October 2012

Produced for

United States Environmental Protection Agency, Region 6 

&

North American Development Bank

By

Integrated Environmental Management Services, S.A. de C.V.

Matamoros No. 1443 Poniente, Colonia Maria Luisa,

Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. 64040

TIRE FLOW STUDY

IN THE 

TEXAS–MEXICO BORDER

REGION

FULL REPORT
Disclaimer

Integrated Environmental Management Services, S. A. de C.V.

(IEMS) was retained by the North American Development Bank (NADB)

to conduct the project titled “Tire Flow Study in the Texas-Mexico Border

Region” with the financial support of the United States Environmental

Protection Agency, Region 6 (EPA).

Although this document has been reviewed by NADB and EPA,

assertions and conclusions here contained are from IEMS and do not

necessarily represent NADB’s or EPA’s policy; they should not be cited

as official NADB or EPA’s assertions. Trade names, equipment and

products presented herein do not constitute endorsements from IEMS,

NADB or EPA.
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Table of Contents

Introduction xv

Chapter 1. Scope of Work 1

1 Study scope area 2

2 Methodology 8

3 Desktop activities 8

3.1 General information sources 8

3.1.1 Historical research 9

3.1.2 Survey design and analysis 10

3.1.3 Interview planning 11

3.1.4 Report write-up 11

3.2 Fieldwork activities 11

3.2.1 Road reconnaissance 11

3.2.2 Interviews with key stakeholders 12

3.3 Safety 12

3.4 Key Stakeholders 13

Chapter 2. Tire Flow Estimation 15

1 Description of Tire Flows 16

2 Methodology to estimate Tire Flows 18

2.1 Texas-Mexico 19

2.1.1 Legal used tire flow 19

2.1.2 Illegal Used Tire Flow 22

2.1.3 Reuse, Recycling, Raw Material and Energy 25

2.1.4 Proper and illegal disposal 26

2.2 Tires from Other U.S. States Arriving to the Texas-Mexico Border 

 through Texas 26

2.3 Third Country-Texas-Texas border 27

3 Used and Waste Tires Flow from Texas to Mexico 29
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3.1 Used tires flow 29

3.2 Waste tires flow 30

3.3 Legal used tires flow 31

3.3.1 Ciudad Juarez Annual Used Tire Import Quota 32

3.3.2 Used Tires in Annual Legal Car Imports Flow 32

3.3.3 Commercial Used Tire Import Entering From Texas For Retreading 33

3.4 Illegal Used Tire Flow 33

3.5 Theoretical Mexico Border Area Used Tire Demand 34

3.6 New Tires Sold In Mexico Border Area 35

3.6.1 New Tires Sold Per Vehicle In The State 36

3.6.2 New tires sold in each State 36

3.6.3 Vehicles registered in each State 36

3.6.4 Vehicles in each Municipality 37

3.6.5 Registered Vehicles 37

3.6.6 Unregistered Vehicles 38

3.7 Theoretical Mexico Border Area Tire Demand 39

3.8 Reuse, recycling & processing 39

3.9 Proper disposal vs. Illegal disposal 39

3.9.1 Proper disposal 39

3.9.2 Illegally disposed 39

Chapter 3. Waste Tires Ultimate Disposal Locations 41

1 Chapter Description 42

2 Methodology 42

2.1 Desktop Strategies 42

2.1.1 Review of available literature 43

2.1.2 Visual search of potential waste tire generators 43

Chapter 4. Environmental and Economic Impacts of the Waste Tire 

 Flow from Texas into Mexico 47

1 Environmental and Economic Impacts of the Waste Tire Flow from 

 Texas into Mexico 48

1.1 Revenue per tire, per year since 2005 generated from the sale of 

 used tires to Mexico 48
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1.1.1 Revenue per tire of year 2012 50

1.2 Disposal cost per tire in Texas and Mexico Border Region 56

1.2.1 Texas Border Region 56

1.2.2 Mexico Border Region 56

1.3 Potential clean up costs of significant tire piles 57

1.3.1 Fire planning and prevention 58

1.3.2 Fumigation 65

1.3.3 Diminishing volume 68

1.3.4 Transport 72

1.3.5 Process or disposal 74

1.4 Current potential cost to extinguish fires and remediate environmental, 

 public health, and economic impacts should any of the major tire piles 

 in the region set ablaze. 75

1.4.1 Current potential cost to extinguish fires should any of the major tire 

 piles in the region set ablaze. 75

1.4.2 Current potential cost to remediate environmental, public health, and 

 economic impacts should any of the major tire piles in the region set 

 ablaze 76

1.5 History of known environmental health hazards associated with past 

 or current waste tire piles located in regions with ecosystems similar 

 to the Texas-Mexico Border Region 82

1.6 Estimate the potential cost to remediate the environmental health 

 threats associated with disease carrying vectors located in tire piles 

 along the Texas-Mexico Border Region. 82

1.6.1 Dengue Fever 83

1.6.2 West Nile Virus 86

2 Assessment of environmental and economic impacts 89

2.1 Revenue per tire generated from the sale of used tires to Mexico 

 (per year since 2005) 89

2.2 Disposal cost per tire in Texas and Mexico Border Region 97

2.3 Potential cost to clean up significant tire piles in the Texas-Mexico 

 Border Region 97

2.4 Current potential cost to extinguish fires and remediate environmental, 

 public health, and economic impacts should any of the major tire piles 

 in the region set ablaze. 100

2.4.1 Cost to extinguish fires in the Texas-Mexico border area 100

2.4.2 Public health impacts remediation costs 101
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2.5 History of known environmental health hazards associated with past 

 or current waste tire piles located in regions with ecosystems similar 

 to the Texas-Mexico Border Region 103

2.6 Potential cost to remediate the environmental health threats 

 associated with disease carrying vectors located in tire piles along 

 the Texas-Mexico Border Region 107

2.6.1 Dengue 108

2.6.2 West Nile virus 111

Chapter 5. Comparison between Texan and Mexican Tire Tracking Systems 115

1 Methodology 116

1.1 Desktop Strategies 116

1.1.1 Face to face interviews 116

2 Tracking systems 119

2.1 Texas tracking systems 119

2.1.1 New tires sales tracking systems 119

2.1.2 Used tires sales tracking systems 120

2.1.3 New and used tires Import and export tracking systems 120

2.2 Mexico’s tire tracking systems 121

2.2.1 Sales tracking systems 121

2.2.2 New and used tires Import and export tracking systems 121

Chapter 6. Waste Tire Management Regulatory Framework 125

1 Methodology 126

1.1 Desktop Strategies 126

1.1.1 Consulted regulatory framework from previous tire flow studies and 

 publications regarding the Texas-Mexico border 126

1.1.2 Legislation databases consulted 127

1.2 Fieldwork Strategies 127

2 International treaties 128

2.1 NAFTA 128

2.2 North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation 128

2.3 Agreement on Cooperation for the Protection and Improvement of the 

 Environment in the Border Area 128
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2.4 Basel Convention about Control of Transboundary Movements of 

 Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal 128

2.5 Customs Convention for the Temporary Importation of Private Road 

 Vehicles 128

2.6 Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in 

 International Business Transactions 128

2.7 World Health Regulations 128

2.8 Guidance Manual for the Control of Transboundary Movements of 

 Recoverable Wastes 129

2.9 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea 129

3 American regulatory framework 129

3.1 Federal Law 129

3.1.1 US Disposal of Solid Waste Code – Section 6002 - 101 129

3.2 State laws 129

3.2.1 State of Texas 129

3.3 Local Law 129

3.3.1 City of El Paso 130

3.3.2 City of Del Rio 131

3.3.3 City of Eagle Pass 132

3.3.4 City of Laredo 132

3.3.5 City of McAllen 133

3.3.6 City of Pharr 134

3.3.7 City of Brownsville 135

4 Mexican Regulatory framework 135

4.1 Federal laws 135

4.1.1 General Law for the Prevention and Integrated Management of 

Wastes 135

4.1.2 Regulation of the General Law for the Prevention and Integrated 

 Management of Wastes 136

4.2 State and local laws 136

4.2.1 Chihuahua 136

4.2.2 Coahuila 138

4.2.3 Nuevo Leon 143

4.2.4 Tamaulipas 145
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5 Enforcement agencies 149

5.1 U.S. Enforcement Agencies 149

5.1.1 Federal 149

5.1.2 State 149

5.2 Mexican Enforcement Agencies 149

5.2.1 Federal 149

5.2.2 State 149

5.2.3 Municipal 150

Chapter 7. Recommendations regarding changes to the current Texas and 

 Mexico Waste Tire Policies, Laws, Regulations and Procedures 151

1 Recommendations 152

1.1 CPR dead tires campaign 153

1.1.1 Cut 153

1.1.2 Pack 154

1.1.3 Recycle 155

1.2 Tire fire prevention measures 156

1.3 Tire ordinance 157

1.3.1 Passing 159

1.3.2 Training 159

1.3.3 Enforcement 160

1.4 Make access difficult to sensitive dumping spots 160

1.5 TCEQ scrap tire program modification 161

Chapter 8. Recommendations Regarding Potential Markets for Tire-Derived 

 Products in Mexico 163

1 Methodology 164

1.1 Alternatives identification 164

1.2 Alternatives description 164

1.3 Market recommendations 165

1.4 Social considerations 165

1.4.1 Legal considerations 165

1.4.2 Social impact assessment (SIA) 166

1.5 Economic impact considerations 167
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1.5.1 Required equipment investment per market 167

1.5.2 Estimated income per tire 168

1.6 Environmental impact considerations 168

1.6.1 Estimated green house emissions per tire processed 169

2 Markets identified 169

2.1 Passenger tire sidewalls 170

2.1.1 How to obtain passenger tire sidewalls 172

2.1.2 Benefits from recycling tire sidewalls 172

2.1.3 Issues related to recycling tire sidewalls: 172

2.1.4 Legal restrictions and regulations on the sale of passenger tire 

 sidewalls 173

2.2 De-beaded passenger tire sidewalls 173

2.2.1 How to obtain de-beaded passenger tire sidewalls 174

2.2.2 Benefits from recycling passenger tire de-beaded sidewalls 174

2.2.3 Issues related to recycling passenger tire de-beaded sidewalls 175

2.2.4 Legal restrictions and regulations on the sale of passenger tire 

 de-beaded sidewalls 175

2.3 Passenger tire sidewall bead wire 175

2.3.1 How to obtain tire beads 176

2.3.2 Benefits from recycling tire beads 176

2.3.3 Issues related to recycling tire sidewalls 177

2.3.4 Legal restrictions and regulations on the sale of passenger tire 

 sidewalls’ bead wire 177

2.4 Tire treads 177

2.4.1 How to obtain tire treads 179

2.4.2 Benefits from recycling tire treads 179

2.4.3 Issues related to recycling tire treads 180

2.4.4 Legal restrictions and regulations on the sale of tire treads 180

2.5 Tire Derived Geo Cells 180

2.5.1 Tire Derived Geo Cylinders (TDGC) 180

2.5.2 TDGC Mechanical Concrete® 183

2.6 Steel belted rubber for rammed earth tire walls 189

2.6.1 How to build using rammed earth tire walls 189

2.6.2 Benefits of structures built using rammed earth tire walls 190
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2.6.3 Issues of structures built using rammed earth tire walls 191

2.6.4 Legal restrictions and regulations regarding rammed earth tire walls 191

2.7 Tree and landscaping tire tread edging 191

2.7.1 How to obtain tire derived tree and landscape edging 191

2.7.2 Landscape edging benefits 192

2.7.3 Issues from tree and landscape edging using cut tires 194

2.7.4 Legal restrictions and regulations regarding landscape edging 195

2.8 Tire tread fences 195

2.8.1 How to obtain tread fences 195

2.8.2 Benefits expected from cut tire tread fencing 197

2.8.3 Issues related to tread fences 199

2.8.4 Legal restrictions and regulations regarding fencing using cut tire

 treads 199

2.9 Tire derived aggregate (TDA) 199

2.9.1 How to obtain tire derived aggregate 200

2.9.2 Benefits from using TDA in specific applications 201

2.9.3 Issues arising from using TDA in specific applications 202

2.9.4 Legal restrictions and regulations regarding TDA 203

2.10 Ground rubber for Rubberized Asphalt (RA) 203

2.10.1 How to obtain ground rubber for rubberized asphalt 203

2.10.2 Benefits obtained from paving using RA 204

2.10.3 Issues arising from paving using RA 205

2.10.4 Legal restrictions and regulations regarding RA 205

2.11 Ground rubber for athletic and recreational surfaces 206

2.11.1 Synthetic sports turf 206

2.11.2 Playground safety surfaces 209

2.12 Rubber mulch 213

2.12.1 How to make rubber mulch 213

2.12.2 Benefits of rubber mulch 213

2.12.3 Issues that arise from using rubber mulch 214

2.12.4 Legal restrictions and regulations regarding rubber mulch 215

2.13 Ground rubber for molded and extruded products 215

2.13.1 How to obtain ground rubber for molded and extruded products 216
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2.13.2 Benefits from creating molded and extruded products from ground 

 rubber 217

2.13.3 Issues involved in creating molded and extruded products from 

 ground rubber 218

2.13.4 Legal restrictions and regulations regarding creating molded and 

 extruded products from ground rubber 219

3 Market recommendations of tire derived products in Mexico 219

3.1 Tire derived products market prices 219

3.2 Required investments on equipment 219

3.3 Recommendations 220

3.3.1 How to implement a CPR dead tires campaign 222

4 Markets evaluation 224

4.1 Legal evaluation 224

4.2 Economic evaluation 225

4.2.1 Market prices per tire 225

4.2.2 Required equipment investment per market 225

4.2.3 Most expensive markets to enter based on equipment required 

 investment 226

4.2.4 Most accessible markets based on equipment required investment 229

4.3 Environmental evaluation 232

4.3.1 Environmental Issues of Concern (EIC) 232

4.3.2 Greenhouse gas emissions per PTE processed 234

Chapter 9. Waste Tires Appropriate Disposal Alternatives 237

1 Methodology 238

1.1 Identification methodology 238

1.1.1 Sources consulted 238

1.2 Description of identified alternatives 239

1.3 Recommendations 240

1.4 Evaluation methodology 240

1.4.1 Alternatives evaluated 240

1.4.2 Social and environmental evaluations methodology 241

1.4.3 Economic evaluation 243
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2 Identified disposal alternatives 246

2.1 Landfill shred or cut waste tires 246

2.2 Land reclamation projects using tires (LRPUT) 250

2.3 Tire derived fuel (TDF) in cement kilns 251

2.4 Reclamation of depleted open pit coal mines. 253

2.4.1 IEMS’s Land reclamation proposal in open pit mines 254

3 Recommendations 259

3.1 Appropriate tire disposal alternatives 259

3.2 Tire management recommendations 261

3.2.1 Transportation benefits 261

3.2.2 Disposal benefits 262

4 Alternatives economic evaluation 262

4.1 Common transportation options 262

4.2 Disposal fees per tire 264

4.2.1 Texas side of the border 264

4.2.2 Mexico’s side of the border 264
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Attachments Index

Attachment Title

1 Strategy re-adjustment petition / NADB strategy re-adjustment approval.

2 Mexican authorities and stakeholders.

3 Surveys designed to be applied on Texas fieldwork.

4 Surveys designed to be applied on Mexico’s remote interviews.

5 Texas fieldwork itinerary.

6 NADB cooperation request letter (Spanish and English versions).

7 Ultimate disposal locations of waste tires that are being transported from 

Texas into Mexico.

8 Operation and management procedures of each waste tires accumulation 

site of the Mexican side of the Texas-Mexico border area.

9 Ultimate disposal locations map of waste tires being transported from Texas 

into Mexico.

10 Geo referenced potential waste tire generators location list.

11 Geo referenced potential illegal waste tire piles location list.

12 Waste tire sites display map per Mexican city.

13 Quotation questions applied to used tire dealers in representative Mexican 

scope cities (Spanish).

14 Tire piles fire risk estimations according to Mexican Official Standard NOM002-STPS-2010.

15 Rim 13 and 15 inches manual cutting of waste tire’s sidewalls time and 

volume diminishing field measurements.

16 Tires’ volume reduction theoretical estimation if sidewalls are removed.

17 Tread cutting, sidewall remover and sidewall debeader machines technical 

brochure and quotations for delivery in Juarez, Mexico and delivery in the 

U.S.

18 34 target compounds (weighted based on toxicity and expected ambient air 

concentrations) that should be considered for air monitoring during a tire fire 

(Environmental Protection Agency, 1997.

19 Disposal cost per tire in the Texas side of the Texas-Mexico Border Region.

20 Disposal cost per tire in the Mexican side of the Texas-Mexico Border 

Region.

21 Harmonized system tariff schedule.
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Attachment Title

22 Waste Tire Management Regulatory Framework.

23 Disposal cost savings per tire when disposing cut tires in the Texas side of 

the Texas-Mexico Border Region.

24 City of Laredo, TX and Pharr, TX Tire Ordinances common sections 

comparison.

25 Crackdown on Illegal Dumping - Handbook for Local Government.

26 2011 Scrap Tire Transporter Annual Report format.

27 Estimated and consulted market prices of tire derived products currently 

supplying the identified markets.

28 May 2012 ScrapIndex.com daily prices and estimation of a monthly mean 

price.

29 Potential revenue per passenger tire equivalent (PTE) for each market and 

formulas applied to obtain each.

30 Matrix of required equipment investment in order to be able to supply each 

market.

31 Equipment quotations and price sources.

32 Scrap tire wire purchase prices in the Mexican side of the Texas-Mexico 

Border Region.

33 Legislations in the Mexican side of the Texas-Mexico Border regarding the 

burning of tires in open areas.

34 Potential of Tire Derived Geo cell (TDGC) market as road base strengthening 

to remediate border tire piles.

35 Draft of the general specification for the construction of mechanical concrete 

geo cylinder confinement systems for roadway base or shoulders, gravity 

retaining walls or Mechanically Stabilized Earth (MSE) walls, load bearing 

walls, abutments or load bearing pier foundations.

36 Questionnaire applied to Samuel G. Bonasso / P.E. Reinforced Aggregates 

Company Inc.

37 Mechanical Concrete approval letter issued by the West Virginia Department 

of Transportation (WVDOT) Materials Control, Soils and Test Division 

(MCSTD).

38 Quotations of regular Geo cell mats in Mexico.

39 Estimated cut tread length per passenger tire rim size.

40 Livestock fences comparison with tire tread fences.

41 Equipment electrical demand and CO2 emissions per Passenger Tire 

Equivalent (PTE) for each tire derived product.
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Attachment Title

42 Estimated transportation costs per tire per mile on the Texas side of the 

Texas-Mexico Border Region.

43 Estimated number of car tires to be buried per reclaimed cubic meter of mine 

space.

44 List of appropriate tire disposal alternatives identified in the Texas side of the 

Texas-Mexico Border Area and disposal fees charged.

45 Display map of appropriate tire disposal alternatives identified in the Texas 

side of the Texas-Mexico Border Area.

46 Environmental assessment regarding a LRPUT.

47 Environmental impacts and proposed mitigation activities regarding a 

sanitary landfill lifecycle.

48 Approximate driving distances from scope cities to appropriate tire final 

disposal sites in the Texas side of the Texas-Mexico Border Area.

49 List of appropriate tire disposal alternatives identified in the Mexican side of 

the Texas-Mexico Border Area and disposal fees charged.

50 Environmental performance of TDF use by cement kilns in U.S. and Mexico.

51 Approximate driving distances from scope municipalities to appropriate tire 

final disposal sites in the Mexican side of the Texas-Mexico Border Area.

52 Transportations costs to cement kilns available from cities on the Mexican 

side of the Texas-Mexico Border Area.

53 Display map of appropriate tire disposal alternatives identified in the Mexican 

side of the Texas-Mexico Border Area.
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Introduction

Throughout the Texas–Mexico Border Region, a significant number of 

scrap tire piles exist containing millions of scrap tires. Scrap tire piles pose 

significant environmental and health risks. For instance, if tire piles catch fire, they 

can burn for weeks, even months, causing serious air quality problems from dense 

smoke and noxious fumes. Also, when this occurs, large amounts of liquid waste 

are generated, which can contaminate the soil, as well as ground and surface 

waters. Further, these sites are ideal breeding grounds for mosquitoes, rodents, and 

other vectors of disease; and increase risks of malaria, dengue fever, West Nile 

Virus, and encephalitis. The health risks are especially of concern because of the 

proximity of tire piles to communities.

To address this problem, the U.S. and Mexico officials have collaborated 

through programs such as the Border 2012 Environmental Program, adopted in 

2007. This bi-national program aims to protect public health and the environment in 

the U.S.–Mexico border region within 100-kilometer on each side of the international 

border. One of the program’s key goals is for the two countries to reduce land 

contamination along their shared border, including tire piles. The Border 2012 

program has helped communities on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border analyze 

environmental problems, such as waste tires, and evaluate potential solutions.

The primary purpose of this Scope of Work (SOW) was to conduct a used 

and waste tire flow study in the Texas-Mexico Border Region. The study assessed 

in a comprehensive manner the current situation of scrap tires in the Texas-Mexico 

Border Region and suggests actions to address and attenuate the problem. The

North American Development Bank (NADB) hired Integrated Environmental 

Management Services S.A. de C.V. (IEMS) to perform the tasks outlined below to 

provide the NADB and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with the 

information necessary to better understand the nature and logistics of how and 

where used and waste tires are being transported and stored along the TexasMexico Border Region.

IEMS developed a methodology to obtain and report information on the 

number of used and waste tires that have been transported between Texas and 

Mexico from 2005 to date. Data was also collected about locations of existing tire 

piles and estimates of the number of the tires that are being sold, reused, and 

disposed of in the Texas-Mexico Border Region.

Another component of this study addresses the economic and 

environmental aspects of tire flow into the Texas-Mexico Border Region.

The economic considerations include the costs to transport the tires, 

revenue from the sale of the tires, costs of disposal of the tires, costs to remediate 

disposal sites, and the costs resulting from possible waste tire pile fires.
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An evaluation of the existing regulatory structure used by Texas and 

Mexico to manage used tires along the Texas-Mexico Border Region was necessary 

to understand the current waste tire management systems. This included 

investigating and providing an evaluation of current waste tire policies, laws, 

regulations and procedures along the Texas-Mexico Border Region and making 

suggestions, if appropriate, for considerations by policy makers.

Tasks Performed

Chapter 1.

Paramount to this study was the development of the method(s) used, with 

the approval of the NADB and EPA prior to their execution.

Chapter 2.

Estimation of the number of used and waste tires transported into Mexico 

from Texas, both legally and illegally, since 2005; of the total tires transported into 

Mexico, estimation of the number of tires sold for reuse, recycling, other tire derived 

products, and the number properly and illegally disposed of at landfills and dump 

sites in Mexico:

a. Estimation of the number of tires that are being transported through 

Texas from other states, which may have either an environmental or 

economic effect to the Texas-Mexico Border.

b. Look into and estimate if possible the number of tires that are being 

transported to the Texas-Mexico Border Region from Countries outside 

the United States. 

Chapter 3.

Determination of the ultimate disposal locations of waste tires that are 

being transported from Texas into Mexico.

Chapter 4.

Estimation and assessment of the environmental/economic impact of the 

waste tire flow from Texas into Mexico. This assessment considered, but was not 

limited to, the following determinations:

a. Estimation the amount of revenue per tire, per year since 2005 

generated from the sale of used tires to Mexico;

b. Estimation of the disposal cost per tire in Texas and Mexico Border 

Region;
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c. Identification of significant tire piles and estimation of the potential cost 

to clean up these tire piles in the Texas-Mexico Border Region. This 

included options for clean-up of those tire piles, e.g. dig a hole and bury 

or transport to another facility.

d. Estimation of the current potential cost to extinguish fires and remediate 

environmental, public health, and economic impacts (e.g., crop damage) 

should any of the major tire piles in the region set ablaze. This included 

estimates of firefighting agency costs on both sides of the Texas-Mexico 

Border Region.

e. Provide a history of known environmental health hazards associated 

with past or current waste tire piles located in regions with ecosystems 

similar to the Texas-Mexico Border Region 

f. Estimation of the potential cost to remediate the environmental health 

threats associated with disease carrying vectors located in tire piles 

along the Texas-Mexico Border Region. 

Chapter 5.

Examination and comparison of the tracking systems used for tracking the 

sale, import, and export of tires in Texas and Mexico and any Mexican tracking 

systems.

Chapter 6.

Description in detail of the waste tire management regulatory framework 

and the regulatory agencies at the federal, state and local level responsible for 

enforcing waste tire management regulations and laws in Texas and Mexico.

Chapter 7.

Assessing and making recommendations regarding changes to the current 

Texas and Mexico waste tire policies, laws, regulations and procedures in order to 

improve waste tire management in the Texas-Mexico Border Region.

Chapter 8.

Identifying, evaluating and making recommendations regarding potential 

markets for tire-derived products in Mexico, taking into any legal restrictions and 

regulations, and both economic and environmental impacts.

Chapter 9.

Identifying, evaluating alternatives and making recommendations regarding 

appropriate tire disposal alternatives in the Texas-Mexico Border Region.
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Additionally, IEMS looked into and made recommendations on the status of 

current levels and activities of sustainability of waste and used tires as it relates to 

the Texas-Mexico Border Region.

The execution and planning of this study underwent several changes in its 

methodology and faced limitations due to the security issues currently present in the 

Mexican side of the Texas-Mexico border. The methodology presented is the one 

actually executed by IEMS, approved by the NADB and EPA. Limitations are 

presented in the section of this study to which they correspond. 

Results and recommendations obtained from executing the mentioned 

tasks are presented at the end of each corresponding chapter. Also all conclusions 

and recommendations are presented in the Executive Summary presented as a 

separate document.
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Chapter 1. 

Scope of Work
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1 Study scope area

The Texas-Mexico border comprises 1,241 miles along the Rio Grande 

River and 31 established crossings; 26 of them for vehicles and 5 rail lines. 

According to the August 1983 La Paz Agreement on Cooperation for the Protection 

and Improvement of the Environment in the Border Area, the “border area” was 

defined as a “the area situated 100 kilometers (62.5 miles) on either side of the 

inland and maritime boundaries between the Parties”.

For this study, IEMS has chosen a different definition of the border area 

based on political/administrative divisions (counties on the US side and 

municipalities on the Mexican one) rather than distance, to facilitate a clear 

boundary and avoid jurisdiction issues between counties or municipalities. Only 

those counties and municipalities that make-up the border were chosen as a study 

area. There are a total of nineteen (19) counties and twenty-two (22) municipalities 

that form the Texas-Mexico border.

In Mexico the definition of urban area used by the National Institute of 

Statistics and Geography (INEGI), is any community of over 2,500 inhabitants

(INEGI, 2001). The United States Census Bureau defines the line between rural and 

urban area at 2,500 inhabitants as well (Department of Commerce. Bureau of the 

Census, 2010).

This study chose to focus on urban areas because one of the magnets for 

used and waste tire flow are population centers due to their potential large 

consumption markets, and because the impacts of the tires may be more severe 

around larger population centers.

Using the definition of urban area both for the U.S. and Mexico, a total of 

fifty two (52) urban areas were located in the bordering counties/municipalities. Of 

these, thirty (30) are located around the 26 international crossings, and thus, these 

were selected for the study. Table 1.1 presents the scope crossings and related 

cities.

Table 1.1.

Border cities along the international crossings with population greater than 2,500 inhabitants

International Crossing City County or 

municipality State Population

1 El Paso-Cd. Juarez El Paso El Paso Texas 620,456

2 El Paso-Cd. Juarez Cd. Juarez Juarez Chihuahua 1,321,004

3 Tornillo-Guadalupe Fabens El Paso Texas 8,043

4 Tornillo-Guadalupe Guadalupe Juarez Chihuahua 3,022

5 Presidio-Ojinaga Presidio Presidio Texas 4,699

6 Presidio-Ojinaga Ojinaga Manuel Ojinaga Chihuahua 22,744

7 Del Rio-Cd. Acuña Del Rio Valverde Texas 36,477
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Table 1.1.

Border cities along the international crossings with population greater than 2,500 inhabitants

International Crossing City County or 

municipality State Population

8 Del Rio-Cd. Acuña Cd. Acuña Acuña Coahuila 134,233

9 Eagle Pass-Piedras 

Negras I and II Eagle Pass Maverick Texas 27,185

10 Eagle Pass-Piedras 

Negras I and II

Piedras 

Negras Piedras Negras Coahuila 150,178

11 Eagle Pass-Piedras 

Negras I and II Nava Nava Coahuila 22,192

12 Eagle Pass-Piedras 

Negras I and II

Col. 

Venustiano 

Carranza

Nava Coahuila 4,921

13 Dolores-Colombia 

Solidarity Bridge Anahuac Anahuac Nuevo Leon 16,628

14 Laredo-Nuevo Leredo I, 

II and IV Laredo Webb Texas 226,124

15 Laredo-Nuevo Leredo I, 

II and IV

Nuevo 

Laredo Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 373,725

16 Falcon Dam Nueva Cd. 

Guerrero Guerrero Tamaulipas 4,312

17 Roma-Cd. Miguel 

Aleman Roma Starr Texas 11,335

18 Roma-Cd. Miguel 

Aleman

Cd. Miguel 

Aleman Miguel Aleman Tamaulipas 19,997

19 Rio Grande-Cd. 

Camargo

Rio Grande 

City Starr Texas 14,057

20 Rio Grande-Cd. 

Camargo Cd. Camargo Camargo Tamaulipas 7,984

21 Los Ebanos-Cd. Diaz 

Ferry La Joya Hidalgo Texas 4,821

22 Los Ebanos-Cd. Diaz 

Ferry

Cd. Gustavo 

Diaz Ordaz

Gustavo Diaz 

Ordaz Tamaulipas 11,523

23 Hidalgo-Reynosa McAllen Hidalgo Texas 132,225

24 Hidalgo-Reynosa Reynosa Reynosa Tamaulipas 589,466

25 Pharr-Reynosa Pharr Hidalgo Texas 66,231

26 Pharr-Reynosa Cd. Rio 

Bravo Rio Bravo Tamaulipas 95,647

27 Progreso-Nuevo 

Progreso Progreso Hidalgo Texas 5,636

28 Progreso-Nuevo 

Progreso

Nuevo 

Progreso Rio Bravo Tamaulipas 10,178

29 Brownsville-Matamoros Brownsville Cameron Texas 176,859

30 Brownsville-Matamoros Matamoros Matamoros Tamaulipas 449,815

In summary a total of thirty (30) urban areas were chosen, 13 on the U.S. 

side and 17 on Mexico. The cities chosen are listed below:
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Texas

Mexican States Bordering Texas:

Chihuahua Coahuila Nuevo Leon Tamaulipas

Figure 1.1.

Cities Identified in the Texas-Mexico Tire Flow Study.

1. El Paso

2. Fabens

3. Presidio

4. Del Rio

5. Eagle Pass

6. Laredo

7. Roma

8. Rio Grande 

City

9. La Joya

10. McAllen

11. Pharr

12. Progreso

13. Brownsville

17. Cd. Acuña

18. Piedras 

Negras

19. Nava

20. Venustiano 

Carranza

21. Anahuac 22. Nuevo Laredo

23. Nueva Cd. 

Guerrero

24. Cd. Miguel 

Aleman

25. Cd. Camargo

26. Cd. Gustavo 

Diaz Ordaz

27. Reynosa

28. Cd. Rio Bravo

29. Nuevo 

Progreso

30. Matamoros

14. Cd. Juarez

15. Guadalupe

16. Ojinaga
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28%

72%

Texas's scope area 

total population

Mexico's scope area 

total population

El Paso 

47%

Laredo 

17%

Brownsville 

13%

McAllen 

10%

Pharr 

5%

Del Rio 

3%

Eagle Pass 

2%

Rio Grande 

City 

1%

Roma

1%

Fabens 

1%

Progreso 

0%

La Joya 

0%

Presidio 

0%

More than 

seventy percent of the 

population within the 

study’s area is located 

along the Mexican side 

of the border as it is 

shown in Figure 1.2.

Of the states on 

both countries, the 

population is distributed 

relatively even between 

Texas, Chihuahua 

(Mexico) and 

Tamaulipas (Mexico), 

with the remaining 

residing in Coahuila 

(Mexico). The state of 

Nuevo Leon (Mexico) has a smaller Texas border and most of the state’s 

population is concentrated further south of the border and therefore outside of the 

study area. Figure 1.3 evidences that almost half of the Texas scope population 

inhabits in the city of El Paso. Also the south Texas valley cities of Pharr, McAllen 

and Brownsville encompass more than a quarter of the Texas scope population.

Figure 1.2. 

Tire flow study population distribution

Figure 1.3. 

Texas's scope cities population distribution
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Cd. Juarez

31%

Reynosa

23%

Matamoros

19%

Nuevo Laredo

8%

Piedras Negras

7%

Cd. Acuña

5%

Cd. Rio Bravo

1%

Ojinaga

1%

Nava

1%

Cd. Miguel 

Aleman

1%

Anahuac

1%

Cd. Gustavo 

Diaz Ordaz

1%

Nuevo Progreso

0%

Cd. Camargo

0%

Col. Venustiano 

Carranza

0%

Nueva Cd. 

Guerrero

0%

Guadalupe

0%

As Figure 1.4 displays Chihuahua encompasses almost one-third of the 

population of the border and is concentrated mostly (98%) in Ciudad Juarez.

In contrast, the state of Tamaulipas and its corresponding Texas border 

has a large number of cities and towns in extended metropolitan areas with 

sixteen (16) international crossings.

The area between El Paso- Ciudad Juarez and Laredo-Nuevo Laredo is 

sparsely populated including federally protected areas on both sides of the border 

without significant human population. Over forty percent of the study’s population 

resides in the Ciudad Juarez-El Paso metropolitan area.

The population data was obtained from official sources and is considered 

to be the most updated. The U.S. population data comes from 2009 and 2010 

population estimates. The Mexico population data was obtained from the 2010 

population census.

Figure 1.5 displays a chart that aids to visualize which cities concentrate 

most of the population in the Texas-Mexico border region. Bars in gray represent 

Texas cities, bars in purple represent Mexican cities.

Figure 1.4. 

Mexican Cities Population Distribution
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0 

200,000

400,000

600,000

800,000

1,000,000

1,200,000

1,400,000

Cd. Juarez

El Paso

Reynosa

Matamoros

Nuevo Laredo

Laredo

Brownsville

Piedras Negras

Cd. Acuña

McAllen

Cd. Rio Bravo

Pharr

Del Rio

Eagle Pass

Ojinaga

Nava

Cd. Miguel Aleman

Anahuac

Rio Grande City

Cd. Gustavo Diaz Ordaz

Roma

Nuevo Progreso

Fabens

Cd. Camargo

Progreso

Col. Venustiano Carranza

La Joya

Presidio

Nueva Cd. Guerrero

Guadalupe

Figure 1.5.

Population of Selected Urban Areas in both sides of the TexasMexico border (inhabitants)
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2 Methodology

IEMS’ methods are divided as follows: 1) desktop work and 2) field work. 

Both methods are aimed at acquiring both quantitative and qualitative information.

Data to be collected includes quantitative and qualitative information; some 

of which was estimated based on observations and interviews. There is a clear 

distinction on the type of data used so any user can support his assumptions and 

projections stated in this project.

3 Desktop activities

IEMS envisioned that the use of both desktop-based research and field 

data would result in a well-rounded study that offers its users a solid platform that 

reflects the day to day reality of the tire issues along the Texas-Mexico border 

region.

Desktop-based research consists of the review of available literature 

sources, electronic correspondence and/or teleconferencing with key stakeholders 

and design of field-research methodology and procedures.

This was done primarily through telephone calls with Mexican municipal 

authorities, data base preparation and analysis, consulting written material found in 

U.S. and Mexican governmental information sources, recognized industry 

associations, public Geographical Information Systems (GIS), news sources, and 

related studies in similar regions, among others.

3.1 General information sources

The general information search dealt with the border region and social, 

economical and environmental characteristics including information about new, used 

and waste tires and their uses. This information was obtained from U.S. and 

Mexican governmental sources, industrial associations from both countries and 

complemented by news articles, academic thesis, and information obtained from 

telephonic interviews with tire related stakeholders. Sources included:

 U.S. Census Bureau 

 Mexican Statistics and Geography Institute (Instituto Nacional de 

Estadística y Geografia or INEGI)

 U.S. and Mexican tire related legislation of all levels of government

 United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

 Mexican Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources (Secretaria 

de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales or SEMARNAT)

 Rubber Manufacturers Association (RMA)
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 Mexican National Association of Tire Distributors and Renewal Plants 

(Asociacion Nacional de Distribuidores de Llantas y Plantas 

Renovadoras or ANDELLAC)

 Mexican Rubber Industry National Chamber (Camara Nacional de la 

Industria Hulera or CNIH)

 Telephonic interviews with municipal stakeholders.

 Fieldwork generated data.

3.1.1 Historical research

Historical research focused on tracing the flow of waste tires across the 

Texas-Mexico border and with other parts of the world. Sources for this information 

include telephone interviews, documents by industrial associations and previous 

related studies of the Texas-Mexico border and of regions similar to the study area.

The U.S.-Mexico border area has been in the past the focus of several 

environmental studies on the tire movement along and across the border. These 

studies were given a careful consideration to generate a standardized and 

defensible method for estimating the waste and used tire generation and demand.

Consulted previous tire flow studies and publications about the TexasMexico border include:

 Border 2012: US-Mexico border scrap tire inventory summary report 

2007.

 Border 2012: U.S.-Mexico environmental program indicators report 

2005.

 Public politics strategy proposal for the integral management of waste 

tires in the border region (BECC 2008)

 Scrap Tires in Ciudad Juarez and El Paso: Ranking the Risks by Allen 

Blackman and Alejandra Palma. September 2002.

 Innovative and practical approaches to solving border environmental 

problems 2009.

 Benítez, Ismael (2008). Evaluación de la Gestión Integral de Residuos 

Sólidos Urbanos en la Frontera Norte: los casos de Juárez, Reynosa 

y Tijuana. Tesis de Maestro en Administración Integral del Ambiente. 

El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, A.C. Mexico. 229 pp. 

Consultation of previous tire flow related studies and publications about 

regions similar to the Texas-Mexico border area covered:

 California-Mexico border.

 California.

 New Mexico.

 Mexico Federal District.

 Puerto Rico.

 Continental United States of America.

 The Americas
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3.1.2 Survey design and analysis

Survey design and analysis were done to gather quantitative and semiquantitative information regarding used and waste tire management and crossborder flow, as well as its trends/behaviors. Surveys were designed for the 

following:

Key stakeholders in Texas

a. Texas Commission on Environmental Quality

b. Texas State Health Department

c. Councils of governments.

d. City waste management authorities

e. City vector control authorities

f. City code enforcement authorities

g. Fire department

h. New tire dealers

i. Used tire dealers

j. Tire haulers

k. Collection stations

l. Storage facilities

m. Landfill managers

n. Industry associations

o. Processing and recycling facilities.

Key stakeholders in Mexico

a. Secretary of Economy (Secretaria de Economia or SE)

b. Federal Institute of Access to Information (Instituto Federal de Acceso 

a la Informacion or IFAI)

c. Tax Administration Service (Servicio de Administración Tributaria or 

SAT)

d. State of Nuevo Leon Environmental Ministry

e. Customs administrators

f. Municipal waste management authorities

g. Municipal civil guard authorities

h. Landfill managers

i. Processing and recycling facilities

j. Industry associations

k. Non-Government Organizations

These questionnaires were sent via email to all Mexican authorities and 

stakeholders in the contact directory presented as Attachments 1 and 2 of this 

report and were applied individually during U.S. fieldwork. This information was 

downloaded into Excel worksheets for processing. Questionnaires applied on both 

countries are presented in Attachment 3 (Texas) and Attachment 4 (Mexico) of 

this report.
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3.1.3 Interview planning

The content and style of the interviews (semi-structured) was developed by 

the team leader with the objective to gather all the information required by the 

designed surveys and record details that arise during a conversation style approach. 

This style was useful during face to face interviews, especially with public 

officials. Nevertheless, a structured question-answer approach was implemented 

when time-availability was an issue for the interviewee which was generally the case 

for business owners and managers as well as for officials interviewed via telephone.

3.1.4 Report write-up

Report write-up was based on the analysis of the information obtained 

during fieldwork and desktop activities.

Figures and maps were created on a Graphical Interface System software 

and graphical design software.

