MINNESOTA SCRAP TIRE BRIEFING SHEET

STATE REGULATIONS
Scrap tire law passed in 1985 requires a $4.00 tax on vehicle title transfers. This fee generates about $4 billion/year in revenue to fund a well-defined stockpile cleanup program and grant/loan program for companies recycling, reusing, or processing tires. On December 31, 1996 this program will end. Aspects of Minnesota's Waste Tire Management Program included:

· bans tires from landfills;
· requires tire retailers to accept as many waste tires from a customer as sold to that customer;
· allows tire retailers to charge a disposal fee;
· permits transporters and storage facilities;
· requires retail tire vendors use licensed haulers; and
· requires transporter identification and permits for processing/storage facilities.

Minnesota reports the following progress in managing the state's scrap tires: Transporter identification requirements and enforcement policies have been established and implemented.

By the end of 1996, virtually all of Minnesota's stock piled scrap tires will have been abated.

Limits citing of waste tire storage sites to industrial use properties only.

MAJOR MARKETS
A large percentage, about 80% of Minnesota's scrap tires are processed into TDF. Processed tires have also been civil engineering applications, in particular as light weight fill material, (15%).

STATE CONTACT
Don Nelson
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
520 Lafayette Road North
St. Paul, MN 55155-4194
Phone: (651) 296-8621
E-mail: don.nelson@pca.state.mn.us
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