The provincial government ships used car and truck tires to Quebec where they are burned.
Operators at the province’s last remaining paper mill is considering using tires as a source of fuel in its operations.
Here are two points to consider right off the top, taken from the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s web page on tire-derived fuels.
First of all, burning isn’t the optimum. It’s the fourth use of out a list of five:
EPA supports the highest and best practical use of scrap tires in accordance with the waste management hierarchy, in order of preference: reduce, reuse, recycle, waste-to-energy, and disposal in an appropriate facility.
Second of all, paper mills require tires that have a large amount of processing before they are used as fuel:
The main problem in using TDF in the paper industry is the need to use de-wired tires. The wires often clog the feed systems. Also, the mills sometimes sell the resulting ash to farmers who require the ash to be free of iron. De-wired TDF can cost up to 50 % more than regular TDF.
Let the discussion being.
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