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••4 L <br /> -t-_ <br /> CAPE <br /> = _ - <br /> _ CAPE COD PLANNING AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION <br /> - I <br /> I ST DISTRICT COURT ! OUSE, B�4RN TABLIEw M�4 HUSE T02630 <br /> - - ---- =- TELEPHONE: 617-362-2511 <br /> December 10,o 1979 <br /> 1 <br /> I I <br /> To: Solid Waste Advisory Committee Members <br /> * r <br /> FROM: David A. Berry, .Program Coordinator <br /> r <br /> RE: Regional Tire Collection <br /> 1 <br /> 1 want to first thank all of you for your enthusiastic attendance at our <br /> Decer ber 6 meeting. Your involvement. and positive ideas rake any job most <br /> rewarding. <br /> Fire disposal is a problem of some magnitude. Here on the Cape, five towns <br /> forbid tine disposal at the town lanHill. Sylvia Daniels' August paper on <br /> - regional tire collection indicates that the problem of tire disposal at the <br /> other ten town landfills in not serious. However, the present indication from <br /> these ten towns is that the problem is, in reality, quite serious. Dennis <br /> asserts, for example, that it buries, not 0-30 tires per~ .month, but 400-500 <br /> per monthl Given the national average of one tire generated per person per <br /> year, and the Cape's year-round population of about 130,000, tire generation <br /> 4 <br /> bene amounts to 130,000 tires per year. Even if only 33% of these tires is <br /> non-recappable, 43,332 tires per year must be disposed of on Cape Cod. � <br /> This figure is probably low because the expanded summer population has not <br /> been considered.' Generation for this source is probably one--quarter tire <br /> - I <br /> per person per year, or an additional 21 ,273 non-recappable tires per year. <br /> i <br /> Given the seriousness of the problem then, rt is only fitting that the Cape, <br /> through the Committee, attempt to solve this problem at the regional level . <br /> Past research by Sylvia revealed that a company in New Hampshire, Ecological <br /> Energy Corporation (EEC) , <br /> -cycles unxecappable tires in n, en ironmentally sound manner. EEC turns the <br /> tires into pellets for mixture with coal to be burned as fuel. The pellets <br /> are sold to utility companies. If the Cape's tire problem could be solved <br /> ut i l i ire g EEC 'o some other similar firm or technique, e could rest assured <br /> that the problem is truly solved, and is not merely being transported to off- <br /> Cape back roads or landfills. <br /> For the above -reasons, I ask that you present the facts to your toi n, along <br /> -with the following motion. As adopted unanimously by the Committee, t h <br /> motion reads <br />