On Mar 14, 10:04 pm, wrote:
On 14 Mar 2007 00:45:18 -0700, "riverman" wrote:





On Mar 14, 12:16 pm, wrote:
There are a fair amount of knowledgeable (and, well, imaginative) folks
here, and I'm looking for help.

A tire recycler in Gulfport. MS got Katrina'ed, and there are tires out
the wazoo (that's a whole bunch of tires) on his property. Long story
short is that there are tires, a problem with them, and I figured good
ol' ROFF is as good a place as any to ask if anyone has any ideas,
contacts, wants to Google beyond what we've done, or ???

And for the record, I have no interest in the problem directly beyond
that as a concerned citizen. And to go even further, if someone knows
something that results in money being made, and I somehow wind up being
able to direct any of it, it goes to charity.

Thanks in advance, and all ideas welcome,
R

Google 'Crumb rubber' to find all sorts of businesses that consume
ground up tires.

Thanks, but oops...maybe I should be more specific, or at least as
specific as the information I have.

The "common" uses are known - this was a tire recycling facility. What
happened, generally and as I understand it, is that the equipment was
Katrina'ed, but the tires weren't. The owner apparently thought
insurance would replace/repair the equipment, and on that basis, he kept
accepting tires after the storm (there were tires everywhere, plus cars
being wrecked out). When the pile got too high, the city shut him down
and yanked his recycling permit. There are now some 400-500,000 tires
at the site, his insurance company has not ponied up, and it's become a
local issue. Apparently, there's no effective way to move them to
another (distant) area, and given the on-coming fire and mosquito
seasons, it's an obvious concern. There was a company that had talked
about coming in, but apparently, that fell apart.

TC,
R


Ahh, got it. You're really looking to see if anyone knows of any
recyclers who are interested in obtaining a mountain of used tires.
Hmm....that might be a challenge. Like you said, transporting them
cost-effectively would be the problem.

Considering that much is getting rebuilt there and (I assume) little
is being currently exported, possibly something could be negotiated
with a shipping company that brings things in to bring out some tires
in each ship as ballast or something. Or as a freebie to fill an empty
hold.

OTOH, I bet FEMA could build some dikes out of them. Or if some
inventive soul could come up with an effective way to build dikes out
of used tires, they'd make a fortune.

--riverman