Rubber and tire companies
Tire recycling idea. Tire companies and governments would find value in this.
Tire companies will want to support this because it would create a steady need for used tires. Presently used tires are a headache for tire retailers and is an issue threatening the environment.
Oil Companies
Oil drilling companies. And governments would find value in this.
When oil is pumped from the ground, a hole is created deep in the earth. At present, (I believe) some sort of water or salt water is used to fill those holes. I believe water has the added benefit of making whatever remaining oil in empty wells rise to the top. Oil floats on water. Old tires, which have been pulverized, might be able to be pumped in to these wells along with or instead of the water. If this were possible, there would be many oil wells all over the world where these ground up tires could be put. That would reduce surface landfills.
Another possibility might be to put decomposable materials in some wells where the decomposition of the materials might create methane gases and other combustible or useful gasses. For example, this might work in old gas wells and it may be simple to collect and make use of the resultant gasses. Perhaps the equipment used to get the original gasses from the wells would also easily process the newly created gasses. If this can be done without putting harmful emissions into the atmosphere, this might be very beneficial to mankind in several ways. It would create a use for garbage and trash and reduce the need for landfills. Well organized and well operated the costs could be reasonable. The expense used by the government to get rid of trash can contribute to the creation of a marketable product the gasses produced from the pulverized decomposing waste buried deep in the earths crust.
Governments
Governments can benefit. Advanced societies have the problem and concern of Used Tires. Third world countries have needs for sustained sources of income for their economies. The more we are able to share the wealth in reasonable ways and create work for poor persons promotes stable governments and world peace. Governments can help this effort.
United Nations:
Foreign countries, the United Nations, and all those seeking world peace would find this valuable.
This can create a sustained source of work and income for poor persons in the poorest economies. It can be a stepping-stone to help those with no skills and no education to gain income, which can help sustain local economies, which can in turn create conditions where those employed, and others benefiting from that employment can become educated in marketable skills in other areas. One family can have this work for twenty years while they and their children are educated in others skills and trades, then this work can be given to others to help them. One community in many countries can have this boost to their economy while they develop other ways to go on. Then this can be given to another community.
Must investigate the tire recycling business and the tire shredding business and see how it is being done now and how to create this low-tech industry. Must learn if shredded tire particles pose a threat to the environment if they were to be mixed with soils. How mixing them with soils could effect the environment. Is there a design a size or a shape, which would make these particles the most useful or beneficial? Would pulverized particles sink if put in oil or gas wells or would they float on top of existing oils.
Must develop a human energy powered – solar powered air water powered tire deconstruction machine and process which requires an amount of human involvement. It must be safe for Humans operating it and be a job that a person can do repeatedly for long periods. The machines must spin tires of various sizes and shred or grind the tire materials into coarse or fine particles. Must be able to tell when steel belts are reached or be seen by the operator and allow human to stop the spinning, cut the steel or other belts and remove them. Then according to what would be the best overall next step either continue to shred and grind the tire or have another step. Human separates the results in to groups steel, rubber etcetera and removes the bead form the tire. Need to create process for storing and moving the resulting materials to their future use. Some might be headed towards some sort of bagging into units for sale in gardening supply centers around the world. Others might be headed towards a complete separation of the steel from any rubber and a recycling of the steel by melting. Others might be headed towards being used as landfill if in this form, the use in landfill has value if the materials will not be known to rise to the top of the landfill. Tires rise to the top of landfills but I do not know if this is something inherent in their materials or just the fact that they are in the form of ‘life preservers’ and their shape causes this tendency for them to rise.
Some possible uses.
1. Bedding for animals, horses, cows, instead of hay or straw or wood shavings this coarse ground tire material may be safe and beneficial to create a surface for animals. It may be more healthy for them to stand on this rather than cement. It may not be good for certain animals like pigs depending on if they would tend to eat it. Of coarse in the course of using it studies must be made and maintained to determine if animals might eat it and if they did how harmful it might be to the animals or the environment. Would the chemicals be stable and unlikely to be effected by biological processes or chemical processes from entering our environment.