3.2 Fieldwork activities

Field-based research consisted of site visits to the thirteen (13) selected 

Texas cities plus Austin and Houston as well as a visit to Mexico Federal District for 

interviews with industrial association representatives. The information obtained was 

both quantitative and qualitative and even though the location of tire piles was 

requested, the research focused more on obtaining an estimation of the tire flow 

from Texas to Mexico as well as the state of the market in the study area.

Also during one day face to face quotations were obtained from used tire 

dealers in the cities of Ciudad Juarez, Reynosa and Matamoros.

The strategies for field work are reported below.

3.2.1 Road reconnaissance

Road reconnaissance trips to the thirteen border cities along the 

international crossings with population greater than 2,500 were performed on the 

Texas side of the border. 

The visits purpose was to identify the location of waste tire piles, reach 

relevant stakeholders, and assess the relationships and activities these 

stakeholders have with waste tires. The trips were of limited utility in identifying 

larger tire piles as required by the TOR, since most of these are located outside the 

cities in county back-roads and information on known locations was restricted due to 

administrative and legal procedures against dumpsite owners. However the 

remaining goals were fulfilled with these visits. Due to security reasons no fieldwork 

was performed on the Mexican side of the border.
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3.2.2 Interviews with key stakeholders

On the Texas side of the border 122 (one hundred and twenty two) face to 

face interviews were performed to gather the necessary data required to perform the 

tasks described above as well as to obtain quantitative and semi-quantitative 

information and trends/behaviors regarding used and waste tire management and 

cross-border flow. Emphasis was set for medium and small used tire dealers which 

represent more than 40% of the interviews.

Refer to Attachment 5 for detailed information on the Texas fieldwork 

itinerary which presents date of each interview, interviewer, county, city, type of 

stakeholder and public authority interviewed. The interviews followed a semistructured approach described in section 1.2.4 where some questions were planned 

and given to the interviewee but also additional information was recovered. The 

duration averaged 20 minutes for non-government officials and approximately 45 

minutes with public officials. 

The largest new and used tire dealers in each of the cities were sought to 

obtain estimated numbers from the bigger sellers and decrease the uncertainty gap 

of not interviewing a 100% of the dealers. All the U.S. cities identified in this study 

had at least one used tire dealer and was interviewed.

Face to face interviews in Mexico were conducted to:

 Waste management authorities of Ciudad Juarez and Matamoros

 Landfill representative of Ciudad Juarez

 ANDELLAC and CNIH representatives.

During one day face to face used tire price requests were performed in the 

Mexican cities of Juarez, Reynosa and Matamoros, yet for security reasons other 

cities and further field data in the Mexican side of the Texas-Mexico border was not 

requested.

3.3 Safety

The safety of all the personnel involved with the project was of outmost 

importance, especially those conducting field work activities. Following 

recommendations by the U.S. Department of State, minimum fieldwork was 

conducted on the Mexican side of the border.

Most interviews were sent via e-mail with a formal letter explaining the 

purpose of the project and the organizations involved. This because releasing any 

type of information represents a potential security threat to the Mexican officials.
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Private landfill managers requested an additional letter from the NADB 

project’s commissioner assuring that Integrated Environmental Management 

Services (IEMS) was hired to gather and perform the present study. It was provided 

to IEMS from NADB representatives on September 15, 2011 in both English and 

Spanish. This cooperation request letters are presented in Attachment 6.

3.4 Key Stakeholders

In order to assess the actual inflow of used and waste tires into Mexico 

from Texas a variety of stakeholders was interviewed.

Authorities and industry associations provided general estimations on the 

flow of these tires into Mexico. Tire dealers and haulers provided other details on 

the overall tire flow from Texas to Mexico.

All the stakeholders interviewed were asked to sign a permission letter to 

be quoted on this project; these letters are kept by IEMS as hard-copy and are 

available upon request.

Other stakeholders that have been identified are junkyard owners, 

community environmental leaders, and used tire customers.
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Chapter 2. 

Tire Flow 

Estimation
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1 Description of Tire Flows

As laid out in the terms of reference (TOR) provided by NADB, the 

purpose of this Chapter is:

“Estimation of the number of used and waste tires transported into 

Mexico from Texas, both legally and illegally, since 2005; of the total tires 

transported into Mexico, estimation of the number of tires sold for reuse, 

recycling, other tire derived products, and the number properly and illegally 

disposed of at landfills and dump sites in Mexico”; 

a. Estimate the number of tires that are being transported through Texas 

from other states, which may have either an environmental or 

economic effect on the Texas-Mexico Border. 

b. Look into and estimate if possible the number of tires that are being 

transported to the Texas-Mexico Border Region from countries 

outside the United States”.

The movement of tires is presented using a simple diagram, located on 

the following page as Figure 2.1, displaying the origin and destiny of tires used in 

Texas.

Between 2005 and 2011 the tire flow in the U.S.-Mexico border area, or a 

section of it, had already been mapped in two previous studies:

 California-Mexico border area. (California Integrated Waste 

Management Board produced under contract by Institute for Regional Studies of 

the Californias, San Diego State University , 2009)

 U.S.-Mexico border area. (Border Environment Cooperation 

Comission or BECC , 2008)

Both studies display very similar flows to that presented by IEMS with the 

exception of the addition of the classification between waste tires and used tires. 

This classifying process happens inside the tire merchant and tire transportation 

facilities (i.e., waste tire generators and transporters). 
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Figure 2.1. 

Tire flow in the State of Texas
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The Figure 2.1 shows that waste tires have their origin at the end of the 

useful life of new and used tires consumed by used and new tire users. When 

said users decide to renew their tires they acquire them from large new tire 

retailers, small and medium new and used tire retailers and/or from used tire 

retailers.

After the purchase users must decide whether to leave their waste tires 

or keeping them to illegally dispose of them, store them on their properties or take 

them to a public recycling or collection station.

Tires left with the retailers have diverse destinations. Large new tire 

retailers dispose of their waste tires using legal tire haulers that will either process 

waste tires and/or classify them to reintroduce the reusable ones into the market 

as used tires.

Small and medium new and used tire retailers as well as used tire 

retailers: hire legal tire haulers, rogue tire haulers, classify tires to resell the 

reusable ones, dispose of their waste tires by illegally dumping them or a 

combination of some or all of these alternatives.

In Texas before landfilling or burying waste tires on Land Reclamation 

Projects (LRP) they are cut or shredded, except for the case of illegal dumping 

sites. Waste tires are also sometimes shredded in order to use them as fuel in 

kilns as Tire Derived Fuel (TDF) or for other uses.

2 Methodology to estimate Tire Flows

There are primarily three distinct tire flows/movements:

1. Texas-Mexico.

2. U.S. -Texas international border.

3. Third country-Texas international border.

The first flow requires different levels of detailing:

a. Legal vs. illegal flow

b. Reuse vs. recycling vs. processing 

c. Proper disposal vs. illegal disposal

This chapter identifies the formulas and strategy that are used in 

estimating the tire flows.

Following sections describe the methods to estimate each of these flows 

and sub-flows.
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2.1 Texas-Mexico

2.1.1 Legal used tire flow

Formula 1.

Annual legal 

used tire flow =

Used tires to be 

commercialized 

flow +

Used tires in 

annual legal car 

imports flow +

Commercial used 

tires import from 

Texas for re-treading

2.1.1.1 Used tires to be commercialized

The Ministry of Economy (Secretaria de Economia or SE) is in charge of 

issuing importation permits for three regions in the U.S. – Mexico border. These 

permits are granted annually according to a global used tire import quota to 

people or companies dedicated to commercialization of used tires in these areas.

The used tire import quota also determined by the SE is based on:

 The volume of used tires imported the previous year and 

 Compliance with final disposal legislation. (Secretaria de Economia, 

2006)

The regions where used tire importation has been authorized and 

controlled by the SE are:

4. The state of Baja California.

5. Sonora State1.

6. Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua. 

Every year the number of authorized used tires for import or used tire 

import quota is established by the SE and divided between each of the three 

regions. For the purpose of this study the number of used tires legally imported 

was based on the quota established at the ports of entry in the region of Ciudad 

Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico. This is defined as Ciudad Juarez annual used tire 

import quota. Note that there is no legal import quota assigned to the rest of the 

Texas-Mexico border.

Formula 2.

Used tires to be 

commercialized flow =

Ciudad Juarez annual 

used tire import quota.

 

1

The area outlined on: Northborder line from the Colorado River to 10km west of Sonoita, Sonora. East A 

straight line from the border line 10km west of Sonoita to the coastline 10km east of Puerto Peñasco. South

The coastline from 10km west of Puerto Peñasco to the Colorado River. West Colorado river from the 

coastline to the border line. (Secretaria de Economia, 2006).
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Used Tire Legal Import Requirements for Commercialization Purposes

According to the Colombia international bridge customs administrator A. 

Diaz (personal communication, June, 28, 2011) there are several conditions that 

must be met to legally introduce used tires into Mexico. The legal import 

requirements are:

i. The used tire importer must be registered, as such, in the used tires 

importers record, kept by the Central Administration of Accounting and 

Explanation (Administracion Central de Contabilidad y Glosa or

ACCG) of the SAT.

ii. Retain a share of the authorized used tire import quota set by the 

Mexican Ministry of Economy (Secretaria de Economia or SE) for the 

year during which the import is performed. The used tire import quota 

is the maximum number of used tires that can enter through a portion 

of the U.S.-Mexico border in a particular year. It is specific for the type 

or origin of the used tires and is valid only for a particular year.

iii. Legal submission of an import petition to the customs authority of the 

point of entry through which the tires will enter Mexico. This has to be 

made by a customs agent and comply with the requirements set in the 

Annex 22 of the General Character Rules Regarding Exterior 

Commerce (Anexo 22 de las reglas de caracter general en materia de 

comercio exterior). Note: in order for the customs agent to submit an 

import petition other legal requirements must be met.

iv. Pay the import tariff (schedule) for each used tire entering Mexico. 

This varies depending on the year and it is defined in the Import and 

Export General Tax Law (Ley de los impuestos generales de 

importación y de exportacion) valid during importation.

Each item legally crossing the Mexican border has a numeric code or 

tariff item (schedule) assigned to it depending on how it is classified by the Import 

and Export General Tax Law (Ley de los Impuestos Generales de Importacion y 

Exportacion or LIGIE). The tariff items (schedules) assigned to used tires are

described in Table 2.1.

Table 2.1. 

Import Tariff assigned to used tires by the LIGIE

Tax

Item tariff 

(schedule) 

or code

Description Unit Import Export

4012.20.01

Used tires of the types used on vehicles for 

passenger or merchandise transport on roads, 

including tractors, or on special use vehicles

Piece AE2Ex.3

4012.20.99 Other type of used tires. Piece 20 Ex.

 

2 AE means Arancel Especifico or specific tax established in terms of articles 4 fraction I and 12 fraction II of the 

Exterior Commerce Law (Ley de Comercio Exterior).

3 Ex. Means exempt.
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2.1.1.2 Used Tire Flow for Legal Annual Car Imports 

Formula 3.

Used tires in annual 

legal car imports flow =

Annual legal 

car imports flow x

Average number 

of tires per car

2.1.1.3 Commercial used tires import for retreading

There are a different set of authorizations issued by the SE for the 

importation of commercial tires for the sole purpose of retreading in a Mexican 

facility. Only registered tire renovation facilities are assigned a used tires import 

quota for renovating purposes. Retreading passenger tires although possible is 

not economically viable (ANDELLAC, 2011). Without this tire renovating industry 

the commercial carriers in Mexico would go bankrupt given the cost of new tires. 

(CNIH, Rubber Industry National Chamber , 2011).

Used tires for retreading can be imported into Mexico through any legal 

port of entry following the used tire legal import requirements for retreading 

purposes.

For the purpose of this study the following formula will be applied:

Formula 4.

Commercial used tires import for 

retreading purposes entering from 

Texas

=

Used tires imported under legal import 

requirements for retreading purposes 

through any legal Texas-Mexico point of 

entry.

According to what was reported previously used tires to be 

commercialized may only be imported from the United States through the Ciudad 

Juarez, a portion of Sonora and Baja California border. 

Because of this, all used tires legally imported through any point of entry 

in the Texas-Mexico border, excepting Ciudad Juarez, will be assumed to be 

destined to retreading purposes. 

Except for the year 2005 when importing used tires for commercialization 

was not allowed4, this year all used tires imported through the Texas-Mexico 

border are assumed to be for retreading purposes.

 

4 According to the used tires annual import quotas authorized by the Economy Ministry for Ciudad Juarez. 

Information obtained through the federal access to public information institute (Instituto federal de Acceso a 

Informacion Publica, IFAI) request code 0001000025412.
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Used Tire Legal Import Requirements for Retreading 

In addition to the four legal import requirements described previously the 

import of used commercial tires for retreading is exclusive for persons and entities 

dedicated to tire retreading.

The authorizations are annual, unchangeable, and defined according to 

the following formulas:

Companies with importation background:

Annual assignation = (CI + PT) (X)

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Where:

CI: Installed capacity in number of pieces. 

PT: Total production of vulcanized tires.

PT= PN + PI

PN: Volume of vulcanized tires produced from used tires acquired in the 

Mexican market in the last 12 months.

PI: Volume of vulcanized tires produced from used tires imported 

directly by the company in the last 12 months.

X= 0.6 or (PI/PT) whichever is less.

PN and PI can never be greater than CI.

Companies without importation background:

Annual assignation = CI x 0.3

For both cases when the amount assigned is a fraction it’s rounded up to 

the next whole number.(Secretaria de Economia, 2006).

2.1.2 Illegal Used Tire Flow

The illegal flow of used and waste tires from Texas is a much more 

complex issue to estimate. This flow consists of very different streams and each 

must be estimated separately to determine the overall illegal flow. 

This study is based on information obtained from interviews on both 

sides of the border, data from the Tax Administration System (SAT), National 

Institute of Geography and Statistics (INEGI), Non Government Organizations, 

environmental studies and Mexican states public information, among others.

Information obtained from interviews includes tire-flow estimations from 

Mexican industry representatives and final destinations.
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It has been assumed that commercialization for profit is the driving force 

for the flow of tires. Therefore to estimate the tire flow from Texas into the TexasMexico border area it was assumed that:

Formula 5.

Used tire flow = Legal used tire flow + Illegal used tire flow

Formula 6.

Used tire flow is greater than or equal to the theoretical Mexico border 

area used tire demand.

Formula 7.

Theoretical 

Mexico 

border area 

used tire 

demand 

=

(

Theoretical Mexico 

border area tire demand -

Estimate of new tires sold in 

Mexico border area )

Percentage of useful life remaining on a Type 3 used tire

Used tires are classified depending on the amount of useful life 

remaining on their tread and general quality as follows:

Table 2.3. 

Commercial classification of used tires (IEMS Texas fieldwork)

Type of used tire Description

Special Semi new

Number 1 Aren’t toasted or cracked, evenly worn and 

have 60% of tread remaining.

Number 2 One side is more worn than the other, have 

20 to 40% of remaining tread.

Number 3 May be toasted or cracked, have less than 

20% of remaining tread.

Formula 8.

Estimate of new 

tires sold in 

Mexico border 

area

=

New tires sold 

per vehicle in 

the state x

Vehicles in 

each 

municipality
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Formula 9.

New tires sold per 

vehicle in the state =

New tires sold in the 

state

Vehicles in the state

Formula 10 a.

Theoretical 

Mexico border 

area tire 

demand

=

Vehicles in 

each 

municipality x

Tires 

per car x

Average 

annual 

mileage 

per tire

Average endurance of a new tire sold in Mexico

or

Formula 10 b.

Theoretical Mexico 

border area tire 

demand

=

Vehicles in each 

municipality x Tires per car

5 years

The reason two different formulas may be applied to estimate the 

theoretical Mexico border area tire demand is that tires may degrade more over 

time from elements exposure than from tread wear due to friction with the road 

surface.

“Rubber undergoes profound changes on storage that are accelerated at 

higher temperatures. Deleterious changes occur in tire properties after storage at 

ambient temperatures for five years or after use on cars for similar periods (U.S. 

Department of Transportation, 2006)”.

Basing tire demand only on degradation due to exposure to the ambient 

elements does not consider tires may be discarded earlier than when they are 5 

years old, but neither after this time, yet it provides an estimated number with 

which stakeholders may work and compare with other estimations.

Formula 11.

Illegal used 

tire flow ≥

Theoretical Mexico 

border area used 

tire demand -

Legal used 

tire flow

Formula 12.

Vehicles in each 

municipality =

Registered 

vehicles +

unregistered 

vehicles5

 

5 When available.
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To estimate the number of illegal and American vehicles in the Mexican 

border area two different formulas were applied.

Formula 13.

Unregistered 

vehicles =

Illegal 

vehicles +

American 

vehicles

Each car imported into Mexico through any point of entry in the TexasMexico border has at least 4 tires that presumably will eventually be disposed on 

the Mexican side of the border. For this reason every imported car through the 

bridges in Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas will be considered 

as four 4 tires.

Based on information from interviews with Mexican industrial 

associations most tires do not remain within the border area. The largest markets 

are the bigger cities such as Mexico City, Guadalajara, Monterrey, Puebla among 

others. One of the industrial associations interviewed estimated that at least 50% 

of tires that flow from the US into Mexico leave the border region to be sold further 

inland. 

2.1.3 Reuse, Recycling, Raw Material and Energy

After their initial intended use, tires can have a variety of destinations: 

reused in vehicles, recycled into alternative uses, processed for use as raw 

material for other products, burned to extract energy or disposed on the land.

Literature has some estimation on the proportion of tires that follow these 

different paths, and calculations were made using field data.

For the U.S. data are more centrally controlled by the Texas Commission 

on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) and those numbers were taken.

For Mexico, some municipalities had information on the amount of tires 

diverted to landfills and cement companies supplied data for the energy stream. 

The proportion of tires destined for recycling was estimated based on 

interviews and news sources; the reused fraction for Mexico is reported by 

industrial associations to be minimal. Finally the reused fraction in the Texas side 

of the border was requested through interviews with the tire recyclers and 

processors in the state.
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2.1.4 Proper and illegal disposal

Proper disposal in the U.S. side of the border is well documented by the 

TCEQ although in the City of Presidio there is no option for proper disposal of 

tires. Illegal disposal was documented during interviews to local code 

enforcement authorities and through the interviews with used and new tire 

dealers. 

Data on proper/legal disposal in Mexico were obtained from the local 

environmental authorities of each municipality.

Although not all Mexican municipalities possess adequate disposal 

facilities and management procedures, their storage sites for waste tires for the 

purposes of this study will be considered the proper disposal option for those 

specific regions. 

Attachments 7 and 8 display the proper disposal facilities, the 

approximate number of waste tires accumulated, location and management 

procedures in each of the Mexican municipalities.

2.2 Tires from Other U.S. States Arriving to the 

Texas-Mexico Border through Texas

The origin of used tires in Texas was obtained through interviews with 

local used tire dealers. There are no tire manufacturing facilities within Texas 

(interview e-mail with RMA) so all new tires sold or entering the study’s scope 

area is assumed to originate from one of the other 49 states, Canada, or another 

foreign country.

The origin of used tires that are being transported through Texas from 

other states, which are considered to have the greatest environmental or 

economic effect on the Texas-Mexico border based on information obtained 

through fieldwork on the Texan side of the border are:

 Alabama

 California

 Denver, Colorado

 Atlanta, Georgia

 Illinois

 Louisiana

 Michigan

 Minnesota

 Missouri 

 Las Vegas, Nevada

 Las Cruces, New Mexico

 New York

 Cincinnati and Fostoria, Ohio

 Pennsylvania
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Cities within Texas were mentioned in interviews on 57 occasions, New 

York on 5, Missouri and Ohio 3 times and the rest of the other states listed above 

only mentioned on 1 occasion.

On most of the interviews only the state of origin was mentioned by the 

interviewee. Some states were more mentioned than others as it is shown on the 

Figure 2.2.

This figure represents the states from which used tire dealers obtain their 

used tires for commercialization on the U.S. side of the Texas-Mexico border 

area. It’s assumed that 74% of the used tire dealers on said area acquire their 

used tires on Texan cities. 

A used tire dealer that obtains used tires from Texas may also acquire 

used tires from other states. The number of used tires brought to Texas from 

other parts of the U.S. is yet to be assessed.

No data regarding the number of used tires arriving to the Texas-Mexico 

border region from other American states was obtained during fieldwork or 

desktop interviews and activities reason for which it was not possible for IEMS to 

estimate the number of tires that are being transported through Texas from other 

states, which may have either an environmental or economic effect on the TexasMexico Border. Yet as this section presents a flow and states of origin have been 

positively identified.

2.3 Third Country-Texas-Texas border

Information on out-of-U.S. origins of used tires was obtained during the 

Texas interviews. The only third country mentioned, by only 1 of the interviewees, 

was Canada.

No data regarding the number of used tires arriving to the Texas-Mexico 

border region from other countries was obtained during fieldwork or desktop 

interviews and activities. 

Because of this, it was not possible for IEMS to estimate the number of 

tires that are being transported to the Texas-Mexico Border Region from countries 

outside the United States. Nevertheless the one country mentioned on one 

occasion during fieldwork activities is presented on Figure 2.3.
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Alabama

1%

California

1%

Colorado

1%

Georgia

1%

Illinois

1%

Louisiana

1%

Michigan

1%

Minnesota

1%

Nevada

1%

New Mexico

1%

Pennsylvania

1%

Missouri 

3%

Ohio

3%

New York

7%

Texas

74%

Figure 2.2. 

Used Tires Origin Presented by Used Tire Dealer Interviews
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3 Used and Waste Tires Flow from Texas to Mexico 

3.1 Used tires flow

The results of applying Formula 5 for estimating the used tires flow are 

presented in the table below.

Since the results presented on the Table 2.3 are not conclusive the 

Formula 6 criteria applies and as a result the used tire flow is concluded to be 

greater than or equal to the theoretical Mexico border area used tire demand

which is the following:

Figure 2.3 

Non U.S. Countries Identified as Origin of Used Tires Being Commercialized 

on the Texas-Mexico Border Area
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Table 2.3. 

Estimated number of used and waste tires transported 

into Mexico from Texas, both legally and illegally, from 

2005 to 2011

Year Used tire 

flow =

Legal used 

tire flow +

Illegal used 

tire flow1

2005 913,904 = 1,150,217 + -236,313

2006 1,431,049 = 4,047,031 + -2,615,982

2007 847,033 = 3,830,992 + -2,983,959

2008 997,133 = 2,666,779 + -1,669,646

2009 1,227,711 = 1,511,013 + -283,302

2010 1,396,641 = 1,771,468 + -374,827

2011 1,576,431 = 2,175,990 + -599,559

Total 8,389,903 = 17,153,490 + -8,763,587

1

The negative numbers indicate that the used tire demand can theoretically be 

supplied by the legal used tire imports. 

Table 2.4. 

Minimum estimated used tire 

flow

Year

Theoretical Mexico border 

area used tire demand 

(used tires)

2005 913,904

2006 1,431,049

2007 847,033

2008 997,133

2009 1,227,711

2010 1,396,641

2011 1,576,431

Total 8,389,903

3.2 Waste tires flow

No evidence or data of relevant waste tire imports was obtained during 

fieldwork or deskwork activities. Yet it is relevant to note that waste tires may be 

imported accidentally when importing used tires in wholesale shipments where 

both types of tires are mixed.
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10%

79%

11%

.

Ciudad Juarez annual used tire import 

quota 

Used tires in annual legal car imports 

flow

Commercial used tires import for 

retreading entering from Texas.

3.3 Legal used tires flow

The following table was created by applying Formula 1, employing data 

obtained from applying Formulas 2, 3 and 4.

Table 2.5. 

Annual legal used tire flow estimations

Year Annual legal 

used tire flow =

Ciudad Juarez 

annual used tire 

import quota 

+

Used tires in 

annual legal 

car imports 

flow

+

Commercial used 

tires import for 

retreading entering 

from Texas

2005 1,150,217 = 0 + 981,760 + 168,457

2006 4,047,031 = 340,000 + 3,487,632 + 219,399

2007 3,830,992 = 340,000 + 3,216,956 + 274,036

2008 2,666,779 = 340,000 + 2,050,160 + 276,619

2009 1,511,013 = 340,000 + 871,940 + 299,073

2010 1,771,468 = 191,100 + 1,237,316 + 343,052

2011 2,175,990 = 198,400 + 1,602,692 + 374,898

Total 17,153,490 = 1,749,500 + 13,448,456 + 1,955,534

Note: Cells highlighted in blue present the final results.

The Figure 2.4 illustrates how legal vehicle imports impact the used tire 

import flow. Used tires mounted on imported vehicles represent almost 80% of the 

legal used tires import flow.

Figure 2.4 

Legal used tire import flows through the Texas-Mexico border
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3.3.1 Ciudad Juarez Annual Used Tire Import Quota

The following table was created by applying Formula 2, employing data 

obtained from the Economy Ministry through IFAI.

Table 2.6. 

Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua

Annual Used Tire Import Quota 

Year Used tires legally imported per year

2005 0

2006 340,000

2007 340,000

2008 340,000

2009 340,000

2010 191,100

2011 198,400

Total 1,749,500

Note: Cells highlighted in violet present data employed in further calculations

Source: Internal Commerce and Digital Economy General Direction of the Mexican Ministry of Economy 

(SE), through the Federal Institute of Information Access (IFAI).

3.3.2 Used Tires in Annual Legal Car Imports Flow

The following table was created by applying Formula 3, employing data 

obtained from the Tax Administration System (SAT) commercial imports balance 

report.

Table 2.7. 

Used Tires Flow For Annual Legal Car Imports 

Imported vehicles each year per scope state (Vehicles) Annual 

legal car 

imports 

flow (cars)

Average 

number of 

tires per 

car (used 

tires/car)

Used tires in 

car imports 

flow 

(used tires)

State/ 

Year Chihuahua Coahuila Nuevo Leon Tamaulipas

2005 58,482 16,074 26,183 144,701 245,440 4 981,760

2006 202,076 46,702 101,275 521,855 871,908 4 3,487,632

2007 132,624 28,375 14,351 628,889 804,239 4 3,216,956

2008 73,993 15,254 532 422,761 512,540 4 2,050,160

2009 42,805 10,338 1,346 163,496 217,985 4 871,940

2010 91,073 10,665 1,976 205,615 309,329 4 1,237,316

2011p 68543p 8965p 9960p 151056p 238524p 4 1,602,692

Total 669,596 136,373 155,623 2,238,373 3199965p 4 13,448,456

p= information obtained until August 2011. Used tires in car imports flow data for year 2011 was linearly extrapolated from imports on years 

2009 and 2010.

Source: (Tax Administration Service or SAT, 2011)

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3.3.3 Commercial Used Tire Import Entering From Texas For 

Retreading

The following table was created by applying Formula 4, employing data 

obtained from the Tributary Administration System (SAT) commercial imports 

balance report.

Table 2.8 

Import for retreading flow

Year Used tires import for retreading

20051168,457

2006 219,399

2007 274,036

2008 276,619

2009 299,073

20102343,052

20112374,898

Total21,955,534

1Estimated by adding all used tire legal imports through the Texas-Mexico 

border including the Ciudad Juarez border since no legal import quota existed 

in 2005 for this area.

2

From June 2010 to December 2011 import data was obtained through a 

linear extrapolation with a R2of 0.901

Note: Cells highlighted in violet present data employed in further calculations.

From the information presented on Tables 2.5 thru 2.8, the legal flow of 

used tires from 2005 to 2011 is estimated on:

17,153,490 tires units

3.4 Illegal Used Tire Flow

The results obtained by applying Formula 11 are shown in Table 2.9. 

The results obtained from the estimation of the illegal used tire flow being 

negative shouldn’t be interpreted as a negative flow of used tires into Texas, it 

should be interpreted as a sign that the current used tire imports could 

theoretically supply the Mexican scope border region used tire demand. 

Actually the legal used tire flow could theoretically supply more than two 

times the estimated used tire demand of the Texas-Mexico border region as the 

table above displays.
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Table 2.9. 

Theoretical illegal used tire flow 

Year

Theoretical Mexico 

border area used 

tire demand 

(Used tires)

Legal used tire 

flow 

(Used tires)

Minimum illegal 

used tire flow 

(Used tires)

2005 913,904 1,150,217 -236,313

2006 1,431,049 4,047,031 -2,615,982

2007 847,033 3,830,992 -2,983,959

2008 997,133 2,666,779 -1,669,646

2009 1,227,711 1,511,013 -283,302

2010 1,396,641 1,771,468 -374,827

2011 1,576,431 2,175,990 -599,559

Total 8,389,903 17,153,490 -8,763,587

Assessing the reason for this surplus in used tire offer crossing the 

Texas-Mexico border is not part of this study scope and will not be further 

addressed. Yet it is important to note that the National Rubber Industry Chamber 

(Camara Nacional de la Industria Hulera, CNIH) associates have detected used 

tire shipments in large Mexican cities further south of the border such as 

Guadalajara and the Federal District. 

Based on the fact that both fieldwork and desktop interviews with key 

stakeholders report the existence of an illegal flow of used tires from Texas into 

Mexico it would be safe to imply that a demand larger than the one of the border 

area is being supplied by both legal and illegal used tire flows. 

As a general conclusion the results obtained from estimating the illegal 

used tire flow from Texas into Mexico based only on the Mexican border region 

demand greatly underestimates the actual illegal used tire flow. 

3.5 Theoretical Mexico Border Area Used Tire 

Demand

The following table was created applying Formula 7.

Table 2.10. 

Theoretical Mexico border area used tire demand 

Year

Theoretical Mexico 

border area tire 

demand (New tires)

New tires sold in 

Mexico border 

area (New tires)

Percentage of 

useful life 

remaining on a 

type 3 used tire

Theoretical 

Mexico border 

area used tire 

demand 

(Used tires)

2005 1,187,359 1,004,579 20% 913,904

2006 1,284,582 998,372 20% 1,431,049
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Table 2.10. 

Theoretical Mexico border area used tire demand 

Year

Theoretical Mexico 

border area tire 

demand (New tires)

New tires sold in 

Mexico border 

area (New tires)

Percentage of 

useful life 

remaining on a 

type 3 used tire

Theoretical 

Mexico border 

area used tire 

demand 

(Used tires)

2007 1,143,229 973,822 20% 847,033

2008 1,173,809 974,383 20% 997,133

2009 1,204,539 958,997 20% 1,227,711

2010 1,250,011 970,683 20% 1,396,641

2011 1,268,284 952,998 20% 1,576,431

3.6 New Tires Sold In Mexico Border Area

The following table was created applying Formula 8.

Table 2.11. 

Estimate of new tires sold in Mexico border area

State Year/ 

municipality 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011

Chihuahua

Juarez 416,968 425,118 412,214 421,011 408,506 418,673 397,449

Ojinaga 6,243 5,992 5,781 5,808 5,681 5,582 5,362

Coahuila de 

Zaragoza

Acuña 22,784 19,264 19,045 18,196 17,161 17,035 16,503

Piedras Negras 40,994 33,593 33,584 32,559 31,302 31,478 30,494

Nava 4,195 4,151 3,998 3,904 3,888 3,832 3,713

Nuevo León Anahuac 5,072 5,037 4,926 4,989 4,878 4,761 4,619

Tamaulipas

Nuevo Laredo 67,922 67,836 67,459 63,332 61,167 60,379 62,417

Guerrero 1,595 1,535 1,096 1,181 1,169 1,147 1,088

Miguel Aleman 9,136 9,040 7,270 7,806 7,610 7,450 7,278

Camargo 5,695 5,748 4,621 4,963 4,935 4,918 4,982

Gustavo Diaz 

Ordaz 5,090 4,907 3,437 3,755 3,743 3,740 3,587

Reynosa 153,971 155,792 200,467 174,800 178,650 181,047 185,913

Rio Bravo 26,659 25,660 20,199 22,752 22,404 22,525 22,482

Matamoros 238,255 234,699 189,725 209,328 207,903 208,116 207,112

Total 1,004,579 998,372 973,822 974,383 958,997 970,683 952,998

Note: Cells highlighted in violet present data employed in further calculations.
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3.6.1 New Tires Sold Per Vehicle In The State

The following data was obtained through the application of Formula 9 

using information obtained from ANDELLAC and INEGI.

Table 2.12. 

New tires sold per vehicle in the state

Year / New tires sold 

per vehicle in the state 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011

Chihuahua 0.75 0.68 0.68 0.66 0.63 0.62 0.60

Coahuila de Zaragoza 0.72 0.72 0.70 0.64 0.66 0.64 0.62

Nuevo Leon 0.90 0.81 0.75 0.72 0.69 0.66 0.62

Tamaulipas 0.62 0.57 0.68 0.67 0.64 0.62 0.60

Note: Cells highlighted in violet present data employed in further calculations.

3.6.2 New tires sold in each State

Table 2.13. 

New tires sold each year in each State

Year 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011

New tires sold in 

Chihuahua 750,000 750,000 750,000 750,000 750,000 750,000 750,000

New tires sold in 

Coahuila de 

Zaragoza

450,000 450,000 450,000 450,000 450,000 450,000 450,000

New tires sold in 

Nuevo Leon 1,300,000 1,300,000 1,300,000 1,300,000 1,300,000 1,300,000 1,300,000

New tires sold in 

Tamaulipas 600,000 600,000 600,000 600,000 600,000 600,000 600,000

Source: (ANDELLAC, 2011)

3.6.3 Vehicles registered in each State

Table 2.14. 

Number of vehicles in each State

Year/ 

Registered 

vehicles in the 

state of

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 e

Chihuahua 1,001,292 1,105,386 1,099,296 1,135,634 1,181,161 1,207,220 1,250,995

Coahuila de 

Zaragoza 622,732 626,344 646,417 703,447 679,745 707,121 728,219

Nuevo Leon 1,451,581 1,605,120 1,743,646 1,812,944 1,890,350 1,975,586 2,101,039

Tamaulipas 971,514 1,054,922 876,005 892,820 932,874 969,753 998,188

Source: State and Municipal data base System or SIMBAD, ( INEGI, 2005 to 2010)

2011 e: extrapolated with lineal equations 82% to 97% accurate
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3.6.4 Vehicles in each Municipality

The number of vehicles in each municipality was obtained by applying

Formula 12 in the table below, employing data from INEGI and vehicle emissions 

studies performed by a NGO and the Mexican National Ecology Institute.

Table 2.15. 

Vehicles in each municipality per year

State Year/ 

municipality 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011

Chihuahua

Juarez1555,958 625,174 606,197 637,896 648,422 675,280 662,414

Ojinaga 8,324 8,812 8,501 8,800 9,017 9,003 8,936

Coahuila de 

Zaragoza

Acuña 31,644 26,756 27,207 28,431 26,002 26,617 26,617

Piedras Negras 56,936 46,657 47,977 50,873 47,427 49,184 49,184

Nava 5,826 5,765 5,712 6,100 5,891 5,988 5,988

Nuevo León Anahuac 5,635 6,218 6,568 6,929 7,070 7,214 7,450

Tamaulipas

Nuevo Laredo 109,552 119,010 99,204 94,525 95,573 97,385 104,028

Guerrero 2,573 2,693 1,612 1,762 1,827 1,850 1,813

Miguel Aleman 14,736 15,860 10,691 11,650 11,890 12,016 12,130

Camargo 9,185 10,084 6,796 7,408 7,711 7,932 8,304

Diaz Ordaz 8,210 8,609 5,055 5,604 5,848 6,033 5,978

Reynosa1248,340 273,320 294,804 260,896 279,141 292,012 309,856

Rio Bravo 42,998 45,018 29,705 33,958 35,007 36,330 37,470

Matamoros1384,283 411,752 279,007 312,430 324,848 335,670 345,187

Total number of vehicles in all 

scope municipalities 1,484,199 1,605,727 1,429,036 1,467,262 1,505,674 1,562,514 1,585,355

1 Vehicles in the municipalities of Juarez (Chihuahua), Reynosa and Matamoros (Tamaulipas) consider that the percentage of 

unregistered and registered vehicles was constant on years 2005 to 2011. The amounts were estimated dividing the registered 

number of vehicles in a particular year by the registered vehicles percentage measured in vehicular atmospheric emissions studies.

Note: Cells highlighted in violet present data employed in further calculations.

3.6.5 Registered Vehicles

Table 2.16. 

Registered Vehicles In Each Municipality

State Year/ 

municipality 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011

Chihuahua Juarez 383,611 431,370 418,276 440,148 447,411 465,943 457,066

Ojinaga 8,324 8,812 8,501 8,800 9,017 9,003 8,936

Coahuila de 

Zaragoza

Acuña 31,644 26,756 27,207 28,431 26,002 26,617 26,617

Piedras Negras 56,936 46,657 47,977 50,873 47,427 49,184 49,184

Nava 5,826 5,765 5,712 6,100 5,891 5,988 5,988
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Table 2.16. 

Registered Vehicles In Each Municipality

State Year/ 

municipality 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011

Nuevo León Anahuac 5,635 6,218 6,568 6,929 7,070 7,214 7,450

Tamaulipas

Nuevo Laredo 109,552 119,010 99,204 94,525 95,573 97,385 104,028

Guerrero 2,573 2,693 1,612 1,762 1,827 1,850 1,813

Miguel Aleman 14,736 15,860 10,691 11,650 11,890 12,016 12,130

Camargo 9,185 10,084 6,796 7,408 7,711 7,932 8,304

Diaz Ordaz 8,210 8,609 5,055 5,604 5,848 6,033 5,978

Reynosa 216,746 238,548 257,299 227,705 243,629 254,862 270,436

Rio Bravo 42,998 45,018 29,705 33,958 35,007 36,330 37,470

Matamoros 144,765 155,113 105,106 117,697 122,375 126,452 130,037

Source: State and Municipal data base System (SIMBAD) (INEGI, 2005 to 2011).

Cells highlighted in red present data from the previous year since INEGI doesn't report data for the year 2011 in the state of 

Coahuila.

3.6.6 Unregistered Vehicles

Data regarding the percentage of unregistered vehicles circulating was 

partially available for the cities of Ciudad Juarez, Reynosa and Matamoros. 

Based on Formula 13, the percentage USA vehicles and vehicles with 

no plates or plates from other states are added to estimate the unregistered 

vehicles percentage in each of the mentioned cities. For the purpose of this study 

vehicles with plates from other states are considered unregistered.

Table 2.17. 

Percentages that unregistered vehicles represent in key scope cities

Circulating 

vehicles 

status

City Matamoros, 2008 Reynosa, 2008 Ciudad 

Juarez, 2006

Plates type

Sample size 

(circulating 

vehicles)

Percentage

Sample size 

(circulating 

vehicles)

Percentage Percentages 

reported

Registered 

vehicles

State 4,603 24.2%

38%

5,512 46.0%

87%

26%

69%

Border 2,564 13.5% 4,957 41.3% 43%

Un 

registered 

vehicles

USA 4,994 26.2%

62%

1,521 12.7%

13%

13%

31%

Other1

6,864 36.1% 5 0.0% 18%

Total 19,025 100.0% 100% 11,995 100.0% 100% 100% 100%

Source General Direction of Urban and Regional Atmospheric Contamination (Dirección General de Investigación sobre la 

Contaminación Urbana y Regional) , 2010

Mario Molina Center for Energy and Environmental Strategic Studies A.C., 2006

1 Other refers to vehicles with no plates or having plates from other Mexican states.

Note: Cells highlighted in violet present data employed in further calculations.
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3.7 Theoretical Mexico Border Area Tire Demand

In the following Table Formula 10b and its criteria was applied to obtain 

the reported data.

Table 2.18. 

Theoretical Mexico border area tire 

demand

Year

Total number of 

Vehicles in all 

scope 

municipalities

Tires 

per car

New tires 

theoretical 

demand

2005 1,484,199 4 1,187,359

2006 1,605,727 4 1,284,582

2007 1,429,036 4 1,143,229

2008 1,467,262 4 1,173,809

2009 1,505,674 4 1,204,539

2010 1,562,514 4 1,250,011

2011 1,585,355 4 1,268,284

3.8 Reuse, recycling & processing

No relevant information regarding tires sold for reuse, recycling or for 

other tire derived products in the Texas-Mexico border region was reported or 

provided by any interviewed stakeholder. For this reason no estimations regarding 

this subject were made in this report.

3.9 Proper disposal vs. Illegal disposal

3.9.1 Proper disposal

Attachments 7 and 8 display the proper disposal facilities, the 

approximate number of waste tires accumulated, location and management 

procedures in each of the Mexican scope municipalities.

