled tires work their way back to the surface, causing expensive damage to liners and liquid collection systems and compromising their ability to keep landfill contaminants from mixing with local groundwater and surface water. Like most states, Ohio has banned the landfill disposal of whole tires.
Scrap tires illegally dumped in abandoned buildings and on the landscape present even greater public and environmental health risks.
"The most obvious hazard associated with the uncontrolled disposal and accumulation of large amounts of tires outdoors is the potential for large fires that are extremely detrimental to the environment, " notes Kurt Reschner, a University of Nebraska-educated chemical engineer working in scrap tire recycling in Germany.
Fires in large tire piles are hard, if not impossible, to extinguish. Some have taken months to burn out, producing heavy smoke and toxic liquid run-off that can foul local groundwater and surface water. Air, water and soil pollution can actually be made worse if water or foam is used to put out the fire, so some have been consciously left to burn out.
This hazard became undeniable in Ohio shortly after August 21, 1999, when arsonists torched one of Ohio's largest tire piles — 26 million tires piled over 140 acres at the Kirby Tire Collection and Storage Facility in western Wyandot County.
The fire burned five days, sending up a black column of smoke that could be seen more than 60 miles away. Oil released from the burning tires ran into a nearby creek, killing thousands of fish in the Sandusky River system. State officials estimated that five million tires burned in the blaze. More than 250 firefighters from 21 fire departments battled the blaze, finally bringing it under control by dumping topsoil on it.
Even putting out the fire created environmental problems, according to the Ohio EPA. The 750 tons of topsoil dumped on the Kirby fire became contaminated with oils from the burning tires, according to an article in the July 11, 2003, issue of Solid Waste Report. Ohio is paying a clean-up firm $837, 000 to remove the soil and to treat contaminated water.
If some good can be said to have come from the Kirby fire, it moved the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (Ohio EPA) and the state legislature to accelerate efforts to clear out the state's illegal tire dumps.
Since 1996, the state legislature had been levying a fee of 50 cents on each tire sold in the state. Most of the money raised by the fee was spent by the Ohio EPA on inspections, regulatory enforcement and clean-up efforts at scrap tire dump sites. Another $1 million went to a Department of Development grant program that helped Ohio schools purchase running track pavement made from recycled tires.
A year and a half after the Kirby fire, Ohio's legislature doubled the fee. The $1 million-per-year grant program was transferred to the Division of Recycling and Litter Prevention for a program to help Ohio businesses conduct the research and purchase the equipment needed to integrate scrap tires into their production processes. The rest — now around $11 million a year — is focused on the clean-up process. The state's goal is to have all its major tire piles cleared out by 2010, when the fee expires. By then, the state also hopes to have end-use markets for every newly scrapped tire generated in Ohio.
As of the fall of 2003, the Kirby site was down to about 13 million of the tires, and it remains the largest scrap tire pile in Ohio by far. The next largest are estimated to contained 1.2 million tires each.
State officials believe it will take another three to five years to finish the Kirby clean-up, which has cost the state $14.1 milllion so far. Then they will turn their attention to some of the state's other large tire dumps.
The clean-up at Kirby was well underway when another health risk associated with discarded tires started making headlines in Ohio in 2002.
West Nile Virus is not the only mosquito-borne virus in Ohio, but it has proved to be one of the most deadly in living memory. Its rapid spread across the continent put new urgency on efforts to eliminate scrap tires as a breeding place for mosquitoes.
If the municipality come ahead to this project and investing the capital , it will gives good return in a very short span of time. If any services related to this issue is required it will be my pleasure to provide the financial as well as operational information. Fell free to contact me; e-mail: tawhid_009@hotmail.com
