Government preparing another tyre tender
Burning tyres and the George Town dump
(CNS): The Department of Environmental Health is preparing another public tender to get rid of the massive pile of used tyres at the George Town dump. This will be the fifth attempt to find someone willing to process and remove the tyres as promptly as possible. Developers behind the proposed $360 million Ironwood community and golf resort say they would take the tyres to use for their 18-hole Arnold Palmer course but they haven’t previously responded to a tender.
Past requests for proposals to process and remove the thousands of tyres, responsible for a massive fire last year, were seeking payment but the last bid was looking for only nominal costs to be covered and for someone to simply get rid of them as quickly as possible.
While using them for the golf course has been heralded as the solution, the developers admitted that if they were to use the tyres for the course, they would not be removing them from the landfill until work began on what is so far only a proposed development that has not yet been approved.
Government is looking for an immediate response and DEH Director Roydell Carter told CNS that he is hoping that the forthcoming tender will result in someone removing or beginning to process them on site immediately.
“A new Request for Proposals for the used tyres at the landfills will be published within the next two weeks,” he told CNS Friday. “It is still anticipated that the used tyres will be processed (on or off-island) as promptly as possible. We are hoping that this time around a successful tenderer will be found to do the job.”
Speaking at a press conference some twelve months ago, when the developers were hopeful of an imminent start to the project, David Moffitt, one of the principals, said that if they were using the tyres they would not be able to remove any until they had begun work on the golf course. However, talks with the developers and government over the extension of the east-west arterial have not yet concluded and there is still no start date for the project more than 12 months later.
Although Arch and Godfrey were recently named as the general contractor on the proposed multi-million dollar resort, the development has not yet received planning permission. Consequently, handing the tyres to the developer would see them all remaining at the dump until the proposal becomes a reality and work starts on the golf-course.
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Tires have no recyclable value and until the government understands that it will cost them to export to be handled and processed by licensed tire recycling firms overseas this project wont move ahead.(5th Tender) If they want them gone they have to budget and pay for this to be done or invest in Waste to Energy, which is 150 million investment to start. The problem is that these tires are in the way of building any sort of facility. Decisions in life are tuff but you have to make them and move ahead before the problem gets worse.
Tire recycling or rubber recycling is the process of recycling vehicles’ tires (or tyres) that are no longer suitable for use on vehicles due to wear or irreparable damage (such as punctures). These tires are among the largest and most problematic sources of waste, due to the large volume produced, their durability, and the fact they contain a number of components that are ecologically problematic. It is estimated that 259 million tires are discarded annually (for years in the 1980s and 1990s).[1] The same characteristics that make waste tires problematic, their cheap availability, bulk, and resilience, also make them attractive targets for recycling. Nonetheless more than half of used tires are simply burned for their fuel value.[2] Even in advanced countries like Germany, 55% are estimated to be burnt for fuel.[3] Approximately, one tire is discarded per person per year[citation needed]. Tires are also often recycled for use on basketball courts and new shoe products. However, material recovered from waste tires, known as “crumb,” is generally only a cheap “filler” material and is rarely used in high volumes.
CIG has never been able to even get close to solving the dump and tire fire problems. They even went as far as taking trips to see how educated and experienced people do it right in other countries. They just don’t want educated and experienced people doing it here and making them look bad so watch again as nothing much really happens.
While we inhale toxic smoke from fires, we spend our time and effort on complaining about a cartoon. It is no wonder nothing gets done.
Are you kidding me? Ironwood doesn’t have planning approval? Why?
Perhaps because they don’t own the land on which they claim to be building?
This must be a typo, it should read “Government Preparing Another Tyre Tinder”
I gave you recycling, showed you all how to do it. paid all of you, Helped you set up your own recycling companies.
Offered to fix your dump and now you treat me like some POS
Guess what, it will be a cold day in florida before I do something with your tires
The Madcap laughs I see.
I totally know how to get rid of your tires but you are busy busting my balls and not giving support. How many millions of pounds of garbage did I remove already perhaps 5 million and how much did I pay out perhaps $3.5 million.
That said Not one of your leaders ever said good job tim how can we help you, No one.
Instead you arrest my wife and deny me a work permit real smart of you that sure keeps the problem alive and well.
I think they are being a bit hopeful here, pretty sure they will have to pay someone to get rid of the tyres, happens all over the place, notoriously had to process, expensive shredding machines prone to wear and breakdowns and limited market for the processed material
CIG COLLECTS a disposal fee on EVERY tire/tyre. CIG need to pay to have them removed from the island. There are different types of machines that will chip the tires into small pieces. Years ago one was purchased but it was not maintained. Purchase an Air Burner (google/you tube) and start burning them. Either way jobs are created. Cut the Bull Sh*t and be accountable.. Jenn
Why cannot the government get the road approved, then the golf course will proceed, jobs created and the tyres used in a green manner? They have been promising the road for years now.
Can’t we create local employment and export market by making Wompers?