Liberty Tire Recycling Announces Nationwide Partnership with The
Hertz Corporation to Recover, Recycle Scrap Tires at Car Rental
Outlets
PITTSBURGH, Nov. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Liberty Tire
Recycling, the premier provider of tire recycling services in
North America, has signed an
agreement with The Hertz Corporation (NYSE: HTZ), the largest
worldwide airport general use car rental brand, to recover and
recycle scrap tires from all of the rental agency's locations in
the United States. It is the first agreement of its kind in
the car rental industry and will result in the collection and
recycling of more than 160,000 tires annually.
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"At Liberty Tire Recycling, we are always looking at ways to
develop productive partnerships that lead to the recovery and
recycling of more scrap tires across North America," noted Jeffrey Kendall, CEO of Liberty Tire
Recycling. "Hertz is a leader in its industry, and with this
agreement, they have demonstrated definitively that they are
committed to sustainable practices. With our continental
footprint, we are the only company that can offer the services they
are seeking, so we are delighted to partner with them."
As the premier provider of tire recycling services across the
continent, Liberty Tire Recycling remains at the forefront of a
conservation industry that reclaims more than 140 million scrap
tires annually, representing more than a third of the scrap tires
generated in the United States. Those tires are taken to one
of more than 40 processing locations. They are then
transformed into crumb rubber, which becomes the raw material for
smart, sustainable products that improve people's lives.
Recycled rubber can be used as an additive for rubberized
asphalt, which can make highways quieter and safer. It can
also be transformed into rubber mulch for safer playgrounds or
crumb rubber infill for better, safer athletic fields.
"This past summer, Liberty Tire Recycling donated Groundsmart
Rubber Mulch to The Children's Inn at The National Institute of
Health in the nation's capital, where it was used to build a new
playground and for landscaping," Kendall added. "It's the
kind of project that can make a difference while ensuring that
scrap tires are removed from the waste stream. As playground
safety surfacing, Groundsmart Rubber Mulch is far superior to its
wood counterpart, because a six-inch layer of Groundsmart
Rubber Mulch will cushion a child's fall from as high as 16
feet."
Kendall went on to offer other examples:
- Liberty Tire Recycling recently partnered with Union High
School in Union, Missouri for the
installation of a new athletic field surface containing more than
80,000 pounds of the company's crumb rubber infill. The
installation enabled the high school's athletes to benefit from the
use of a more durable and safer athletic field surface.
- Earlier this year, Liberty Tire Recycling began collaborating
with the University of Tennessee's
Center for Athletic Field Safety on a series of studies to test the
potential benefits and role that crumb rubber plays in maintaining
a natural grass athletic surface. The two-year program is
aimed at quantifying the value proposition that crumb rubber infill
offers as an enhancement to natural grass, and how it can
potentially improve the quality of the surface and safety for the
athletes using it.
- The city of Baytown, Texas
replaced traditional wood mulch with 10,000 pounds of
Liberty's Groundsmart Rubber Mulch at a park and sports
complex. Since rubber mulch remains bright and plush for 12
years, the city will realize savings over the next decade by
avoiding annual replenishment of wood mulch.
- In August of this year, Liberty Tire Recycling hosted Recycle
WISCONSIN: 2012. Held at the
Modified Asphalt Research Center (MARC) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the program
brought together transportation and environmental professionals,
civic leaders and policy makers so that they could learn more about
new applications for recycled rubber, including its ability to make
highways safer.
"More and more municipalities are recognizing the benefits of
using rubberized asphalt for paving highways and other roadways,"
Kendall continued. "It cuts maintenance costs and provides
for a safer, smoother ride. It also ensures that more and
more tires do not end up as landfill waste."
To help advance the adoption of rubberized asphalt, Liberty Tire
Recycling was instrumental in the formation of the Rubberized
Asphalt Foundation (RAF) earlier this year. A research
foundation dedicated to the science and practical use of recycled
tire rubber in asphalt, the organization includes individuals from
academia, government and industry whose work focuses on the
technical development of rubberized asphalt applications.
Liberty Tire Recycling has also been involved in the cleanup and
remediation of hundreds of illegal tire dumps across North America over the past decade.
In April of this year, the company collaborated with the
City of Atlanta and Keep Atlanta
Beautiful to stage a city-wide tire cleanup event. Volunteers
gathered throughout the city and collected 25,000 scrap tires in
one day. Those tires were then transported to Liberty's
facility near Atlanta, where they
were recycled.
For more information on Liberty Tire Recycling, visit
www.libertytire.com.
About Liberty Tire Recycling
Liberty Tire Recycling is the premier provider of tire recycling
services in North America. By recycling more than 140 million
tires annually, Liberty Tire reclaims about 1.5 billion pounds of
rubber for innovative, eco-friendly products. The recycled
rubber produced by Liberty Tire is used as crumb rubber and
industrial feedstock for molded products; as tire-derived fuel for
industrial kilns, mills and power plants; and as rubber mulch for
landscaping and playgrounds. The company maintains a
nationwide network of processing plants, and comprehensive
door-to-door collection services. Liberty Tire Recycling is
headquartered in Pittsburgh,
PA. For more information, please visit
www.libertytire.com.
Contact:
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Jeff
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412-642-7700
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jeff.donaldson@elias-savion.com
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