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Wood constitutes a significant portion of the <br />commercial, industrial, and self -haul waste streams and <br />is relatively easy to separate from other materials at <br />disposal sites. The current market for scrap wood is as <br />fuel for industrial furnaces or co -generation facilities, <br />where it replaces virgin fuels. <br />The market for used tires is very limited and the <br />end use is for fuel. Oxford Tire in Modesto incinerates <br />whole tires and recovers the heat to generate <br />electricity. Royster Tire near Tracy shreds the tires and <br />sells the material as fuel to a cement plant. Tires are <br />being separated at two County solid waste facilities to <br />conserve landfill space, and transported to the Oxford <br />Tire plant until other uses for tires are developed. <br />Inert materials at landfills include some concrete <br />and asphalt which could be processed into gravel if <br />quantities increased enough to justify rental of the <br />necessary crushing equipment. Two area businesses have <br />crushers, and haulers with inerts are encouraged to take <br />advantage of these options rather than using the County <br />solid waste facilities. The crushed material is being <br />used for road base and other construction purposes. <br />Most of the above referenced materials are currently <br />being diverted in varying amounts, but will be removed <br />from the waste stream in greater quantities as programs <br />are established to achieve the requirements of the ACT. <br />C. Waste Which Cannot be Diverted: <br />The waste type 00other paper" includes disposable <br />diapers, paper towels, tissues, paper -plastic packaging, <br />waxed paper and contaminated paper. Currently there is <br />no market for this waste classification. The material <br />can be used as fuel in waste to energy plants or can be <br />Appendix 1 46 <br />