3.9.2 Illegally disposed

No conclusive data regarding illegal waste tire disposal was obtained 

from the interviewed Mexican stakeholders. Attachments 9, 10 and 11 present 

maps and potential illegal tire disposal location coordinates on the Mexican side 

of the Texas-Mexico border region.
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Waste Tires 

Ultimate Disposal 

Locations
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1 Chapter Description

“Significant Tire Pile” and “Dump Sites” shall be defined as any tire 

pile or dump site with more than 500 tires.

IEMS created a geo-referenced directory of the tire piles (known) 

locations in the Mexican side of Texas-Mexico border region (Region) presented 

as Attachment 7 of this report. Also a list including who is responsible for site 

management and the operation inflow and outflow management procedures of 

each site is presented as Attachment 8. A waste tires being transported from 

Texas into Mexico ultimate disposal locations display map is presented as 

Attachment 9 where each pile can be identified through its Id. Number using

Attachments 7 and 8 as a reference guide. 

In addition a geo-referenced potential waste tire generators location list 

is presented as Attachment 10. A geo-referenced list of possible illegal tire piles 

is shown as Attachment 11 and display maps with the identified locations of 

possible junkyards, possible illegal tire piles and the piles reported on 

Attachments 9, 10 and 11 are displayed for each Mexican city in the study ́s 

scope as Attachment 12.

The methodology developed and activities performed to obtain this 

information, the results of these methods and their graphical display using Excel 

tables and Geographical Information systems (GIS) are included in this report.

2 Methodology

IEMS’ methods for this Chapter focused on desktop work aimed at 

acquiring both quantitative and qualitative information.

Data collected includes quantitative and qualitative information; some of 

which was estimated based on observations and interviews. There is a clear 

distinction on the type of data used so that NADB and its designated users can 

support their assumptions and projections stated in this project.

2.1 Desktop Strategies

IEMS envisioned that the use of both desktop-based research and field 

data would result in a well-rounded study that offers its users a solid platform that 

reflects the day to day reality of the tire issues along the Texas-Mexico border 

region.
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Desktop-based research consisted on the review of available literature 

sources, online regional periodic publications, electronic correspondence and/or 

conferencing with key stakeholders.

This was done primarily through telephone calls with Mexican municipal 

authorities and key stakeholders, data base preparation and analysis, consulting 

written material found in U.S. and Mexican governmental information sources, 

recognized industry associations, public Geographical Information Systems, news 

sources, and related studies in the region, among others.

Location of waste tire dumps sites was assessed through directions 

obtained from stakeholders interviewed, the border tire network tire pile database

( U.S.-Mexico Border 2012) and online periodic news sources that described the 

location settings and/or surroundings. A list of the key stakeholders interviewed is 

presented as Attachment 2.

The areas geographical coordinates were obtained using public 

Geographical Information Systems (GIS), primarily the GoogleTM Earth software, 

by visually searching the sites following the directions given by the sources 

mentioned on the paragraph above. 

No fieldwork was performed on the Mexican side of the Region because 

of security reasons. No confirmation visits, using Global Positioning Systems 

(GPS) devices were performed in order to verify the accuracy of the data obtained 

from the sources. Nevertheless only sites that were visually consistent to what 

was described by the Mexican stakeholders were selected as dump sites.

2.1.1 Review of available literature

The location of waste tires piles along the Texas-Mexico region had been 

the focus of the following publications:

 Border 2012: U.S.-Mexico Border Scrap Tire Inventory Summary 

Report. (United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 

2007)

 Border Tire Network, Tire Pile Information (Border 2012, 2011)

The tire pile sites reported on the documents above mentioned were 

taken as a base to perform the actual Chapter 3 in order to determine the final 

disposal locations of waste tires that are being transported from Texas into 

Mexico.

2.1.2 Visual search of potential waste tire generators

Based on the Used Tires Legal Car Import Flow, approximately 

12,800,000 used tires cross the Texas-Mexico border mounted on imported used 

American vehicles.
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It is presumed that junkyards and used car lots along the Mexican border 

areas dispose of their waste tires within their own property or indefinitely store 

them onsite as observed along the US side of the border. This was confirmed by 

interviews with stakeholders. Note that it was not possible for the authorities to 

verify if waste tires are accumulated or stored within this business sites unless the 

piles are visible from outside.

Final disposal authorization of tires along most of the border is not 

required during the importation of a used vehicle. This is contrary to the 

requirements for the legal used tire importers in Ciudad Juarez as it is explained 

in Chapter 2.

Figure 3.1. shows an example of waste tire accumulation with several 

junkyards. The first image was taken on a presummed illegal tire pile on the 

outskirts of Reynosa City in the state of Tamaulipas, Mexico (U.S. Geological 

Survey, 2009). The other two images are of presummed illegal tire sites in Ciudad 

Juarez in the State of Chihuahua, Mexico (GoogleTM Earth software, 2008).

Figure 3.1.

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IEMS performed a visual search of junk yards of all sizes and used car 

lots on the Mexican cities of the Region using available public Geographical 

Information Systems (GIS) in order to assess the potential final destination of the 

used and waste tires mounted on imported vehicles from Texas into Mexico. This 

list is presented as Attachment 10 of this Chapter.

Also a geo-referenced list of possible illegal tire piles found during this 

search is presented as Attachment 11 of this report. Display maps with the 

location of all possible junkyards identified as well as possible illegal tire piles and 

the piles reported on Attachments 1, 2 and 3 are displayed for each Mexican city 

in the study scope as Attachment 12.

IEMS established criteria to differentiate between normally parked cars 

and those that are abandoned or have been junked. These criteria consisted of:

 Vehicles arranged in a way one or more of them wouldn ́t be able to 

be driven out of its location without moving other vehicles.

 Vehicles visibly broken in pieces and/or surrounded by other junk.

 Vehicles are not adjacent to a sizeable building as to be a large 

parking lot.

 Parking spaces are not painted on the floor and one or more of the 

above criteria.

These criteria were used with GoogleTM Earth Software as follows:

1. A search designated area including each urban area was defined and 

sketched.

2. All major entrance routes and avenues of each city were followed in 

order to identify Junkyards or used vehicle dealerships outside of the 

designated areas.

3. A methodical search at an altitude that varied from 250 to 700 meters 

above ground was performed over the entire designated area. 
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Environmental 

and Economic 

Impacts of the 

Waste Tire Flow 

from Texas into 

Mexico
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1 Environmental and Economic Impacts of the 

Waste Tire Flow from Texas into Mexico

This assessment considered, but was not limited to, the following 

determinations:

a. Estimation the amount of revenue per tire, per year since 2005 

generated from the sale of used tires to Mexico; 

b. Estimation of the disposal cost per tire in Texas and Mexico Border 

Region;

c. Identification of significant tire piles and estimation of the potential cost 

to clean up these tire piles in the Texas-Mexico Border Region. This 

included options for clean-up of those tire piles, e.g. dig a hole and 

bury or transport to another facility.

d. Estimation of the current potential cost to extinguish fires and 

remediate environmental, public health, and economic impacts (e.g., 

crop damage) should any of the major tire piles in the region set 

ablaze. This included estimates of firefighting agency costs on both 

sides of the Texas-Mexico Border Region.

e. Provide a history of known environmental health hazards associated 

with past or current waste tire piles located in regions with ecosystems 

similar to the Texas-Mexico Border Region 

f. Estimation of the potential cost to remediate the environmental health 

threats associated with disease carrying vectors located in tire piles 

along the Texas-Mexico Border Region. 

IEMS’ methodology for this Chapter consisted on desktop and some 

fieldwork aimed at acquiring both quantitative and qualitative information.

Data collected includes quantitative and qualitative information; some of 

which was estimated based on observations and interviews. There is a clear 

distinction on the type of data used so that NADB and its designated users can 

support their assumptions and projections stated in this project.

1.1 Revenue per tire, per year since 2005 generated 

from the sale of used tires to Mexico

To estimate the amount of revenue per tire, per year since 2005

generated from the sale of used tires to Mexico the following definition was 

considered:
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“Revenue” is the amount of money received by the whole used tires 

commercialization chain, from wholesaler in Texas to retailer in Mexico, during a 

specific period of time. As presented on Figure 4.1. of this report and Figure 2.1.

of the Chapter 2 Report, used tires are reintroduced into the market, with 

commercialization purposes, after being separated from waste tires. Before this 

classification process, used tires are considered a residue (waste tires). For this 

reason the wholesale price at which used tires are acquired by the person 

performing the classification process is considered to be of $0 US dollars for the 

purposes of this study. 

Based on the past statement the only revenue contemplated for the 

commercialization chain of used tires, from wholesaler in Texas to retailer in 

Mexico, will be the one obtained through the retailing of used tires in the Mexican 

side of the border. A diagram explaining this thoroughly is following presented as 

Figure 4.2.

In the Classifying process used tires are separated from waste tires and sent to the 

Mexican market, before this classifying process they are all considered waste tires for 

the purposes of this study.

Figure 4.1. 

Diagram of the used tire flow from Texas into Mexico with commercialization 

purposes
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1.1.1 Revenue per tire of year 2012

Based on the past statement the actual, year 2012 up to March, revenue 

per tire was estimated as follows:

Estimating the amount of revenue per tire, per year since 2005 to 2011 

generated from the sale of used tires to Mexico using the data obtained from 

fieldwork face to face quotations posses a large amount of uncertainty. This given 

the fact that the sources of data about past price variations are vague estimations 

performed by the Mexican used tire dealers during face to face quotation 

requests. 

In order to perform the required estimation IEMS assumed that the data 

obtained from the used tire retailers is accurate. Because no price increase rate 

or specific increase dates were obtained, IEMS estimated a revenue range, rather 

than a single number, of what the revenues per tire may have been in any 

determined period of time between January 2005 and April 2012. 

Also the exact proportion of type 2 and type 3 used tires loaded in the 

trucks that transport used tires from Texas into Mexico is unknown, nevertheless 

fieldwork in the Mexican side of the border revealed that both types of used tires 

are crossing the border. 

Figure 4.2. 

Texas-Mexico used tires commercialization chain revenue flow diagram
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To estimate the revenue per tire IEMS estimated the mean revenue for 

each rim size and type of used tires that are commonly crossed. Afterwards, 

based on the fieldwork reported tire size preferences of Mexican used tire 

consumers, estimated the mean revenue per tire of all tires sold in the Mexican 

side of the border by type. Finally the range mentioned above, rather than an 

exact amount, is presented to shed some light on what is the minimum and 

maximum plausible real value of the mean revenue per tire from 2005 to 2012.

Another factor affecting the revenue obtained from the export of used 

tires to the Mexican side of the border, from Texas, is the dollar exchange value in 

reference to the Mexican peso. An increase in the dollar value decreases the 

revenue and the other way around, if dollar value decreases the revenue is 

maximized.

The mean revenue range’s minimum and maximum extremes to estimate 

the revenue per tire of years 2005 to 2012 are based on three factors:

1. How the US dollars exchange value has varied in reference to the 

Mexican peso in the 2005 to 2012 period of time.

2. The quality and remaining tread (type) of the used tires in the TexasMexico tire flow.

3. The increase of used tire prices since 2005, reported by used tire 

dealers in the Mexican side of the border.

The lowest revenue per tire per year was estimated based on the 

following:

 The highest daily dollar value exchange of each year.

 That all used tires sold are type 3 (0% to 20% of remaining tread).

 That the lowest price reported, by used tire dealers in Mexican scope 

cities, for type 3 used tires was charged.

In the other hand, the highest revenue per tire per year was estimated 

based on the following:

 The lowest daily dollar value exchange of each year.

 That all used tires sold are type 2 (20% to 40% of remaining tread).

 That the highest (current) price reported, by used tire dealers in 

Mexican scope cities, for type 2 used tires was charged.

The following assumptions are also considered:

 Mexican’s rim size preferences when buying used tires haven’t 

changed since 2005.

Questions applied to used tire retailers can be consulted on Attachment 

13 of this report. The mathematical formulas employed to estimate the price range 

are the following:
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Formula 1.

n

Lowest revenue 

per tire per year 

(US dollars / 

used tire)

= ∑ (

Mexican’s specific rim size 

preference when buying 

used tires (percentage)

X

Lowest mean revenue per rim size of 

used tire in the 2005-2012 period in 

representative Mexican scope cities 

(US dollars / used tire)

)

i

i=1

n= rim sizes considered

Formula 2.

n

Mexican’s specific rim 

size preference when 

buying used tires 

(percentage)

= (Π

Rim size preference per 

representative city when buying 

used tires from retailers whose 

used tires come from USA 

(percentage) )

Λ 1 / n

i =1

n= number of Mexican representative scope 

cities.

Formula 3.

Rim size preference per 

representative city when buying 

used tires from retailers whose 

used tires come from USA 

(percentage)

=

Mentions of a specific rim size

n X 100%

∑ (

Mentions of a specific 

rim size ) i

i=1

n= amount of rim sizes considered

Formula 4.

n

Mentions of a 

specific rim size = ∑ (

Specific rim size mentioned, as more sold, by 

used tire dealers, in a Mexican representative 

city, whose used tires come from USA ) i

i=1

n= number of quotations

Specific rim size mentioned, as more 

sold, by used tire dealers, in a 

Mexican representative city, whose 

used tires come from USA

→ Quotations from used tire 

retailers in representative 

Mexican scope cities 
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Formula 5.

Lowest mean revenue per rim size 

of used tire in the 2005-2012 

period in representative Mexican 

scope cities 

(US dollars / used tire)

=

Lowest mean revenue per tire in 

Mexican scope citiesi

(Mexican pesos / used tire)

(FIX) maximum daily value of the US dollar in a specific 

year of the 2005 - 2012 period

 (Mexican pesos / US dollar)

(FIX) minimum and maximum daily 

values of the US dollar in a specific 

year of the 

2005 - 2012 period 

(Mexican pesos / US dollar)

→

Bank of Mexico, 

BANXICO (FIX), 

2005-2012

Formula 6.

Lowest mean revenue 

per tire in Mexican 

scope cities i(Mexican 

pesos / used tire)

n

= ( Π

Minimum mean revenue per 

tire in a specific Mexican cityi

(Mexican pesos /used tire) ) Λ 1 / n

i =1

n= number of Mexican representative scope cities.

Formula 7.

Minimum mean revenue 

per tire in a specific 

Mexican city i (Mexican 

pesos / used tire)

=

Current mean revenue of type 3 used tires per 

rim size in a specific Mexican scope city 

(Mexican pesos /used tire)

1 +

Mean price increase in a Mexican 

representative scope city since 2005 

(percentage)

Formula 8.

n

Highest revenue 

per tire per year 

(US dollars / 

used tire)

= ∑ (

Mexican’s specific 

rim size preference

when buying used 

tires (percentage)

X

Highest mean revenue per rim size of 

used tire in the 2005-2012 period in 

representative Mexican scope cities 

(US dollars / used tire) ) i

i=1

n= rim sizes considered
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Formula 9.

Highest mean revenue per rim size 

of used tire in the 2005-2012 period 

in representative Mexican scope 

cities 

(US dollars / used tire)

=

Highest mean revenue per tire in Mexican 

scope citiesi

(Mexican pesos / used tire)

(FIX) minimum daily value of the US dollar in a 

specific year of the 2005 - 2012 period

(Mexican pesos / US dollar)

Formula 10.

n

Highest mean revenue per tire 

in Mexican scope citiesi

(Mexican pesos / used tire)

= ( Π

Current mean revenue of type 2 

used tires per rim size in a 

specific Mexican scope cityi

(Mexican pesos /used tire) ) Λ 1 / n

i =1

n= number of Mexican representative scope cities.

Formula 11.

Current mean revenue 

per tire in a specific 

Mexican scope cityi

(Mexican pesos /used 

tire) 

n

= ( Π

Retail price obtained from a 

used tire dealer in a 

Mexican representative 

scope cityi

(Mexican pesos /used tire)

)

Λ 1 / n

i =1

Retail prices obtained from a 

used tire dealer in a Mexican 

representative scope cityi 

(Mexican pesos /tire)

→

Quotations from used 

tire retailers in 

representative 

Mexican scope citiesi

Retail prices of used tires in the Mexican side of the Texas-Mexico 

border selected municipalities were obtained from the following sources:

 Face to face verbal quotation from used tire retailers.

Note: The business name and locations whose quotations were obtained 

are available upon request from the North American Development Bank (NADB).

Quotations were obtained from the representative Mexican scope cities 

presented on Figure 4.3.
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73% of the Mexican scope population was represented in this fieldwork. (INEGI, 2010)

Note: Due to security reasons, activities for obtaining verbal quotations from used tire dealers in the 

Mexican side of the Texas-Mexico border were suspended, limiting the representativity of the data 

obtained to said percentage. 

Formula 12 

Mean retail price in 

Mexican 

representative 

scope cities i

(Mexican pesos / 

used tire)

n

= ( Π

Current mean revenue per tire 

in a specific Mexican scope cityi

(Mexican pesos / used tire) )

Λ 1 / n

i =1

n= number Mexican representative scope cities selected for 

this study (Refer to Figure 4.3.).

Formula 13.

Mean price increase in 

a Mexican 

representative scope 

city since 2005 

(percentage) 

n

= ( Π

Price increase reported by 

used tire dealers from 2005 

to 2012

(percentage) ) Λ 1 / n

i =1

n= number of quotations from used tire dealers in a specific 

representative Mexican scope city whose used tires are 

imported from U.S.A. 

= Mexican cities where face to 

face quotations from used tire 

dealers were obtained. 

(Representative percentage of 

Mexican scope population)

Juarez, Chihuahua (31%)

Reynosa, Tamaulipas (23%)

Matamoros, Tamaulipas (19%)

Figure 4.3. 

Representative Mexican scope cities where face to face quotations were 

obtained from used tire dealers
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Formula 14 .

(Arithmetic) mean price 

increase in a Mexican 

representative scope city 

since 2005

(percentage)

n

=

(

∑

Price increase reported by used 

tire dealers from 2005 to 2012

(percentage) ) i =1 i

n

n= number of quotations from used tire dealers in a specific 

representative Mexican scope city whose used tires are 

imported from U.S.A. 

Price increase reported by used 

tire dealers from 2005 to 2012 →

Quotations from used tire 

retailers in representative 

(percentage) Mexican scope citiesi

Questions applied when obtaining quotations from used tire retailers in 

the Mexican side can be consulted on Attachment 13 of this report.

1.2 Disposal cost per tire in Texas and Mexico 

Border Region

To estimate the disposal cost per tire in Texas and Mexico Border 

Region; the following definition was considered:

“Disposal cost” is the amount of money paid in order to properly dispose 

of a waste tire according to the federal and state legislation considering the 

region’s infrastructure and economic limitations.

1.2.1 Texas Border Region

Disposal costs from the Texas border region were obtained through 

fieldwork interviews applied to used tire dealers, question number 20 of the “Used 

tire dealers proposed questionnaire” presented on Attachment 3 of this report. 

The Texas cities where the interviews were performed are reported on Chapter 1. 

1.2.2 Mexico Border Region

Information from Mexico’s border region was obtained from the 

Municipal Ecology Directors presented on the Attachment 2 of this report by 

applying the deskwork remote interviews titled “Cuestionario Detallado Para 

Autoridades Ambientales Municipales (Ecologia)” presented on the Attachment 

4.
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1.3 Potential clean up costs of significant tire piles

In order to identify significant tire piles and estimate the potential cost to 

clean up these tire piles in the Texas-Mexico Border Region; including options for 

clean-up of those sites (e.g. dig a hole and bury or transport to another facility),

the following definition is necessary:

“Significant Tire Pile” and “Dump Sites” are defined as any tire pile or 

dump site with more than 500 tires.

The cleanup strategies contemplated were based from the following 

sources:

 Scrap Tire Cleanup Guidebook (United States Environmental 

Protection Agency, 2006)

 Guide for the establishment of a waste tire temporary storage center ( 

Natural Resources and Environment Secretariat (Secretaria de Medio 

Ambiente y Recursos Naturales, SEMARNAT))

 Official Mexican Standard NOM-002- STPS -2010 issued by the Work 

and Social Foresight Secretariat (Secretaria del Trabajo y Prevision 

Social, STPS) which states the “Safety-prevention and protection 

against fires in work centers”. (Work and Social Foresight Secretariat 

(Secretaria del Trabajo y Prevision Social, STPS), 2010)

 Tire pile fires; Prevention, Response, Remediation (Environmental 

Engineering and Contracting, Inc., 2002)

 The Prevention & Management of Scrap Tire Fires (Scrap Tire 

Management Council, 2000) obtained from the Rubber Manufacturers 

Association (RMA).

 IEMS experience on previous hydrocarbon contamination remediation 

projects.

 Quotations from local businesses.

Several cleanup techniques and variations are viable depending on each 

site characteristics, the following are five basic steps designed by IEMS to simplify 

the cleanup strategy options:

Each step was identified and selected through the review of the literature 

mentioned above, and each one has a significant purpose:

Figure 4.4. 

IEMS defined basic steps for identified dump sites cleanup
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1.3.1 Fire planning and prevention:

According to the literature consulted. Both in the USA and Mexico tire 

piles tend to set ablaze when cleaning activities are in place, it is basic not only to 

be prepared for this situation but also do everything possible to prevent it. In this 

step the cost to prevent fires during cleanup activities will be defined and 

reported.

Image 4.1. 

Tire fire in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas (August 22, 2011).

300,000 waste tires burned in the municipal waste tire storage center. The fire was accidentally caused by 

people burning tires to extract the metal in them in order to sell it. It happened during site cleanup activities 

endangering equipment and personnel. (Elizondo, 2011)

1.3.1.1 Tire fires causes in the Texas –Mexico border region

In order to create a fire prevention plan it is necessary to identify the 

most common tire fire causes in the Texas-Mexico border region. Tire fire causes 

in order of number of mentions by fire department representatives in Texas scope 

cities are:

1. Trash fires.

2. Grass fires.

with 7 and 4 mentions correspondingly.
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Image 4.2. 

Alton, Texas (April 13, 2011)

According to news sources 190,000 tires were ignited by a grass fire caused by 

illegal trash burning. (The monitor, Naxiely Lopez, 2011)

Two (2) causes of tire fires were reported in the remote interviews 

performed to Civil Guard and firemen representatives of the Mexican scope cities 

presented on the Attachment 1 of this report.

Tire fire causes in order of number of mentions by civil guard 

representatives in Mexican scope cities are:

 Trash fires.

 Tire burning for metal extraction. 

with two mentions each.

Trash fires causes

People burn trash for various reasons, either because it is easier than 

hauling it to the local disposal site or to avoid paying for regular waste collection 

service. (United States Environmental protection Agency (EPA), 2012)

Waste tires may be semi-buried, among or adjacent to regular household 

trash dumped either on an illegal dump or at the municipal dump, when garbage 

is ignited also waste tires ignite.
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Image 4.3. 

Tire fires started in trash dumps

Top right Image: Reynosa, Tamaulipas (April 24, 2012). Tire fire started in “La Anacuas” municipal trash dump.

(EnLineaDIRECTA, 2012). Bottom Image: Laredo, Tamaulipas (August 22, 2011). Tire fire in the municipal tire 

storage center, accidentally caused by people burning tires to extract the metal in them in order to sell it. 

(Elizondo, 2011)

Tire burning for metal extraction causes

According to Mr. J Francisco Martha Hernandez, General Director of the 

Mexican Rubber Industry National Chamber (CNIH) a common radial truck tire 

posses from 6 to 7 kilograms (13 to 15 pounds) of steel wire in its structure. A 

passenger tire as a maximum posses 1.5 kg of steel wire per tire.

Steel prices in Mexico from January 2005 to March 2012 have increased 

in 76.98% (National Geography and Statistics Institute (Instituto Nacional de 

Estadistica y Geografia, INEGI), 2012)1. For this reason people has been more 

and more attracted to burning tires in order to sell the metal wire obtained from 

them. 

 

1 National Index of prices to producers (monthly), Intermediate goods and commodities, commodities consumed 

by activity branch, R46 Iron and steel basic industries.
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Commodities consumed by Iron and steel basic industries obtained from the monthly National Index of 

prices to producers for intermediate goods and commodities. Index based on December 2003 as 100, with 

no units. (National Geography and Statistics Institute (Instituto Nacional de Estadistica y Geografia, INEGI), 

2012)

Grass fire causes

Most grass fires are caused by human activities. According to the 

National Forest Commission (Comisión Nacional Forestal, CONAFOR, 2012) in 

the year 2011 only 2% of the wild fires in Mexico were caused by nature.

Grass can work as a spreading medium from a controlled fire area to a 

tire pile area as it occurred in the Alton, Texas tire fire in 2011 Image 4.2.

1.3.1.2 Fire outbreak avoidance

As presented previously trash fires, grass fires and Tire burning for metal 

extraction are caused directly by humans or by human activities reason for which 

the following measures t prevent fire outbreaks are considered by IEMS during 

the cleanup activities.

Site vegetation and trash cleanup

Waste tires shall be separated from vegetation or any other flammable 

material by at least 40 feet. (12.2 meters). All access areas and setbacks between 

tire storage and the property boundary should be free of all vegetation. 

(Environmental Engineering and Contracting, Inc., 2002)

The past statement includes separating all trash from the waste tires. 

Fire must not be used to remove vegetation, trash or any other flammable

material.

Figure 4.5. 

May 2005 to March 2012 commodities consumed
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Site access control

To prevent any person from setting the tires on fire a fence surrounding 

the property should be placed, recommended characteristics are:

 The site should be surrounded by a chain-linked fence at least 6.6 feet 

(2 meters) high with intruder controls on top.2

 The site should be adequately secured to prevent access when the 

facility is closed. 

 After hours security and/or patrols to help reduce the threat of arson. 

Guard dogs have been efficiently used at some sites but raise liability 

issues.

 Edges of a 10-foot (3 meters) high tire storage unit shall not be closer 

than 50 feet (15.2 meters) to the perimeter fence.

Source: (Environmental Engineering and Contracting, Inc., 2002)

1.3.1.3 Tire Piles Fire Risk Estimation

Appendix A of Mexican standard NOM-002-STPS-2010 displays the 

Table 4.1 as a guideline to establish the Fire Risk of a facility:

Table 4.1. 

Classification of a Fire Risk according to NOM-002-STPS-2010

Concept

Fire Risk

Ordinary High

Built surface (m2)

Less than 

3,000

Equal or more than 

3,000

Flammable gases inventory 

(litters)

Less than 

3,000

Equal or more than 

3,000

Flammable liquids inventory 

(litters)

Less than 

1,400

Equal or more than 

1,400

Combustible liquids inventory 

(litters)

Less than 

2,000

Equal or more than 

2,000

Combustible solids inventory 

including furniture in the work 

center (Kilograms, Kg)

Less than 

15,000

Equal or more than 

15,000

Pyrophoric and explosive 

materials (Kg) Doesn ́t apply Any amount

(Secretaria del Trabajo y Prevision Social, STPS, 2010)

 

2 Although Environmental Engineering and Contracting, Inc recommends a fence of at least 10 feet (3 meters) 

high. IEMS considers that any person with the will to enter the site will not be stopped by an extra meter, 

especially if he decides to cut the fence in order to enter. IEMS considers the fence should be tall enough to 

keep any guard dog from leaving the site.
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“Because most tire stockpiles contain mixtures of various tire sizes, 

density is normally expressed in terms of the passenger tire equivalent (PTE), 

which is equal to 20 pounds (9.07 Kg) by definition (United States Environmental 

Protection Agency, 2006)”.

Based on the previous statement the following formulas were applied to 

classify the fire risk of significant tire piles as Low or High Fire Risk workplaces:

Formula 15.-

Tire pile 

approximate weight 

(Kilograms)

=

Approximate number of 

waste tires 

accumulated. (Tires)

X

Passenger Tire 

Equivalent, PTE (20 

pounds / Tire)

X

0.453592 

(Kilograms/ pound)

Based in the estimated tire pile approximate weight in kilograms the 

following conditional was applied:

Formula 16.-

Conditional Logic test True False

If Tire pile approximate 

weight (Kilograms) <

15,000 

(kilograms) "Low" "High"

The results of applying this formulas on each significant tire pile are 

presented as Attachment 14 of this document which reports each dump site fire 

Risk.

In summary, as a rule of thumb, any tire pile with more than 1600 tires 

could be classified as of High Fire Risk by Mexican standards.

1.3.1.4 Defining means for fire extinction

Type of fire occurring on tire fires

Fire consists on the quick oxidation of combustible materials releasing 

light and heat. It is classified as follows: (Work and Social Foresight Secretariat 

(Secretaria del Trabajo y Prevision Social, STPS), 2010)

a) Class A fire: It’s the one which manifests on solid combustible 

materials, generally of organic nature, and on its combustion embers 

are normally formed.

b) Class B fire: It’s the one presented on combustible or flammable 

liquids and flammable gases.
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c) Class C fire: It’s the one involving machines, equipment and 

energized electric facilities.

d) Class D fire: It’s the one in which combustible metals are involved, 

such as magnesium, titanium, zirconium, sodium, lithium and 

potassium.

e) Class K fire: It’s the one presented basically on kitchen facilities, 

involving combustible substances such as: animal fats and vegetal 

oils. Class K fires occur on fat storage facilities and their behavior is 

different to other fuels.

“Rubber tires are made of very combustible compounds, including 

carbon, oil, benzene, toluene, rubber, and sulfur. The EPA does not consider 

scrap tires as a hazardous waste. However, once ignited, the tire product breaks 

down into hazardous compounds including gases, heavy metals, and oil

(Environmental Engineering and Contracting, Inc., 2002)”. “Potentially creating an 

oil fire that helps to both fuel and spread the scrap tire pile fire (Environmental 

Protecion Agency, 2000)”.

According to the past statements and classifications: tire fires would 

correspond essentially on their initial stages to class A fires and once oil and 

flammable gases are released during the combustion class B fires would also be 

present. Therefore class A and B fire extinguishers are required by law to be 

available on the sites. 

Table 4.2. obtained from NOM-002-STPS-2010 is presented to explain 

what kind of extinguishing agent is used in the combat of each type of fire:

Table 4.2. 

Class of fire and applicable extinguishing agent

Extinguishing agent Fie Class A Fie Class B

Water Yes No

Dry chemical agent type ABC Yes Yes

Dry chemical agent type BC No Yes

Carbon dioxide (CO2) No Yes

Clean agents* Yes Yes

Mechanical foam Yes Yes

Special Agents No No

Wet chemical Yes Yes

* Halon based clean agents use has been gradually restricted until they are 

eliminated, in compliance with Montreal protocol3, because these compounds

deplete the earth's ozone layer.

 

3

The Montreal Protocol on substances that deplete the ozone layer. Published on January 25, 1988 in the 

Mexican Federation’s Official Journal (Diario Oficial de la Federacion, DOF). Signed in 1987 by the USA. 

Entered into force on January 1, 1989.
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As Table 4.2. shows, highlighted in blue, are extinguishing agents which 

combat both class A and B fires. Quotations for installing fire extinguishers of any 

of these types of extinguishing agents on tire pile sites during cleanup activities 

were requested.

Number of extinguishers required by law

The number of extinguishers to be placed on a tire pile site should be 

decided based on workers to labor in the area to prevent an over estimation yet 

according to the Mexican standard NOM-002-STPS-2010 in the tire piles work 

areas (tire storage area and processing area) fire extinguishers for class A and B 

must be placed as follows:

a) At least place one extinguisher for every 300 square meters (3,229.2 

square feet ) if the estimated fire risk of the site is ordinary.

b) At least place one extinguisher for every 200 square meters (2,152.8 

square feet ) if the estimated fire risk of the site is high.

c) Not to exceed the maximum reachable distance indicated on 2 

presented below:

Table 4.3. 

Maximum reachable distance to a extinguisher

Fire risk

Classes A, C y D Class B

m ft m ft

Ordinary 23 75.5 15 49.2

High 23 75.5 10* 32.8*

* Extinguishers for high fire risk and B class, can be located at a maximum reachable 

distance of 15m (49.2 ft) as long as they are of the mobile kind.

The latest satellite images available were consulted in order to estimate the 

perimeter, area and places where it would be necessary to install a fire extinguisher 

in accordance to NOM-002-STPS-2010.

Perimeters, areas and distances were estimated using the Google Earth Pro® 

software.

1.3.2 Fumigation:

Deskwork and fieldwork interviews reported that, besides fires, 

mosquitoes are the most common dangers present on tire piles in the TexasMexico border area. Literature consulted reports the common presence of snakes 

and other wildlife (United States Environmental Protection Agency, 2006) and 

also the presence of poisonous insects and hives is considered latent as Figure 

4.6 indicates.
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Figure 4.6. 

Reported tire dump impacts ordered by number of 

mentions by Mexican scope cities municipal Ecology 

and Civil Guard representatives

(United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, 2011)

Figure 4.7. 

Spread of Africanized honeybees by year, by county
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As Figure 4.6. reports, mosquitoes are the second most mentioned 

impact caused by tire piles. Also civil guard municipal authorities of Ojinaga 

(Chihuahua) and Anahuac (Nuevo León) reported bee hives in tire piles as one of 

the main issues caused by waste tires in their municipalities. As Figure 4.7

displays; since 1990 the entire Texas-Mexico border region reports the presence 

of Africanized bees.

Because worker safety in the picking and handling of waste tires is of 

outmost importance mosquitoes, vermin, poisonous animals and hives altogether 

should be eliminated by fumigating the tire piles before the cleanup personnel is 

in contact with them. This action will also avoid the accidental spreading of vector 

contained illnesses (i.e. Dengue, West Nile Virus), when transporting the tires into 

other regions during waste tire transport.

The following are the requirements contemplated by IEMS for said

activity:

1.3.2.1 Hiring a licensed exterminator

Mexican law requires exterminators to count with a sanitary license 

issued by the Federal Commission for the Protection Against Sanitary Risks 

(Comision Federal Para La Proteccion Contra Riesgos Sanitarios, México, 

COFEPRIS) in order to perform “Urban fumigation, disinfection and plague control 

services” (Servicios Urbanos De Fumigacion, Desinfeccion Y Control De Plagas) 

according to articles 198 fractions III, 204 and 373 of the Mexican General Health 

Law (Ley General de Salud).

In addition each Mexican state within the study’s scope may possess its 

own controls for plague exterminators so a second license issued by state 

authorities may be required as well.

For the above exposed all fumigation activities must be performed by 

trained and licensed personnel in order to:

“Avoid the risk of pesticides being applied without adequate equipment or 

facilities with the chance of intoxicating the general population or occupationally 

exposed personnel.” (Comision Federal para la Proteccion Contra Riesgos 

Sanitarios, COFEPRIS)

In order to obtain fumigation costs IEMS requested, through remote 

phone calls, entrance permits to the dump sites. 

This with the purpose of allowing the visit of three local licensed 

exterminators and they could prepare a quotation. But no answer or permit was 

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Because of the above mentioned the dump sites fumigation costs were 

estimated based on quotations requested to fumigate an area of one hectare 

(10,000 square meters, 2.47 acres) covered with waste tires. 

The real fumigation costs must be obtained by each municipal authority 

when the decision to commence cleanup activities of their corresponding site is 

taken. 

When this occurs the chemical must be selected by the exterminator; 

although he must take into account at least the following requirements:

 Extermination of all mosquitoes, bees, wasps, arachnids and insects 

in general.

 Non toxicity to humans by any way of exposure (i.e. dermal contact, 

inhalation, ingestion, etc)

 Using a biodegradable chemical. (This should be desirable, but the 

decision has to be finally taken by the professional hired for this 

purposes.)

Also even after fumigation activities have been performed, according to 

the literature consulted, all cleanup personnel as a precaution should apply the 

following exposure control measures:

 Wear heavy gloves, long sleeves, pants and boots to protect from 

animal bites and scratches.

 Identify the nearest medical facility capable of treating bites and other 

injuries.

 Insect repellent use.

1.3.3 Diminishing volume

Transportation costs associated to moving whole tires, which occupy a 

great volume with a small amount, can be drastically reduced when their volume 

is reduced. 

The diminishing volume options contemplated are two:

1. Sidewall removing.

2. Shredding.

1.3.3.1 Sidewall removing 

Passenger tire sidewalls are easily removable, even by hand using a 

retractable knife or a linoleum knife. For more information refer to Attachment 15. 
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This is possible because radial passenger tires contain metal wire only in 

the tread of the tire but not in the sidewalls. Automatic sidewall removing 

machines are also available on the market at very accessible prices.

Image 4.4. 

Worker removing waste tires sidewalls in order to diminish their volume

Commercial tires employed on goods transportation contain metal wire 

on both tread and sidewalls making it impossible to remove their sidewalls by 

hand. The automatic sidewall removing machine for these kind of tires are 

different and more expensive than passenger tire sidewall removing machines.

By removing a tire’s sidewalls its volume can be significantly lowered 

mostly depending on its rim size and how it is packed for transportation. The 

following figure represents graphically this statement:

65%

70%

75%

80%

12 14 16 18 20

Título del eje

Tire and rim diameter (in)

Series1

Figure 4.8. 

Volume reduction of waste tires by removing the sidewalls and packing tightly
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The reduction depends on the tire diameter and can theoretically vary 

from 70% to 79%. IEMS’ basis for these estimations can be consulted on 

Attachment 16.

As an advantage sidewall removing machines are less pricy than 

shredding machines.

Process steps considered for sidewall removing operations are explained 

in Figure 4.9. Facilities, equipment and materials required for each activity are:

Manual sidewall removal:

 40 linoleum knives per person.

 Shade tent.

Automatic sidewall removers:

 Automatic truck tire sidewall remover.

 Shade tent.

 Electricity source.

Passanger tires manual 

side wall removal

Comercial tires automatic 

sedewall removal

Tread cutting

Packing on pallets

Loading into transport

Figure 4.9. 

Process diagram for waste tires sidewall removal
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Tread cutting:

 Automatic tread cutter.

 Shade tent.

 Electricity source.

Image 4.5. 

Tire sidewall remover machines

 

Present from left to right: tread cutter machine, truck tire sidewall remover, passenger tire sidewall remover

Technical brochures and quotations are available on Attachment 17.

Packing on pallets:

 Pallets

Loading into transport:

 Pallet jack

Advantages:

 Extreme volume diminishing percentages.

 Low initial investment in equipment (No heavy equipment and 

machinery required).

 Low energy input requirements thus reducing operation costs and 

green house gases emissions.

Disadvantages:

 Personnel requirements with their related labor law costs.

 Passenger and commercial tires require different cutting equipment.
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1.3.3.2 Shredding

Advantages:

 Extreme volume diminishing percentages.

 Can diminish both passenger and commercial waste tires.

 Low personnel requirement.

Disadvantages:

 High initial investment in equipment.

 High energy input requirements thus increasing operation costs and 

green house gases emissions.

Image 4.6. 

Hogzilla® shredding machine used to shred waste tires to landfill them afterwards

1.3.4 Transport

Unless disposal sites or recycling facilities are adjacent to the pile site; 

waste tires need to be moved requiring infrastructure, equipment, personnel and 

energy to do so. IEMS assessed different transport options available. 

The most economically and logistically viable can be selected for each 

site. In this study the train and truck options were the ones evaluated.

Quotations from trucking companies were obtained for the transport of 

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Image 4.7. 

53’ HC Container trailer diagram

The amount of whole tires that a container can fit depends largely on the 

arrangement of the tires inside it can vary from 10504 to 18005tires in a 53’ HC 

Container

Quotations from rail companies were obtained for 5,000 and 6,000 cubic 

feet (141.58 and 169.90 cubic meters) containers depending on the route.

Image 4.8. 

5,000 cubic feet container diagram

Additionally, quotations from trucking companies were requested for 

heavy loading platforms (20 to 60 tons).

 

4

 Number of tires per truck trip sent from Matamoros (Tamaulipas) to Monterrey (Nuevo Leon) by municipal 

authorities.

5 Max loading capacities for domestic trailers 53' HC CONTAINER - 1800 UNITS (Approximate), Lakin tires 

wholesaler quotation.
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Image 4.9. 

11.2 meters (36.7 feet) long platform 

Loading capacity of 60 tons (132,277 pounds) and 3 axles.

1.3.4.1 Other transportation variables

Other variables besides the transportation costs per tire affect the 

decision making process regarding type of vehicle and routes which are:

 Maximum road weight limits. Site’s access roads and freeways should 

be technically able to withstand the weight of the transportation 

vehicles, especially when loaded. And vehicles brute weight 6must 

comply with Mexican weight limits legislation that applies.

