Civil Engineering

Not Specific to any State

Sunthonpagasit, N. and Hickman, L. “Manufacturing and utilizing crumb rubber from scrap tires".

Bernal, A., Salgado, R., Swan, R.H., Jr., and Lovell, C. (1997), “Interaction Between Tire Shreds, Rubber-Sand, and Geosynthetics,” Geosynthetics International, Vol. 4, No. 6, pp. 623-643. 

Lee, K. (2003) “Lightly cemented scrap tire chips as LGM for construction of earth structures.”

“Victory laps: leaders are emerging in the quest to turn scrap tires into marketable secondary commodities.” (2004) Recycling Today.

Reddy, K. R. and Marella, A. “Properties of different size scrap tire shreds: Implications on using as drainage material in landfill cover systems.”

Rowe, K. R. and Mcisaac, R. (2005) “Clogging of tire shreds and gravel permeated with landfill leachate.” Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering. Vol. 131, No. 6, p. 682-693.

Poole, S. L. (1998) “Scrap and shredded tire fires.” U.S. Fire Administration.

Tyre Space

TYRE_SPACE© Elastic Building Frames Applied in Urban and Rural Environments

California

2003 Annual Report to the Legislature and the California Integrated Waste Management Board Senate Bill 876 Waste and Used Tires

Hannon, J.B., and Forsyth, R.A. (1973), "Fill Stabilization Using Non-Biodegradable Waste Products - Phase I," Report No. CA-DOT-TL-2124-1-72-25, Transportation Laboratory, California Department of Transportation, Sacramento, CA, August.

Humphrey, D. N.  “Tire Derived Aggregate – A New Road Building Material.”

Tire Derived Aggregate.

Tires Used as Lightweight Fill in California Interchange Project.

GeoSyntec Consultants (1998), “Tire shreds as final cover foundation layer material at municipal solid waste landfils,” prepared for the California Integrated Waste Management Board, Sacramento, CA.

GeoSyntec Consultants, (1998) “Tire shreds as leachate drainage material at municipal solid waste landfills.” prepared for the California Integrated Waste Management Board, Sacramento, CA.

GeoSyntec Consultants, (1998) “Tire shreds as operations layer material at municipal solid waste landfills.” prepared for the California Integrated Waste Management Board, Sacramento, CA.

Colorado

Zornberg, J. G., Christopher, B. R., and Oosterbaan, M. D. (2006) “Tire bales in highway applications.” Transportation Research Digest, January.

Illinois

“Funding Innovative Uses for Scrap Tires.” BioCycle.

Old tires provide environmentally friendly cover

Shredded tires a cheap, environmentally friendly way to cover landfills

Indiana

Lovell, C. W. (1996) “Laboratory study on the use of tire shreds and rubber sand in backfills and reinforced soil applications.”

Salgado, R., Yoon, S., and Siddiki, N. Z. “Construction of Tire Shreds Test Embankment.” Indiana DOT.

Iowa

“Scrap Tire Workshop: Construction applications for landfills.” (2005) Barker Lemar Engineering Consultants, Iowa Department of Natural Resources.

Kansas

Hossain, M., et. al. (1996) “A Study of Tire Chips as Road Construction Material.” Semisequicentennial Transportation Conference Proceedings, Iowa State University.

Kentucky

“Liner and drainage layer protection: Tire chips.” (2000) Kentucky Division of Waste Management. 

“Tire chip use in landfills and other civil engineering applications.” (1999) Kentucky Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Cabinet, DEP, Division of Waste Management

Maine

Eaton, R. A., Roberts, R. J., and Humphrey, D. N. (1994) “Gravel Road Test Sections Insulated with Scrap Tire Chips: Construction and the First Year's Results.”

Humphrey, D. N.  “Tire Derived Aggregate – A New Road Building Material.”

Humphrey, D. N. “Field study of water quality effects of tire shreds placed below the water table.”

Humphrey, D. N., Dunn, P. A., and Merfeld, P. S. (2000) “Tire Shreds Save Money for Maine.”

Massachusetts

Stephens Associates Consulting Engineers, LLC Receives ACEC/MA Engineering Excellence Award.

Sengupta, S. and Miller, H. J. (1999) “Preliminary investigation of tire shreds for use in residential subsurface leaching field systems.” Chelsea Center for Recycling and Economic Development.

