TDP Catalog

Percent change 2011- 2012

2010

2011

2012

Category

Sub-Category

Million PTE

Percent of Total

Million PTE

Percent of Total

Million PTE

Percent of Total

Engineer -ing

Non-Landfill Applications

0.0

0.1%

0.0

0.0%

0.0

0.0%

NA

Subtotal

1.8

4.4%

0.6

1.4%

0.6

1.3%

-1.2%

Alternative Daily Cover

0.8

1.9%

2.0

4.8%

1.0

2.3%

-46.5%

Other Recycling

0.0 7.4

0.1%

0.1 5.6

0.2%

0.0 7.6

0.0%

NA

Cement

18.0%

13.8%

16.9%

34.9%

Tire- Derived Fuel

Co-Generation

1.0

2.3%

0.6

1.4%

0.1

0.3%

-76.6%

Subtotal

8.4

20.3%

6.2

15.2%

7.7

17.2%

24.7%

Landfill Disposal

7.8

19.0%

5.0

12.2%

3.3

7.3%

-34.2%

Estimated Total Managed

41.1

100%

40.8

100%

45.0

100%

10.3%

Total Diverted from Landfill

33.3

81.0%

35.8

87.8%

41.7

92.7%

16.5%

Imports

1.0

2.5%

1.2

3.0%

0.7

1.6%

-38.8%

Synopsis of Trends Figure 2 shows trends in end uses for waste tires by broad market category since 2002. 3 As in 2011, the diversion rate increase during 2012 was largely due to unprecedented growth in exports of tires to Pacific Rim nations, including processed tire-derived fuel tire chips and waste tires bales or shreds that are also ultimately used mainly as tire-derived fuel. 4 Waste tire exports increased by 41 percent from 2011 to 2012 after a 39 percent increase in the previous year. However, waste tire bales/shred exports appear to have peaked in late 2012 and declined in the first half of 2013. This trend, combined with increased enforcement of export operations, has reduced the competitive pressure for tire collection accounts (e.g., from new tire retailers and other facilities that generate waste tires) and pricing that many established processors have been experiencing in recent years as new export operations were quickly established as waste tire export demand boomed. Exports of processed tire-derived fuel, especially to Japan and Korea, however, continue to be strong and are expected to grow in 2013. This demand is being met, however, by established processors and not by dedicated exporters established in recent years.

3 Data for 2002-2006 are from CalRecycle’s annual “California Waste Tire Generation, Markets and Disposal” reports. Methodological differences complicate direct comparisons between 2002 and 2006 and later statistics. See Appendix A for details. 4 In this report, the waste tire exports category includes both bales/shreds as well as tire chips processed to meet TDF standards, typically 1.5 to 2 inch chips.

Contractor’s Report to CalRecycle

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