 Security issues. Transport companies may be reluctant to travel into 

certain border municipalities or through some routes. 

1.3.5 Process or disposal

Processing or disposing of waste tires in an environmental, social and 

economically viable way is necessary in order to make sure the damages are not 

just being spread, moved or exchanged for new impacts to the environment and 

or the population. 

Different processing and disposal options currently employed in the 

Mexico border area were considered in order to visualize the most sustainable 

solutions in the social, economic and environmental triple bottom line.

The reason for which whole tire burial will not be contemplated as an 

option is explained in the following statement: 

Scrap tires are not desirable in standard landfills because, when buried, 

the tires tend to trap air and “float”, which interferes with future landfill reclamation 

operations. As permitted landfill space diminishes, it is necessary to limit the types 

of accepted material to those better suited to future reclamation. (Environmental 

Engineering and Contracting, Inc., 2002)

 

6 Addition of the vehicle weight plus the cargo weight (Mexico Secretariat of Communications and Transport, 

SCT, 2006)
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Disposal options currently available in the Mexican side of the TexasMexico border area are:

1. Landfills. Quotations from public and private landfills in the Mexican 

scope area and logistically viable locations outside this area were 

obtained. 

2. Tire derived fuel in cement kilns. Quotations and supply plans were 

consulted with the cement companies and their tire derived fuel 

suppliers in the Mexican scope area and logistically viable locations 

outside this area were obtained. 

1.4 Current potential cost to extinguish fires and 

remediate environmental, public health, and economic 

impacts should any of the major tire piles in the region set 

ablaze. 

The required estimation was separated in two different sections which 

are presented as follows:

1.4.1 Current potential cost to extinguish fires should any of the 

major tire piles in the region set ablaze. 

In order to estimate the current potential cost to extinguish fires and 

remediate environmental, public health, and economic impacts (e.g., crop 

damage) should any of the major tire piles in the region set ablaze, remote and 

face to face interviews were performed with civil guard and fire department 

representatives as it is explained in detail on Chapter 1. 

Key stakeholders interviewed include the Civil Guard and/or Firefighter 

representatives for the selected Mexican municipalities and fire department 

representatives of the Texas selected cities.

To review the subjects and questions applied in the Mexican side of the 

border please refer the questionnaire titled Anexo: cuestionario para protección

civil detallado” located on Attachment 4.

Likewise, to review what was asked in the Texas side of the border 

please refer to the questionnaire titled “Proposed questionnaire for fire 

departments” located on Attachment 3 of this document.

Mexican civil guard, firemen and municipal environmental authorities do 

not estimate or keep track of the costs inherent to the fires they attend to, in order 

to estimate the costs required by this Chapter, IEMS based the calculation on the 

personnel, time and equipment employed in extinguishing previous tire fires in the 

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Texas side of the border firefighting agency costs are also presented as 

a reference, since the firefighting cooperation activities have been suspended in 

some cities due to security reasons. This means Texas firefighters do not cross 

over anymore to the Mexican side of the border to aid in fire extinguishing 

activities. According to said interviews the main costs involved in combating tire 

fires are the ones corresponding to the following items:

Texas:

 Personnel wages represents the main cost of attending to a fire.

 Equipment.

 Foam

Mexico:

Most civil Guard representatives ignore the costs of combating fires in 

their municipalities the items mentioned by them which represent a cost are:

 Fuel

 Personnel

 Equipment

 Machinery

 Extinguishing agents

The cost for attending tire fires reported by said departments are 

presented in this chapter. Additional cost estimations were also performed for the 

Mexican data due to a lack of information reported by civil guard representatives.

1.4.2 Current potential cost to remediate environmental, public 

health, and economic impacts should any of the major tire piles in the 

region set ablaze

Byproducts of a tire pile fire that present a significant risk to the 

environment and the responders to a tire pile fire are (Environmental Engineering 

and Contracting, Inc., 2002):

 Pyrolytic oil 

 Ash 

 Smoke

1.4.2.1 Pyrolytic oil impact description, assessment and remediation 

techniques

Pyrolytic oil impacts

“Pyrolytic oil is generally formed during the equilibrium/pyrolysis 

combustion stage of a tire fire, in which fuel combustion and heat production 

equalizes, combustion produces enough heat to consume most of the combustion 

products, and downward pressure of the tire pile causes an increase of run-off oil 
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flow. (United States Fire Administration,USFA, 1998) As tires burn, they can 

theoretically release 2.0 gallons of pyrolytic oil per tire, potentially creating an oil 

fire that helps to both fuel and spread the scrap tire pile fire (Environmental 

Protecion Agency, 2000). Previous tire pile fires have generated as much as 10-

14 million gallons of pyrolytic oil (Environmental Protecion Agency, 2000)

Pyrolytic oil is basically a free-flowing tar that contains (Horrigan, 1999):

1. Naphthalene

2. Anthracine

3. Benzene 

4. Thiazoles 

5. Amines 

6. Ethyl benzene

7. Toluene 

8. Total Petroleum Hydrocarbons

9. Cadmium

10. Chromium

11. Nickel

12. Zinc

Measures should be taken to protect all workers or personnel who may 

come in contact with the oil. Primary routes of exposure to workers are dermal 

contact and ingestion of contaminated soil and water (surface water and run-off 

water) (United States Fire Administration,USFA, 1998).

Other environmental concerns associated with pyrolytic oil include 

contamination of soil and water, including surface water and groundwater.

Pyrolytic oil is capable of traveling significant distances over land depending on 

local topography, migrating downward through soil into groundwater, and entering 

surface waterways. Oil can also flow underground through a permeable soil 

horizon or other preferential pathway. 

Therefore, soil, surface water and groundwater can all become 

contaminated by pyrolytic oil during a tire fire. (Environmental Engineering and 

Contracting, Inc., 2002)

Pyrolytic oil impact assessment and remediation

Environmental Site Assessment: Phase 1

In order to assess the extent of the impacts caused by pyrolitic oil runoff 

from a tire fire IEMS considers necessary the engagement of an environmental 

professional with credentials to perform a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment 

Process (Phase 1 ESA) in accordance to ASTM E1527-05 standard.
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“The goal of the processes established by this practice is to identify 

recognized environmental conditions (RECs). REC means the presence or likely 

presence of any hazardous substances or petroleum products on a property 

under conditions that indicate an existing release, a past release, or a material 

threat of a release of any hazardous substances or petroleum products into 

structures on the property or into the ground, ground water, or surface water of 

the property. The term includes hazardous substances or petroleum products 

even under conditions in compliance with laws. 

The term is not intended to include de minimis conditions that generally 

do not present a threat to human health or the environment and that generally

would not be the subject of an enforcement action if brought to the attention of 

appropriate governmental agencies. Conditions determined to be de minimis are 

not RECs” (ASTM International, 2005).

Due to copyright a copy of ASTM E1527-05 Standard is not attached to 

this report.

Sampling

For every REC identified during the phase 1 Assessment activities 

sampling should be performed and analyzed in order to confirm the presence of 

contamination above legal limits. 

Sampling should be conducted for the substances enumerated above. 

Depending on the RECs identified water sampling (surface and underground) 

may be necessary as well.

Site Characterization and remediation

If contamination is confirmed by the sampling activities a full extent site 

characterization should be performed in accordance to Official Mexican Standard 

NOM-138-SEMARNAT/SS-2003. 

Said standard states Maximum Permissible Limits of Hydrocarbons on 

soil and the specifications for its characterization and remediation (Norma Oficial 

Mexicana Nom-138-SEMARNAT/SS-2003, Límites Máximos Permisibles de

Hidrocarburos En Suelos y las Especificaciones para su Caracterización y 

Remediación.) These activities will have to be performed in order to precisely 

measure the vertical and horizontal extent of the contamination. 

Given each site unique characteristics (soil, topography, subsoil, rainfall, 

history of past activities, etc) it is not feasible to estimate characterization and 

remediation costs of a situation that has not been assessed with the past 

mentioned activities of this section. In order to shed some light in the magnitude 

of the costs of said activities IEMS will present price ranges based on its 

professional experience in the matter.
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1.4.2.2 Ash

“Ash is a byproduct of combustion, and represents a great hazard to 

responders. Ash typically contains heavy metals such as:

1. Lead.

2. Arsenic.

3. Zinc. 

Which are released from the tires in particulate form. The primary routes 

of exposure for ash include ingestion, dermal contact, and inhalation. Due to the 

airborne nature of ash, measures should be taken to protect not only responders 

and other workers within the exclusion zone, but consideration should also be 

given to any personnel in the support zone and the public.

Ash can contaminate the soil or equipment when it settles out of the 

sky. Environmental impacts of ash can also be exacerbated by response 

activities. For example, ash can be carried downstream with surface run-off of 

foam or other fire suppressant materials, and can enter streams or other surface 

waterways. Tracks and wheels of heavy equipment used to fight the tire fire can 

churn up the ground and either push or mix ash into the surficial soil. 

Ash impact assessment and remediation

Eventually ashes will settle above the ground or surface waters, reason 

for which the Environmental professional in charge of performing the Phase I 

Environmental Site Assessment described above should also look for 

accumulations or signs of contamination by ashes in order to identify potential 

RECs related to them both in soil and water. 

In case ash related RECs are identified during the Phase 1 ESA, 

sampling and analysis to confirm contamination with each of the substances 

enumerated previously should also be performed. 

Given each site unique characteristics (soil, topography, subsoil, rainfall, 

infrastructure, hydrology, etc) it is not feasible to estimate characterization and 

remediation costs of a situation that hasn’t been assessed with the past 

mentioned activities of this section. In order to shed some light in the magnitude 

of the costs of said activities IEMS will present price ranges based on its 

professional experience in the matter.

1.4.2.3 Smoke

“The smoke generated by a tire pile fire contains numerous hazardous 

compounds that pose a significant potential health hazard to downwind receptors. 

Smoke does not only affect the on scene responders, but has the potential to 

travel great distances and affect the general population downwind of the tire pile 

fire.” (Environmental Engineering and Contracting, Inc., 2002)
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“Recognizing the dangers to health and environment associated with tire 

fires, the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department (TPCHD) conducted a study 

on hazardous airborne chemical compounds. TPCHD published a report that 

identified, through a series of screening steps, a subset of 34 target compounds 

(weighted based on toxicity and expected ambient air concentrations) that should 

be considered for air monitoring during a tire fire (Adolfson Associates, Inc. & Kim 

Coble, 1994)” (Environmental Protection Agency, 1997) A copy of this 34 target 

compounds list is presented as Attachment 18 of this Chapter.

Smoke impact assessment and remediation

IEMS performed a literature search regarding the health hazards 

associated to the exposure to these substances by:

 Inhalation

 Dermal contact

 Eye contact

Later on the effects were catalogued as carcinogenic and non 

carcinogenic, this because for non carcinogenic effects a threshold exists. This 

threshold refers to a dosage limit considered “safe”. In an exposure to a dosage 

below or equal to this limit the organism presents no toxicological effects. (Urkiza, 

2009)

For carcinogenic effects theoretical models consider that a threshold 

dosage does not exist. Reason for which not mattering how small the dosage to 

which the organism is exposed the risk to develop cancer always exist, even if the 

exposure occurred a long time ago. (Urkiza, 2009)

From the 34 target compounds IEMS select 11 compounds based on the 

emission factor availability and concentrations measured within 305 m (1000 feet) 

of the fire. 

 Acenaphthylene

 Benzene

 Butadiene

 Carbon tetrachloride

 Chloroform

 Methylene chloride

 Phenol

 Styrene

 1,1,2-Trichloroethane

 Toluene

 o-Xylene

In order to know to what concentration of each of the target compounds 

people adjacent to a tire fire are exposed IEMS used two sources:
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1. Open burning: ambient concentrations measured downwind of a tire 

fire <305 m (1000ft) (Environmental Protection Agency, 1997)

2. Contaminants air dispersion computer modeling using the following 

software:

a. Areal Locations of Hazardous Atmosphere (ALOHA) developed 

jointly by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 

(NOAA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Threat zones were calculated based on the toxicological parameters 

define as follows in the Table 4.4.

Table 4.4. 

Toxicological Parameter

IDHL

(Immediately Dangerous to 

Life and Health)

An atmospheric concentration of any toxic, 

corrosive or asphyxiant substance that poses 

an immediate threat to life or would cause 

irreversible or delayed adverse health effects or 

would interfere with an individual's ability to 

escape from a dangerous atmosphere

Once this parameter was identify for each compound an analysis of the 

probable health hazards was developed for each site, in case of a fire.

Other assumptions were made during analysis process :

 All the tires of the pile were burned.

 Weather conditions are considered as the more probable worse 

scenario, a hot dry day, with a atmospheric stability D.

 The report acknowledges that particulate matter containing PAHs and 

heavy metals are known tire fire emissions, however because of the 

lack of PM monitoring data, these compounds were not addressed

 An one hour exposure is assumed for all cases.

Later on IEMS performed a literature search to assess the health impacts 

of each substance if inhaled. Finally a quotation to treat each health effect was 

obtained from specific physicians. 

IEMS based on the quotations obtained and the mapping (through 

modeling) of the air pollution extent where concentrations of each pollutant are 

above the Immediately Dangerous To Life or Health Concentrations (IDLH) will 

estimate the number of endangered people and the potential current potential 

cost to remediate public health impacts caused by smoke.
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1.5 History of known environmental health hazards 

associated with past or current waste tire piles located in 

regions with ecosystems similar to the Texas-Mexico 

Border Region

In order to identify the ecosystems found on the study’s scope area the 

following sources were consulted:

 Olson’s World Ecosystem Complexes Map 

 Google Earth® Software

Once the Texas-Mexico Border Region’s ecosystems were identified, a 

worldwide search of regions with similar natural characteristics was performed in 

order to identify population centers which could present waste tire management 

problems i.e. cities; and therefore possess documents regarding health hazards 

associated to them.

A literature search regarding waste tires and the health hazards 

associated to them in the identified population centers allowed IEMS to produce a 

summary report about the history of known environmental health hazards 

associated with past or current waste tire piles located in regions with ecosystems 

similar to the Texas-Mexico Border Region.

1.6 Estimate the potential cost to remediate the 

environmental health threats associated with disease 

carrying vectors located in tire piles along the TexasMexico Border Region.

Two viral diseases are the main environmental health threats associated 

with disease carrying vectors located in tire piles, both are transmitted by 

mosquitoes.

To obtain information related to this section the following key 

stakeholders in the Texas-Mexico border area were consulted:

Texas

 Texas Department of State Health Services

 Vector Control inspectors

 Health Department local offices

Mexico

 Tamaulipas Health secretariat

 Nuevo Leon Health secretariat

 Coahuila Health secretariat

 Chihuahua Health secretariat
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These key departments were asked to deliver information regarding 

Dengue and West Nile Virus recorded cases from 2005 to this day within the 

study’s scope regions, and the treatment costs for said diseases.

Information was also obtained from the following sources:

 Specific action program 2007-2012 Dengue (Mexican Health 

Secretariat, Secretaria de Salud, 2008)

 United States Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

 World Health Organization (WHO)

Based on the clinical frame and number of cases of each disease 

quotations for the treatment medicines were obtained from pharmacies in order to 

assess the potential cost to remediate the environmental health threats 

associated with disease carrying vectors located in tire piles along the TexasMexico Border Region.

1.6.1 Dengue Fever

Dengue is transmitted by the bite of an Aedes mosquito infected with any 

one of the four Dengue viruses. It occurs in tropical and sub-tropical areas of the 

world. Symptoms appear 3-14 days after the infective bite. Dengue fever is a 

febrile illness that affects infants, young children and adults. 

Image 4.10.- Aedes aegypti mosquito 

(Medical Assistance Institute of Buenos Aires, IOMA)

There are four distinct, but closely related, serotypes of the virus that 

cause Dengue (DEN-1, DEN-2, DEN-3 and DEN-4). Recovery from infection by 

one provides lifelong immunity against that particular serotype. However, crossimmunity to the other serotypes after recovery is only partial and temporary. 

Subsequent infections by other serotypes increase the risk of developing severe 

Dengue.
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Dengue should be suspected when a high fever (40°C/ 104°F) is 

accompanied by two of the following symptoms: severe headache, pain behind 

the eyes, muscle and joint pains, nausea, vomiting, swollen glands or rash. 

Symptoms usually last for 2–7 days, after an incubation period of 4–10 days after 

the bite from an infected mosquito.

Figure 4.10. presents the different manifestations Dengue infections may 

present and their denomination. They may vary from asymptomatic (no 

manifestations) to Dengue hemorrhagic fever (DH).

(World Health Organization, WHO, 1999)

As Figure 4.11. presents Dengue Fever (DF) can be treated at home by 

administering Paracetamol and oral fluids to the patient. The cost of these 

treatments was obtained by IEMS to estimate Dengue Fever treatment costs.

Severe Dengue, also known as DH (fever, abdominal pain, vomiting, 

bleeding) is a potentially lethal complication, affecting mainly children. Early 

clinical diagnosis and careful clinical management by experienced physicians and 

nurses increase survival of patients. It requires hospitalization.

Severe Dengue is a potentially deadly complication due to plasma 

leaking, fluid accumulation, respiratory distress, severe bleeding, or organ 

impairment. Warning signs occur 3–7 days after the first symptoms in conjunction 

with a decrease in temperature (below 38°C/ 100°F) and include: severe 

abdominal pain, persistent vomiting, rapid breathing, bleeding gums, fatigue, 

restlessness, blood in vomit. The next 24–48 hours of the critical stage can be 

lethal; proper medical care is needed to avoid complications and risk of death. 

About 2.5% of those affected die.

Figure 4.10. 

Manifestations of Dengue virus infections
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(World Health Organization, WHO, 1999)

Hospitalization Costs for DH were obtained from the Mexican states 

health ministries in order to estimate the DH treatment costs.

The last reported continental US Dengue outbreak was in south Texas in 

2005. (US Center for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC)

Figure 4.11. 

Dengue fever management chart
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(US Center for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC)

1.6.2 West Nile Virus

According to the CDC West Nile Virus (WNV) is transmitted to humans 

through mosquito bites. Mosquitoes become infected when they feed on infected 

birds that have high levels of WNV in their blood. Infected mosquitoes can then 

transmit WNV when they feed on humans or other animals.

WNV is not contagious from person to person and there is no evidence 

that a person can get infected by handling live or dead infected birds. 

Most WNV infected humans have no symptoms. A small proportion 

develops mild symptoms that include fever, headache, body aches, skin rash and 

swollen lymph glands. Less than 1% of infected people develop more severe 

illness that includes meningitis (inflammation of one of the membranes covering 

the brain and spinal cord) or encephalitis. The symptoms of these illnesses can 

include headache, high fever, neck stiffness, stupor, disorientation, coma, 

tremors, convulsions, muscle weakness, and paralysis. Of the few people that 

develop encephalitis, a small proportion die but, overall, this is estimated to occur 

in less than 1 out of 1000 infections.

There is no specific treatment for WNV infection or vaccine to prevent it. 

Treatment of severe illnesses includes hospitalization, use of intravenous fluids 

and nutrition, respiratory support, prevention of secondary infections, and good 

nursing care. Medical care should be sought as soon as possible for persons who 

have symptoms suggesting severe illness.

Figure 4.12. 

Jurisdictions affected by Dengue fever outbreak in the Texas-Mexico border, 2005. 
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Data regarding detected WNV cases from 2005 to 2012 was requested 

to Mexican state health secretariat (Secretaria de Salud, SS) directors no 

response from any state was obtained. 

In order to estimate the approximate number of cases which occurred on 

the Mexican side of the border IEMS applied the following formulas:

Formula 17.

West Nile Virus occurrence in 

a Texas border city in a 

specific year 

(cases detected / inhabitants)

=

Cases detected in a Texas border city in 

a specific year (WNV cases)

Texas border city population (inhabitants, 

in the same specific year)

Formula 18.

Estimated WNV 

occurrence 

(WNV cases)

=

West Nile Virus occurrence in 

a Texas border city in a 

specific year 

(cases detected / inhabitants)

x

Population of the 

adjacent Mexican city 

(inhabitants, in the 

same specific year)

The past two formulas are based on IEMS’ hypothesis stating:

Since, geographically, border cities only divided by the Rio Grande River 

form only one metropolitan area. The number of cases per inhabitant on one side 

should be similar to the number of cases on the other side.

IEMS supports this affirmation on data obtained from the 2005 Dengue 

outbreak in the border adjacent cities of Brownsville, Texas and Matamoros, 

Tamaulipas, where a mosquito transmitted disease presented itself on both sides 

of the border simultaneously, with even more intensity in the Mexican side of the 

Texas-Mexico border. This fact suggests that the past two formulas may 

underestimate the number of WNV cases presented on Mexican cities. 

The Figure 4.13, created by the CDC, illustrates the number of cases on 

both cities of the border on the 2005 Dengue outbreak:

Number of cases for each Texas county were obtained from the annual 

repot maps published on the CDC web page such as the one presented on

Figure 4.14. of this Chapter.

WNV hospitalization costs quotations were requested to El Paso 

hospitals since most Texas cases occur in said county.
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City of Matamoros, Mexico (n= 1,596 cases), and Cameron County, Texas (n=25 cases), 2005. (CDC, 2007)

These data are considered the final 2011 data as of April 17,2012. (Center For Disease Control and Prevention, 2012)

Figure 4.13. 

Number of cases of Dengue fever, by week of report

Figure 4.14. 

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2 Assessment of environmental and economic 

impacts

2.1 Revenue per tire generated from the sale of used 

tires to Mexico (per year since 2005)

As explained on previously, IEMS estimated a revenue range, rather 

than a single number, of what the revenues may have been in any determined 

period of time between January 2005 and April 2012.

The mean revenue range’s minimum and maximum extremes to estimate 

the revenue per tire of years 2005 to 2012 are based on the following factors:

1. How the US dollars exchange value has varied in reference to the 

Mexican peso in the 2005 to 2012 period of time.

2. The quality and remaining tread (type) of the used tires in the TexasMexico tire flow.

3. The increase of used tire prices since 2005, reported by used tire 

dealers in the Mexican side of the border.

Figure 4.15 

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Table 4.5. 

Revenue per tire per year range 

(US dollars / used tire)

Year Highest Lowest

2005 $29.21 $8.55

2006 $29.15 $8.49

2007 $28.52 $8.66

2008 $30.66 $7.01

2009 $24.14 $6.35

2010 $25.01 $7.40

2011 $26.44 $6.85

2012 $24.08 $7.00

Results from the application of Formula 1 are shown in Table 4.6. 

Table 4.6. 

Lowest revenue per tire per year 

(US dollars / used tire)

Rim size R 13 R 14 R 15 R 16

Lowest revenue (US 

Remaining tread / dollars / used tire)

year

0-20% 0-20% 0-20% 0-20%

2005 $0.86 $3.13 $3.58 $0.98 $8.55

2006 $0.86 $3.11 $3.56 $0.97 $8.49

2007 $0.87 $3.17 $3.62 $0.99 $8.66

2008 $0.71 $2.57 $2.93 $0.80 $7.01

2009 $0.64 $2.33 $2.66 $0.72 $6.35

2010 $0.75 $2.71 $3.10 $0.84 $7.40

2011 $0.69 $2.51 $2.87 $0.78 $6.85

2012 $0.71 $2.56 $2.93 $0.80 $7.00

Formula 2 results obtained are presented in the following table. 

Table 4.7. 

Mexican’s specific rim size preference when buying used 

tires (percentage)

Rim size / 

municipality Rim 13 Rim 14 Rim 15 Rim 16

Juarez 17% 44% 33% 6%

Reynosa 10% 30% 40% 20%

Matamoros 8% 42% 42% 8%

Geometric 

mean

11% 38% 38% 10%

error 3%
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Information obtained from the application of Formulas 3 and 4 are 

shown in Tables 4.8 thru 4.10.

Table 4.8. 

Reynosa's rim size preference

Rim size 

/Quotation No. Rim 13 Rim 14 Rim 15 Rim 16

1 1 1

2 1 1

3 1 1 1

4 1 1

5 1

Number of 

mentions 1 3 4 2

Preference (%) 10% 30% 40% 20%

Table 4.9. 

Juarez' rim size preference

Rim size 

/Quotation No. Rim 13 Rim 14 Rim 15 Rim 16

1 1 1 1

2 1

3 1 1

4 1

5 1 1 1

6 1 1

7 1 1

8 1 1

9 1 1

Number of 

mentions 3 8 6 1

Preference (%) 17% 44% 33% 6%

Table 4.10. 

Matamoros' rim size preference 

Rim size 

/Quotation No. Rim 13 Rim 14 Rim 15 Rim 16

1 1 1

2 1 1

3 1 1 1 1

4 1 1

5 1 1

Number of 

mentions 1 5 5 1

Preference (%) 8% 42% 42% 8%
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The application of Formula 5 resulted in the following information.

Table 4.11. 

Lowest mean revenue per rim size of used tire in 

the 2005-2012 period in representative Mexican 

scope cities (US dollars / used tire)

Rim size R 13 R 14 R 15 R 16

Remaining tread 

/ year 0-20% 0-20% 0-20% 0-20%

2005 $7.74 $8.21 $9.38 $10.01

2006 $ 7.68 $ 8.16 $ 9.32 $ 9.94 

2007 $ 7.83 $ 8.31 $ 9.50 $ 10.13 

2008 $ 6.34 $ 6.73 $ 7.69 $ 8.20 

2009 $ 5.74 $ 6.09 $ 6.96 $ 7.43 

2010 $ 6.69 $ 7.10 $ 8.12 $ 8.66 

2011 $ 6.19 $ 6.57 $ 7.51 $ 8.02 

2012 $ 6.33 $ 6.72 $ 7.68 $ 8.19 

Results obtained from Formulas 6 and 7 are presented in the following

Table 4.12. 

Table 4.12. 

Minimum mean revenue per tire in a specific 

Mexican city i(Mexican pesos / used tire)

Rim size R 13 R 14 R 15 R 16 R 17

Remaining tread 

/municipality 0-20% 0-20% 0-20% 0-20% 0-20%

Juarez $123 $130 $141 $196 $205

Reynosa $77 $77 $85 $85 $98

Matamoros $72 $82 $102 $89 $92

Lowest mean revenue 

per tire in Mexican 

scope cities i (Mexican 

pesos / used tire)

$88 $94 $107 $114 $123

Table 4.13 presents the highest revenue per tire per year obtained 

through Formula 8. 
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Table 4.13. 

Highest revenue per tire per year 

(US dollars / used tire)

Rim size R 13 R 14 R 15 R 16

Highest net revenue

Remaining (US dollars / used tire)

tread / year 20%-40% 20%-40% 20%-40% 20%-40%

2005 $2.95 $10.86 $12.15 $3.25 $29.21

2006 $2.95 $10.84 $12.12 $3.24 $29.15

2007 $2.88 $10.60 $11.86 $3.17 $28.52

2008 $3.10 $11.40 $12.75 $3.41 $30.66

2009 $2.44 $8.98 $10.04 $2.69 $24.14

2010 $2.53 $9.30 $10.40 $2.78 $25.01

2011 $2.67 $9.83 $10.99 $2.94 $26.44

2012 $2.43 $8.95 $10.01 $2.68 $24.08

Information used and results obtained from the application of Formula 9 

are presented in the following tables.

Table 4.14. 

Highest mean revenue per rim size of used tire in the 

2005-2012 period in representative Mexican scope cities 

(US dollars / used tire)

Rim size R 13 R 14 R 15 R 16

Remaining tread / 

year

20%-40% 20%-40% 20%-40% 20%-40%

2005 $26.45 $28.47 $31.84 $33.34

2006 $26.40 $28.41 $31.77 $33.28

2007 $25.82 $27.79 $31.08 $32.55

2008 $27.76 $29.88 $33.41 $35.00

2009 $21.86 $23.53 $26.31 $27.55

2010 $22.65 $24.38 $27.26 $28.55

2011 $23.94 $25.77 $28.81 $30.18

2012 $21.80 $23.46 $26.24 $27.48
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Table 4.15. 

FIX daily exchange values (Mexican pesos / US dollar)

year

Minimum Maximum

Date Exchange 

value Date Exchange value

2005 06/12/2005 $ 10.4097 06/01/2005 $ 11.4018 

2006 01/02/2006 $ 10.4303 20/06/2006 $ 11.4809 

2007 01/11/2007 $ 10.6639 16/08/2007 $ 11.2676 

2008 05/08/2008 $ 9.9180 21/11/2008 $ 13.9183 

2009 04/12/2009 $ 12.5969 02/03/2009 $ 15.3650 

2010 26/04/2010 $ 12.1575 25/05/2010 $ 13.1819 

2011 02/05/2011 $ 11.5023 25/11/2011 $ 14.2443 

2012 09/03/2012 $ 12.6299 02/01/2012 $ 13.9342 

Source: (Bank of Mexico, BANXICO (FIX), 2005-2012)

To estimate the Highest mean revenue per tire it was obtained from 

Formula 10; results are presented in Table 4.16.

Table 4.16. 

Highest mean revenue per tire in Mexican scope cities 

(Mexican pesos / used tire)

Rim size Rim 13 Rim 14 Rim 15 Rim 16

No. Remaining tread 

/ Municipality 20%-40% 20%-40% 20%-40% 20%-40%

1 Juarez $355 $346 $382 $452

2 Reynosa $248 $265 $279 $297

3 Matamoros $237 $284 $342 $312

Highest mean revenue per tire in 

Mexican scope cities 

(Mexican pesos /used tire)

$275.33 $296.36 $331.40 $347.10

Used tires retail prices are presented by city of interest as estimate with 

the use of Formulas 11, 13 and 14, in the following tables.
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Table 4.17. 

Juarez, Chihuahua used tire retail prices for a specific rim size and type from used tire 

retailers whose used tires come from USA (Mexican pesos /used tire)

Rim size R 13 R 14 R 15 R 16 R 17

Origin of 

used 

tires

Price 

increase 

since 

2005

No.

Remaining 

tread / 

type of 

quotation

0-20% 20%-

40% 0-20% 20%-40% 0-20% 20%-40% 0-20% 20%-40% 0-20% 20%-40%

1

Face to 

face $275 $400 $275 $400 $275 $400 $400 $450 $400 $450 USA 40%

2

Face to 

face $120 $280 $120 $180 $180 $325 $350 $350 $350 $350 USA 80%

3

Face to 

face $180 X $180 X $180 X $180 X $180 X USA 50%

4

Face to 

face $165 $300 $225 $400 $225 $400 $300 $400 $300 $400 USA 15%

5

Face to 

face $150 X $200 X $250 X X X X X USA 150%

6

Face to 

face $250 $400 $250 $400 $250 $400 $350 $500 $350 $500 USA 125%

7

Face to 

face $290 $350 $250 $350 $250 $350 $340 $340 $300 $500 USA 50%

8

Face to 

face $275 $425 $275 $425 $275 $425 $425 $800 $650 $650 USA 150%

Current mean 

revenue 

(Mexican pesos / 

used tire)

$203 $355 $215 $346 $233 $382 $325 $452 $339 $466

Mean 

price 

increase 

since 

2005 

65%

Table 4.18. 

Reynosa, Tamaulipas used tire retail prices for a specific rim size and type from used tire 

retailers whose used tires come from USA (Mexican pesos /used tire)

Rim size R 13 R 14 R 15 R 16 R 17

Origin of 

used 

tires

Price 

increase 

since 

2005

No.

Remaining 

tread / 

type of 

quotation

0-20% 20%-

40% 0-20% 20%-40% 0-20% 20%-40% 0-20% 20%-40% 0-20% 20%-40%

1

Face to 

face X $200 X $200 X $215 X $250 X $300 USA 0%

2

Face to 

face $100 $250 $100 $300 $100 $300 $100 $300 $130 $300 USALocal 50%

3

Face to 

face $100 $250 $100 $250 $150 $300 $150 $350 $200 $400 USA 100%

4

Face to 

face $100 $250 $100 $250 $100 $250 $100 $250 $100 $250 USA 0%

5

Face to 

face $150 $300 $150 $350 $150 $350 $150 $350 $150 $500 USA 67%

Current mean 

revenue

(Mexican pesos 

/ used tire)

$111 $248 $111 $265 $122 $279 $122 $297 $141 $339

Mean 

price 

increase 

since 

2005* 

43%

*An arithmetic mean operation, instead of a geometrical mean, was employed to estimate the average prices increase since year

2005 because of the precense of zeros in the input data.
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Table 4.19. 

Matamoros, Tamaulipas used tire retail prices for a specific rim size and type from used 

tire retailers whose used tires come from USA (Mexican pesos/used tire)

Rim size R 13 R 14 R 15 R 16 R 17

Origin of 

used 

tires

Price 

increase 

since 

2005

No.

Remaining 

tread / 

type of 

quotation

0-20% 20%-

40% 0-20% 20%-40% 0-20% 20%-40% 0-20% 20%-40% 0-20% 20%-40%

1

Face to 

face $150 $250 $150 $300 $150 $350 $150 $350 $150 $500 USA 0%

2

Face to 

face $60 $300 $80 $350 $200 $400 $100 $300 $120 $300 USA 100%

3

Face to 

face $50 $200 $50 $200 $50 $200 $50 $200 $50 $200 USA 33%

4

Face to 

face $180 $250 $250 $350 $300 $475 $300 $400 $300 $400 USA 30%

5

Face to 

face $100 $200 $100 $250 $100 $350 $100 $350 $100 X USA 0%

Current mean 

revenue 

(Mexican pesos 

/ used tire)

$96 $237 $108 $284 $135 $342 $118 $312 $122 $331

Mean 

price 

increase 

since 

2005* 

33%

*An arithmetic mean operation, instead of a geometrical mean, was employed to estimate the average prices increase since year

2005 because of the presence of zeros in the input data.

Mean retail price in Mexican representative scope cities obtained through 

the application of Formula 12 is presented in Table 4.20.

Table 4.20. 

Mean retail price in Mexican representative scope cities I 

(Mexican pesos/used tire)

Rim size R 13 R 14 R 15 R 16 R 17

No.

Remaining 

tread 

/Municipality

0-20% 20%-

40% 0-20% 20%-40% 0-20% 20%-40% 0-20% 20%-40% 0-20% 20%-40%

1 Juarez $203 $355 $215 $346 $233 $382 $325 $452 $339 $466

2 Reynosa $111 $248 $111 $265 $122 $279 $122 $297 $141 $339

3 Matamoros $96 $237 $108 $284 $135 $342 $118 $312 $122 $331

Mean retail price in 

Mexican representative 

scope cities i

(Mexican pesos / used 

tire)

$129 $275 $137 $296 $157 $331 $167 $347 $180 $374
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2.2 Disposal cost per tire in Texas and Mexico 

Border Region

Contrary to the Mexican side of the border in Texas private disposal 

companies as well as local authorities are the ones in charge of the collection and 

disposal of waste tires. The price charged to a waste tire generator depends on 

confidential agreements between each waste tire management company and 

each generator. Prices charged by public landfills and collection centers are fix. 

Large new tire retailers have corporate agreements with a single authorized 

hauler which provides the waste tire collection service in all of their stores and 

information regarding the cost per tire is kept confidential by both parties. 

Disposal cost per tire on Texas cities of said border region reported by local 

authorities and small and medium generators are reported as Attachment 19 of 

this report.

Although private companies are seldom involved, in the Mexican side of 

the border Municipal authorities are the ones in charge of the waste tire storage 

and disposal sites, specifically the Ecology and/or municipal services 

departments. 

Each Mexican municipality posses a different approach regarding how 

waste tires are collected, disposed and stored. The disposal cost per tire in the 

Mexican side of the Texas-Mexico border region on the sites made available, to 

generators and general population by said authorities, are presented as 

Attachment 20. Information regarding the cleanup of municipal storage centers 

is estimated latter on this Chapter.

2.3 Potential cost to clean up significant tire piles in 

the Texas-Mexico Border Region

Activities such as fire prevention, fumigation and volume diminishing 

should be addressed by each stakeholder depending on his own criteria.

 Waste tire disposal fees at appropriate disposal sites in the Mexican 

side of the border area are presented on Attachment 49 of this report. 

The transportation costs to the closest appropriate disposal sites are 

presented on Table 4.21 based on quotations obtained from trucking companies:
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Table 4.21. 

Estimated transportation costs to closest appropriate disposal sites

Id 

#

Destination1

Accumulated 

waste tires 

(tires) 

Equip. State of 

tire

Estimated 

number of 

travels 

Cost per 

travel

Total 

Transportation 

Cost (USD)

Disposal 

Site City

1

CEMEX 

Plant

Monterrey, 

NL. 2,500,000

Truck Whole 1667 $ 829.07 $ 1’382,067.86 

Train Whole 1008 $1,480.00 $ 1’491,840.00 

Truck Cut/Shred 1042 $ 829.07 $ 863,896.05 

Train Shred 323 $1,480.00 $ 478,040.00 

35 GCC 

Plant

Samalayuca 

Chih 2,500,000

Truck Whole --- --- $ 0.000

Train Whole --- --- $ 0.000

Truck Cut/Shred --- --- $ 0.000

Train Shred --- --- $ 0.000

3

CEMEX 

Plant

Monterrey, 

NL. 550,000

Truck Whole 367 $ 350.00 $ 28,450.00 

Train Whole 222 $1,272.92 $ 82,587.50 

Truck Cut/Shred 230 $ 350.00 $ 80,500.00 

Train Shred 71 $1,272.92 $ 90,377.08 

36 CEMEX 

Plant

Monterrey, 

NL. 400,000

Truck Whole 267 $ 829.07 $ 21,363.00 

Train Whole 162 $1,480.00 $ 39,760.00 

Truck Cut/Shred 167 $ 829.07 $ 38,455.51 

Train Shred 52 $1,480.00 $ 76,960.00 

31 Landfill2 Acuña, 

Coah. 200,000

Truck Whole --- --- $ 0.000

Train Whole --- --- $ 0.000

Truck Cut/Shred --- --- $ 0.000

Train Shred --- --- $ 0.000

32 Landfill2

Piedras 

Negras, 

Coah

115,500

Truck Whole --- --- $ 0.000

Train Whole --- --- $ 0.000

Truck Cut/Shred --- --- $ 0.000

Train Shred --- --- $ 0.000

8

CEMEX 

Plant

Monterrey, 

NL. 100,000

Truck Whole 67 $ 350.00 $ 3,450.00 

Train Whole 41 $1,272.92 $ 52,189.58 

Truck Cut/Shred 42 $ 350.00 $ 14,700.00 

Train Shred 13 $1,272.92 $ 16,547.92 

4

CEMEX 

Plant

Monterrey, 

NL. 50,000

Truck Whole 34 $ 350.00 $ 11,900.00 

Train Whole 21 $1,272.92 $ 26,731.25 

Truck Cut/Shred 21 $ 350.00 $ 7,350.00 

Train Shred 7 $1,272.92 $ 8,910.42 

34 APASCO 

Plant

Ramos 

Arizpe, 

Coah.

50,000

Truck Whole 34 $1,959.63 $ 66,627.47 

Train Whole --- --- ---

Truck Cut/Shred 21 $1,959.63 $ 41,152.26 

Train Shred --- --- ---
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Table 4.21. 

Estimated transportation costs to closest appropriate disposal sites

Id 

#

Destination1

Accumulated 

waste tires 

(tires) 

Equip. State of 

tire

Estimated 

number of 

travels 

Cost per 

travel

Total 

Transportation 

Cost (USD)

Disposal 

Site City

2

CEMEX 

Plant

Monterrey, 

NL. 32,000

Truck Whole 22 --- ---

Train Whole 13 $1,329.33 $ 17,281.23 

Truck Cut/Shred --- --- ---

Train Shred 5 $1,329.33 $ 6,646.63 

15 CEMEX 

Plant

Monterrey, 

NL. 13,000

Truck Whole 9 --- ---

Train Whole 6 $1,160.13 $ 6,960.80 

Truck Cut/Shred --- --- ---

Train Shred 2 $1,160.13 $ 2,320.27 

12 CEMEX 

Plant

Monterrey, 

NL. 3,000

Truck Whole 2 --- ---

Train Whole 2 $1,115.02 $ 2,230.03 

Truck Cut/Shred 2 --- ---

Train Shred 1 $1,115.02 $ 1,115.02 

7

CEMEX 

Plant

Monterrey, 

NL. 1,000

Truck Whole 1 $ 350.00 $ 350.00 

Train Whole 1 $1,272.92 $ 1,272.92 

Truck Cut/Shred 1 $ 350.00 $ 350.00 

Train Shred 1 $1,272.92 $ 1,272.92 

33 APASCO 

Plant

Ramos 

Arizpe, 

Coah.