Liu, H.S., Mead, J.L., and Stacer, R.G. (1998), “Environmental Impacts of Recycled Rubber in Light Fill Applications,” Department of Plastics Engineering, University of Massachusetts at Lowell, Lowell, MA, 30 p.

Minnesota

Korte, R.A. (1988), “Minnesota’s Answer to the Scrap Tire Disposal Problem,” Public Works, Vol. 119, No. 12, pp. 64-65. 

Tirechips.com Application examples.

Engstrom, G. M. and Lamb, R. (1994) “Using shredded waste tires as a lightweight fill material for road subgrades.” Minnesota DOT.

“Professor’s Data Supports Use of Tire Shreds in Road Construction.” Scrap Tire News.

“Tire chips used to repair sunken street.” Scrap Tire News.

Nebraska

“Recycling tires: Tire chip utilization for retaining wall backfill.” Nebraska State Recycling Association.

New Jersey

Scrap Tire Management in New Jersey

“Tire Chips:  A Growing Trend as Aggregate.” (2004)

New York

“Funding Innovative Uses for Scrap Tires.” BioCycle.

Greene, M. J. “Room for a view: Treading lightly in New York.”

Messinger, B. “Madison County to use scrap tires.”

Suzanne, D. (1998) “State to test tire shreds in highway construction.” CNY Business Journal. 

Phaneuf, R. and Glander, C. (2003) “Using tire chips in landfill leachate collection and removal systems.”

Zicari, L. (2006) “Use of tire derived aggregate in septic systems.”

“Beneficial Use of Tire Shreds as Lightweight Fill.” (2001) NEWMOA Fact Sheet

Various New York projects

Adirondack International Speedway, Lewis County, crash absorber racetrack barrier walls (2000’s)

Albany County, gas collection lines (current)

Aquaterra Systems, Waren County, private forest road (2004)

Arthritis Foundation, Albany, crash absorber, temporary racetrack barrier walls (2000’s)

Ava, Oneida County, leachate collection (current)

BCD Tire Chip Manu., Inc., Schenectady County, indoor-outdoor riding area drainage (2003)

Casings, Inc., Catskill, Greene County, parking lot drainage (1990’s)

Chautauqua County, lightweight tire bales, drainage (2001-2004)

Chestertown Conservation Club, Warren County, berm and backstop at shooting range, (1990’s)

Clinton County, leachate collection system (current)

DANC, Jefferson County, landfill gas system (current)

Dave Osbom’s Family Fun Park, Catskill, Greene County, private driveway (1990)

Delaware County, CR-20 near Broome Co. border, frost-heave solution (2000)

Delaware County, stormwater management structure lining (2004)

Fort Drum, Jefferson County, earthen wall for house to train army personel (1990’s)

Hakes C&D, Steuben County, leachate collection (current)

High Acres, Monroe County, leachate collection (current)

I-87, near Plattsburgh, overpass (2004-5)

I-87, north of Albany between exits 15 & 16, traffic cross-over (2006)

Madison County, leachate collection system (2001)

Marina at Lighthouse Point, Rouses Point, Clinton County, breakwater (1990’s)

Mill Seat, Monroe County, leachate collection (current)

Modern Tire Recycling, Lewiston, Niagara County, natural aggregate replacement (1999)

Modern, Niagara County, leachate collection system (1996-present)

National Fuel Supply Corp., Hamburg, Erie County, pipeline bedding (1990’s)

NYS Office of General Services, Erie County, backfill material (1990’s)

NYS Thruway Authority, between interchanges 53 & 54, near Buffalo, embankment (2002)

NYSDOT, Rte. 17 (now I-86) Exit 79, near Binghamton, embankment (1999)

Private Residence, Saugerties, Ulster County, private driveway (1990’s)

Private Residence, Schenectady County, earthen landscape retaining wall (2005)

Private Residence, Tompkins County, earthen walls for house (1990’s)

Private Residence, Ulster County, foundation backfill (2000’s)

Private Residence, Ulster County, foundation backfill (2005)

Ridge Runners Gun Club, Kingston, Ulster County, gun range backstop (1990’s)

Sara Spa Rod & Gun Club, Saratoga County, backstop at shooting range (2006)

Seneca Meadows, Seneca County, leachate collection liner (1997-present)

South Stream Enterprises, Fulton County, driveway/parking lot base (2000’s)

SR-240X, Cattaraugus County, fill behind bridge approaches (2006)

The Tire Shredder, Schoharie County, foundation backfill (1990’s)

