Rolling tires into rubber

Journal Article · Sun Jun 01 04:00:00 EDT 1997 · Waste Age

OSTI ID:495419

Malloy, M G

For Envirotire (Lillington, North Carolina), producing quality crumb rubber this summer is all in a night`s work. The tire recycling facility has operated in Lillington, which is about an hour south of Raleigh, North Carolina, for about a year and a half, since October 1995. In the summer, the plant runs at night to save money in electricity costs by operating during off-peak hours; in the winter, daytime hours also can be off-peak. In contrast to the cryogenic systems used elsewhere to recycle tires, Envirotire`s system works on mechanical principles. Before the tires are even shredded, a worker cuts the white-walls out of the tires manually, so the white does not contaminate the black end-product. A worker places the tires manually on a conveyor, which feed them up to an initial shredder that sections them quickly into pieces. While the tires are on the conveyor, dividing strips on the conveyor mark off a place for each tire. The system takes nine new tires per minute.

• OSTI ID: 495419
• Journal Information: Waste Age, Journal Name: Waste Age Journal Issue: 6 Vol. 28; ISSN WAGEAE; ISSN 0043-1001
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION
ENERGY CONSERVATION
NORTH CAROLINA
RECYCLING
RESOURCE RECOVERY FACILITIES
RUBBERS
TIRES
WASTE MANAGEMENT
WASTE PRODUCT UTILIZATION