1,000

Truck Whole 1 $ 565.28 $ 565.28 

Train Whole 1 $6,757.26 $ 6,757.26 

Truck Cut/Shred 1 $ 565.28 $ 565.28 

Train Shred 1 $6,757.26 $ 6,757.26 

11 CEMEX 

Plant

Monterrey, 

NL. 800

Truck Whole 1 --- ---

Train Whole 1 $1,115.02 $ 1,115.02 

Truck Cut/Shred 1 --- ---

Train Shred 1 $1,115.02 $ 1,115.02 

* Means data was not confirmed with a key stakeholder, it is presented as it was obtained from previous tire pile inventories.

Tire sites 16 to 30 are not located within the study's selected search area but are located within 100km from the Texas-Mexico 

border.

The information presented on this Table was obtained through remote interviews with the key stakeholders mentioned on the 

Attachment 4 of the Texas-Mexico Border Region Report

Nuevo Laredo tire pile was cleaned up during the writeup of this Report according to the remote interview applied to the municipal 

Environment and Climate Change Coordinator on April 20, 2012. 

Prices in red are subject to KCSM FSC 

Prices in blue are subject to negotiations with Ferromex

Prices don't include VAT.

1 Disposal sites selected according to cheaper transportation cost.

2

Transportation costs for Acuña, Juarez and Piedras Negras are not considered due to landfill being in the same city.
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2.4 Current potential cost to extinguish fires and 

remediate environmental, public health, and economic 

impacts should any of the major tire piles in the region set 

ablaze. 

2.4.1 Cost to extinguish fires in the Texas-Mexico border area

The Table 4.22. represents an abstract of the responses given for 

Mexican civil guard; the personnel cost was obtained considering Mexican 

minimum wage as $4.77 (US dollars) for 8 hours, the salary per hour is about 

$0.59 USD.

Table 4.22. 

Summary of Resources to extinguish fires given by Mexican civil guard

City State

Number of 

tire fires 

attended 

since 2005

Resources to extinguish fires

Time Personnel

Personnel 

Cost 

(USD)+

Extinguishing 

agents

Ojinaga Chihuahua ---- 1.5 to 2 h ---- ---- Water / Foam

Nava Coahuila 90 1 to 3 h 5 $ 3 - 9 Water / Foam

Acuña Coahuila 210 20 min to 1 

h

---- ---- Water / Foam

Piedras 

Negras Coahuila 1 to 2 h 3 $ 1.8 - 3.6 Water / Foam

Anahuac Nuevo 

Leon Rarely 0.5 to 1 h 3 $ 1 - 1.8 Water / Foam

Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas Rarely ---- ---- ---- Water / Foam

Guerrero Tamaulipas 72 12 to 24 h 6 $ 43 - 85.8 Water / Foam

Gustavo Díaz 

Ordaz Tamaulipas 300 ---- 6 ---- Water / Foam

Río Bravo Tamaulipas Frecuently 20 to 30 

min 3 $1 Water / Foam

+ Personnel cost was estimated as follow: 

The responses given for the Texas side of the border firefighting agency 

are given in the Table 4.23; according with the interviewee, to estimate the 

personnel cost it was considered $35 USD per hour per person and $75 USD per 

hour to estimate de extinguishing agents cost; although global cost was given.
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Table 4.23. 

Summary of Resources to extinguish fires given by Texas firefighting agency

City

Number 

of tire 

fires 

attended 

since 

2005

Resources to extinguish fires

Time

Number 

of 

Personn

el

Personn

el Cost 

(USD)

Extinguishing agents

Extinguishin

g agents 

cost (USD)

Brownsvill

e

6 6 to 8 h 18 $4000 to 

$5000

4 Engines and 3000 

gall of water $450 to 600

Laredo 30 45 min 

to 1 h 4

$90 to 

140 + Water / Foam $50 to 75 *

Mc Allen 18 ---- --- ---- Water / Foam $2,500 to 

6,000

Rio 

Grande 72 ---- 15 ----

90 gall of foam and 

700 gall of water

$10,000 to 

12,000

Del Río

One in 

the 

landfill

---- ---- ---- Water / Foam $6,000 to 

7,000

Eagle 

Pass 120 20 min to 2 h 6

$70 to 

420 +

15 gall of foam and 2 

engines $25 to 150 *

+ Personnel cost was estimated as follow: 

* Extinguishing agents cost was estimated as follow: 

2.4.2 Public health impacts remediation costs

2.4.2.1 Pyrolytic oil and ash

In order to identify the best remediation techniques and their estimated 

costs IEMS consulted the US Federal Remediation Technologies Roundtable 

(FRTR), Table 3-2 Remediation Technologies Screening Matrix and Reference 

Guide7, and selected the following remediation options:

In situ biological treatment: Phytoremediation

“Phytoremediation is a process that uses plants to remove, transfer, 

stabilize, and destroy contaminants in soil and sediment. Contaminants may be 

either organic or inorganic.” (FRTR)

Table 4.24. 

FRTR reported remediation costs estimates for phytoremediation 

(US dollars)

RACER PARAMETERS Small site Large site

Easy Difficult Easy Difficult

Cost per cubic foot $18 $66 $4 $14

Cost per cubic meter $626 $2,322 $147 $483

RACER means Remedial Action Cost Engineering Requirements 

 

7 Matrix may be consulted online on www.frtr.gov
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Ex-situ physical/chemical treatment: Chemical oxidation

“Reduction/oxidation chemically converts hazardous contaminants to 

non-hazardous or less toxic compounds that are more stable, less mobile, and/or 

inert. The oxidizing agents most commonly used are ozone, hydrogen peroxide, 

hypochlorites, chlorine, and chlorine dioxide.” This treatment is assuming an 

excavation.

“Estimated costs range from $190 to $660 per cubic meter ($150 to $500 

per cubic yard).” (FRTR)

Excavation, Retrieval & Offsite disposal

“Contaminated material is removed and transported to permitted off-site 

treatment and disposal facilities. Pretreatment may be required.” 

Cost estimates for excavation and disposal range from $300 to $510 per 

metric ton ($270 to $460 per ton) depending on the nature of hazardous materials 

and methods of excavation. These estimates include excavation/removal, 

transportation, and disposal at a permitted facility. Additional cost of treatment at 

disposal facility may also be required. (FRTR)

2.4.2.2 Smoke

Recognizing the dangers to health and environment associated with tire 

fires, the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department (TPCHD) conducted a study 

on hazardous airborne chemical compounds. TPCHD published a report that 

identified, through a series of screening steps, a subset of 34 target compounds 

(weighted based on toxicity and expected ambient air concentrations).

(Environmental Protection Agency, 1997)

IEMS performed a literature search regarding the health hazards 

associated to the exposure to these substances by:

 Inhalation

 Dermal contact

 Eye contact

Later on the effects were catalogued as carcinogenic and non 

carcinogenic, this because for non carcinogenic effects a threshold exists. This 

threshold refers to a dosage limit considered “safe”. In an exposure to a dosage 

below or equal to this limit the organism presents no toxicological effects. (Urkiza, 

2009). For carcinogenic effects theoretical models consider that a threshold 

dosage doesn’t exist. Reason for which not mattering how small the dosage to 

which the organism is exposed the risk to develop cancer always exist, even if the 

exposure occurred a long time ago. (Urkiza, 2009).
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In order to know to what concentration of each of the target compounds 

people adjacent to a tire fire are exposed IEMS used the following:

 Open burning: ambient concentrations measured downwind of a tire 

fire <305 m (1000ft) (Environmental Protection Agency, 1997)

Since the concentrations reported by TPCHD, measured at a distance of 

1000 feet from tire pile fires, did not reach the threshold health affecting level 

called Immediately Dangerous to Life and Health (IDLH) no simulations were 

required to conclude that no severe health damages to the general population. 

Although sensitive population exposed to smoke may present minor health effects 

such as irritation on eyes or respiratory ways.

2.5 History of known environmental health hazards 

associated with past or current waste tire piles located in 

regions with ecosystems similar to the Texas-Mexico 

Border Region

Over the past decade American used vehicles imports, explosive 

population growth and a steady demand for used American tires in Mexico have 

contributed to the proliferation of scrap tires on the Texas–Mexico border. 

Most of the major border cities host piles containing from tens of 

thousands to millions of tires, and a few of the largest cities are home to piles ten 

times as large. Tire piles, legal or illegal, pose at least two health threats: pests 

and fire. 

Tire piles easily accumulate rain and organic matter transported by wind 

and, therefore, become ideal incubators for mosquito larvae. As leaf litter decays, 

the microorganisms that grow on it serve as food for the mosquito larvae. 

Furthermore, tires absorb heat, which helps accelerate the larval growth. 

Tire piles have also been identified as breeding ground for vermin 

(rodents and other pests) due to the combined presence of water, heat, and 

shade. (Secretaría de Medio Ambiente, 2002)

Mosquito-borne diseases include Dengue, encephalitis, malaria, and 

yellow fever. (Moore & Mitchell, 1997) Globally, Dengue is currently the most 

important of all vector-borne viral diseases in terms of human morbidity and 

mortality, with Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus, the mosquito vector for the 

Dengue viruses, found in more than 100 tropical countries (Cortez Florez, 2001). 

In areas where Ae. aegypti is abundant, this species might be expected to play a 

far more important role in Dengue transmission than Ae. albopictus (Moore & 

Mitchell, 1997).

Dengue can produce a spectrum of clinical illness, ranging from a 

nonspecific viral syndrome to severe and fatal hemorrhagic disease. 
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Although Dengue fever is not usually fatal, Dengue hemorrhagic fever 

(DHF) and Dengue shock syndrome can be. On average, 5% of hospitalized 

cases result in death. The majority of fatalities occur among children younger than 

15 years (Lloyd, 2003). 

For example, the California Department of Health Services reports that 

preliminary surveillance data showed that several of California’s 50 species of 

mosquitoes breed in tires (California Integrated Waste Managment Board, 2009). 

In 2002, the Department of Health Services’ Vector-Borne Disease 

Section identified five discarded truck tires, one of which yielded seven Aedes 

albopictus larvae after being tested. The Aedes albopictus, was initially detected 

in 2001 in Los Angeles and Long Beach, according to a 2003 Department of 

Health Services report. The most immediate concern in California, however, is 

the potential role of waste tires in the spread of the West Nile Virus. According to 

the Department of Health Services, this mosquito-borne disease reached the 

United States in 1999 and has since spread to 48 states. 

In 2004, it had been detected in 56 of California’s 58 counties with nearly 

600 identified cases of persons afflicted by the disease. In 2008, 35 cases of 

West Nile Virus were reported for San Diego County alone. Fortunately, the arid 

conditions of California lower the risk of adequate mosquito habitat in tire piles in 

the region. 

However, a year with more precipitation or development of tire piles in 

locations where they would trap water from stormwater runoff would be a matter 

of concern (Reyes Tomassini, 2009).

Other example is China, where the rapid development of automobile 

industry and increasing vehicle possession has brought a serious problem with 

the generation of waste tires since 1978. 

In 2004 China generated more than 112 million waste tires and this 

number increased by two digital places each year. 

Although Authorities have improved many ways in waste tire resource 

comprehensive utilization, only 65% of them are used, contributing to storing and 

stockpiling of waste tires and the inherited problems previously mentioned (Wang, 

Xu, & Xuan, 2009).

In south China, where the predominant ecosystem is known as 

Paddyland, three proven outbreaks of Dengue fever and one confirmed epidemic 

of Dengue hemorrhagic fever have occurred since 1978. 

The first of these took place in Shiwan town, Foshan city, Guangdong 

Province (population 24,464) in 1978 with 583 hospitalized patients; three patients 

(0.5%) died. 
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A local outbreak of Dengue due to virus type 1 occurred in Shiqi town, 

Zhongshan County, Guangdong Province, from September to November 1979. A 

total of 496 cases were reported and there were no complications or deaths. 

A large epidemic of Dengue occurred on Hainan Island in 1980 with a 

total of 437 468 cases with a morbidity level of 8097 per 100 000 population; there 

were 64 deaths. The disease spread to Guangzhou and other cities in 

Guangdong Province, as well as to some cities in Guangxi Autonomous Region 

with 2549 cases and one death. 

In September 1985 an outbreak of a febrile illness began in Zhan 

County, Hainan Island, and spread throughout the coastal areas of the island in 

1986 involved 13 counties and cities. In contrast to previous epidemics, many of 

the patients presented Dengue Hemorragic Fever. A total of 113 589 cases were 

reported (morbidity rate, 1876 per 100 000), with 289 deaths (Qiu, Gubler, Liu, & 

Chen, 1993). Since 1986, there have been reports of sporadic cases or small 

outbreaks of Dengue in Guangzhou city, Guangdong Province, and Hainan 

Island. 

Guangdong has been a major province in China affected by Dengue 

fever outbreaks in addition to Fujian, Zhejiang and Jiangsu provinces since 1990 

with a total of 11 844 cases of Dengue fever, with 3 deaths, in the period of 1990-

2005 (Jian-feng, et al., 2007).

The association of the abovementioned mosquitoes and other mosquito 

species with tire piles as breeding ground, along with the potential for transmittal 

of West Nile Virus and other diseases, make waste tire management and tire pile 

reduction a public health issue.. 

Tire piles are typically high-priority targets of efforts to prevent or slow 

outbreaks of mosquito-borne diseases. Unfortunately, treating them with 

insecticides is problematic. It is difficult to penetrate tire piles to the depths where 

mosquitoes breed. 

Also, mosquitoes are developing resistance to many widely used 

insecticides. Finally, insecticides used to suppress adult mosquitoes are 

environmentally hazardous, and those used to suppress larvae are costly. Thus, 

mitigating mosquito-borne diseases may require completely removing tire piles 

(Blackman & Palma, 2002).

Tire piles also pose a major environmental threat given their risk of 

burning. Tire piles burn intensely due to their high per-pound heat output. For 

example, the energy content of tires is 14,000–15,000 British thermal units (Btus) 

per pound, as compared to 8,000–12,000 per pound of coal (California Integrated 

Waste Managment Board, 2009).
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The environmental impact of tire fires ranges from moderate to severe 

effects on air, water, and soil pollution. Tires do not combust completely and, as a 

result, produce both conventional air pollutants and hazardous air pollutants; 

along with solid and liquid waste. 

Tire fire smoke contains irritating chemicals, particulate matter, and 

carcinogens. A 1997 USEPA report indicated that tire fire emissions are 

significantly more toxic than emissions from coal-fired utilities with pollution 

controls. 

Identified health effects from exposure to such compounds include 

irritation of mucous membranes (eye, nose, and throat), exacerbation of asthma 

symptoms and respiratory conditions, and potential exacerbation of preexisting 

heart disease (California Integrated Waste Managment Board, 2009).

Tire fires also cause water and land contamination. A standard 

automobile tire generates about two gallons of oil when burning and liquefying.

The burning of large tire piles, then, could potentially result in the 

leaching of large amounts of toxic oil into the soil and possibly into the aquifers. 

If soil becomes contaminated with oil, its microbiological quality is 

reduced and plant growth is depressed, diminishing the health and productive 

capacity of the land. 

Remediation is generally difficult, and the sites of many tire fires have 

been designated as hazardous waste cleanup sites (Blackman & Palma, 2002).

An example of the potential extent of a tire fire is the one which engulfed 

the S.F. Royster Tire Disposal Facility in Tracy, California, in San Joaquin County. 

The facility stored an estimated 7 million tires that burned for more than two 

years. 

Local, state, and federal authorities worked together to conduct 

emergency response activities. They determined that the best course of action 

was to let the fire burn itself out. 

The decision was based primarily on concerns that water hosing the fire 

might produce excessive amounts of hazardous wastewater. In December 2001, 

state and local agencies completely extinguished the fire and remediation efforts 

followed. 

The Board estimated that the fire contaminated an area of some 564,000 

ft2, or 13 acres (California Integrated Waste Managment Board, 2009).

To address the long-term economic impacts of a tire fire, the highly toxic 

emissions of the smoke plume must be considered significant ozone pollution 

contributors in the wider air basin. 
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Ground-level ozone, or “bad” ozone, is formed when volatile organic 

compounds—such as benzene and butadiene, which are components of tire fire 

smoke—react with sunlight and nitrogen oxide in the earth’s lower atmosphere. 

High ozone concentrations reduce crop yield and result in losses to consumer and 

producer welfare (California Integrated Waste Managment Board, 2009).

In summary, known environmental health hazards associated with past 

or current waste tire piles located in regions with ecosystems similar to the TexasMexico Border Region are the following:

 Mosquito transmitted diseases such as Dengue fever and West Nile 

Virus.

 Carcinogenic compound emissions when tires are burned.

 Increase in ground level ozone when tires are burned.

 Soil and water contamination with toxic oil which leaches when tires 

are burned.

Identified health effects from exposure to emissions from tire fires include 

irritation of mucous membranes (eye, nose, and throat), exacerbation of asthma 

symptoms and respiratory conditions, and potential exacerbation of preexisting 

heart disease.

2.6 Potential cost to remediate the environmental 

health threats associated with disease carrying vectors 

located in tire piles along the Texas-Mexico Border Region

To obtain information related to health threats remediation costs 

associated with Dengue and West Nile Virus, the following key stakeholders in the 

Mexico were consulted:

 Tamaulipas Health Secretariat

 Nuevo Leon Health Secretariat

 Coahuila Health Secretariat

 Chihuahua Health Secretariat

These key departments were asked to deliver information regarding 

Dengue and West Nile Virus recorded cases from 2005 to this day within the 

study’s scope regions, and the treatment costs for said diseases.
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2.6.1 Dengue

2.6.1.1 State of Tamaulipas

Mr. Juan Francisco Castañon Barron, Chief of the Vector State 

Department of Tamaulipas Health Secretariat delivered data from all 

municipalities in the State of Tamaulipas regarding Dengue Fever and Dengue 

Hemorrhagic Fever from 2005 to half 2011, which was the most recent available

data. No West Nile Virus data was provided. The following tables contain detected 

dengue fever and dengue hemorrhagic fever cases in study’s scope regions in the 

State of Tamaulipas.

Table 4.25. 

Detected dengue fever and dengue hemorrhagic fever cases in study’s scope regions in 

the State of Tamaulipas. (2005-2007)

Municipality 2005 2006 2007

DF DHF TOTAL DF DHF TOTAL DF DHF TOTAL

Camargo 0 1 1 0 0 0 9 3 12

Diaz Ordaz 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 5

Matamoros 1160 438 1598 14 10 24 46 21 67

Miguel Aleman 0 1 1 0 0 0 8 2 10

Nuevo Laredo 1 2 3 1 0 1 360 142 502

Reynosa 143 62 205 27 9 36 448 198 646

Rio Bravo 2 3 5 1 3 4 9 2 11

Guerrero 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Total 5069 1832 6901 151 46 197 1406 516 1922

Table 4.26. 

Detected dengue fever and dengue hemorrhagic fever cases in study’s scope regions in the 

State of Tamaulipas. (2008-2011)

Municipality

2008 2009 2010 2011

DF DHF TOTAL DF DHF TOTAL DF DHF TOTAL DF DHF TOTAL

Camargo 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Diaz Ordaz 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0

Matamoros 257 231 488 46 29 75 23 3 26 2 0 2

Miguel Aleman 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Nuevo Laredo 4 3 7 9 0 9 2 1 3 0 0 0

Reynosa 284 105 389 81 35 116 29 14 43 15 0 15

Rio Bravo 4 2 6 5 1 6 107 99 206 0 1 1

Guerrero 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Total 1014 522 1536 696 215 911 409 168 577 78 15 93

DF = Dengue Fever Cases

DHF = Hemorrhagic Fever Cases
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Formula 19.

 

 

Mr. Juan Francisco Castañon Barron also provided information on length 

of hospitalization times and its corresponding costs. On average it is known that 

Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever patients need between 4-7 days to recover from 

illness which translates into $5,000 - $8,000 pesos for hospitalization costs. There 

are no specific antiviral medicines for dengue, doctors prescribe medicine to 

counteract disease symptoms such as painkillers and antipyretics, Parecetamol is 

highly recommended as it fulfills both functions, as well as electrolyte drinks 

For cost estimation, treatment cost (TrC) of $130 pesos8and 

hospitalization cost (HC) of $5,000 pesos will be used per patient. Costs can be 

higher according to patient critical condition.

The following tables contain detected dengue fever and dengue 

hemorrhagic fever costs in study’s scope regions in the State of Tamaulipas.

Table 4.27. 

Dengue fever and dengue hemorrhagic fever costs in study’s scope regions in 

the State of Tamaulipas (2005-2006)

Municipality 2005 2006

TrC HC TC TrC HC TC

Camargo $130 $5,000 $5,130 $0 $0 $0

Diaz Ordaz $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0

Matamoros $207,740 $2,190,000 $2,397,740 $3,120 $50,000 $53,120

Miguel Aleman $130 $5,000 $5,130 $0 $0 $0

Nuevo Laredo $390 $10,000 $10,390 $130 $0 $130

Reynosa $26,650 $310,000 $336,650 $4,680 $45,000 $49,680

Río Bravo $650 $15,000 $15,650 $520 $15,000 $15,520

Guerrero $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0

Total $235,690 $2,535,000 $2,770,690 $8,450 $110,000 $118,450

Table 4.28. 

Dengue fever and dengue hemorrhagic fever costs in study’s scope regions in 

the State of Tamaulipas (2007-2008)

Municipality 2007 2008

TrC HC TC TrC HC TC

Camargo $1,560 $15,000 $16,560 $0 $0 $0

Diaz Ordaz $650 $20,000 $20,650 $0 $0 $0

Matamoros $8,710 $105,000 $113,710 $63,440 $1,155,000 $1,218,440

 

8

Estimated price for 2 Paracetamol boxes ($25 Mexican pesos each) and eight 

rehydration powder beverages ($10 pesos each) in a Reynosa convenience drugstore.
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Table 4.28. 

Dengue fever and dengue hemorrhagic fever costs in study’s scope regions in 

the State of Tamaulipas (2007-2008)

Municipality 2007 2008

TrC HC TC TrC HC TC

Miguel Aleman $1,300 $10,000 $11,300 $0 $0 $0

Nuevo Laredo $65,260 $710,000 $775,260 $910 $15,000 $15,910

Reynosa $83,980 $990,000 $1,073,980 $50,570 $525,000 $575,570

Río Bravo $1,430 $10,000 $11,430 $780 $10,000 $10,780

Guerrero $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0

Total $162,890 $1,860,000 $2,022,890 $115,700 $1,705,000 $1,820,700

Table 4.29. 

Dengue fever and dengue hemorrhagic fever costs in study’s scope regions in the State of 

Tamaulipas (2009-2011)

Municipality 2009 2010 2011

TrC HC TC TrC HC TC TrC HC TC

Carmargo $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0

Diaz Ordaz $0 $0 $0 $130 $5,000 $5,130 $0 $0 $0

Matamoros $9,750 $145,000 $154,750 $3,380 $15,000 $18,380 $260 $0 $260

Miguel Aleman $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0

Nuevo Laredo $1,170 $0 $1,170 $390 $5,000 $5,390 $0 $0 $0

Reynosa $15,080 $175,000 $190,080 $5,590 $70,000 $75,590 $1,950 $0 $1,950

Río Bravo $780 $5,000 $5,780 $26,780 $495,000 $521,780 $130 $5,000 $5,130

Guerrero $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0

Total $26,780 $325,000 $351,780 $36,270 $590,000 $626,270 $2,340 $5,000 $7,340

Notes:

TrC = Treatment Cost ($130 pesos per patient)

HC = Hospitalization Cost ($5,000 per patient)

TC = Total Cost

Costs can be higher according to patient critical condition.

Formula 20.

 

 

 

2.6.1.2 State of Nuevo Leon

Mr. Rafael Hernandez Flores, Public Health Director of the Nuevo Leon 

State was contacted but no data was provided during the preparation of this 

report.
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2.6.1.3 State of Coahuila

Ms. Bertha Cristina Castellanos Muñoz, Health Secretary of the Coahuila 

State was contacted but no data was provided during the preparation of this 

report.

2.6.1.4 State of Chihuahua

Mr. Noe Gerardo Marquez Castro, Vectors Responsible of the 

Chihuahua State was contacted by phone and reported there were no dengue or 

West Nile virus cases from 2005 to date. No written information was received.

2.6.2 West Nile virus 

Formulas 17 and 18 of this chapter were employed to estimate the 

number of WNV cases in Mexican border municipalities based on border counties 

reported cases. The results of these estimations are presented only for border 

counties which presented at least one WNV case from 2005 to 2011.

Table 4.30. 

Estimated West Nile Virus cases in Matamoros

Year

Mexican Border US Border

Municipality of Matamoros Cameron County

Population 

(Inhabitants)

Estimated WNV 

Ocurrence

Population 

(Inhabitants)

WNV 

Cases

WNV / 

Inhabitant

2005 462157 0 370735 0 0

2006 467564 4 376882 3 7.96E-06

2007 472971 5 382703 4 1.05E-05

2008 478379 0 389164 0 0

2010 489193 0 406220 0 0

Total WNV Ocurrence 9 7

Table 4.31. 

Estimated West Nile Virus cases in Rio Bravo

Year

Mexican Border US Border

Municipality of Rio Bravo Hidalgo County

Population 

(Inhabitants)

Estimated WNV 

Ocurrence

Population 

(Inhabitants)

WNV 

Cases

WNV / 

Inhabitant

2005 106842 0 665475 0 0

2006 109125 1 683719 2 2.93E-06

2007 111409 1 701862 3 4.27E-06

2008 113692 0 721275 0 0

2010 118259 0 774769 0 0

Total WNV Ocurrence 2 5
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Table 4.32. 

Estimated West Nile Virus cases in Reynosa

Year

Mexican Border US Border

Municipality of Reynosa Hidalgo County

Population 

(Inhabitants)

Estimated WNV 

Ocurrence

Population 

(Inhabitants)

WNV 

Cases

WNV / 

Inhabitant

2005 526888 0 665475 0 0

2006 543289 2 683719 2 2.93E-06

2007 559689 3 701862 3 4.27E-06

2008 576090 0 721275 0 0

2010 608891 0 774769 0 0

Total WNV Ocurrence 5 5

Table 4.33. 

Estimated West Nile Virus cases in Gustavo Diaz Ordaz

Year

Mexican Border US Border

Municipality of Gustavo Diaz 

Ordaz Hidalgo County

Population 

(Inhabitants)

Estimated WNV 

Ocurrence

Population 

(Inhabitants)

WNV 

Cases

WNV / 

Inhabitant

2005 15028 0 665475 0 0

2006 15177 1 683719 2 2.93E-06

2007 15327 1 701862 3 4.27E-06

2008 15476 0 721275 0 0

2010 15775 0 774769 0 0

Total WNV Ocurrence 2 5

Table 4.34. 

Estimated West Nile Virus cases in Miguel Aleman

Year

Mexican Border US Border

Municipality of Miguel Aleman Webb County

Population 

(Inhabitants)

Estimated WNV 

Ocurrence

Population 

(Inhabitants)

WNV 

Cases

WNV / 

Inhabitant

2005 24020 0 220968 0 0

2006 24619 0 225985 0 0.00E+00

2007 25218 1 230848 1 4.33E-06

2008 25817 1 235937 1 4.23842E-06

2010 27015 1 250304 1 3.99514E-06

Total WNV Ocurrence 3 3
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Table 4.35. 

Estimated West Nile Virus cases in Nuevo Laredo

Year

Mexican Border US Border

Municipality of Nuevo Laredo Webb County

Population 

(Inhabitants)

Estimated WNV 

Ocurrence

Population 

(Inhabitants)

WNV 

Cases

WNV / 

Inhabitant

2005 355827 0 220968 0 0

2006 361468 0 225985 0 0.00E+00

2007 367109 2 230848 1 4.33E-06

2008 372751 2 235937 1 4.23842E-06

2010 384033 2 250304 1 3.99514E-06

Total WNV Ocurrence 6 3

Table 4.36. 

Estimated West Nile Virus cases in Juarez

Year

Mexican Border US Border

Municipality of Juarez El Paso County

Population 

(Inhabitants)

Estimated WNV 

Ocurrence

Population 

(Inhabitants)

WNV 

Cases

WNV / 

Inhabitant

2005 1313338 21 708683 11 1.55217E-05

2006 1317097 28 720756 15 2.08E-05

2007 1320855 68 727828 37 5.08E-05

2008 1324614 0 738416 0 0

2010 1332131 0 800647 0 0

Total WNV Ocurrence 117 63

The following considerations were taken in count to make the 

estimations:

 No West Nile Virus human infection cases were detected in 2009 and 

2011.

 West Nile Virus human infection cases were detected only in 

Cameron, Hidalgo, Webb and El Paso Border Counties from 2005 to 

2012.

 Mexico 2005 Population data was obtained from 2005 Population and 

Housing Count (Conteo de Población y Vivienda 2005) published by 

INEGI.

 Mexico 2010 Population data was obtained from 2010 General 

Census of Population and Housing (Censo General de Población y 

Vivienda 2010) published by INEGI.
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 Mexico Population data from 2006 to 2008 was interpolated using 

2005 Population Count data and 2010 Population Census data.

 U.S. 2010 population data was obtained form 2010 United States 

Census published by U.S. Census bureau.

 U.S. Population data from 2005 to 2008 was obtained from population 

estimates published by U.S. Census Bureau.

 Mexico Estimated WVN occurrence was rounded up to the nearest 

whole number.

Although symptoms and general treatments for WNV are publicly 

available all cases require different levels of medical care and costs can be very 

high depending on complications. Also WNV time of recovery varies greatly on a 

case by case basis. 

For the reasons above stated; standard treatment costs and time for 

recovery of WNV cases are not available on public literature and are were not 

provided by health stakeholders on neither side of the border. 
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Chapter 5. 

Comparison 

between Texan and 

Mexican Tire 

Tracking Systems 
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1 Methodology

IEMS’ methods for this Chapter focused on deskwork and fieldwork 

aimed at acquiring theoretical information and fieldwork confirmation of its 

application.

There is a clear distinction on the type of data used so that NADB and its 

designated users can support their assumptions and projections stated in this 

project.

IEMS envisioned that the use of both desktop-based research and field 

data would result in a well-rounded study that offers its users a solid platform that 

reflects the day to day reality of the tire issues along the Texas-Mexico border 

region.

1.1 Desktop Strategies

To obtain the information required, IEMS performed the following 

activities:

 Face to face interviews with industry key stakeholders.

 Face to face interviews with Texas local environmental authorities in 

the scope’s selected fieldwork cities reported on Chapter 1 Report.1

 Remote interviews with the Mexican Ecology municipal authorities 

reported on Attachment 1 of this report.

 Consulted previous studies focused on tracing the flow of waste tires 

across the Texas‐Mexico Border and similar regions in both countries 

and the regulatory framework described by them. 

 Reviewed the existing regulatory structure used by Texas and Mexico 

to manage used tires along the Texas-Mexico Border Region. 

The last one includes an investigation of current waste tire policies, laws, 

regulations and procedures along the Texas-Mexico Border Region in 

international, federal, state and local levels applying to it described in detail on the 

Chapter 6 Report.

1.1.1 Face to face interviews

To obtain the information required IEMS interviewed face to face the 

following key tire industry stakeholders and government agencies representatives:

 

1

Environmental authorities of the Texan cities of Fabens, La Joya and Progreso were not interviewed.
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Texas

On the Texas side of the border the government key stakeholders below 

were interviewed: (Presented by Name, Department and position)

 Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) in Austin, 

Texas:

 Frank Espino, Scrap Tire Management Program, Program 

support. (Austin)

 Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), Region 6, in El 

Paso, Texas:

 Joseph Miller, Office of Compliance and Enforcement, 

Environmental Investigator.

 Pamela Aguirre, Small Business and Local Government 

Assistance, Compliance Assistance Specialist. 

 Victor Hugo Valenzuela, Intergovernmental Relations / Border 

Affairs Division, Lead Border Coordinator.

 The city of El Paso, Texas.

 Ellen A. Smyth, Environmental Services Department Director.

 Manuel Morales, Environmental Services Department, Code 

compliance Supervisor

 Karl Rimkus, Environmental Services Department, Senior 

Environmental Scientist.

 Valerie A. Joosten, Environmental Services.

 Marty Howell, Sustainability Manager.

 The city of Presidio, Texas.

 Ramon Rodriguez, Code Enforcement Officer.

 Marco A. Baeza, City Administrator.

 City of Del Rio, Texas.

 Dharell G. Campbell, Jr, Refuse Department, Landfill 

Coordinator.

 City of Eagle Pass, Texas.

 Lusio Covarrubias, Public Works.

 Esteban Chavarria, Recycling Center, Recycling Supervisor.

 Jose A. Jimenez, Code Compliance.

 City of Laredo, Texas.

 Rafael Cisneros, Jr. Environmental health Services, Sanitarian 

III.

 Louie Zapata, Office of the Webb County Attorney, Chief 

Investigator.
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 Luis Perez-Garcia III, Building Development Services, 

Environmental Engineer.

 Riazul I. MIA, Environmental Services Department, Director.

 Stephen Geiss, Solid Waste Services, Manager.

 City of Roma, Texas.

 Jorge L.Muñoz, Public Works Director.

 Mary Pilon, City Hall, Administrative Assistant. 

 Rio Grande City, Texas.

 Fernando Guerra, Public Works Director.

 Elisa Y, Beas, Planning Director.

 Gilbert Millan Jr. Planner / Code Enforcement Officer.

 City of McAllen, Texas.

 Delilah Martinez, E.I.T., CFM, Stormwater / Environmental 

Education Manager.

 Josh Ramirez, Director of Environmental & Health.

 City of Pharr, Texas.

 Edward M. Wylie, Community Planning and Development, 

Assistant Director.

 Heriberto Longoria, Community Planning and Development, 

Health Coordinator.

 Rene Saenz Jr., Public Works, Assistant Director.

 City of Brownsville, Texas.

 Santiago Navarro, Public Works Department, Assistant Director.

Authorities in the cities of Fabens, Progreso and La Joya were unable to 

provide interviews on the day said cities were visited. The population 

represented by said cities represents less than 1.5% of the selected 

Texas scope population according to the U.S. Census 2010. For this 

reason IEMS considers data representativity is not affected.

Mexico

 Rubber Industry National Association (Camara Nacional de la 

Industria Hulera, CNIH):

 Mr. J. Francisco Martha Hernandez, General Director.

 Mr. Miguel Bernal Siurob, Technical Manager.

 Tire Distributors and Renewal Facilities National Association 

(Asociacion Nacional de Distribuidores de Llantas y Plantas 

Renovadoras, ANDELLAC):

 Mr. Ruben L. Albarran, General Director 
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1.1.1.1 Literature sources

The following local enforcement publication was consulted:

 Ockels H. John (2009). Local control of illegal dumping. (Texas 2010 

edition). Sherman, Texas: John Ockels. (Ockels, 2009)

1.1.1.2 Other sources consulted

For Texas the other sources consulted are: 

 United States Department of Transportation (DOT) 

 Rubber Manufacturers Association (RMA) 

 National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act

 Federal Digital System

 Texas Department of Transportation 

 Environmental Protection Agency EPA

2 Tracking systems

In the study area, tires sold, imported and exported can be classified as:

 New

 Used 

Although waste tires are likely to be sold, imported or exported if mixed 

with used tires, special handling waste tracking systems for them are required; 

which are presented in detail on the Chapter 6 Report.

2.1 Texas tracking systems

2.1.1 New tires sales tracking systems

Tire sale tracking systems are regulated at federal level by the National 

Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act section 30117, presented as follows:

TITLE 49 - TRANSPORTATION

SUBTITLE VI - MOTOR VEHICLE AND DRIVER PROGRAMS

PART A - GENERAL

CHAPTER 301 - MOTOR VEHICLE SAFETY

SUBCHAPTER II - STANDARDS AND COMPLIANCE

HEAD- SEC. 30117. PROVIDING INFORMATION TO, AND 

MAINTAINING RECORDS ON, PURCHASERS

-STATUTE- b
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Which states:

“A manufacturer of a motor vehicle or tire (except a retreaded tire) shall 

cause to be maintained a record of the name and address of the first purchaser of 

each vehicle or tire it produces...” 

“Each distributor and dealer whose business is not owned or controlled 

by a manufacturer of tires to give a registration form (containing the tire 

identification number) to the first purchaser of a tire. The Secretary shall 

prescribe the form, which shall be standardized for all tires and designed to allow 

the purchaser to complete and return it directly to the manufacturer of the tire. The

manufacturer shall give sufficient copies of forms to distributors and dealers.”

Limited definitions to section 30117 statute b:

"First purchaser" means the first purchaser of a motor vehicle or motor 

vehicle equipment other than for resale;

A brand name owner of a tire marketed under a brand name not owned 

by the manufacturer of the tire is deemed to be the manufacturer of the tire;

A manufacturer of a motor vehicle in or on which original equipment was 

installed when delivered to the first purchaser is deemed to be the manufacturer 

of the equipment; and a retreader of a tire is deemed to be the manufacturer of 

the tire.

2.1.2 Used tires sales tracking systems

No used tire tacking systems were reported to be used by the used tire 

dealers interviewed during fieldwork activities in the Texas scope cities.

2.1.3 New and used tires Import and export tracking systems

“The Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System” generally 

referred to as "Harmonized System" or simply "HS", is a multipurpose 

international product nomenclature developed by the World Customs 

Organization (WCO). It comprises about 5,000 commodity groups; each identified 

by a six digit code, arranged in a legal and logical structure and is supported by 

well-defined rules to achieve uniform classification. The system is used by more 

than 200 countries and economies as a basis for their Customs tariffs and for the 

collection of international trade statistics. Over 98 % of the merchandise in 

international trade is classified in terms of the HS.

The HS contributes to the harmonization of Customs and trade 

procedures, and the non-documentary trade data interchange in connection with 

such procedures, thus reducing the costs related to international trade. 
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It is also extensively used by governments, international organizations 

and the private sector for many other purposes such as internal taxes, trade 

policies, monitoring of controlled goods, rules of origin, freight tariffs, transport 

statistics, price monitoring, quota controls, compilation of national accounts, and 

economic research and analysis. The HS is thus a universal economic language 

and code for goods, and an indispensable tool for international trade.” (World 

Customs Organization (WCO))

New and used tires are classified in chapter 40, “Rubber and articles 

thereof”, and their tariff schedules or codes start with the four numbers, or 

heading:

New tires 4011 (United States International Trade Commission, 2012)

Used tires4012 (United States International Trade Commission, 2012)

Attachment 21 of this Chapter displays the specific tariff codes assigned 

to each type of new and used tires, in order to track their import and export by the 

United States of America and by Mexico.

2.2 Mexico’s tire tracking systems

2.2.1 Sales tracking systems

No new or used tires tracking systems are applied neither by the industry 

nor any level of government. 

2.2.2 New and used tires Import and export tracking systems

The same Harmonized system described on previously developed by the 

World Customs Organization is applied by Mexico’s federal government Tributary 

Administration System (Sistema de Administracion Tributaria, SAT) to track the 

import and export of used and new tires.

An additional used tire tracking system is employed by the Economy 

Secretariat to ensure the proper disposal of used tires legally imported through 

the El Paso-Ciudad Juarez border.

The Secretary of Economy (Secretaria de Economia or SE) is in charge 

of issuing importation permits for three regions in the U.S. – Mexico border. These 

permits are granted annually according to a global used tire import quota to 

people or companies dedicated to commercialization of used tires in these areas.

The used tire import quota also determined by the SE is based on:

1. The volume of used tires imported the previous year and 

2. Compliance with final disposal legislation. (Secretaria de Economia, 

2006)
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The regions were used tire importation has been authorized and 

controlled by the SE are:

1. The state of Baja California.

2. Sonora State.2

3. Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua. 

Every year the number of authorized used tires for import or used tire 

import quota is established by the SE and divided between each of the three 

regions. For the purpose of this study the number of used tires legally imported 

was based on the quota established at the ports of entry in the region of Ciudad 

Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico. This is defined as Ciudad Juarez annual used tire 

import quota. 

2.2.2.1 Used Tire Legal Import Requirements for Commercialization 

Purposes

According to the Colombia international bridge customs administrator A. 

Diaz (personal communication, June, 28, 2011) there are several conditions that 

must be met to legally introduce used tires into Mexico. The legal import 

requirements are:

I. The used tire importer must be registered, as such, in the used tires 

importers record kept by the Central Administration of Accounting and 

Explanation (Administracion Central de Contabilidad y Glosa or 

ACCG) of the SAT.