2. Additive to soils to make them more or less permeable. It may be that this material mixed in certain types of soil might help the soil be more useful agriculturally, of course it must be determined if any chemicals in the materials would mix with the biological process and contaminate anything.
3. As a loose coating for roads or to be mixed with soils on dirt roads. It may help reduce dust. It may make them safer.
4. The particles melted and sprayed on or mixed into tar and macadam road surfaces.
5. May be bagged and sold as a gardening supply if it can be shown to help improve soils or be a safe covering for flower beds or as a substitute for peat or other ornamental garden purposes.
6. Pulverized and used to fill old empty oil and gas wells. These wells are currently filled with water or salt water (I believe) if that is the case, Oil companies may want to consider it a viable and responsible act on their part as citizens of the world to buy this material and pump it into the empty wells. This would make an environmentally safe way to get rid of the excess used tire material. It would create a sustained demand for this product. The monies used to buy this product would sustain the employment of the individuals in many third world countries. This would have beneficial impacts on the world, increase the demand for oil, and ultimately benefit the oil industry. Given the nature of business today and the high price of Oil this may be a responsible way for Oil companies to return some of their profits to the world in a way that will help everyone. If Oil companies and the Oil industry do not voluntarily respond to this concept. Then if the concept is found to be a viable and reasonable means to get rid of used tires which there are hundreds of millions of them being created each year, then our governments and our society can demand this as a good way to solve a problem which is the result of their industry. After all, they can only sell gasoline if there are tires in existence. Therefore, they benefit from the existence of tires and should help pay for and contribute to being sure old tires do not pollute our environment.
7. The development and creation of this ‘new industry’ can be intentionally joined with desires to help the poorest local economies get low-tech sustained employment and income. This can be orchestrated in such a way as to help many individuals and economies in poverty rise out of poverty. Doing it this way would also help get rid of used tires in the most environmentally friendly and humane way. It can help provide stability to the world and create the sort of situation that establishes and maintains interdependence between nations and world peace. Fundamentally, people need to be able to live, work and survive. We can do this in a comprehensive way to make sure everyone involved gets needs and desires met.
Used as a way to help individual poor person in poor economies get a step up in life. We would determine how many individual tire deconstruction units necessary are needed to get rid of the world’s future used tires. Select communities and countries where this industry would have benefits. Places where the benefits of having this work for twenty years could raise them up. Places that would use this income to develop more advanced industry. Then this work can be moved on to other less developed countries and communities. Then establish small businesses and individual self-employed entities through out those communities. A small business model for this work might employ three managers and up to two dozen laboring employees. They would be paid by piecework and it would be determined in each case the amount of pay necessary in that economy to allow the laborers to have a good standard of living in that community. The employed individuals and the countries and communities would have it clearly explained to them that they must use the time they have this income to develop skills which would allow them to have sustained income from doing something else. In some cases, they might be putting their children through school so the children can have better incomes. The work will be for about twenty years during which time the employees must save and plan for their futures. Either then others in the economy would get those jobs or other communities would get the work. The idea is to use this commodity to help build up economies and the abilities of communities to develop sustained economies. This activity would give the economies a gentle boost. How this can best be accomplished can be determined and adjusted. In each case it will be possible for individual families and laborers to gain ownership of their own machines and make the materials at their own pace and ability. Of course there is a need to have supply lines of old tires. An economical way of transporting must be developed to get them to and from the laborers. The places these used tires would come from and where the resulting materials would go to will have a great deal to do with where these work opportunities can and will be established.
The success of this may greatly be determined by the intent of the Oil companies and other large and powerful entities to be pure in their desire to use this activity to improve world conditions and promote world peace.
1. Collecting of Used Tires. In the US today many persons must pay to get rid of tires. That in itself can be an incentive top help this tire recycling idea because the monies paid to get rid of the tires can provide the funds to sustain some of this process. If there a clear channel can be established, which would take used tires and bring them to useful purposes and efficiently get rid of the rest in an environmentally sound way the money spent to get rid of our used tires could be well spent.
