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ERAtech begins cleanup.


ERAtech, based in Dayton, Ohio Dayton is a city in southwestern Ohio, United States. It is the county seat and largest city of Montgomery County. As of the 2005 census estimate, the population of Dayton was 158,873. , has begun reprocessing Reprocessing may refer to:
  • Nuclear reprocessing
  • Recycling
 and removing 8,000 tons of shredded tires, or approximately 800,000 tire equivalents, from the old American Tire Recyclers Inc. site in San Antonio. The cleanup is scheduled to take approximately 120 days, according to a press release from EraTech.

The company is screening and then re-shredding the chipped tires to the proper size for recycling and use as an alternative fuel at the TXI TXI Transmit Immediate
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 cement plant in Hunter, Texas. With permits from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality The Texas Commission for Environmental Quality is the environmental agency for the U.S. state of Texas. External links
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, ERAtech will sort the tire chips by size using an on-site mobile screen. Oversize o·ver·size  
n.
1. A size that is larger than usual.

2. An oversize article or object.

adj. o·ver·size also o·ver·sized
Larger in size than usual or necessary.

Adj. 1.
 pieces will be shredded on site, while undersize pieces will be set aside for use as a crumb rubber feedstock. All product that is a nominal 1.5 inches or less will be used as a tire-derived fuel.

"We anticipate to have this project completed by mid-summer," Mike Linton, ERAtech's president, says. "With the issues that surround tire piles, such as fire, we are pushing to clean up this area to remove these potential problems from the community while having the tire chips beneficially reused."
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Title Annotation:Tires
Publication:Recycling Today
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Aug 1, 2004
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