II. Retain a share of the authorized used tire import quota set by the 

Mexican Secretary of Economy (Secretaria de Economia or SE) for 

the year during which the import is performed. The used tire import 

quota is the maximum number of used tires that can enter through a 

portion of the U.S.-Mexico border in a particular year. It is specific for 

the type or origin of the used tires and is valid only for a particular 

year.

III. Legal submission of an import petition to the customs authority of the 

point of entry through which the tires will enter Mexico. This has to be 

made by a customs agent and comply with the requirements set in the 

Annex 22 of the General Character Rules Regarding Exterior 

Commerce (Anexo 22 de las reglas de caracter general en materia 

de comercio exterior)

Note: in order for the customs agent to submit an import petition other 

legal requirements must be met.

 

2

The area outlined on: Northborder line from the Colorado River to 10km west of Sonoita, Sonora. East A 

straight line from the border line 10km west of Sonoita to the coastline 10km east of Puerto Peñasco. South

The coastline from 10km west of Puerto Peñasco to the Colorado River. West Colorado river from the 

coastline to the border line. (Secretaria de Economia, 2006).
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IV. Pay the import tariff (schedule) for each used tire entering Mexico. 

This varies depending on the year and it is defined in the Import and 

Export General Tax Law (Ley de los impuestos generales de 

importación y de exportacion) valid during importation.

Each item legally crossing the Mexican border has a numeric code or 

tariff item(schedule) assigned to it depending on how it is classified by the Import 

and Export General Tax Law (Ley de los Impuestos Generales de Importacion y 

Exportacion or LIGIE). The tariff items (schedules) assigned to used tires are:

 

Table 5.1. 

Import Tariff (schedule) Assigned to Used Tires by the LIGIE and the WCO 

harmonized system

Tax

Item tariff 

(schedule) 

or code

Description Unit Import Export

4012.20.01

Used tires of the types used on 

vehicles for passenger or 

merchandise transport on roads, 

including tractors, or on special 

use vehicles.

Piece AE3Ex.4

4012.20.99 Other type of used tires. Piece 20 Ex.

2.2.2.2 Commercial used tires import for retreading

There are a different set of authorizations issued by the SE for the 

importation of commercial tires for the sole purpose of retreading in a Mexican 

facility. Only registered tire renovation facilities are assigned a used tires import 

quota for renovating purposes. Retreading passenger tires although possible is 

not economically viable (ANDELLAC, 2011). Without this tire renovating industry 

the commercial carriers in Mexico would go bankrupt given the cost of new tires. 

(CNIH, Rubber Industry National Chamber , 2011)

Used tires for retreading can be imported into Mexico through any legal 

port of entry following the used tire legal import requirements for retreading 

purposes.

 

3

 AE means Arancel Especifico or specific tax established in terms of articles 4 fraction I and 12 fraction II of the 

Exterior Commerce Law (Ley de Comercio Exterior).

4

 Ex. Means exempt.
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2.2.2.3 Used Tire Legal Import Requirements for Retreading 

In addition to the four legal import requirements described previously, the 

import of used commercial tires for retreading is exclusive for natural and legal 

persons/entities dedicated to tire retreading.

The authorizations are annual, unchangeable, and defined according to 

the following formulas:

a) Companies with importation background:

Annual assignation= (CI + PT) (X)

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Where:

CI: Installed capacity in number of pieces. 

PT: Total production of vulcanized tires.

PT= PN + PI

PN: volume of vulcanized tires produced from used tires acquired in the Mexican 

market in the last 12 months.

PI: volume of vulcanized tires produced from used tires imported directly by the 

company in the last 12 months.

X= 0.6 or (PI/PT) whichever is less.

PN and PI can never be greater than CI.

b) Companies without importation background:

Annual assignation = CI x 0.3

For both cases when the amount assigned is a fraction it rounded up to 

the next whole number.(Secretaria de Economia, 2006)

The same import tariffs presented on Table 5.1 of this report are 

employed to track the import of commercial used tires for retreading purposes.
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1 Methodology

IEMS’ methods for this Chapter focused on deskwork and fieldwork 

aimed at acquiring theoretical information and fieldwork confirmation of its 

application.

There is a clear distinction on the type of data used so that NADB and its 

designated users can support their assumptions and projections stated in this 

project.

IEMS envisioned that the use of both desktop-based research and field 

data would result in a well-rounded study that offers its users a solid platform that 

reflects the day to day reality of the tire issues along the Texas-Mexico border 

region.

1.1 Desktop Strategies

To obtain the information required, IEMS performed the following 

activities:

 Performed remote interviews with the Mexican Ecology municipal 

authorities reported on Attachment 4 of the document.

 Consulted previous studies focused on the waste tire management 

regulatory framework and regulatory agencies.

 Reviewed the existing regulatory structure used by Texas and Mexico 

to manage used tires along the Texas-Mexico Border Region. 

The last one includes an investigation of current waste tire policies, laws, 

regulations and procedures along the Texas-Mexico Border Region in 

international, federal, state and local levels applying to it.

This chapter presents a list of the laws and articles related to the 

management and disposal of tires in both countries; the complete content is 

shown in Attachment 22 of this document.

1.1.1 Consulted regulatory framework from previous tire flow 

studies and publications regarding the Texas-Mexico border

 Border 2012: US-Mexico border scrap tire inventory summary report 

2007. (Border 2012, 2007)

 Border 2012: U.S.-Mexico environmental program indicators report 

2005. (Border 2012, 2006)

 State of the border region indicators report 2010. (Border 2012, 2011)
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 Public politics strategy proposal for the integral management of waste 

tires in the border region. (Border Environment Cooperation 

Commission or BECC , 2008)

 Thesis: Evaluation of the solid urban waste integrated management 

on the northern border: Juarez, Reynosa and Tijuana cases. (Benitez, 

2008)

 Certification document for the handling and disposal of used tires in 

Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua. ( Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua city Council, 

2001)

1.1.2 Legislation databases consulted

The following compilations were reviewed in order to encompass all the 

treaties, laws, legal Regulations and standards applying to the waste tire 

management and the regulatory agencies at the federal, state and local level 

responsible for enforcing it in Texas and Mexico:

 Treaties in force, a list of treaties and other international agreements 

of the United States in Force on January 1, 2011.1 (United States 

Department of State, 2011)

 International treaties celebrated by Mexico. Secretaria de Relaciones 

Exteriores (SRE) web page. (Exterior Relations Ministry (SRE), 2012)

 General Direction of Compilation and consultation of the National 

Juristic Order (Direccion General De Compilacion y Consulta del 

Orden Juridico Nacional).

1.2 Fieldwork Strategies

Fieldwork performed in order to obtain information regarding this Chapter

was the same as the one applied on order to obtain tire tracking systems 

information described on Section 2 of the Chapter 5: face-to-face interviews with 

key tire industry stakeholders and government agencies representatives.

 1 This publication lists treaties and other international agreements of the United States on record in the 

Department of State on January 1, 2011, which had not expired by their own terms or which had not been 

denounced by the parties, replaced, superseded by other agreements, or otherwise definitely terminated.
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2 International treaties

2.1 NAFTA

Chapter Nine: Standards-Related Measures

Article 913: Committee on Standards-Related Measures

2.2 North American Agreement on Environmental 

Cooperation

Article 5. Government enforcement action

Article 10. Council Functions

Article 37. Enforcement principle

2.3 Agreement on Cooperation for the Protection 

and Improvement of the Environment in the Border Area

Article 8. 

2.4 Basel Convention about Control of 

Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their 

Disposal

Article 4

Article 5. 

Article 10. 

2.5 Customs Convention for the Temporary 

Importation of Private Road Vehicles.

Article 26. 

Article 27. 

2.6 Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign 

Public Officials in International Business Transactions

Article 1. 

Article 3. 

2.7 World Health Regulations

ANNEX 1 – B. Core capacity requirements for designated airports, ports 

and ground crossings

ANNEX 5 – Specific measures for vector-borne diseases
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2.8 Guidance Manual for the Control of 

Transboundary Movements of Recoverable Wastes

ANNEX C: OECD consolidated list of wastes subject to the amber control 

procedure

B3140. Waste pneumatic tires, excluding those destined for Appendix 5A 

operations

2.9 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea

PART XII: Protection and preservation of the marine environment

SECTION 6. Enforcement

Article 217. Enforcement by flag States

Article 218. Enforcement by port States

Article 219. Measures relating to seaworthiness of vessels to avoid 

pollution

3 American regulatory framework 

3.1 Federal Law

3.1.1 US Disposal of Solid Waste Code – Section 6002 - 101 

(e) GUIDELINES 

3.2 State laws

3.2.1 State of Texas

3.2.1.1 Texas Health and Safety Code 361.112 - Storage, 

Transportation, and Disposal of Used or Scrap Tires

TEXAS CODES

HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE

TITLE 5

Subtitle B

CHAPTER 361

Subchapter C

361.112 - Storage, Transportation, and Disposal of Used or Scrap Tires 

Current as of: 2009 

3.3 Local Law

Based on Code of Ordinances for the following cities.
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3.3.1 City of El Paso 

3.3.1.1 Chapter 9.04 - Solid Waste Management 

ARTICLE I - General Provisions

9.04.010 - Creation and purpose of department 

9.04.020 - Definitions. 

9.04.030 - Applicability. 

9.04.040 - Purpose. 

ARTICLE II - Municipal Solid Waste and Recyclable Materials Generated 

at Residential Properties

9.04.050 - Applicability. 

9.04.060 - Accumulation and storage. 

9.04.070 - Collection provider. 

9.04.080 - Disposal provider. 

ARTICLE III - Solid Waste and Recyclable Materials Generated at 

Commercial Properties and Mixed-Use Properties

9.04.150 - Applicability. 

9.04.160 - Accumulation and storage. 

9.04.170 - Collection provider. 

9.04.180 - Disposal provider. 

9.04.200 - Authority to mandate collection. 

ARTICLE V - Identification as Recyclable Materials for Commercial 

Collection

9.04.350 - Identification as recyclable materials. 

ARTICLE VI - Other Waste

9.04.380 - Other waste. 

ARTICLE VII - Haulers

9.04.390 - Hauler permit required. 

9.04.400 - Hauler permit term. 

9.04.410 - Hauler permit application, issuance, and appeal procedures. 

9.04.420 - Permitted vehicle requirements. 

9.04.430 - Cart, container, and roll-off requirements. 

9.04.440 - Transporting waste. 

9.04.450 - Disposal of solid waste. 

9.04.460 - Hauler records. 

9.04.470 - Violations.

9.04.480 - Suspension, revocation of hauler permit; appeals. 

9.04.490 - Ownership of solid waste and recyclable materials. 

9.04.500 - Permitted hauler recycling rebate. 

9.04.510 - Emergency powers; right to assume collection. 
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ARTICLE VIII.-Designated or Authorized Municipal Solid Waste Facilities

9.04.520 - Designated municipal solid waste facility. 

ARTICLE IX - Fees and Payments Procedures

9.04.530 - Fees general. 

9.04.540 - Permit fees. 

9.04.550 - Disposal Fees. 

9.04.570 - Solid waste management fund. 

ARTICLE X – Enforcement

9.04.600 - General authority. 

9.04.610 - Authority to issue citations. 

9.04.630 - Other penalties. 

ARTICLE XI - Exclusive Franchise

ARTICLE XII - Exclusive Hauler

ARTICLE XIII - Litter and Illegal Dumping

9.04.670 - Litter and illegal dumping prohibited. 

ARTICLE XV - Prohibited Accumulation of Solid Waste, Recyclable 

Materials, or Other Waste

9.04.800 - Applicability. 

9.04.810 - Responsibility for prohibiting accumulation of solid waste, 

recyclable materials, or other waste. 

ARTICLE XVI - Unsecured Loads

9.04.820 - Applicability. 

9.04.830 - Unsecured loads prohibited. 

ARTICLE XIX – Severability

9.04.950 - Severability. 

9.04.961 - Types of permits. 

9.04.962 - Application for permits. 

9.04.963 - Vehicle standards and markings. 

9.04.964 - Term of permit. 

9.04.965 - Permit transferability. 

9.04.966 - Violation of permit. 

9.04.967 - Appeal from denial, suspension, revocation. 

3.3.2 City of Del Rio

3.3.2.1 CHAPTER 24 - Solid Waste

ARTICLE I. - In General
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Sec. 24-1.- Definitions. 

Sec. 24-1.1.- Exemption to applicability of chapter. 

Sec. 24-2.- Collection limitation. 

Sec. 24-3.- Littering—Prohibited. 

Sec. 24-10.- Landfill site fees; disposal of garbage. 

ARTICLE II. – Containers

Sec. 24-21.- Prohibited use. 

Sec. 24-22.- Tampering. 

Sec. 24-23.- Required. 

Sec. 24-24.- Specifications.

Sec. 24-25.- Location. 

Sec. 24-26.- Condemnation. 

ARTICLE III. - Garbage Collection Services

Sec. 24-41.- Garbage fee imposed. 

Sec. 24-42.- Rates. 

Sec. 24-42.1.- Outside city limits. 

Sec. 24-42.2.- Franchise fee.

Sec. 24-43.- Collection of charges; statement. 

Sec. 24-44.- Due date. 

Sec. 24-45.- Rules. 

3.3.3 City of Eagle Pass

3.3.3.1 CHAPTER 14 - Municipal Solid Waste [26] 

Sec. 14-1. - Short title. 

Sec. 14-2. - Purpose and intent. 

Sec. 14-3. - Applicability. 

Sec. 14-4. - Definitions. 

Sec. 14-5. - Garbage and rubbish—Procedures for residential property 

refuse collection. 

Sec. 14-6. - Residential brush/bulky waste collection procedures. 

Sec. 14-9. - General prohibitions and enforcement. 

Sec. 14-10. - Schedule of rates/fees. 

Sec. 14-11. - Billing and collection. 

Sec. 14-12. - Exclusive franchise. 

Sec. 14-13. - Exclusive hauler. 

Sec. 14-14. - Franchise required for collector other than the city. 

Sec. 14-15. - Certificate of occupancy. 

Sec. 14-16. - Severability. 

3.3.4 City of Laredo

ARTICLE IV. - Tire Business Registration Program

Sec. 15-59. - Definitions. 
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Sec. 15-60. - Tire business registration program. 

Sec. 15-61. - Tire business and mobile tire repair road service units 

application. 

Sec. 15-62. - Terms of registration. 

Sec. 15-63. - Denial of permit or renewal; suspension or revocation of 

permit. 

Sec. 15-64. - Fees. 

Sec. 15-65. - Disposal of tires. 

Sec. 15-66. - Penalty for violation. 

Sec. 15-67. - Injunctive relief. 

Sec. 15-68. - Severability. 

3.3.4.1 ARTICLE V. - Dengue Fever Prevention [45] 

Sec. 15-75. - Definitions. 

Sec. 15-76. - Accumulation of tires and other containers; inspection of 

premises. 

Sec. 15-77. - Penalty. 

3.3.5 City of McAllen

3.3.5.1 CHAPTER 90 - Solid Waste

ARTICLE I. - In General

Sec. 90-2. - Purpose of chapter. 

ARTICLE II. - Collection 

DIVISION 1. – Generally

Sec. 90-26. - Duty of city to collect and remove. 

Sec. 90-27. - Certain persons to provide own facilities for removal of 

trees, etc. 

Sec. 90-28. - Removal of brush, soil, and trash resulting from land 

clearing or yard levelling operations. 

Sec. 90-29. - Removal of waste, debris, and materials after construction 

or general cleanup operations. 

Sec. 90-30. - Removal of automobile bodies, bulky wastes, industrial 

wastes, etc. 

DIVISION 2. – Containers

Sec. 90-41. - Containers required ; proper use of same. 

ARTICLE III. - Charges and Billing

DIVISION 1. – Generally

Sec. 90-66. - Levy and assessment. 

DIVISION 2. – Rates
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Sec. 90-75. - Citizen collection station. 

Sec. 90-80. - Rates for, commercial and other properties not described in 

sections 90-75 through 90-79. 

Sec. 90-83. - Property where no garbage or trash collects. 

Sec. 90-84. - Rates for commercial trash, roll-off pickups, and disposal 

service. 

DIVISION 3. - Billing Procedure

Sec. 90-96. - Billing; when due and payable; collection. 

Sec. 90-97. - Payment of bills. 

Sec. 90-98. - Roll-off services—Billing and payment of bills. 

ARTICLE IV. - Private Roll-Off Collection And Disposal Services [111]

Sec. 90-121. - City to provide garbage, brush and recyclable collection 

services; exceptions; license required. 

Sec. 90-122. - Application generally; limitations and conditions; permit 

fee; nontransferability of permit; posting of permit sticker on vehicles; appeal of 

denial of permit. 

Sec. 90-123. - Equipment requirements and restrictions for permittees. 

Sec. 90-124. - Duties, authority of director of finance. 

ARTICLE V. - Miscellaneous

Sec. 90-146. - Authorized disposal of waste. 

Sec. 90-147. - Anti-scavenging. 

Sec. 90-148. - Penalty for violation of chapter. 

3.3.6 City of Pharr

3.3.6.1 ORDINANCE NO. O-2010-33

TIRE BUSINESS AND TIRE HAULER REGISTRATION

Sec 26-186 Purpose and Intent 

Sec. 26-187 Definitions

Sec. 26-188 Residential Property 

Sec. 26-189 Tire Business Permits 

Sec. 26-190 Tire Hauler Permit 

Sec. 26-191 Denial of Permit or renewal; suspension or revocation of 

permit. 

Sec. 26-192 Destruction of Tires 

Sec 26-193 Storage of Tires 

Sec. 26-194 Disposal of Tires

Sec. 26-195 Disposal Records/Transmittal Manifest

Sec 26-200 Administration/Enforcement

Sec. 26-201 Violations and Penalties

Sec. 26-202 Injunctive Relief
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3.3.7 City of Brownsville

3.3.7.1 CHAPTER 82 - Solid Waste

ARTICLE I. - In General

Sec. 82-1. - Definitions. 

Sec. 82-2. - Penalty; citation for violation. 

Sec. 82-3. - Containers for materials. 

Sec. 82-4. - Collection by sanitation service from residences and 

duplexes. 

Sec. 82-7. - Materials not handled by sanitation service. 

Sec. 82-8. - Processing and disposal of materials. 

ARTICLE II. - Rates And Charges

Sec. 82-36. - Charges for sanitation service. 

Sec. 82-37. - Method of charging and billing for disposal of solid waste 

materials. 

Sec. 82-38. - Service charges for maintenance of city easements and 

rights-of-way. 

Sec. 82-39. - Service charges for funding of federal unfunded 

environmental compliance mandates. 

ARTICLE III. - Disposal Siting 

Sec. 82-56. - Definitions.

Sec. 82-57. - Applicability. 

Sec. 82-58. - Disposal of solid waste allowed. 

Sec. 82-59. - Disposal of solid waste prohibited. 

Sec. 82-60. - Variance. 

4 Mexican Regulatory framework 

4.1 Federal laws

4.1.1 General Law for the Prevention and Integrated Management of 

Wastes

TITLE FIRST: General Dispositions.

SINGLE CHAPTER: Objective and scope of application of the law

Article 5

TITLE THIRD: Classification of wastes

SINGLE CHAPTER: Purposes, criteria and General Basis

Article 19
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TITLE SIXTH: Prevention and integrated Management of solid urban 

wastes and special management wastes.

SINGLE CHAPTER

Article 95

Article 96

Article 97

Article 98

4.1.2 Regulation of the General Law for the Prevention and 

Integrated Management of Wastes

TITLE FIRST: Preliminary Dispositions

Article 8

Article 9

Article 11

Article 12

Article 14

Article 15

TITLE SECOND: Management Plans

Chapter I Generalities

Article 18

TITLE FOURTH: Hazardous wastes

Chapter II Generators Categories and Registration

Article 42

TITLE SIXTH: Polluted site remediation

Chapter II Remediation Programs

Section V Remediation Proposals

Article 143

4.2 State and local laws

4.2.1 Chihuahua

4.2.1.1 State laws

Law of Ecological Equilibrium and Environmental Protection of the State 

of Chihuahua

TITLE FIRST: General Dispositions

Article 5

Article 8

TITLE SEVENTH: Environmental Protection

CHAPTER I: Prevention and control of pollution of the atmosphere.

Article 98
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CHAPTER III: Noise, vibration, odors, and energy pollution control

Article 117

TITLE EIGHT: Regulations of activities that may cause harmful effects.

CHAPTER III: Municipal services

Article 129

CHAPTER VI: Wastes Classification

Article 148

CHAPTER VII: Integration of waste management programs

Article 150

CHAPTER VIII: Management plans

Article 152

Article 155

CHAPTER IX: Prevention and urban solid and special management 

wastes integrated management.

Article 156

Article 157

Article 158

Article 159

4.2.1.2 Local laws

City of Juarez

Municipal Regulation of Ecology and Environmental Protection of the

Municipality of Juarez, Chih.

TITLE FIRST: Generalities

Chapter I Ecological terms definitions

Article 1

Chapter II General Provisions

Article 7

Article 9

TITLE SECOND: Air quality

Chapter I Emitting Sources

Article 11

TITLE FOURTH: Ecologic Policy Instruments

Chapter II: Environmental Impact

Article 127
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TITLE FIFTH: Environmental Protection

Chapter I Non-Hazardous Solid Wastes

Article 137

Article 138

Article 139

Article 140

Article 141

Article 142

Article 144

Article 145

Article 146

Article 147

Construction Regulation municipality of Juarez, State of Chihuahua

TITLE FIRST: Administrative dispositions

CHAPTER 22- Requirements of the constructions destined for 

warehouses

City of Ojinaga

Regulation of the public cleaning service for the municipality of Ojinaga

EIGHTH CHAPTER: Final disposition of non-hazardous solid waste

Article 33

NINTH CHAPTER: Treatment of non-hazardous solid waste.

Article 37

4.2.2 Coahuila

4.2.2.1 State laws

Law of Ecological Equilibrium and Environmental Protection of the State 

of Coahuila

TITLE FIRST: General Dispositions

CHAPTER I: Objectives and Definitions

Article 3

CHAPTER II: The Distribution and Coordination Competencies

Section I: The Attributes of Authorities

Article 10

Article 11

Section II: Coordination of Competencies between the State and 

Municipalities

Article 12
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CHAPTER IV: The instruments of environmental policy state

Section II: Programs of Ecological Ordering State and Municipal

Article 25

TITLE FOURTH: The environmental protection

CHAPTER I: General Dispositions

Article 99

CHAPTER II: Prevention and control of pollution of the atmosphere

Section II: Control of Emissions from Stationary Sources

Article 113

CHAPTER III: The noise, the vibration, the energies of heat and light, the 

smells and the visual pollution

Article 126

CHAPTER V: The prevention and pollution control of soil and organic 

deterioration in urban areas

Section I: Management and Disposal of Non-Hazardous Waste

Article 142

Article 143

Article 144

Article 145

Article 146

Article 147

Article 148

Article 149

Article 150

Law for the Prevention and Integrated Management of Wastes of the 

State of Coahuila

TITLE FIRST: General Dispositions

SOLE CHAPTER: Subject to this Law

Article 1

Article 2

TITLE SECOND: Distribution of competencies and coordination of 

authorities.

First Chapter: Authorities and Powers

Article 5

Article 6

Article 7

Article 8

TITLE THIRD: Instruments of Prevention Policy and Integral 

Management of Waste
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FIRST CHAPTER: State Program for Prevention and Integrated Waste 

Management

Article 11

Article 12

Article 13

SECOND CHAPTER: Management Plans

Article 14

Article 16

Article 18

Article 19

THIRD CHAPTER: Instruments to encourage prevention and integrated 

waste management

Article 22

Article 23

FOURTH CHAPTER: From Environmental Culture

Article 24

TITLE FOURTH: The Integral Management Waste

FIRST CHAPTER: From Waste Classification

Article 29

SECOND CHAPTER: General Obligations of Waste Generators

Article 32

Article 33

Article 34

TITLE FIFTH: Integrated Waste Management

FIRST CHAPTER: Of the authorizations

Article 37

Article 38

SECOND CHAPTER: Phases of Integrated Waste Management

Article 43

Article 51

Article 53

Article 54

TITLE SEVENTH: Safety measures, penalties, and repair of damage and 

resource review

SIXTH CHAPTER: Public Information

Article 80
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Regulation of the Ecological Balance and Environmental Protection Law 

of the State of Coahuila de Zaragoza on matter of Environmental Impact

THIRD CHAPTER: Works and activities that require authorization in 

Environmental Impact and Exceptions

Article 7

FIFTH CHAPTER: Procedure for evaluation of Environmental Impact 

Manifest

Article 23

Regulation of the Ecological Balance and Environmental Protection Law 

of the State of Coahuila de Zaragoza on matter of Contaminants Emissions and 

Transfer Registry

FIRST CHAPTER: General Provisions 

Article 3

SECOND CHAPTER: Attributions on Registry of Emissions and Pollutant 

Transfer.

Article 4

Article 5

Article 7

Article 8

SECTION II: Conformation of the State Information Database.

Article 10

Article 11

4.2.2.2 Local laws

City of Acuña

Regulation of Ecology of the Municipality of City of Acuña, Coahuila.

CHAPTER II: Distribution and Coordination of Competencies.

SECTION I: Powers of the Authorities.

Article 8

FOURTH TITLE: From Environmental Protection.

CHAPTER I: General Provisions.

Article 70

CHAPTER II: Prevention and Control of Atmospheric Pollution.

SECTION II: Control of Emissions from stationary sources.

Article 84

Article 90
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CHAPTER V: Prevention and Control of Pollution of Soil and ecological 

deterioration in urban areas.

SECTION I: Handling and Disposal of Non-Hazardous Waste.

Article 129

Article 130

Article 132

Article 133

Article 135

Article 136

Article 137

Article 140

Article 163

Piedras Negras

Regulation of Ecology and Environmental Protection of the Municipality 

of Piedras Negras, Coahuila.

CHAPTER II: Distribution and Coordination of Competencies

SECTION I: Powers of the Authorities.

Article 8

Article 90

Article 96

CHAPTER IV: Prevention and Control of Water Pollution.

Article 124

CHAPTER V: Prevention and Control of Pollution of Soils and ecological 

deterioration in urban areas.

SECTION I: Handling and Disposal of Non-Hazardous Waste.

Article 135

Article 136

Article 137

Article 138

Article 139

Article 140

Article 141

Article 143

Article 169

Nava

No regulatory waste tire management regulatory framework or agencies 

found in Nava legislation.
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4.2.3 Nuevo Leon

4.2.3.1 State Laws

Environmental Law of the State of Nuevo Leon

TITLE FIRST: General Dispositions

CHAPTER I: Preliminary Norms

Article 3

CHAPTER II: Prevention and control of pollution to the atmosphere.

Section II: Prevention and control of pollutants emissions from fixed 

sources

Article 143

CHAPTER IV: Prevention and control of pollution of the soil

Article 166

Article 167

Article 168

CHAPTER V: Management and Integrated Waste Management.

Article 169

Article 170

Article 172

Article 172-Bis

Article 172-Bis 1

Article 173

Article 174

Article 175

Article 176

Article 177

Article 179

Article 180

Article 181-Bis

Article 181 Bis 1

TITLE SIXTH: Inspection and surveillance, security measures, sanctions 

and appeal of discontent

Chapter III: Administrative sanctions

Article 236

Article 237

Law of the Environment and Natural Resources Protection Agency

CHAPTER I: General dispositions

Article 5
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CHAPTER II Attributions and structure of the Agency

Article 8

Article 16

Regulation of the Environmental Law of the State of Nuevo Leon

TITLE SECOND: Evaluation of Environmental Impact

CHAPTER I: Authorizations

Article 6

Article 11

TITLE FOURTH: Self-Regulatory Instruments

CHAPTER II: Environmental Audits Development

Article 88

TITLE SIXTH: Environment Protection

FOURTH CHAPTER: Prevention and Control of Pollution on the Ground 

and Integrated Waste Management

Article 186

Article 187

Article 191

Article 192

Article 193

Article 195

Article 197

Article 206

TITLE SEVENTH

SINGLE CHAPTER: State Environmental Information System and 

Natural Resources

Article 217

TITLE EIGHT: Record pollutant release and transfer of contaminants

CHAPTER II: The formation of the state information database register

Article 225

4.2.3.2 Local Laws

Anahuac

Civil Guard Regulation

Article 42
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4.2.4 Tamaulipas

4.2.4.1 State Laws

Environmental Protection Law for the sustainable development of the 

State of Tamaulipas.

TITLE FIRST: General Provisions

SINGLE CHAPTER

Article 3

TITLE SECOND: Competence Distribution and Coordination

CHAPTER I: Competence Distributions

Article 5

Article 6

TITLE FOURTH: Environmental Policy Instruments

CHAPTER V: Environmental impact assessment 

Article 34

TITLE SEVENTH: Environmental protection and regulation

CHAPTER I: Prevention and control of Atmospheric pollution.

Article 115

CHAPTER V: Special management and urban solid wastes

Article 138

Article 139

Article 140

Article 141

Article 143

Article 144

Article 145

Article 146

Article 147

Article 148

TITLE TENTH: Social participation

CHAPTER II: State and Municipal Ecology Committee

Article 161

TITLE ELEVENTH: Inspection and surveillance, security measures and 

sanctions

CHAPTER III: Administrative sanctions

Article 173

Law of Ecological Equilibrium and Environmental Protection of the State 

of Tamaulipas

TITLE FIRST: General Provisions

CHAPTER I: Introductory rules

Article 4
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TITLE SECOND: Competence Distributions

SOLE CHAPTER: Competences

Article 6

Article 7

TITLE FIFTH: Environmental Protection

CHAPTER IV: High Risk Activities

Article 95

Article 96

CHAPTER V. Management and non-hazardous waste disposal

Article 97

Article 98

Article 99

Article 100

Article 102

Article 103

Article 104

Code for Sustainable Development of the State of Tamaulipas

TITLE FOURTH: Integrated management of wastes

CHAPTER II: Classifications

Article 136

CHAPTER III: General Obligations

Article 139

Article 140

4.2.4.2 Local laws

Nuevo Laredo

Regulations for the Ecological Equilibrium and Environmental Protection 

in the Municipality of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas

TITLE FIRST: Generalities

CHAPTER II: Definitions

Article 6

CHAPTER III: Powers and functions of the City Hall

Article 9

TITLE SECOND: Ecological Regulations and Land Use

CHAPTER II: Soil and Natural Resources protection

Article 27

Article 27 BIS

TITLE TENTH: Safety measures

Article 179
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Guerrero

No regulatory waste tire management regulatory framework or agencies 

found in Guerrero legislation.

Miguel Aleman

No regulatory waste tire management regulatory framework or agencies 

found in Miguel Aleman legislation.

Camargo

No regulatory waste tire management regulatory framework or agencies 

found in Camargo legislation.

Gustavo Diaz Ordaz

No regulatory waste tire management regulatory framework or agencies 

found in Gustavo Diaz Ordaz legislation.

Reynosa

Regulation for the Ecological Equilibrium and Environmental Protection in 

the Municipality of Reynosa, Tamaulipas

TITLE FIRST

SINGLE CHAPTER: General Provisions

Article 6

TITLE THIRD

SINGLE CHAPTER: Municipal authority attributions

Article 10

TITLE FIFTH

CHAPTER II: Atmospheric pollution prevention and control

Article 78

CHAPTER III: Soil and subsoil pollution and prevention and urban solid 

wastes management

Article 100

Article 101

Article 102

Article 103

Article 104

Article 105

Article 106

Article 107

Article 111
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Rio Bravo

Regulation for the Ecological Equilibrium and Environmental Protection in 

the Municipality of Rio Bravo, Tamaulipas

TITLE FIRST: General provisions

CHAPTER I: General Guidelines

Article 4

CHAPTER III: Environmental protection local authority competence

Article 8

TITLE THIRD: Environmental Protection

CHAPTER II: Urban and suburban area common provisions

Article 50

CHAPTER IV: Atmospheric environmental protection

Article 60

CHAPTER VI: Soil protection and Urban solid wastes management

Article 83

Article 84

Article 89

Article 90

Article 93

Article 94

Article 95

Matamoros

Regulation for the Equilibrium and Environmental Protection in the 

Municipality of Matamoros, Tamaulipas

TITLE FIRST

CHAPTER I: General Provisions

Article 3

Article 4

CHAPTER III: Environmental control Direction

Article 9

TITLE THIRD

CHAPTER II: Soil and subsoil prevention and control of pollution. 

Article 50

Article 51

Article 52

Article 53
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Article 54

Article 55

Article 56

Article 57

Article 58

5 Enforcement agencies

5.1 U.S. Enforcement Agencies

Two different levels of authority are involved in the main enforcement of 

applicable requirements for the management of scrap tires in the U.S. territory, as 

identified in the following sections:

5.1.1 Federal

The Federal authority is the Environmental Protection Agency 

(www.epa.gov).

5.1.2 State

Environmental Authority at State level in Texas is the Texas Commission 

on Environmental Quality (http://www.tceq.state.tx.us/).

5.2 Mexican Enforcement Agencies

Three different levels of authority are involved in the main enforcement of 

applicable requirements for the management of scrap tires in the Mexican 

territory:

5.2.1 Federal

The Federal authority is the Mexican Secretary for the Environmental and 

Natural Resources (Secretaria del Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales,

SEMARNAT) (www.semarnat.gob.mx). The prosecutor agency at the service of 

SEMARNAT for the supervision of the applicably of federal regulations is the 

PROFEPA (Procuraduria Federal de Proteccion al Ambiente).

5.2.2 State

Four Mexican States are involved in the Texas-Mexico border area as 

previously identified. Each State with an environmental office, identified as 

follows:
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 State of Coahuila Environmental Office (Secretaria del Medio 

Ambiente de Coahuila, SEMAC) (http://www.semac.gob.mx/).

 State of Chihuahua Urban Development and Ecology Office 

(Secretaria de Desarrollo Urbano y Ecologia, SEDUE) 

(www.chihuahua.gob.mx).

 State of Nuevo Leon Environment Protection and Natural Resources 

Agency (Subsecretaria de Proteccion al Medio Ambiente y Recursos 

Naturales, SPMARN) (www.nl.gob.mx).

 State of Tamaulipas Urban Development and Environment Office 

(Secretaria de Desarrollo Urbano y Medio Ambiente, SEDUMA) 

(seduma.tamaulipas.gob.mx).

5.2.3 Municipal

Municipal Ecology and public Works departments are in charge of tire 

management enforcement in a municipal level when waste tires are generated as 

municipal solid waste.
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Chapter 7. 

Recommendations 

regarding changes 

to the current 

Texas and Mexico 

Waste Tire Policies, 

Laws, Regulations 

and Procedures
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1 Recommendations

IEMS identified on Chapter 6 the existing legal framework and based on 

information obtained through deskwork and fieldwork interviews which involved all 

the members on the tire disposal cycle, the main regulatory issues were identified 

and their potential solutions or improvements are reported in this Chapter.

Table 7.1. 

Recommendations regarding changes to the current Texas and Mexico waste 

tire policies, laws, regulations and procedures

No. Impact Cause(s) Recommendations 

1 Tire fires

 Trash fires  CPR dead tires campaign

 Tire burning for 

metal extraction  Tire fire prevention measures 

 Grass fires  Tire ordinance-passing-trainingenforcement

2 Mosquitoes

 Water 

accumulation 

inside whole 

tires

 CPR dead tires campaign

 Tire ordinance-passing-trainingenforcement

3

Blocked water 

ways

 Illegal dumping 

of whole tires

 CPR dead tires campaign

 Tire ordinance-passing-trainingenforcement

 Make access difficult to sensitive

spots

4

Bad image, 

Hives, Vermin 

and poisonous 

animals

 Whole tire 

dumping or 

improper storage

 CPR dead tires campaign

 Tire ordinance-passing-trainingenforcement

5

Used tires lack 

of tracking

 No manifest 

given when 

reinserted into 

the market

 Include the number of resold used 

tires in their annual report to the 

TCEQ scrap tire program.

7 Tire piles

 High disposal 

costs.

 No available 

recycling 

markets.

 CPR dead tires campaign

 Market recommendations of Chapter 

8.
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$1.25

$0.91

$1.50 $1.50 $1.50 $1.50

$3.00

$0.25 $0.33 $0.35 $0.50

$1.25

$0.75 $0.75

Figure 1.- Comparison of the disposal fees for whole and 

cut tires in several Texas border cities

(US dollars / tire)

Whole tires Cut tires 

1.1 CPR dead tires campaign

CPR stands for Cut-Pack-Recycle which are basic steps IEMS identified 

in order to facilitate waste tire handling.

Dead tires is the name given by Texas used tire dealers to tires that are 

no longer reusable.

1.1.1 Cut

Cutting refers to the act of removing the sidewalls of a waste tire.

It can be accomplished manually using a linoleum knife or cutter or by 

means of a machine, necessary especially for cutting commercial truck tires.

Cutting a tire provides the following benefits:

 Retained water inside waste tires is easier to remove.

 Disposal fee reduction (In Texas up to 80% and average savings of 

55%, refer to Figure 7.1).

 Volume reduction ranging from 70% to 79% depending on the tire size 

demanding less storage area and diminishing transportation costs 

(Figure 7.2).

 Increase recycling and marketing options 

Note: to consult the estimation table where this figure was obtained refer to Attachment 23 of this report. 

Figure 7.1. 

Comparison of the disposal fees for whole and cut tires in several 

Texas border cities (US dollars / tire)
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65%

70%

75%

80%

12 14 16 18 20

Tire and rim diameter (in)

Figure 2.-Approximated waste tires volume reduction when 

sidewalls are removed and the resulting pieces packed

Note.- Refer to Attachment 15 and 16 to consult estimations performed to obtain Figure 7.2.

1.1.2 Pack

Packing refers to the act of storing in an ordered fashion the cutting 

resulting pieces to take advantage of their reduced volume.

Stacked tire sidewall rings (top left), ordered and stacked tread rings (top 

right), diagram of tied up tread rings (middle left), diagram of stacked cut tread 

rings (bottom).

Figure 7.2. 

Approximated waste tires volume reduction when sidewalls are removed 

and the resulting pieces packed

Figure 7.3. 

Diagram showing different ways of stacking waste tires
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On Figure 7.3 pictures and diagrams it is easy to notice the volume 

reduction advantages obtained when tire sidewalls are removed as well as 

several packing alternatives. 

Packing the resulting cut tire pieces provides the following benefits:

 Diminish the storage area required.

 Increase storage order.

 Diminish transporting cost per tire.

 Facilitate the loading and unloading into transport vehicles. (Either by 

hand or stacking on standard pallets)

1.1.3 Recycle

Waste tires tread and sidewalls can have different alternative uses than 

whole tires depending on whether they belonged to passenger of commercial 

truck tires. Recycling involves classifying activities based on whether they came 

from commercial or passenger tires, tread quality and dimensions.

The following tread quality classification is suggested:

A type

No visible wiring is observed, when sliding a plastic bag across the 

surface (in any direction) it isn’t cut or damaged meaning a person can handle the 

tread without using gloves without hurting his skin.

Image 7.1. 

Example of a type A waste tire tread.
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B type

Tread presents visible wiring and/or when sliding a plastic bag across the 

surface (in any direction) it is cut or damaged meaning a person cannot handle 

the tread without using gloves.

Image 7.2. 

Examples of type B tire treads.

Dimensions and tire of origin classification is only relevant on specific recycling options. 

1.2 Tire fire prevention measures

According to what was explained on Chapter 4, the following fire 

prevention measures should be implemented in every tire storage site, plus the 

local, state and federal fire prevention requirements.

Image 7.3. 

Used tire dealer waste tires storage site surrounded by tall grass.
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1. Waste tires should be separated from vegetation or flammable 

material by at least 40 feet. (12.2 meters).

2. Every tire storage site should be fenced or surrounded by walls at 

least 2m tall, barb wired on the top, and have access doors with 

control such as locks. This with the objective to prevent the entrance 

of arsonists.

Image 7.4. 

Example of a barb wired fence.

1.3 Tire ordinance1

The tire ordinance recommended is based on the regulations already in 

place in the cities of Laredo2and Pharr3, Texas. These ordinances both share the 

sections marked on blue on the following table:

Table 7.2. Comparison of tire ordinances sections

Laredo Pharr

Purpose and intent

Definitions Definitions

Residential property

Tire business registration program

Tire business and mobile repair road Tire business permits

service units application

Terms of registration

Denial of permit or renewal; suspension 

or revocation of permit

Denial of permit or renewal; suspension 

or revocation of permit

 

1 Based on the City of Pharr Tire Ordinance application technique provided by Mr. Rene Saenz Jr. Public Works 

Assistant Director of the city of Pharr on a face to face interview performed on September 12, 2011.

