Cost Benefit Analysis and Energy Consumption of
Scrap Tire Management Options
Jorge Sousa, Ph.D.
Recipav, R. Luis de Camones, n 1.2070-101 Cartaxo, Portugal
George Way, P.E.
Arizona Department of Transportation, 1221 N. 21st Avenue, Phoenix, AZ 85009
Douglas D. Carlson*
Rubber Pavements Association, 1801 S. Jentilly Lane Suite A-2, Tempe, AZ 85281
ABSTRACT
Scrap tires have been recognized as one of the most difficult waste products to manage in
a modern society. They are not difficult individually, but are difficult collectively. Scrap
tires are generated in industrialized societies at an annual rate equal to the human
population which discards them, one scrap tire per person per year. The lack of adequate
disposal methods and management systems in years past had lead to wide spread,
cumbersome collection of scrap tires in unmanaged or poorly managed waste tire piles.
Problems associated with waste tire piles typically are: threat of fire......

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