2. Each tire must go in to a tractor trailer at the tire retailers or waste location. The tractor-trailer when loaded would be trucked to a rail yard or a shipping dock. These would be eventually brought to holding yards at waterside. An agreement with the shipping industry that these containers would take least priority and be use up less than full capacity in the shipping lanes between where they are coming from to where they would go. When a vessel has unused capacity from where the tires are, to the country they will be deconstructed in it can take as many of these containers as it has room for. However, it will be paid far less for transporting these units than it is paid for other units. Enough to cover the costs of moving them on and off the ship, enough to keep them at full capacity and cover a fair part of fuel and overhead consumed by their being moved. This should provide an adequate steady supply of used tires to those who will process them at a low cost.
3. Time and labor studies to determine how mush an individual laborer would need to deconstruct a tire. This would help to determine in each local market what should be paid per tire for its deconstruction. The cost of getting the tire to and from the local market to its final use as a recycled material must be covered. The attempt would be made in each location to create small businesses and self-employed individuals. The small businesses might have three managerial positions and twelve to twenty five laborers or individual self-employed subcontractors. The amount of money paid for unit work should be equal to a fair wage necessary to sustain oneself and advance ones future in that economy.
4. A machine and a process needs to be established that can be used by one person to de-construct a tire into its basic parts and collect the separate materials and make them available for a future use.
a. A unit that can be powered by humans turning a wheel or a tread which spins the tire. It also must be able to operated by solar power, air supplied power or water supplied power. It should be able to operate as well if connected to the local electric grids or not. It needs to work if there is power on or off.
i. It is most likely the desire to promote a solar powered electric unit but it needs to be able to work even if it has to be spun by hand, by humans turning a crank and gears for leverage and speed or on the other hand, a human powered generator. Whatever is most practical and leaves the operator the most able to be independent of outside resources must be the way. This way the least developed communities can benefit as well as the more advanced ones.
b. The materials produced from this work will need to be packaged in various ways depending on their use. Some may need to be out into 30-pound bags or other size bags for retail sale at garden centers, others may need to be stored bulk. Every effort will be made to process the bulk materials as a fluid solid. It can be pulverized into small particles if they can be vacuumed into tanker trucks, brought to harbors, and pumped into tankers. If this is feasible and practical it is headed for being pumped into old oil wells. To the extent possible we want to allow all labor intense activities take place at this local level making more work for able bodied humans with a fair compensation at the lowest global cost. It must try to maintain a sustained low price so getting rid of the waste in this way is a viable sustained activity.
c. The machines would spin a tire and grind or grate the tread down to the metal belts then a human operator would cut and remove the belts, and separate then materials into type and intended future use.
i. All necessary safety precautions must be established as well as information to be sure there are no long-term health risks that might be created by this work. Gloves, breathing masks, and other precautions must be required and insisted on for those who want to continue to have the work and the income.
ii. The entire process must be humane and tend toward the goal of stability and the development of wealth by those employed.
d. If patents and licenses can be gotten for the process or the individual invention s that may be necessary to accomplish this work then good.
e. However, it is clear that a willingness by the Oil industry and the Tire and Rubber industry and by Government officials and either foundations or wealthy individuals to provide funds to create and establish this ‘new industry’ is necessary for this to succeed. If the large and powerful entities with the resources to make this work are not willing to co-operate and make long-term commitments this cannot work.
i. Those setting up and instigating the process must use safety and control measures to prevent theft and abuse or misuse along the way.
f. Only many wealthy persons agreeing that they are willing to buy the resulting materials at a price that will sustain the process will make this feasible. There is always possible to find new and more important uses of this material. That could establish the substances produced as a new commodity. That would be well and good. Everyone involved would be glad that happened. It is the quintessential wish of anyone who tries to solve environmental problems by creating uses for things that are an undesirable pollutant.
The mission here is to take old tires, create the logistics to economically get them to small communities in third world countries where individuals would be paid to deconstruct them and turn them into materials for which there is a new demand created. Newly created uses that might make a world market on the one hand. On the other hand, use the left over materials to fill used up oil and gas wells. This material being bought by the oil industry and tire industry at a price to sustain the work and the cost of getting it into the ground a fair cost of good Corporate world citizenship. In other words we burry the tires deep in the earth where they are safely stored and we are safe from them.
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