2 Article IV of the Chapter 15, Part II of the Laredo Code of Ordinances. 

3 Ordinance No. 0-2010-33
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Table 7.2. Comparison of tire ordinances sections

Laredo Pharr

Fees

Tire hauler permit

Destruction of tires

Storage of tires

Disposal of tires Disposal of tires

Disposal records/Transmittal Manifest

Administration/Enforcement

Penalty for violations Violations and penalties

Injunctive relief Injunctive relief

Severability

Tire ordinances common sections are:

1. Definitions.

2. Denial of permit or renewal; suspension or revocation of permit.

3. Disposal of tires.

4. Penalties.

5. Injunctive relief.

A comparison of the content of each common ordinance is presented on 

Attachment 24. In summary the Pharr ordinance presents a more specific 

approach, especially on violations and penalties, and covers more tire related 

issues than the Laredo ordinance. 

Both cities report significant waste tire management improvement when 

applying their own tire ordinances. IEMS recommends that each city, county or 

municipality in the Texas-Mexico border facing tire related issues to pass an 

ordinance which as a minimum contains the enumerated sections and their 

common content presented on Attachment 24 of this report. 

This suggestion should be considered, taking into account that always 

the opinion of a professional legal ordinance advisor should be obtained when an 

ordinance is to be written and passed. This recommendation doesn’t replace the 

need of legal professional counseling when writing an ordinance or any other 

legal document.

Naturally it would also be desirable to consider including all of the 

recommendations presented in this report in the tire ordinances. These 

recommendations should be carefully reviewed by a professional experienced in 

law making of each country and consulted with all involved entities, public or 

private, before passed.
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1.3.1 Passing

The city of Laredo set the example on the Texas-Mexico border area by 

passing a tire ordinance; afterwards it was followed by the city of Pharr. Other 

cities such as El Paso are in process of passing one. The stakeholders 

interviewed in said cities highlighted the benefits of possessing a specific legal 

framework for waste tire management in their areas because it facilitates 

antidumping enforcement and prevention.

Specific stakeholders consulted regarding tire ordinances:

 City of Laredo, Texas.

o Rafael Cisneros, Jr. Environmental health Services, Sanitarian III.

 City of Pharr, Texas.

o Rene Saenz Jr., Public Works, Assistant Director.

1.3.2 Training

The person in charge of setting up, direction and enforcement of the tire 

ordinance should perform the following activities:

1. The regulated entities have to be notified and trained on the purposes, 

scope and application of the tire ordinance. To effectively perform this, 

the following activities are suggested:

 Summon a meeting with the waste tire generators, haulers and 

processors of the area. Present the tire ordinance and provide a 

copy of it. Finally request them to sign a confirmation of notification 

and training by means of a list of assistance. (The presence and 

coverage of the event by the local media is desirable).

 Perform a visit to each tire generator, signal it location by means of 

a GPS, provide a copy of the ordinance and have them sign of 

reception and give them a period of time to comply. (six months).

2. Enforcement agents training. Passing an ordinance is not effective if 

the following agencies do not know its purpose and scope. The 

following agencies and agents should be educated on the tire 

ordinance purpose, scope and application:

 Enforcing agency personnel.

 Special commission personnel.

 Code enforcement agents.

 Fire department.

 Police department.

 Vector control and health departments.

3. Also after the enforcing personnel has been trained in the purposes, 

scope and application of the tire ordinance, the training on these 

subjects of the Municipal judges is key:
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The success or failure of a tire ordinance relies on the consequences 

faced by violators. The municipal court will have the final word on whether a civil 

penalty should be applied or not as well as its severity. 

An untrained or unwilling to punish judge may let go violators without any 

punishment discouraging and disempowering enforcement agencies and officers 

and sending the wrong message to the regulated entities which may think 

complying is not necessary.

1.3.3 Enforcement

Immediately after the time given to the regulated entities to comply with 

the new legislation has passed, tire ordinance enforcement agents should visit all 

notified regulated entities and inspect their compliance if any violation is identified 

the corresponding fine or consequence should be applied with zero tolerance.

Periodic visits should be performed, at least annually to ensure a 

continued compliance and application of the tire ordinance.

New regulated entities identified should be trained and afterwards also 

be visited

1.4 Make access difficult to sensitive dumping spots

Although tire dumping always generates negative impacts, these are 

exacerbated when it occurs on waterways causing their course reduction or 

blocking.

Make access difficult:

In most cases illegal dumping takes very little effort. Many areas 

continue to experience illegal dumping problems after being cleaned up. 

Effective structural solutions will increase the effort and risk of being 

caught thereby deterring offenders. Structural solutions can reduce accessibility to 

popular sites for illegal dumping. A clean up plus:

 Introducing signs.

 Lighting.

 Barriers.

 Landscaping.

 Increasing the visibility.

of a site can contribute to reducing or eliminating continued dumping. 

(Department of Environment and Climate Change (DECC) New South Wales 

Government, 2008)
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Attachment 25 of this report shows an extract of Chapter 4 (Illegal 

dumping prevention techniques) of the document:

 Crackdown on Illegal Dumping - Handbook for Local Government 

(Department of Environment and Climate Change (DECC) New South 

Wales Government, 2008)

The document describes experiences and suggestions on access control 

techniques and their efficiency in preventing dumping

Image 7.5. 

Diagram of a tire tread fence easily manufactured and that could potentially 

be used as an indestructible materials fence by government agencies. 

 Further information is available on Chapter 8 Markets report.

1.5 TCEQ scrap tire program modification

Transporters, scrap tire facilities, and storage sites must file annual 

reports to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ). Current 

Scrap tire annual reports do not include reselling used tires as an option, meaning 

that waste tires which are reported to be disposed of could actually be reinserted 

into the market. 

By counting the number of waste tires reused a more realistic number of 

properly processed tires will be at hand. As well as facilitating the tracking of used 

tires and their actual generation within Texas.

No modification of the report format is required.

A copy of the TCEQ 2011 Scrap Tire Transporter Annual Report format 

is presented as Attachment 26 of this document.
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Chapter 8. 

Recommendations 

Regarding 

Potential Markets 

for Tire-Derived 

Products in 

Mexico
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1 Methodology

1.1 Alternatives identification

In order to identify potential markets for tire-derived products in Mexico, 

IEMS deemed necessary first to define what a market is. For the purposes of this 

Chapter markets are defined as follows:

 Markets are any tire derived application where waste tires can be put 

to a new use, different than their original and the end user or 

processor economically compensates their tire derived raw materials 

supplier.

 In other words, revenue is obtained by the generator and/or processor 

for the sale of these applications or tire derived products.

 The search for markets for tire-derived products was performed on 

deskwork research and interviews with key stakeholders in the 

Mexican and Texas sides of the border as well as ideas developed by 

IEMS’ team.

 Deskwork research included a search on the World Wide Web, the 

Green pages directory of sustainable business, previous tire market 

studies, as well as periodic publications, remote interviews with large 

recyclers and online trade pages.

The markets signaled as “bulk” are the ones that could supply the 

existing scrap tire uses previously reported in the study Scrap Tires: Handbook on 

Recycling Applications and Management for the U.S. and Mexico (Gray, 2010)

performed for the border area.

1.2 Alternatives description 

A list of identified potential markets for tire-derived products in Mexico is 

presented. Afterwards, each alternative is described based on available literature 

and web sources. 

Descriptions are intended to illustrate regarding the tire derived product 

applications and uses, how it is obtained, benefits and issues. Sources of all 

information are appropriately quoted to facilitate to stakeholders to further 

research and learn on the application of their choice.
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1.3 Market recommendations

Each stakeholder should decide what market is more attractive to him 

based on his own considerations. Nevertheless IEMS recommendations are 

based on the following criteria:

 Markets which require the minor equipment investment and provide 

the higher income per tire (high market price) were selected as the 

most recommendable markets.

 Estimated incomes per tire which are minor than the income 

theoretically obtained from the burning of tires for metal extraction 

were not considered recommendable.

 By doing this discrimination the market thrive to burn waste tires for 

metal extraction would theoretically be discouraged because a higher 

income could be obtained through alternative recommended markets.

 Alternatives which imply higher green house gas emissions per tire 

processed are considered less recommendable.

1.4 Social considerations

1.4.1 Legal considerations

Only Mexican legal framework was considered for this Chapter. To 

identify legal restrictions and regulations, concerning the markets identified a 

search was performed on Mexican Official Standards (Normas Oficiales 

Mexicanas, NOMs), International treaties signed by Mexico, federal, state and 

local Mexican laws. The results of this search are presented. It is relevant to note 

that a general principle of the Mexican legal system states:

 “For individuals what is not expressly forbidden is allowed” by Hans 

Kelsen.

 Meaning that unless any of the identified markets and related activities 

are specifically regulated and sanctioned, it is legal to pursue them.

 Also the Mexican General Law for the Prevention and Integrated 

Management of Wastes (Ley General para la Prevención y Gestion 

Integral de Residuos, LGPGIR) establishes the bases to:

 “Promote the valorization of wastes, as well as the market of 

byproducts, under environmental, technologic and economic efficiency 

criteria and adequate financing”.
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This means that all recycling markets identified, as long as they promote 

energy and raw materials savings without affecting health, ecosystems or their 

elements, are allowed.

The focus of this search is to shed some light on legal restrictions 

concerning each alternative rather than encompassing the whole legal framework 

of each market. For this reason only restrictions and specific regulations are 

reported as requested by the terms of reference of this study.

1.4.2 Social impact assessment (SIA)

It is not within the scope of this Chapter to perform a social impact 

assessment for each alternative for each location within the Texas-Mexico border 

area. Yet it would be recommendable for each project to perform one prior to 

make any decision regarding a processing project.

By identifying impacts in advance: 

 Better decisions can be made about which interventions should 

proceed and how they should proceed; and 

 Mitigation measures can be implemented to minimize the harm and 

maximize the benefits from a specific planned intervention or related 

activity (Vanclay, SIA principles, 2003).

 In order to aid stakeholders to assess social impacts the SIA is 

described according to the international principles of the social impact 

assessment emitted by the International Association for Impact 

Assessment (IAIA) (Vanclay, SIA principles, 2003):

 "Social Impact Assessment includes the processes of analysing, 

monitoring and managing the intended and unintended social 

consequences, both positive and negative, of planned interventions 

(policies, programs, plans, projects) and any social change processes 

invoked by those interventions. Its primary purpose is to bring about a 

more sustainable and equitable biophysical and human environment."

(Vanclay, SIA principles, 2003).

Since decisions based on the information presented in this Chapter will 

possibly cause future planned interventions such as the mentioned on the 

definition above, IEMS will present the bases of a social impact assessment and 

useful data in order for each stakeholder to perform its own local social impact 

assessment on the area to be impacted by their planned projects.

A convenient way of conceptualizing social impacts is as changes to one 

or more of the following (Vanclay, SIA principles, 2003):
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 People’s way of life – that is, how they live, work, play and interact 

with one another on a day-to-day basis;

 Their culture – that is, their shared beliefs, customs, values and 

language or dialect;

 Their community – its cohesion, stability, character, services and 

facilities;

 Their political systems – the extent to which people are able to 

participate in decisions that affect their lives, the level of 

democratization that is taking place, and the resources provided for 

this purpose;

 Their environment – the quality of the air and water people use; the 

availability and quality of the food they eat; the level of hazard or risk, 

dust and noise they are exposed to; the adequacy of sanitation, their 

physical safety, and their access to and control over resources;

 Their health and wellbeing – health is a state of complete physical, 

mental, social and spiritual wellbeing and not merely the absence of 

disease or infirmity;

 Their personal and property rights – particularly whether people are 

economically affected, or experience personal disadvantage which 

may include a violation of their civil liberties;

 Their fears and aspirations – their perceptions about their safety, their 

fears about the future of their community, and their aspirations for 

their future and the future of their children.

1.5 Economic impact considerations

1.5.1 Required equipment investment per market

To make evident the difference in amount of economic investment 

required by each raw material state, the necessary investments on equipment to 

process waste tires was obtained from previous studies and quotations from 

manufacturers.

The equipment necessary was determined according to market tire 

derived raw materials specifications such as:

 Tire part;

 Type of tire where the raw material originated;

 Particle size;

 Metal content; 

 Fiber content.
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This estimation considers the required machinery to modify waste tires in 

order to obtain the raw materials as the market demands them. It does not include 

secondary equipment, land, vehicles or facilities.

1.5.2 Estimated income per tire

IEMS searched and obtained from:

 Online trading websites;

 Online retail stores;

the market prices paid for each tire derived raw material, or similar products when 

the market price of the raw material or product was not available. 

This was done to highlight markets which provide the highest revenue 

per tire, potentially maximizing the potential income of recyclers and or waste tire 

generators through the revalorization of their waste tires.

1.5.2.1 Income obtained when burning tires for metal extraction

To be able to discriminate between an acceptable income per passenger 

tire equivalent (PTE) from a non acceptable income per PTE, the income obtained 

through selling the tire wire obtained after burning a passenger tire was estimated 

and set as a sustainability threshold .

This income was estimated based on the prices market currently pays for 

scrap tire wire in the Mexican scope cities. Although it should be periodically 

estimated due that prices continuously change.

1.6 Environmental impact considerations

Since all alternatives identified are actually recycling activities, all 

alternatives provide the positive environmental impacts and benefits of:

 Waste reduction.

 Tire pile mitigation which means a reduction in soil pollution. 

 Prevent atmospheric and potentially water contamination by 

eliminating tire piles which could burn.

 Savings in disposal fees.

 Diminish the environmental impacts of virgin materials extraction and 

transportation.

 Savings in landfill space.
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Yet health and environment issues have been presented though time 

regarding tire derived products. IEMS performed a search of serious publications 

and studies and selected the one that was considered to be performed in the 

most scientific rigor in order to assess if health and environmental risks may 

present in any of the identified markets.

1.6.1 Estimated green house emissions per tire processed

Based on electrical energy consumption and processing speed a 

comparison of estimated green house gas emissions per passenger tire 

equivalent processed was performed to identify the less pollutant alternatives.

Emission per kilowatt-hour were the ones reported for the Mexican 

Federal Commission of Electricity (Comision Federal de Electricidad, CFE) 

estimated by the Technicians and Professionals in Energetic Application 

Association (Asociacion de Tecnicos y Profesionistas de Aplicacion Energetica, 

ATPAE), which is of 0.6539 Kilograms of equivalent CO2 per kilowatt-hour.

2 Markets identified

As previously mentioned, for the purposes of this report markets are 

defined as any tire derived application where waste tires can be put to a new use, 

different than their original and the end user or processor economically 

compensates their tire derived raw materials supplier.

In other words, revenue is obtained by the generator and/or processor 

for the sale of these applications or tire derived products. So based on the past 

definition the identified markets on the Texas-Mexico border area are the 

following:

1. Passenger tire sidewalls (bulk).

2. De-beaded passenger sidewalls (bulk).

3. Passenger tire sidewalls' bead wire (bulk).

4. Tire treads (bulk).

5. Tire derived geo cells (TDGC).

6. Steel belted rubber for rammed-earth encased walls.

7. Landscaping edging.

8. Tire fences.

9. Tire derived aggregates (TDA) (bulk).

10. Ground rubber for rubberized asphalt (RA) (bulk). 

11. Ground rubber for athletic and recreational surfaces (bulk).

12. Rubber mulch (bulk).

13. Ground rubber for molded and extruded products (bulk).
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During this search a pattern was identified and products could be 

catalogued by the state of the raw material needed by them, it could be:

 Shredded or ground rubber. 

 A specific part of a whole tire (i.e. tread, sidewalls, tread with one 

sidewall, etc).

Even on markets of the same product variations exist on the 

characteristics of the ground rubber, some of these variations are:

 Ground rubber sizes “mesh”;

 Metal content;

 Fiber content;

 Rubber color, among others. 

2.1 Passenger tire sidewalls

Bulk1passenger tire sidewalls can be considered a source of any of the 

following raw materials:

Source of rubber

Present in most of the passenger tire sidewall’s body. Such as bead filler, 

abrasion gum strip, sidewall and sidewall reinforcements since all are made of 

some kind of rubber. (© 2012 Modified, Source Interlink Media, 2008).

Source of metal

Present in the sidewall’s bead wire which is a high-strength steel cable. 

(How stuff works Inc, 2008-2012)

Source of synthetic fibers

Present at the tire’s body plies. The most common ply fabric is polyester 

cord. (How stuff works Inc, 2008-2012)

Source of thermal energy

Tires have a heat content of 14,000 to 15,500 British thermal units per 

pound (Btu/pound) (7,800 to 8,600 kilocalories per kilogram [kcal/ kg]), depending 

on the type of tire and the amount of reinforcing wire that has been removed. By 

comparison, another solid fuel commonly displaced by use of tires as an energy 

resource is coal that typically contains 10,000 to 13,000 Btu/pound (5,550 to 

7,200 kcal/kg) (EPA, 2010). Tire derived fuel (TDF) is further explained on the 

following Chapter 9.

 

1 Bulk = in large amounts or volume.
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Image 8.1. 

Passenger tire sidewalls slit at the shoulder2ready to be transported at a 

processors site in El Paso, Texas, USA.

Other uses

Passenger tire sidewalls are employed in the creation of diverse 

handcrafts.

Image 8.2. 

Rubber garden jars made out of tire treads and sidewalls.

 

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2.1.1 How to obtain passenger tire sidewalls

Sidewalls from passenger tires can be easily obtained by cutting through 

the tires shoulder using a knife. Also sidewall removing machines of different 

models and brands are available in the market. (refer to Attachment 31 for 

examples of sidewall removing machines.)

Truck tire sidewalls can only be removed from a tire employing a truck 

tire sidewalls remover.

2.1.2 Benefits from recycling tire sidewalls

The benefits identified are:

 Sidewalls are easily removed from a tires body using a linoleum knife 

or a sidewall removing machine.

 Sidewalls can be available with no investment costs through a dead 

tire Cut-Pack-Recycle (CPR) campaign implemented in coordination 

with waste tires generators.

 Waste reduction. Reuse of a raw material that was considered a 

waste.

 Tire pile mitigation which means a reduction in soil and water 

pollution. 

 Prevent atmospheric, soil and potentially water contamination by 

eliminating tire piles which could burn.

 Savings in disposal fees.

 Diminish the environmental impacts of virgin materials extraction and 

transportation.

 Savings in landfill space.

2.1.3 Issues related to recycling tire sidewalls:

The following related to recycling tire sidewalls issues were detected:

 Need of a shredding machine capable of shredding rubber with metal 

content.

 Rubber obtained contains metal traces even if magnetic separation is 

applied.

 Demand may not be locally available.
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2.1.4 Legal restrictions and regulations on the sale of passenger 

tire sidewalls

No specific legal restrictions or regulations were found regarding this 

activity. 

Note that open air burning of tires or of any of their pieces is illegal in all 

states of the Mexican side of the border. See Attachment 33 for specific 

legislations.

2.2 De-beaded passenger tire sidewalls 

Bulk3de-beaded passenger tire sidewalls can be considered a source of 

any of the following raw materials:

Source of rubber

Present in most of the passenger tire sidewall’s body. Such as bead filler, 

abrasion gum strip, sidewall and sidewall reinforcements since all are made of 

some kind of rubber. (© 2012 Modified, Source Interlink Media, 2008).

Tire sidewalls which have been de-beaded are considered a source of 

rubber of major quality since no metal will be present on the final raw material 

once shredded. Rubber obtained from De-beaded sidewalls is an alternative 

where magnetically separated materials are not acceptable.

Source of synthetic fibers

Present at the tire’s body plies. The most common ply fabric is polyester 

cord. (How stuff works Inc, 2008-2012)

Source of thermal energy

Tires have a heat content of 14,000 to 15,500 British thermal units per 

pound (Btu/pound) (7,800 to 8,600 kilocalories per kilogram [kcal/ kg]), depending 

on the type of tire and the amount of reinforcing wire that has been removed. By 

comparison, another solid fuel commonly displaced by use of tires as an energy 

resource is coal that typically contains 10,000 to 13,000 Btu/pound (5,550 to 

7,200 kcal/kg) (EPA, 2010). Tire derived fuel (TDF) is further explained on 

Chapter 9.

Other uses

Passenger tire sidewalls are employed in the creation of diverse 

handcrafts and pet biting toys.

 

3

Bulk = in large amounts or volume.
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Image 8.3. 

Bead wire removing machine separating tire slit sidewall from bead wire. 

Courtesy of Engineering and Equipment Co. (EECO).

2.2.1 How to obtain de-beaded passenger tire sidewalls

Sidewalls from passenger tires can be easily obtained by cutting through 

the tires shoulder using a knife. Also sidewall removing machines of different 

brands and models are available in the market. Truck tire sidewalls can only be 

removed from a tire employing a truck tire sidewall removing machine. 

Once sidewalls have been separated from the tire tread bead may be 

removed employing a de-beading machine (refer to Attachment 31 for examples 

of tire sidewall removing and de-beading machines).

2.2.2 Benefits from recycling passenger tire de-beaded sidewalls

The benefits identified are:

 Sidewalls are easily removed from a tires body using a linoleum knife 

or a sidewall removing machine.

 De-beaded passenger tire sidewalls are a source or non metallic 

content rubber which has a higher market value.

 Bead wire removed can be sold as scrap steel.

 Less powerful shredding equipment is necessary since rubber and 

fiber are the only constituents of passenger tire sidewalls. 
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 Tire sidewalls can be available with no investment costs through a 

dead tire Cut-Pack-Recycle (CPR) campaign implemented in 

coordination with waste tires generators.

 Waste reduction. Reuse of a raw material that was considered a 

waste.

 Tire pile mitigation which means a reduction in soil and water

pollution. 

 Prevent atmospheric, soil and potentially water contamination by 

eliminating tire piles which could burn.

 Savings in disposal fees.

 Diminish the environmental impacts of virgin materials extraction and 

transportation.

 Savings in landfill space.

2.2.3 Issues related to recycling passenger tire de-beaded sidewalls

The following related to recycling tire sidewalls issues were detected:

 Demand may not be locally available

2.2.4 Legal restrictions and regulations on the sale of passenger 

tire de-beaded sidewalls

No specific legal restrictions or regulations were found regarding this 

activity. 

2.3 Passenger tire sidewall bead wire 

The bead is a rubber-coated steel cable whose function is to ensure that 

the tire remains attached to the wheel rim (How stuff works Inc, 2008-2012). Bead 

wire removed from passenger, light truck and heavy truck tires is a source of the 

following raw materials:

Source of metal

Present in the sidewall’s bead wire which is a high-strength steel cable.

(How stuff works Inc, 2008-2012).

Note: The act of burning tires for metal extraction is one of the main 

causes of tire pile fires in Mexico’s border area. The municipality of Nuevo 

Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico has forbidden scrap metal businesses from 

purchasing tire metal in an attempt to stop tire burning activities.
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2.3.1 How to obtain tire beads

De-beading machines are commonly employed for this purpose. No 

manual techniques were identified in this study’s desktop and fieldwork activities. 

Depending on the machine specifications bead wire may be removed from a 

whole tire or from a slit from the shoulder of a tire’s body (refer to Attachment 31

for examples of tire sidewall removing and de-beading machines).

Image 8.4. 

Bead wire removed from a tire sidewall by a de-beading machine. 

Courtesy of Engineering and Equipment Co. (EECO).

2.3.2 Benefits from recycling tire beads

The benefits identified are:

 Attractive purchase prices from diverse buyers are available in most

large cities of the Mexican side in the Texas-Mexico border area.

 Tire sidewalls to obtain bead wire can be available with no investment 

costs through a dead tire Cut-Pack-Recycle (CPR) campaign 

implemented in coordination with waste tires generators.

 Waste reduction. Reuse of a raw material that was considered a 

waste.

 Tire pile mitigation which means a reduction in soil and water

pollution. 

 Prevent atmospheric, soil and potentially water contamination by 

eliminating tire piles which could burn.

 Savings in disposal fees.

 Diminish the environmental impacts of virgin materials extraction and 

transportation.

 Savings in landfill space.
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2.3.3 Issues related to recycling tire sidewalls

The following related to recycling tire sidewalls issues were detected:

 Specialized equipment is required to remove the sidewall’s bead wire. 

Attachment 31 presents quotations and information regarding bead 

wire removing equipment.

 If the rubber was set on fire to obtain the steel bead wire a large 

amount of carcinogenic and toxic gases and liquids are released, 

additionally it is one of the main causes of tire pile fires in the Mexican 

side of the scope border area.

2.3.4 Legal restrictions and regulations on the sale of passenger 

tire sidewalls’ bead wire

No specific legal restrictions or regulations were found regarding this 

activity. 

Note that open air burning of tires or of any of their pieces is illegal in all 

states of the Mexican side of the border. See Attachment 33 for specific 

legislations.

2.4 Tire treads 

Bulk4tire treads can be considered a source of any of the following raw 

materials and tire derived products:

Source of tire derived geo cells

Which are cylindrical tension-bands created from used auto tires from 

which both sidewalls have been removed (REAGCO, 2011). They are used for 

soil stabilization and on civil engineering projects. Further information is presented 

in the following section.

Source of molds for rammed earth tire walls

Tire treads perform the function of a mold that can take the pressure 

generated by fill dirt being hit by a sledgehammer in order to compress it. 

In order to build a rammed earth structure, temporary forms are needed 

in which the soil may be compressed. Generally, rammed earth walls are simple 

to construct, requiring only a form to mold the dirt in and the soil itself 

(Zimmerman, 2011). Detailed information is presented on the following sections.

 

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Image 8.5. 

Passenger tire treads.

Source of landscape edging

Whole or cut tire treads can be used to separate the different 

landscaping components of a garden, such as flowerbeds, dirt and gravel areas 

roads, grass, tree beds, mulched areas, etc. Certain precautions to eliminate 

scratching risk from exposed wires have to be additionally implemented. More 

information is provided in the following sections.

Source of fencing components

The creation of fences using cut tire treads is an innovative solution 

developed by IEMS’ team. No knowledge of its application in the Texas-Mexico 

border or elsewhere was found. Nevertheless it is presented as a potentially large 

market once its viability is confirmed through testing and pilot applications. More 

information on this alternative market is presented in following sections.

Source of rubber

The actual tire tread it’s basically a mixture of various synthetic and 

natural rubbers. (How stuff works Inc, 2008-2012)

Source of metal

The tire belt, which is made of steel is meant to provide reinforcement to 

the section that’s directly underneath the tread. (How stuff works Inc, 2008-2012)

Source of synthetic fibers

Present at the tire’s body plies. The most common ply fabric polyester 

cord. (How stuff works Inc, 2008-2012)
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Source of thermal energy

Tires have a heat content of 14,000 to 15,500 British thermal units per 

pound (Btu/pound) (7,800 to 8,600 kilocalories per kilogram [kcal/ kg]), depending 

on the type of tire and the amount of reinforcing wire that has been removed. By 

comparison, another solid fuel commonly displaced by use of tires as an energy 

resource is coal that typically contains 10,000 to 13,000 Btu/pound (5,550 to 

7,200 kcal/kg) (EPA, 2010). Tire derived fuel (TDF) is further explained on the 

following Chapter 9.

2.4.1 How to obtain tire treads

Passenger tire treads can be obtained by cutting through the tire 

shoulders in order to separate the sidewalls from the tread. In order to cut away 

the sidewalls a knife or a sidewall removing machine may be employed.

Truck tire treads may only be obtained employing a truck tire sidewall 

removing machine. Information regarding examples of sidewalls removing 

machines is presented on Attachment 31.

2.4.2 Benefits from recycling tire treads

The benefits identified are:

 High value products such as TDGC, landscape edging, and fence 

railings can be locally obtained at very low costs.

 The use of treads as rammed earth walls molds presents an 

opportunity for low income families without access to commercial 

building materials or for enthusiasts of eco-friendly buildings.

 Passenger tire treads may be easily obtained using a knife to slit 

through a passenger tire shoulders.

 Transportation of tire treads is cheaper than transportation of whole 

tires due to extreme volume reductions.

 Tire cylinders, with sidewalls removed, can be available with no 

investment costs through a dead tire Cut-Pack-Recycle (CPR) 

campaign implemented in coordination with waste tires generators.

 Waste reduction. Reuse of a raw material that was considered a 

waste.

 Tire pile mitigation which means a reduction in soil and water 

pollution. 

 Prevent atmospheric, soil and potentially water contamination by 

eliminating tire piles which could burn.

 Savings in disposal fees.
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 Diminish the environmental impacts of virgin materials extraction and 

transportation.

 Savings in landfill space.

2.4.3 Issues related to recycling tire treads

The following related to recycling tire treads issues were detected:

 If the rubber was set on fire to obtain the steel belts a large amount of 

carcinogenic and toxic gases and liquids are released, additionally 

burning of tires to extract the metal in the is one of the main causes of 

tire pile fires in the Mexican side of the border area.

 Rubber obtained would present metal traces lowering its market value 

and increasing rubber production costs if metal is removed.

 Some markets may not be locally available.

2.4.4 Legal restrictions and regulations on the sale of tire treads

No specific legal restrictions or regulations were found regarding this 

activity. 

Note that open air burning of tires or of any of their pieces is illegal in all 

states of the Mexican side of the border. See Attachment 33 for specific 

legislations.

2.5 Tire Derived Geo Cells 

Geo cells are widely recognized in the construction industry as a 

permanent soil stabilization best management practice (BMP) used for a variety of 

applications including : Roadway load support and stabilization, erosion control, 

soil stabilization on steep slopes, revetments and flexible channel lining systems, 

earth retention structures (CDOT, 2006).

2.5.1 Tire Derived Geo Cylinders (TDGC)

By removing one or both sidewalls of a tire, slit at the shoulder, the 

remaining tread cylinder can be used as a geo cell, herein the name tire derived 

geo cell or tire derived geo cylinder (TDGC).

2.5.1.1 How to obtain TDGC

By removing one or both sidewalls of a tire, slit at the shoulder, the 

remaining tread cylinder can be used as a geo cell. Passenger tire sidewalls can 

be removed manually employing a knife, or automatically employing sidewall 

removing machines.
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In order to remove the sidewalls of a truck tire a truck tire sidewall 

removing machine must be employed. Information regarding examples of sidewall 

removing machines is presented on Attachment 31.

TDGC applications have been successfully implemented in Serdang, 

Selangor, Malaysia by only removing one of the tire’s sidewalls and attaching 

each geo cell using a Polypropylene rope of 12 mm of diameter. This mat design 

was used as earth reinforcement for repairing tropical residual soil slopes (Bujang 

B. K. Huat, 2008).

2.5.1.2 Benefits from TDGC applications

The benefits identified are:

 Use of TDGC as road base strengthening in Mexican scope 

municipalities could completely remediate all identified tire piles. 

Attachment 34 presents these estimations.

 Local materials and soils may be used as TDGC fill material 

eliminating the need of transport and mining of aggregates from 

distant locations thus eliminating the transport and mining 

environmental and economic impacts.

 Reduced cost of materials and construction since both scrap tires and 

backfill soils can be recycled local materials.

 The construction of the system is relatively simple. It doesn’t require 

skilled workers or heavy machinery.

 A problem causing waste is converted into a high value engineering 

input which improves the quality of life and safety of its users.

 Current retail price of commercial geo cells in the Mexican border area 

is of $14.04 USD5 ($194.4 pesos)6 per square meter while TDGC are 

virtually free in the same area.

 Large number of applications in civil engineering projects.

 Green Building certification. Facilities earn more points for the US 

Green Building Council’s LEED® certification program or for any other 

green building certification standard.

 Tire cylinders, with sidewalls removed, can be available with no 

investment costs through a dead tire Cut-Pack-Recycle (CPR) 

campaign implemented in coordination with waste tires generators.

 Waste reduction. Reuse of a raw material that was considered a 

waste.

 

5 A quotation for commercially available geo cells is available in Attachment 38.

6 US dollar prices estimated based on the FIX Exchange value reported by the Bank of Mexico (BANXICO) on 

June 22, 2012 (13.8490 Mexican pesos/US dollars).
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 Tire pile mitigation which means a reduction in soil and water

pollution. 

 Prevent atmospheric, soil and potentially water contamination by 

eliminating tire piles which could burn.

 Savings in disposal fees.

 Diminish the environmental impacts of virgin materials extraction and 

transportation.

 Savings in landfill space.

2.5.1.3 Issues related to TDGC

The following related to TDGC issues were detected:

 Some tire derived geo cell technology applications are patented in the 

United States, such as the Mechanical concrete® application (U.S. 

Patent 7,470,092 B2), which is presented with more detail below. 

 Zinc Leaching. Tire rubber contains about 1.5 percent zinc as a 

vulcanization accelerator within the rubber polymer matrix. Water can 

gradually leach small amounts of zinc from the chip into the underlying 

soil. Traces of zinc serve as a micronutrient for many species, but 

excessive quantities can have a negative impact on some plants and 

grasses. Leaching is slow and controlled with water flowing through 

chips on the surface of beds, but it could be accelerated by 

continuous submersion in water or soil (Gray, 2010). 

Zinc concentrations in rubber mulch leachate increase as the pH 

lowers and temperature increases. Zinc concentrations of rubber 

mulch leachate may be higher than 20 mg/L (Kanematsua, 2010)

which, as a reference, is the maximum permissible monthly average 

limit established by Mexican Official Standard NOM-001-SEMARNAT1996 of Zinc concentrations in water discharges on national water 

bodies or soil. In mediums with pH of 5 all rubber mulch leachates at 

any temperature, ranging from 10°C to 40°C, surpassed 10mg/L 

(Kanematsua, 2010) the maximum daily authorized average 

concentrations of Zinc in waste water discharges according to the 

mentioned standard. Rubber mulch and TDGC are derived from tires 

for this reason on mediums with acidic pH it is not recommended to 

apply TDGC.

2.5.1.4 Legal restrictions and regulations regarding TDGC

No specific legal restrictions or regulations were found regarding this 

activity. 
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2.5.2 TDGC Mechanical Concrete® 

In the United States the state of West Virginia is the pioneer in TDGC 

application on civil engineering projects. Samuel G. Bonasso a civil engineer 

native of West Virginia, U.S., patented a specific waste tire derived product 

application, commercially named Mechanical Concrete® (U.S. Patent 7,470,092 

B2).

Mechanical Concrete® is built with cylindrical tension bands created from 

used auto tires from which both sidewalls have been removed. When 

appropriately sized stone aggregate is poured into the cylinders, the stones tightly 

lock together and behave as a solid, immovable mass: Mechanical Concrete®. 

This construction method uses less stone, requires no compaction or curing, and 

is instantly ready to support construction loads (REAGCO, 2011). It is a way of 

binding crushed stone aggregates together into a load bearing cellular building 

unit. The Mechanical Concrete®unit can support compressive loads and resist 

lateral soil pressure. It is basically a compressive material. It confines the stone 

within a TDGC. (REAGCO, 2011). The TDGC performs functions similar to the 

cement / water mixture, the rebar and the formwork in hydraulic cement concrete. 

It actually improves the load bearing capacity of the aggregate material be it sand, 

stone or sandy clay. (REAGCO, 2011).

It is the tensile strength of the Mechanical Cement® cylinder (TDGC) that 

generally defines the overall strength of Mechanical Concrete®and not the 

crushed stone. The preferred cylinder is made from a recycled auto or truck tire 

with both sidewalls removed, meaning a TDGC. (REAGCO, 2011)

Mechanical Concrete® geo-cylinder confinement system has many 

economical and beneficial uses reported by its patent holder. Rural and heavy 

duty road base, gas well pad, mechanically stabilized earth retaining wall systems 

(MSE) and bearing wall applications have been currently implemented. 

Image 8.6. 

Mechanical Cement® and Mechanical Concrete® images.
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Image 8.7. 

Application of Tire Derived Geo Cells in the construction of a 430 foot coal 

haul road from the Maidsville, WV (REAGCO, 2011). 

Top left: cylinder placement; top right: grading;

low left: finished road; low right: road in use.

Image 8.8. 

TRIAD Consulting Engineers parking lot, Morgantown, WV (REAGCO, 2011).
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Image 8.9. 

Bowie, Inc. Sorbello Gas Well service pad, Clarksburg, WV (REAGCO, 2011).

Potential applications of mechanical concrete TDGC include:

Load Support for:

 Paved and Unpaved road sub-base, base, and shoulders

 Unpaved and Paved Low Volume Road intersection interfaces

 Railroad ballast

 Industrial and mining roadways

 Rail road ballast bed stabilization, repair and reconstruction

 Conveyor foundations

 Bridge piers

 Underwater foundations

Earth Retaining Walls and Free Standing Load Bearing Walls

 MSE & Gravity Retaining Walls

 Industrial and commercial building and other load bearing walls and 

foundations

 Mining protective walls and sound wall structures

 Dams, ponds, levees, embankment construction

 Industrial Security walls and sound walls
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Channel and Slope Protection

 Drainage control structures

 Bridge pier scour protection

 Erosion control structures to reduce and absorb water runoff velocity 

energy

 Storm water retention

 Channel, Slope and Embankment stabilization and Restoration

Other Uses

 Helipads

 Oil and Natural Gas Drill Pads

 Airfield Construction

 Overflow parking site stabilization

 Emergency Vehicle Road Entrances

 Energy Absorbing Highway and Transportation Crash Barriers

 Natural stone golf cart paths, cycle and walking paths and trails that 

support natural drainage patterns

 Permeable structures for highway, railway and trail slippage repair 

and reconstruction

 Military force protection

2.5.2.1 How to obtain Mechanical Concrete®

By filling tire derived geo cylinders (TDGC) with stone aggregates, sand, 

or other granular soil materials. 

For structural applications and foundations the stone aggregate placed 

inside the geo cylinders shall be limestone or other suitable virgin or recycled 

stone, recycled asphalt pavement, industrial slag or stone aggregate with a 

comparable compressive strength. In remote areas, local river gravel may be 

used. 

For highway use the size of the stone shall conform to AASHTO coarse 

aggregate size number 57 or number 3 or another selected relatively uniform 

sized stone particle gradation approved by the engineer. The engineer may 

specify the use of sand, indigenous granular soil materials or the recycling of 

existing roadway or shoulder stone base be placed in the geo cylinders if the 

material is suitable and without excessive clay fines. 
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For roadway bases and site stabilization, unless otherwise specified, the 

size of the stone shall conform to AASHTO coarse aggregate size number 57. 

Attachment 35 presents a of the general specifications for the 

construction of Mechanical Concrete® geo cylinder confinement systems for 

roadway base or shoulders, gravity retaining walls or mechanically stabilized 

earth (MSE) walls, load bearing walls, abutments or load bearing pier foundations. 

Attachment 36 displays a questionnaire answered by Mr. Bonasso

explaining the necessary steps U.S. inhabitants and organizations should follow in 

order to start implementing mechanical concrete®, as well as a list of references 

who have already employed this technology in previous projects.

2.5.2.2 Benefits from Mechanical Concrete® (MC) applications

Additional to TDGC applications advantages. Benefits reported by 

Reinforced Aggregates Company (REAGCO) on the implementation of MC

technology on road bases are the following:

 Road base load tested to greater than HS 20 wheel loads (Bonasso, 

2008).

 Using a tire tread cylinder, i.e. any standard automotive tire with both 

sidewalls removed, in a construction application; i.e. where the 

supported vertical loads are in the range of 100psi, 7 TSF; provides a 

rugged, very conservative materials engineering approach (Bonasso, 

2008).

 Tire-derived-geo-cylinders economically create a virtually 

indestructible base so it basically eliminates most road maintenance 

problems.

 Can be used effectively and economically in nearly all construction, 

on-road or off-road applications for a maximum wheel loading of 

50,000lbs.

 Over triples the usual maximum load carrying capacity of sandy, 

granular, and graded stone materials.

 Less general labor and less skilled labor are required.

 Consumes less energy in its construction process since it can use 

smaller equipment.

 Requires no compaction, vibration, forms or rebar.

 Reuses a ready-made cylinder that is a low cost, combination stay-inplace form and reinforcing element.

 Uses the compressive load bearing capacity of low-cost stone 

aggregates or other recycled or earthen aggregate materials.
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 It is simple to understand and use so it improves construction worker 

productivity. Speeds-up and facilitates the construction process.