Tire Recycling Inc., Saugerties, Ulster County, private parking lot (1990’s)

Town of Brookshaven, Suffolk County, Long Island, landfill roads & berm construction (1990’s-present)

Town of Colonie, Albany County, landfill roads, gas collection lines (1990’s-present)

Town of Shawangunk, Wallkill, Ulster County, erosion control mat for riprap substitute (1990’s)

Town of Shawangunk, Wallkill, Ulster County, retaining wall backfill at transfer station (1990’s)

Town of Webb, Old Forge, Herkimer County, erosion control at snowmobile trail culvert crossings (1990’s)

Washington County, lightweight tire bales, drainage (2002)

North Carolina

Grimes, B. H., Steinbeck, S., and Amoozegar, A. “Analysis of Tire Chips as a Substitute for Stone Aggregate in Nitrification Trenches of Onsite Septic Systems: Status and Notes on the Comparative Macrobiology of Tire Chip Versus Stone Aggregate Trenches.”

“Funding Innovative Uses for Scrap Tires.” BioCycle.

Ohio

“More than $1 million in grants awarded to strengthen Ohio’s scrap tire recycling efforts.” (2006) Ohio Department of Natural Resources.

Boyer, M. (2002) “Landfill caps, power plant fuel and rethinking pollution aid in recycling.” Cincinnati Enquirer.

Higgins, A.J., Suhr, J.L., Rahman, M.S., Singley, M.E., and Rajput, V.S. (1987), “Shredded Rubber Tires as a Bulking Agent for Composting Sewage Sludge,” Report No. EPA/600/S2-87/026, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Water Engineering Research Laboratory, Cincinnati, OH.

Kaup-Fett, A., Barry, R., and Richmond, L. “Tire-derived chips as a replacement media for gravel aggregate in septic system leaching lines.”

Oklahoma

Nairn, R. W. (2004) “Effectiveness of tire mattresses used for erosion control and stream bank stabilization.”

South Carolina

Pierce, C. E. and Blackwell, M. C. “Potential of scrap tire rubber as lightweight aggregate in flowable fill.

Paving Has Begun

Three Demonstration Projects Successfully Completed

Texas

“Funding Innovative Uses for Scrap Tires.” BioCycle.

Zornberg, J. G. and LaRocque, C. J. (2006) “Engineering Properties of Tire Bales for Soil Repairs and Embankment Construction.” Center for Transportation Research, The University of Texas at Austin. 

Canup, D.H. (1995), “Texas Landfill Uses Old Tires to Collect Leachate,” World Wastes, Sept., pp. 13-14.

Virginia

Various Virginia projects

Hoppe, E. J. and Mullen, W. G. (2004) “Final report: Field study of a shredded-tire embankment in Virginia.”

Washington

Baker, T. E., et. al. (2003) “Evaluation of the use of scrap tires in transportation related applications in the State of Washington.” Washington State DOT.

Baker, T. E., et. al. (2003) “Evaluation of the Use of Scrap Tires in Transportation Related Applications in the State of Washington.”

Wisconsin

Benson, C.H. (1995), “Using Shredded Scrap Tires in Civil and Environmental Construction,” Resource Recycling, Vol. 14, No. 10, Oct.

Abichou, T., et. al. (2004) “Behavior of a soil-tire shreds backfill for modular block-wall.” Recycled Materials in Geotechnics.

Wyoming

Civil Engineers Putting Waste Tires to Good Use While Supporting Wyoming Economic Development.

International

Hylands, K. N. and Sulman, V. (2003) “Civil engineering applications tyres.” (UK)

The Use of Post-Consumer Tyres as Aggregate (UK)

Ghani, A.N.A. (2003). Shredded Scrap Tire Based Lightweight Geomaterial for Civil Engineering Works. Japan: JICA.

Mackenzie, C. and Saarenketo, T. (2003) “The B871 Tyre Bale Project: The use of recycled tyre bales in a lightweight road embankment over peat.” Roadscanners. (UK)

Town of Craik Testimonial (Canada)

Town of Norquay Testimonial (Canada)

Village of Kelliher Testimonial (Canada)

Village of McLean Testimonial (Canada)

Edeskar, T. (2004) “Technical and Environmental Properties of Tyre Shreds Focusing on Ground Engineering Applications.”  (Sweden)

Bond, D. (2005) “Technical and cost benefits of recycled and secondary aggregates: Supply chain case studies (infrastructure).” Waste & Resources Action Programme. (UK)