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management practices. The approach emphasizes market and customer-based critical-to-quality requirements, and involvement of crumb rubber manufacturers, compounders and other in the entire supply chain to systematically define and implement specifications and standards (building on established precedents). While many TDP manufacturers and suppliers are small businesses that are resource constrained, CalRecycle and industry associations can continue to play a role in educating stakeholders and providing information, tools and assistance as possible to help the industry steadily move towards adoption of the recommended best management practices. Short of this goal, the industry will continue to operate largely on an informal basis with regard to quality standards and specifications. While the TDP market has grown on this basis, in the long-run, the fate of the industry and its ability to diversify and expand may ultimately depend on the extent to which more formalized quality standards and specifications can be effectively adopted.

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