If you can't make it to the show, you can participate in a live
interactive presentation of the talk to be broadcast over the
Internet on Sept. 29 at 2 p.m. Eastern. To sign
up, send an email to
[email protected].
Also, Pittsburgh-based Liberty Tire Recycling will highlight its
tire collection and recycling services as it engages ITEC
attendees and other exhibitors throughout the event.
"Municipalities, trucking companies, automotive service stations
and other businesses need a reliable partner that will collect
and properly recycle their scrap tires," says CEO Jeffrey
Kendall, noting that the company has "the largest network of
tire recycling facilities in North America, making us a one-
stop, coast-to-coast tire collection service."
Each year the firm collects 110 million-plus tires from a vast
lineup of customers at more than 60,000 locations. The company
maintains a network of door-to-door reclamation services with
processing plants at strategic locations throughout North
America, he explains.
Once they are collected, the tires are recycled and transformed
into eco-friendly products that include crumb rubber for
synthetic athletic fields; industrial feedstock for molded
products; additive for rubberized asphalt; tire-derived fuel for
industrial kilns, mills and power plants; and rubber mulch for
landscaping and playgrounds, according to Kendall.
Looking ahead, Liberty's vice president of sales and marketing,
Mike Wezel, will be "debunking myths about crumb rubber" at the
Sept. 30-Oct. 2 Tire Industry Association (TIA) Environmental
Symposium in Ocean City, Md.
He'll also cover scientific, performance and environmental facts
about the material.
In a session entitled "Separating Myths from Facts Concerning
the Use of Recycled Rubber Products," Wezel will discuss "how
environmental activists and others continue to perpetuate myths
and misconceptions concerning the use of recycled rubber in
various rubber-based products, and how industry advocacy groups,
associations and leading tire recycling companies are launching
proactive campaigns to bring the facts to the forefront."
PAGE 2Specifically, he'll point out that "study after study has
concluded that the use of crumb rubber in products such as
synthetic turf or playground surfaces poses no health or
environmental risk."
"There are many myths and outright distortions out there
concerning the use of crumb rubber," reports Dick Gust, co-chair
of the TIA Environmental Advisory Council (EAC). "Yet this
product has been studied thoroughly and has been declared safe.
If you want to not only learn the truth about this product, but
see how it might be beneficial, you need to be at the TIA
Environmental Symposium."
"TIA is a leader in disseminating facts and debunking myths
about the tire industry, so our Environmental Symposium is a
logical place for an expert like Mike to give the facts about
crumb rubber," notes TIA Executive Vice President Roy
Littlefield.
For more information,
www.itec-tireshow.com.
