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INNOVATIONS IN THE SCRAP TIRE IND USTRY Your department's involvement in scrap Managed sites may take on the or waste tire storage begins with an under- characteristics of an unmanaged site. For standing of the industry. Like most busi- example, the auto dismantling industry, nesses, the scrap tire industry has its own auto wrecking yards, and pull-apart facili- terms and vocabulary. ties could, by definition, be a managed site. The conditions of these salvage yards Understanding the differences, for exam- vary considerably. Sites represented by ple, between managed and unmanaged the Northern California Dismantling sites will have a direct effect on your Association (about 900 members of 1,600 approach to a burning tire pile. licensed dismantlers) maintain a degree of orderliness. Unmanaged Sites However, others in the dismantling indus- Unmanaged sites are tire piles left on try store tires and salvageable metals property with or without the knowledge of together. In this case whole tires stored the owner. These sites may be hidden and on their rims along with fuel tanks, 55 unknown to enforcing agencies. In this gallon drums, vehicles, and pressurized case brush and vegetation grows up and cylinders create an explosion and injury through the tire pile adding a source of hazard to fire fighters. Many have no fuel capable of propagating a tire fire. aisles or separations, leaving little working There is no control for indigenous wildlife room for fire fighting crews. They also which inhabit these piles, adding to the allow weeds and vegetation to grow potential threat of disease. Fire depart- around the tire pile providing a ready ment access to these sites is limited, and source of ignition. In this case, the water supply is usually nonexistent. managed site poses as many challenges, and as many hazards, as an unmanaged Managed Sites site. Managed sites may also have some of Scrap-Vs-Waste these problems, but at least you know where the site is located. The managed Definitions differ between "scrap" and sites, typically, represent the scrap tire "waste" with industry and enforcement recycling industry. Tires moved around agencies. The industry uses the term sites, disturbing potential habitats, may scrap tires when discussing their product, reduce health problems. However this while most regulations are written for advantage also increases the potential fire waste tires. The difference is mostly risks with people and machinery operating semantic. The term "scrap" infers a around the tire pile. reusable after market commodity. To the industry "waste" suggest a non-reusable product. 5