Effectiveness of Scrap Tire Chips as Sorptive Drainage Material
Publication: Journal of Environmental Engineering
Volume 130, Issue 7
Abstract
Scrap tire disposal is a problem of growing concern. One solution to this problem is innovative methods for the reuse and recycling of scrap tires. Based on batch isotherm tests, scrap tire chips have been identified to be good sorbents of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and could be used as leachate drainage layer material in solid waste landfills and in other similar applications. To demonstrate the effects of tire chips on the leachate they come in contact with in a drainage layer over a liner, large-scale tank tests simulating the drainage layer and the clay liner and also field tests were performed. Two cells were constructed in a landfill: one with scrap tire chips and the other with gravel leachate collection layer. According to the results of the large-scale tank tests and field tests, shredded tire chips have a significantly positive impact on the quality of the leachate with which they come in contact. The use of scrap tires in landfills would reduce the magnitude of the current tire disposal problem (a 1 ha landfill requires approximately 300,000 tires to fill 0.3 m of a leachate collection layer) and convert one waste into a beneficial construction material and simultaneously mitigate the problem of VOC transport from through landfill liners.
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Journal of Environmental Engineering
Volume 130 • Issue 7 • July 2004
Pages: 824 - 831
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Copyright © 2004 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Received: Nov 28, 2001
Accepted: Jun 2, 2003
Published online: Jun 15, 2004
Published in print: Jul 2004
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