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sk i Y M " k y :. e jr J NOWAIN Hecord photo by DAVID FINCH WAITING FOR A RIDE: Piles of used tires sit waiting to be Brannon Tire Co.on North Wilson Way in Stockton.Brannon sorted and shipped for disposal Monday in the back lot of Tire Co.spends$60,000 a year disposing of used tires. for rtir s F. ndin nevv� usese disposal with plastic, and the hottest thing waste yet, but the fire problem has Expensivep going for it is fenceposts, because it happened all over the United States" process awaits rubber never rots," said Jerry Brannon, head lWenty million to 30 million waste of Stockton's Brannon Tine. "I've been tires lie in legal and illegal piles in at the end of its road in the tire business 41 years, and it's California, according to Lanny Cla- the best thing I've seen from the vecilla, spokesman for the California byproducts." Integrated Waste Management Board, By Jeff Hood Then there are the 12 million used which oversees tire disposal in the Record Staff writer tires that are stockpiled in yards like state. When tires are retired, most don't the one that caught fire near Tracy on The board manages a fund created end up burning out of control or Friday, shredded and dumped in land- in 1989 that collects 25 cents for each being dumped on farmland to become fills alongside household trash, or dis- new tire sold, to develop ways to recy- homes for mosquitoes and other pests. carded illegally cle tires and enforce disposal and stor- Of the 30 million waste tires creat- Brannon's company spends $60,000 age regulations. ed eachear in California, 18 million a year to discard his customers' tires "Waste tires in California (are) a big are recycled or used as fuel. Some are legally, sending about six trailer loads problem," Clavecilla said. "We're trying used to fire cement kilns, some are a month to a recycling business near to develop markets for waste tires. ground into crumbs and added to Turlock. Each load costs him $800. There's a lot of use for recycled tires. asphalt, creating a longer-wearing road "You have to have a manifest so Some of the products include san- surface, and some are combined with you can prove where your tires went;' dals, playground surfaces and land- plastic to create artificial, rot-resistant said Brannon, whose company dispos- draping fill for areas needing fast lumber. es of about 50,000 tires annually. drainage. "You take the rubber and mix it "They aren't considered hazardous Please see TIRES,F3