 Common infrastructure problems such as potholes and ruts are 

virtually eliminated.

 When compared to the cost of retaining walls, bearing walls and 

foundations, roads and site stabilization made of conventional 

concrete or compacted stone; Mechanical Concrete® can deliver a 

minimum 25% savings. In many cases this savings can be as high as 

50%. In road construction the savings can be 25 to 30% or more 

depending on the aggregate used.

Additional potential benefits identified include:

 Public and private budgets would increase economic efficiency by 

being able to build and maintain more structures with same budget.

 On site soil can be used as aggregate eliminating the need of 

transport and mining of aggregates from distant locations thus 

eliminating the transport and mining environmental and economic 

impacts.

 Require low energy input for their manufacture and can even be 

handmade employing a knife (refer to Attachment 15 for additional 

information).

 Comparing with the current retail price of geo cells in the Mexican 

border area of $14.04 USD ($194.4 pesos)7 per square meter versus 

the maximum retail price per cylinder recommended by REAGCO of 

$3 USD ($41.54 pesos)8 per cylinder ($5.38 USD or $74.5 pesos per 

square meter) tire derived geo cells (TDGC) are 61% more economic. 

 In Mexico where TDGCs are a free to use technology the cost of 

acquiring them is practically the labor cost of manually cutting a tire 

using a knife or the labor and cost of investment on an automatic tire 

sidewall remover, since manually removing both sidewalls to a 

passenger tire rim 15 takes a little over 2 minutes savings are 

expected to be even greater than the ones estimated on the last 

paragraph depending on workers salary.

 Presented on Attachment 37 of this Chapter is a letter signed by 

Aaron C. Gillispie, who in 2008 worked as the director of the West 

Virginia Department of Transportation (WVDOT) Materials control, 

Soils and Test Division, approving the material application on a per 

project basis of Mechanical concrete®, dated on October 09, 2008.9

 

7 US dollar prices estimated based on the FIX Exchange value reported by the Bank of Mexico (BANXICO) on 

June 22, 2012 (13.8490 Mexican pesos/US dollars).

8 US dollar prices estimated based on the FIX Exchange value reported by the Bank of Mexico (BANXICO) on 

June 22, 2012 (13.8490 Mexican pesos/US dollars).

9

The originality of the letter was corroborated by IEMS on a telephonic conversation with Mr. John Taylor on 

June 19, 2012. No signed confirmation format was asked to Mr. Taylor.
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Commercial geo cell mat quotations are available on Attachment 38 of 

this report. TDGC recommended retail prices are presented on the questionnaire 

presented on Attachment 36 Time to remove a tires sidewall is presented on 

Attachment 15.

2.5.2.3 Issues related to Mechanical Concrete®

The following related to Mechanical concrete® issues were detected:

 Tire derived geo cylinder technology is patented in the United 

States (U.S. Patent 7,470,092 B2). Attachment 36 presents a 

questionnaire applied to Samuel G. Bonasso, patent owner, regarding 

what has to be done in order to be able to implement this technology 

in the USA.

 It should be implemented using accepted civil engineering design 

techniques, processes and traditional construction techniques.

2.5.2.4 Legal restrictions and regulations regarding Mechanical 

Concrete®

No specific legal restrictions or regulations were found regarding this 

activity. 

2.6 Steel belted rubber for rammed earth tire walls 

In order to build a rammed earth structure, temporary forms are needed 

in which the soil may be compressed. Generally, rammed-earth walls are simple 

to construct, requiring only a form to mold the dirt in and the soil itself. Tires 

perform the function of a mold that can take the pressure generated by fill dirt 

being hit by a sledgehammer in order to compress it.

Load bearing walls

Based on the tests and analysis of R14 and R15 rammed-earth encased 

tire walls, it is believed that they are capable of providing safe and reliable support 

in single story homes (Zimmerman, 2011).

2.6.1 How to build using rammed earth tire walls

The most common method of building rammed earth tire walls is to place 

a used tire on the ground, fill the tire with dirt and compress the dirt with a 

hammer. Cardboard is often placed in the bottom of a tire before the dirt is placed 

in it to prevent the soil from falling out as it is compacted. This process is repeated 

until the tire is completely filled with compacted soil. The tires must be filled to at 

least 95 percent compaction. (Zimmerman, 2011)
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An individual tire is placed on the running axis of the wall; it is filled and 

compacted in that position. Other tires are then placed and filled next to the first 

tire. Once one row of tires is complete, another row is placed on top of the first 

row, but staggered in alternate lay from the first row, like bricks. In order for this to 

happen, half tires must be used. However, they cannot be filled cut in half 

because there would be no supporting structure to hold the dirt as it is compacted. 

Instead, tires are cut and screwed into whole tires. (Zimmerman, 2011)

As with any construction a proper technique is imperative for security’s 

sake. Building instructions are available in various online and literature sources, 

some specific ones being the following:

 Earthship, volumes 1 and 3, by Michael Reynolds;

 The Tire House Book, by Ed Paschich and Paula Hendricks.

2.6.2 Benefits of structures built using rammed earth tire walls

The benefits identified are:

 Incombustible (Zimmerman, 2011). 

 Thermally massive10 (Zimmerman, 2011).

 Nearly soundproof (Zimmerman, 2011).

 They often are quite strong and durable (Zimmerman, 2011).

 Green Building certification. Facilities earn more points for the US 

Green Building Council’s LEED® certification program or for any other 

green building certification standard.

 Tire cylinders, with sidewalls removed, can be available with no 

investment costs through a dead tire Cut-Pack-Recycle (CPR) 

campaign implemented in coordination with waste tires generators.

 Waste reduction. Reuse of a raw material that was considered a 

waste.

 Tire pile mitigation which means a reduction in soil and water

pollution. 

 Prevent atmospheric, soil and potentially water contamination by 

eliminating tire piles which could burn.

 Savings in disposal fees.

 Diminish the environmental impacts of virgin materials extraction and 

transportation.

 Savings in landfill space.

 

10 Thermal mass absorbs or ‘slows down’ the passage of heat through a material and then releases that heat 

when the surrounding ambient temperature goes down. Rammed earth behaves as heavyweight masonry 

with a high thermal mass. (Downton, 2010)
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2.6.3 Issues of structures built using rammed earth tire walls

The following issues of structures built using rammed earth tire walls 

were detected:

 Ramming earth is labor intensive.

 As with any construction a proper technique is imperative for 

security’s sake.

 Thick walls diminish internal living spaces on buildings with small lots.

2.6.4 Legal restrictions and regulations regarding rammed earth tire 

walls

No specific legal restrictions or regulations were found regarding this 

activity. 

Note that community restrictions on specific building materials in specific 

urban areas may apply. 

The fact that specific regulations on rammed earth tire walls were not 

found does not imply construction permits and licenses are not required. At all 

times any construction should comply with laws, rulebooks, security requirements 

and any other regulation applying.

2.7 Tree and landscaping tire tread edging 

Landscaping using tire derived products is a proven and current use of 

waste tires, mostly in the form of tire derived rubber mulch. Garden edging is a 

new application developed by IEMS’ team. 

No knowledge of its application in the Texas-Mexico border or elsewhere 

was found. Nevertheless it is presented as a potentially large market once its 

viability is confirmed through testing and pilot applications, which are strongly 

suggested but not part of this study’s scope.

2.7.1 How to obtain tire derived tree and landscape edging

By removing one or both sidewalls of a tire, slit at the shoulder, the 

remaining tread cylinder can be directly used as tree edging placing it on the 

desired tree location and afterwards planting the tree within the cylinder. Type A 

treads (with no exposed wires) should be used for safety reasons.

Passenger tire sidewalls can be removed manually employing a knife, or 

automatically employing sidewall removing machines. In order to remove the 

sidewalls of a truck tire a truck tire sidewall removing machine must be employed. 

Information regarding examples of sidewall removing machines is presented on 

Attachment 31.
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To obtain tire derived landscape edging tread cylinders must be cut 

employing a tread cutting machine. The resulting tread bands will have on each 

extreme exposed wires exactly where the cutting took place, these wires should 

be covered in order to make tire derived landscape edges safe.

A way of covering the exposed wires on each extreme is to use a rubber 

piece of any source glued to each extreme using rubber cement11. As with all tire 

derived products color may be changed by painting using 100% exterior acrylic 

paint or any other appropriate dye.

Image 8.10. 

Diagram of the application of tire treads in landscape edging applications.

2.7.2 Landscape edging benefits

The benefits identified are:

 Edging permanently defines the landscape bed, so that continual 

reshaping of the bed is virtually eliminated.

 Significant savings in maintenance expenses will be achieved as 

landscape edging eliminates the continual spading of the bed edge by 

hand or using power edgers.

 Edging assures crisp, clean lines will be maintained throughout the 

landscape bed, ensuring the original design intent is maintained.

 Edging blends architectural details with the landscape beds, building a 

properly designed and balanced landscape.

 

11 Performing a preliminary testing is recommended before a mass application of this tire derived product is 

employed
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 Landscape is truly defined by proper separation of lawn, flowerbeds 

and aggregates and edging will achieve those goals.

 When various aggregates are used in a contained area, edging is the 

only way to assure a permanent separation.

 Properly installed, quality landscape bed edging gives clarity and 

significantly increases the level of visual aesthetics and adds value to 

the business or residence (Dreamscape outdoor living and garden 

Inc., 2005).

Additional benefits identified include:

 Long lasting product materials, virtually indestructible.

 Use of low carbon footprint product since required energy input to 

produce it is minimum compared to extruded and molded ground 

rubber products.

 With a relatively low investment an almost ubiquitous residue 

becomes a highly valued product. 

 Because of its relatively low required investment it can represent a 

viable market solution to the waste tire problems occurring on the 

Texas-Mexico border, especially on the Mexican side where municipal 

solid waste management budgets are significantly lower.

 Municipalities, cities and counties can improve the public landscaping 

on parks and public areas with a minimum investment, avoiding tire 

disposal costs which burden them nowadays.

 Tire tread cylinders, with sidewalls removed, can be available with no 

investment costs through a Cut-Pack-Recycle (CPR) campaign 

implemented in coordination with waste tires generators.

 Using 100 percent acrylic exterior house paint the edging can be 

colored as desired.

 Since passenger tire sidewalls can be removed using a linoleum knife, 

the required investment on equipment can be significantly lowered to 

$3,400 USD ($43,350 Mexican pesos)12 for a passenger tire tread 

cutting machine as Attachment 30 of this report displays (refer to 

Attachment 15 report for additional information on cutting the 

sidewalls of a passenger tire).

 Green Building certification. Facilities earn more points for the US 

Green Building Council’s LEED® certification program or for any other 

green building certification standard.

 

12

 All pesos values were estimated based on an exchange value of $12.75 Mexican pesos / US dollar (FIX) for 

March 2012. (Bank of Mexico (BANXICO), 2012)
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 Waste reduction. Reuse of a raw material that was considered a 

waste.

 Tire pile mitigation which means a reduction in soil and water 

pollution. 

 Prevent atmospheric, soil and potentially water contamination by 

eliminating tire piles which could burn.

 Savings in disposal fees.

 Diminish the environmental impacts of virgin materials extraction and 

transportation.

 Savings in landfill space.

2.7.3 Issues from tree and landscape edging using cut tires

The following issues of tree and landscape edging using cut tires were 

detected:

 Accidentally exposed wires could harm people or animals.

 Possible human health hazards. It has been thoroughly investigated 

for similar applications of tire derived rubber products, such as 

playgrounds and athletic fields, in the document “Review of the 

Human Health & Ecological Safety of Exposure to Recycled Tire 

Rubber found at Playgrounds and Synthetic Turf Fields (ChemRisk, 

Inc., 2008)”, where it was concluded that “No adverse human health 

or ecological health effects are likely to result from these beneficial 

reuses of tire materials; and while these conclusions are supported by 

existing studies or screening risk assessments, additional research 

would provide useful supplemental data regarding the safety of 

recycled tire products and enhance the weight of evidence used in risk 

communication (ChemRisk, Inc., 2008)”.

 Since recycled tire rubber has been deemed non dangerous for 

human health or the environment in playgrounds, which are located in 

parks and gardens, it is IEMS’s opinion that cut tire treads (with a 

protection installed on each extreme to prevent wires to be exposed) 

will be as safe for humans and the environment as both applications 

evaluated by ChemRisk. Yet it is presented since social rejection may 

occur.

 Zinc Leaching. Tire rubber contains about 1.5 percent zinc as a 

vulcanization accelerator within the rubber polymer matrix. Water can 

gradually leach small amounts of zinc from the chip into the underlying 

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Traces of zinc serve as a micronutrient for many species, but 

excessive quantities can have a negative impact on some plants and 

grasses. Leaching is slow and controlled with water flowing through 

chips on the surface of beds, but it could be accelerated by 

continuous submersion in water or soil (Gray, 2010). 

Zinc concentrations in rubber mulch leachate increase as the pH 

lowers and temperature increases. Zinc concentrations of rubber 

mulch leachate may be higher than 20 mg/L (Kanematsua, 2010)

which, as a reference, is the maximum permissible monthly average 

limit established by Mexican Official Standard NOM-001-SEMARNAT1996 of Zinc concentrations in water discharges on national water 

bodies or soil. 

In mediums with pH of 5 all rubber mulch leachates at any 

temperature, ranging from 10°C to 40°C, surpassed 10mg/L 

(Kanematsua, 2010) the maximum daily authorized average 

concentrations of Zinc in waste water discharges according to the 

mentioned standard. Rubber mulch and cut treads are derived from 

tires for this reason on mediums with acidic pH it is not recommended 

to apply tread landscape edging.

2.7.4 Legal restrictions and regulations regarding landscape edging 

No specific legal restrictions or regulations were found regarding this 

activity. 

2.8 Tire tread fences

The creation of fences using cut tire treads is an innovative solution 

developed by IEMS’ team. No knowledge of its application in the Texas-Mexico 

border or elsewhere was found. Nevertheless it is presented as a potentially large 

market once its viability is confirmed through testing and pilot applications, which 

are strongly suggested but not part of this study’s scope.

Fence applications would vary depending on the separation between 

treads and their parallel number.

2.8.1 How to obtain tread fences

Attachment 39 of this report displays the tread theoretical cut tread 

length and width of the most common tire sizes sold in the United States and 

popular sizes in the Mexican side of the border. 
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Image 8.11. 

Illustration of livestock fence railings created using cut tire treads.

Image 8.12. 

Diagram of tread hog fence.

Image 8.13. 

Diagram of intruder control fence with barbed wire placed on top.
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Hypothetically cut treads cut be attached in order to create a continuous 

band or strip that could be tensed and would allow a post separation similar than 

other applications with the fence benefits described below on Attachment 40 of 

this report.

Also each treads could be attached from post to post for a stronger 

structure which would require a larger number of poles as Image 8.13 diagram 

displays.

Image 8.14. 

Diagram of a tread band assembled using rivets on tread extremes.

2.8.2 Benefits expected from cut tire tread fencing

The benefits identified are:

 As it is presented in Attachment 40, cut tread fences known features 

comply with the ideal livestock fence characteristics, except for the 

breaking strength with which it is rated as medium, yet it’s still higher 

than high tensile wire fences.

 Since fencing usually represents a rather large investment on most 

farms, it is especially important to select a fence that is affordable, 

easy to maintain, durable and, most importantly, keeps livestock in.

(Michael J. Buschermohle) Since cut tire treads are a recovered waste 

and weatherproof since are made steel belted rubber which makes 

them very durable if their applicability is tested and approved they will 

represent an important waste tire application market.

 Board fences are very attractive, quite strong and are safe for 

animals. They are typically used as border fences around the farm or 

the home. They can be built to any height. The price of lumber, nails, 

paint and other materials along with the labor required makes the cost

of these fences considerably higher than most permanent wire fences. 

Upkeep is also high, especially if untreated lumber is used. (Michael J. 

Buschermohle) Cut tire tread fences may lower labor and inputs costs 

making them more affordable than treated wood applications with 

similar performance except on strength.

 For intruder control, cut tread fences would have the added value of 

being more resilient to vandalism or entrance attempts by cutting them 

than other kinds of fences, such as chain link which can be easily cut 

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 Tread fences could potentially comply with the Texas Agriculture 

Code, Title 6. Production, Processing, and Sale of Animal Products. 

Subtitle B. Livestock, Chapter 143. Fences; Range Restrictions. 

Subchapter A. Fencing of Cultivated Land. Sec. 143.001. Sufficient 

Fence Required, which states that “Except as provided by this chapter 

for an area in which a local option stock law has been adopted, each 

gardener or farmer shall make a sufficient fence around cleared land 

in cultivation that is at least five feet high and will prevent hogs from 

passing through.” which means they may have a potential large 

demand on the US side of the border once compliance and cost 

reductions are proven.

 Tread fences wouldn’t be see through, providing more privacy to the 

protected area.

 Long lasting product materials, virtually indestructible.

 Use of a recycled product which avoids the use of virgin materials 

such as wood.

 Use of low carbon footprint product since the required energy input to 

produce it is minimum (refer to Figure 8.5).

 With a relatively low investment an almost ubiquitous residue 

becomes a highly valued product. 

 Because of its relatively low required investment it can represent a 

viable market solution to the waste tire problems occurring on the 

Texas-Mexico border, especially on the Mexican side where municipal 

solid waste management budgets are significantly lower.

 Municipalities, cities and counties can fence municipal properties 

using waste tires with a minimum investment.

 The tire dump sites reported on the Chapter 3 may be fenced using 

this technology to avoid arson.

 Tire cylinders, with sidewalls removed, can be available with no 

investment costs through a dead tire Cut-Pack-Recycle (CPR) 

campaign implemented in coordination with waste tires generators.

 Using 100 percent acrylic exterior house paint the fence can be 

colored as desired.

 Green Building certification. Facilities earn more points for the US 

Green Building Council’s LEED® certification program or for any other 

green building certification standard.

 Since passenger tire sidewalls can be removed using a linoleum knife, 

the required investment on equipment can be significantly lowered to 

$3,400 USD for a passenger tire tread cutting machine as 

Attachment 30 of this report displays (refer to Attachment 15 report 

for additional information on cutting the sidewalls of a passenger tire).
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 They require low energy input.

 Waste reduction. Reuse of a raw material that was considered a 

waste.

 Tire pile mitigation which means a reduction in soil and water

pollution. 

 Prevent atmospheric, soil and potentially water contamination by 

eliminating tire piles which could burn.

 Savings in disposal fees.

 Diminish the environmental impacts of virgin materials extraction and 

transportation.

 Savings in landfill space.

2.8.3 Issues related to tread fences

The following issues were detected regarding the application of tread 

fences:

 Un-tested application.

 Strength may not be suitable for cattle handling facilities.

2.8.4 Legal restrictions and regulations regarding fencing using cut 

tire treads

No specific legal restrictions or regulations were found regarding this 

activity. 

2.9 Tire derived aggregate (TDA)

Tire derived aggregate (TDA) is an engineered product made by cutting 

scrap tires into 25- to 300-millimeter (mm) pieces. Depending on particle sizes 

TDA is classified on types A and B (Gray, 2010).

Type A TDA

Type A TDA is appropriate for a range of drainage applications in layers 

up to 1 m (3.3 feet) thick. Potential drainage applications include (Gray, 2010):

 Drainage layers within landfill leachate collection and removal 

systems.

 Permeable aggregate for landfill gas collection layers and trenches.

 Free draining aggregate for edge drains for roadways.
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 Permeable backfill for exterior walls below the ground surface.

 Septic system drain fields.

 Landfill gas collection systems.

Type B TDA

Type B TDA is used for lightweight fill applications in layers up to 3 m (10 

feet) thick. Fill applications include (Gray, 2010):

 Lightweight fill for highway embankments.

 TDA and TDA soil mixtures have been used as a replacement for 

conventional soil in embankment construction.

 Compressible layers behind integral abutment and rigid frame bridges.

 Backfill for retaining walls, bridge abutments, and sheet-pile walls. 

 Limit the depth of frost penetration and to provide drainage during the 

spring thaw.

 Use as drainage layers in landfills, septic system drain fields, and 

highway edge drains.

 A TDA layer beneath the stone ballast of rail lines reduces off-site 

vibrations.

2.9.1 How to obtain tire derived aggregate

TDA with a maximum size of about 75 mm (3 inches) is referred to as 

type A TDA. TDA with a maximum size of about 300 mm (12 inches) is referred 

to as Type B TDA (Gray, 2010). 

Guidelines and construction specifications are available to help 

engineers take advantage of the special engineering properties of TDA. Most 

important of these is ASTM International Standard D6270-98 Standard Practice 

for Civil Engineering Applications of Scrap Tires. This document lists the typical 

geotechnical properties of TDA, applicable test methods, and construction 

guidelines. (Gray, 2010)

Three TDA projects in 1995 and 1996 underwent internal heating 

reactions, which prompted development of engineering guidelines to limit internal 

heating of TDA fills. The guidelines, as well as discussion of possible causes, are 

available on the following source document:

 Scrap Tires: Handbook on Recycling Applications and Tire Derived 

Aggregate and Whole Tires for Civil Engineering Applications. (Gray, 

2010).
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This publication also provides guidelines for landfill leachate collection 

and removal systems, landfill gas collection systems, drainage applications for 

major highways, drainage applications for small-scale municipal construction, 

drainage applications for septic system drain fields, TDA as lightweight fill, testing 

facilities design, among other valuable information.

2.9.2 Benefits from using TDA in specific applications

The benefits identified are:

 TDA provides many solutions to geotechnical challenges since it is 

lightweight: 50 pounds per cubic foot or 0.8 macrograms per cubic 

meter (mg/m3) (Gray, 2010).

 Produces low lateral pressures on walls (as little as one-half that of 

soil) (Gray, 2010).

 Is a good thermal insulator (eight times better than soil) (Gray, 2010).

 Has high permeability (more than 1 centimeters per second [cm/s] 

dependent on TDA size) (Gray, 2010).

 Has good shear strength (Gray, 2010).

 Absorbs vibrations (Gray, 2010).

 Moreover, each cubic meter of TDA fill contains the equivalent of 100 

passenger car tires (Gray, 2010).

 It is used to improve the stability of embankments constructed on 

weak marine clay.

 Cost reduction. When used in appropriate applications, TDA’s special 

properties can greatly reduce construction costs. TDA is generally 

cost competitive for projects that require use of lightweight fill material 

for embankment construction. Moreover, use of TDA in drainage 

applications is cost effective in areas where there is a limited supply of 

conventional drainage aggregate (Gray, 2010). 

 Small scale applications can be implemented by municipal officials 

such as public works directors.

 Waste reduction. Reuse of a raw material that was considered a 

waste.

 Tire pile mitigation which means a reduction in soil and water

pollution. 

 Prevent atmospheric, soil and potentially water contamination by 

eliminating tire piles which could burn.

 Savings in disposal fees.
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 Diminish the environmental impacts of virgin materials extraction and 

transportation.

 Savings in landfill space.

 Green Building certification. Facilities earn more points for the US 

Green Building Council’s LEED® certification program or for any other 

green building certification standard.

2.9.3 Issues arising from using TDA in specific applications

Three main issues regarding the use of TDA were detected:

 Economics. The economics of using TDA for civil engineering 

applications depend on the local costs to produce TDA and the local 

costs for competing alternative construction materials. TDA is not a 

generally cost-effective substitute for conventional earth fill (Gray, 

2010).

 Zinc Leaching. Tire rubber contains about 1.5 percent zinc as a 

vulcanization accelerator within the rubber polymer matrix. Water can 

gradually leach small amounts of zinc from the chip into the underlying 

soil. Traces of zinc serve as a micronutrient for many species, but 

excessive quantities can have a negative impact on some plants and 

grasses. Leaching is slow and controlled with water flowing through 

chips on the surface of beds, but it could be accelerated by 

continuous submersion in water or soil (Gray, 2010). 

Zinc concentrations in rubber mulch leachate increase as the pH 

lowers and temperature increases. Zinc concentrations of rubber 

mulch leachate may be higher than 20 mg/L (Kanematsua, 2010)

which, as a reference, is the maximum permissible monthly average 

limit established by Mexican Official Standard NOM-001-SEMARNAT1996 of Zinc concentrations in water discharges on national water

bodies or soil. 

In mediums with pH of 5 all rubber mulch leachates at any 

temperature, ranging from 10°C to 40°C, surpassed 10mg/L 

(Kanematsua, 2010) the maximum daily authorized average 

concentrations of Zinc in waste water discharges according to the 

mentioned standard. Rubber mulch and TDA are derived from tires for 

this reason on mediums with acidic pH it is not recommended to apply 

TDA.

 Sophistication. 

 Design and engineering considerations must be considered and 

implemented in order to avoid TDA fill to heat up internally.
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 The level of sophistication in specific applications varies. Some 

applications are for large civil engineering projects that must be 

designed by qualified engineering professionals. 

 Self- heating internal reactions

2.9.4 Legal restrictions and regulations regarding TDA

No specific legal restrictions or regulations were found regarding this 

activity. 

2.10 Ground rubber for Rubberized Asphalt (RA)

Rubber modified asphalt is the product of mixing crumb rubber from 

scrap tires or other sources with asphalt. This can be done at varying rubber to 

asphalt ratios dependent on its intended use (Gray, 2010). It is used as asphalt 

pavement for roads.

2.10.1 How to obtain ground rubber for rubberized asphalt 

Each state in the United States has established its own ground rubber 

specifications with variations for alternative applications. The Arizona process 

typically uses 16-30 mesh ground rubber with low limits for residual wire and fiber.

Terminal blending in Florida initially used fine-mesh, such as minus 80 mesh (the 

minus implies that it is finer than 80 mesh since material has passed through a 80 

mesh screen) ground rubber, but found that minus 40 mesh performed well with 

lower cost and better availability (Gray, 2010).

Polymer/rubber blends vary widely, with some technologies pre-treating 

the rubber to enhance its reactivity in the asphalt (Gray, 2010). The following is a 

brief description of the three major rubber modified asphalt technologies.

The Arizona process 

It involves mixing and reacting rubber with asphalt binder in specialized 

equipment at the paving site. 

Ground rubber normally represents about 20 percent of the asphalt 

binder mix, significantly increasing the viscosity of the binder. Greater viscosity 

allows a higher concentration of binder to be used in the asphalt mix, resulting in 

a stronger and more durable pavement (Gray, 2010).
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Terminal Blending

Terminal blending involves blending rubber into the asphalt binder in a 

mixing tank at the asphalt supply terminal, then transporting it to the job site, 

thereby reducing the need for specialized equipment at the site. The terminal 

blending mix must be continuously mixed to keep the suspended rubber from 

settling out prior to transport. Rubber usage levels are specified to meet design 

performance characteristics for the pavement (Gray, 2010).

Rubber/Polymer Blends

Styrene-butadiene-styrene (SBS) block copolymers are also used as 

additives in asphalt to improve performance. However, proponents believe that 

addition of a combination of both the SBS block copolymer and rubber to the 

asphalt enhances the performance more than either material can when they are 

added separately. The technology uses a low percentage of rubber to partially 

displace normal polymer addition levels (Gray, 2010).

2.10.2 Benefits obtained from paving using RA

The following benefits were identified:

 Performance. Roads using the Arizona and terminal blend processes 

have been documented to last longer than traditional asphalt, 

sometimes dramatically longer, but this performance has not been 

universal (Gray, 2010). 

 Cost. Use of thinner rubber modified asphalt lifts (layers) can turn cost 

into an advantage where applicable and accepted (Gray, 2010).

 Noise and accident reductions. The availability of rubber, polymer, 

and rubber/ polymer blend technology is also playing a role in 

development of pavement design alternatives that can reduce road 

noise levels and improve the safety of highways. Noise reduction and 

increased safety are accomplished through use of open-graded 

friction course (OGFC) pavement using large, uniformly graded 

aggregate. Rainwater flows through the resulting top layer of 

pavement (the friction coarse) and out to the sides of the roadway. 

This reduces hydroplaning and enhances driver visibility through a 

reduction in water spray from the vehicle tires. The open structure 

also creates an acoustic surface that absorbs and deflects some 

sound and reduces road noise for nearby residents (Gray, 2010).

 Improves the flexibility and tensile strength of the asphalt mix reducing 

the appearance of cracks due to fatigue or temperature changes.

(Transport and communications secretariat, SCT). 

 Waste reduction. Reuse of a raw material that was considered a 

waste.
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 Tire pile mitigation which means a reduction in soil and water

pollution. 

 Prevent atmospheric, soil and potentially water contamination by 

eliminating tire piles which could burn.

 Savings in disposal fees.

 Diminish the environmental impacts of virgin materials extraction and 

transportation.

 Savings in landfill space.

 Green Building certification. Facilities earn more points for the US 

Green Building Council’s LEED® certification program or for any other 

green building certification standard.

2.10.3 Issues arising from paving using RA

The following issues from paving using RA were detected:

 Poor performance has been attributed to improper installation, 

weather conditions, bed preparation, and aggregate grading (Gray, 

2010).

 Florida found that rubber modified asphalt performed well, but that 

polymers out-performed terminal-blended rubber modified asphalt for 

some high-traffic applications (Gray, 2010).

 The installed cost of an equivalent thickness of rubber modified 

asphalt is generally 10 to 100 percent higher than unmodified asphalt, 

as previously discussed. Since transportation departments’ budgets 

are fixed, higher cost forces less paving and can cause short-term 

problems even if it has long-term benefits (Gray, 2010). 

2.10.4 Legal restrictions and regulations regarding RA

The following standards were found applicable:

 Standard N.CMT.4.05.002/01 Quality of modified asphalt materials.

 Standard N.CMT.4.05.002/06 Quality of modified asphalt materials.

 Standard M.MMP.4.05.022/02 Separation in modified asphalt cement.

 Standard M.MMP.4.05.023/02 Resilience on modified asphalt cement.

 Standard M.MMP.4.05.024/02 Elastic recovery by torsion on modified 

asphalt cement.

No other legal restrictions or regulations were found regarding this 

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2.11 Ground rubber for athletic and recreational 

surfaces 

2.11.1 Synthetic sports turf 

The current generation of artificial sports turf uses 7.6-cm (3-inch)-long 

strands of green polyethylene embedded in a porous backing to form a carpet like 

structural framework for the turf system. The carpet is spread over a sophisticated 

drainage system capable of removing rain water rapidly and is in-filled with silica 

sand, ground rubber, or layers of each (Gray, 2010).

The polyethylene grass-like blades add containment to the ground 

rubber, and the rubber provides cushioning while the combined synthetic turf 

system bears the physical forces of athletic activity (Gray, 2010). 

Synthetic sports turf is mostly used in football stadiums but now this can 

be used on a wide range of sports fields at all levels of play, like American 

football, field hockey, baseball, etc (Gray, 2010).

2.11.1.1 How to obtain ground rubber for athletic and recreational 

surfaces

The type and size of the ground rubber vary depending on the turf 

manufacturer. Some use primarily cryogenic ground rubber produced by freezing 

shredded rubber before it is fractured in a high-speed hammer mill, a machine 

that pulverizes the rubber into fine particles. 

The resulting product has smooth sides and tends to flow easily when 

applied to a sports field. Others use “ambient” rubber, produced in a series of 

shear and compression equipment at ambient temperatures. This product tends 

to have a more irregular surface shape with a more cohesive consistency. A 

“crambient” product made by a primary cryogenic process followed by secondary 

ambient processing to yield hybrid performance characteristics is also used (Gray, 

2010).

Piece size requirements for ground rubber also vary by turf 

manufacturer. The most common distributions of piece sizes for sports fields are 

14- 30 mesh and 10-14 mesh. “Mesh” is a term used to describe size and is equal 

to the number of holes per inch that the material can pass through. 

The specifications also generally require removal of virtually all the 

reinforcing fabric and wire that is initially present in scrap tires. Approximately 3 

pounds of ground rubber are generally used per square foot of synthetic turf, 

depending on the manufacturer, design, and desired surface characteristics 

(Gray, 2010).
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2.11.1.2 Benefits obtained from using ground rubber for athletic and 

recreational surfaces

The following benefits were identified:

 Injury/Health. Studies indicate that frequency of injury is similar for 

both type of surfaces (natural turf and synthetic), but that the severity 

of injuries is worse on natural grass turf. There are more head, neural, 

and ligament injuries on natural grass, while there are more epidural, 

muscle trauma, and temperature related injuries on synthetic turf 

(Gray, 2010)..

 Economics. Synthetic turf’s higher initial cost is offset by reduced 

maintenance associated with water, fertilizer, pesticides, cutting, turf 

replacement, and manpower (Gray, 2010)..

 Availability. Conversely, synthetic turf drains rapidly, allowing use 

quickly after heavy downpours. In addition, synthetic grass turf can 

reportedly tolerate up to 3,000 hours of use per year, about four times 

more use than natural grass turf, allowing the fields to be used more 

heavily for different sports (Gray, 2010).

 Tire pile abatement. A typical field may use up to 12,000 passenger 

tires (Astro Turf, LLC).

 Waste reduction. Reuse of a raw material that was considered a 

waste.

 Tire pile mitigation which means a reduction in soil and water

pollution. 

 Prevent atmospheric, soil and potentially water contamination by 

eliminating tire piles which could burn.

 Savings in disposal fees.

 Diminish the environmental impacts of virgin materials extraction and 

transportation.

 Savings in landfill space.

 Green Building certification. Facilities earn more points for the US 

Green Building Council’s LEED® certification program or for any other 

green building certification standard.

2.11.1.3 Issues arising from using ground rubber for athletic and 

recreational surfaces

The following issues were detected:

 Elevated Turf Temperature

 Organic Chemical Emissions 
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 Studies indicate that a range of organic compounds may be emitted 

onto or from the surface of ground rubber pieces (Gray, 2010).

 The pieces of black rubber and colored synthetic turf blades absorb 

light energy and become warmer than ambient temperatures (Gray, 

2010).

 Zinc Leaching. Tire rubber contains about 1.5 percent zinc as a 

vulcanization accelerator within the rubber polymer matrix. Water can 

gradually leach small amounts of zinc from the chip into the underlying 

soil. Traces of zinc serve as a micronutrient for many species, but 

excessive quantities can have a negative impact on some plants and 

grasses. Leaching is slow and controlled with water flowing through 

chips on the surface of beds, but it could be accelerated by 

continuous submersion in water or soil (Gray, 2010). 

Zinc concentrations in rubber mulch leachate increase as the pH 

lowers and temperature increases. Zinc concentrations of rubber 

mulch leachate may be higher than 20 mg/L (Kanematsua, 2010)

which, as a reference, is the maximum permissible monthly average 

limit established by Mexican Official Standard NOM-001-SEMARNAT1996 of Zinc concentrations in water discharges on national water 

bodies or soil. 

In mediums with pH of 5 all rubber mulch leachates at any 

temperature, ranging from 10°C to 40°C, surpassed 10mg/L 

(Kanematsua, 2010) the maximum daily authorized average 

concentrations of Zinc in waste water discharges according to the 

mentioned standard. Rubber mulch and ground rubber are derived 

from tires for this reason on mediums with acidic pH it is not 

recommended to apply ground rubber for athletic and recreational 

purposes.

These last two risks have been thoroughly investigated and results 

presented in the document “Review of the Human Health & Ecological Safety of 

Exposure to Recycled Tire Rubber found at Playgrounds and Synthetic Turf 

Fields (ChemRisk, Inc., 2008) concluded that “No adverse human health or 

ecological health effects are likely to result from these beneficial reuses of tire 

materials. While these conclusions are supported by existing studies or screening 

risk assessments, additional research would provide useful supplemental data 

regarding the safety of recycled tire products, and enhance the weight of evidence 

used in risk communication (ChemRisk, Inc., 2008)”.

2.11.1.4 Legal restrictions and regulations regarding ground rubber for 

athletic and recreational surfaces

No specific legal restrictions or regulations were found regarding this 

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2.11.2 Playground safety surfaces

In order to avoid injuries derived from falls from playground equipment 

the areas under and surrounding them are covered with surfaces with high shock 

absorbing properties. The three playground cushioning alternatives involving 

ground rubber in different forms are (Gray, 2010):

1. Loose fill;

2. Pour-in-place; and,

3. Molded tiles.

2.11.2.1 How to obtain rubber for playground safety surfaces

A range of ground rubber piece sizes is used in each of these playground 

surfaces. The following describes the main applications.

Loose fill

Manufacturing appropriate sizes for loose fill is controlled by the need to 

separate and remove virtually all reinforcing wire from the scrap tire to avoid 

puncture wounds or injury. Heavy bead wire around the rim of a tire is removed by 

de-beading equipment before tires are processed or by magnets after processing. 

The material must be free of particles smaller than 20 mesh to minimize dust 

generation and small particles that cling to skin and clothes like dirt. Residual fluff 

from reinforcing fabric in tires is sometimes left in the ground rubber; it may 

improve resiliency, but it may also decrease the flash point of the mixture and 

allow it to be ignited by vandals more readily (Gray, 2010). 

It is simply ground rubber about 1 cm (3/8 inch) in size with virtually all of 

the reinforcing wire removed. Some loose fill is made from fabric reinforced truck 

tires or off-road tires to be sure that no wire is present. Also fabric is removed to 

improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the binder (Gray, 2010). 

It is spread under and around playground equipment. The ground rubber 

loose fill is normally placed over a substrate that freely drains liquids with a 

wooden border to keep loose fill from spreading away from the playground area. 

Tires are black, but loose fill can also be colored before it is installed to improve 

the aesthetic appearance of the playground (Gray, 2010).

Pour in place

Pour-in-place generally use 3 to 10 mm (3/8 to 1/8 inch) ground rubber. 

Fabric is removed to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the binder, and 

the wire must be removed to minimize scrapes and cuts. A layer of colored 

synthetic rubber, known as EPDM (ethylene propylene-diene monomer rubber) or 

M-class rubber is commonly added to the ground rubber surface to add color and 

enhance surface aesthetics (Gray, 2010).
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Pour-in-place installations use a polyurethane binder to bond ground 

rubber or buffing from tire retread operations into a protective surface mat 5 to 10 

cm (2 to 4 inches) thick. The ground rubber and polyurethane binder are 

commonly mixed on site in a portable cement mixer and then trowel into place

(Gray, 2010).

A surface layer of colored ethylenepropylene-diene monomer (EPDM) 

rubber is generally bonded to the ground rubber base to provide distinctive 

colored surface patterns or pictures. Pour-in-place is normally installed over a 

hard surface such as asphalt to provide a stable foundation. Installation should be

designed and tested to provide fall protection from heights associated with the 

various equipment at the playground (Gray, 2010).

Molded tiles

Tiles generally use 3 to 10 mm (3/8 to 1/8 inch) ground rubber. Fabric is 

removed to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the binder, and the wire 

must be removed to minimize scrapes and cuts. A layer of colored synthetic 

rubber, known as EPDM (ethylene propylene-diene monomer rubber) or M-class 

rubber is commonly added to the ground rubber surface to add color and enhance 

surface aesthetics (Gray, 2010). 

Tiles 3-5, are typically 1/3 to 2/3 m (1 to 2 foot) squares and 5 to 10 cm 

(2 to 4 inches) thick and are commonly glued to a hard sub-base such as asphalt. 

Each tile is designed and manufactured to provide a durable surface that meets 

specific cushioning specifications (Gray, 2010).

2.11.2.2 Benefits obtained from applying rubber for playground safety 

surfaces

The following benefits were identified:

 Higher fall protection. A 14-cm (6-inch)-thick layer of loose fill 

generally provides protection for falls from critical heights of about 3 m 

(10 to 12 feet), about double the height for an equivalent thickness of 

traditional materials (Gray, 2010).

 Durability. Rubber is flexible, resilient, and durable, properties that 

make it a good outdoor cushioning material. Some loose-fill 

playgrounds have been in place for more than 10 years with minimal 

need to add more ground rubber to replace material lost. The 

longevity of pour-in-place and tile surfaces is controlled by the 

effectiveness of the installation, binder, foundation, and usage, but 

manufacturers typically project a duration of more than 5 years (Gray, 

2010).

 Light colors can decrease light absorption and lower the surface 

temperature in warm weather.
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 Accessibility. Accessibility of equipment by children in wheelchairs or 

on crutches can be an important consideration. Loose fill’s excellent 

cushioning characteristics also make it less stable under point loads 

such as wheel chairs, but some products have reportedly passed tests 

that demonstrate accessibility. Pour-in-place and tiles have excellent 

accessibility, so some playgrounds use them for access pathways and 

around some of each equipment type to assure access. Loose fill is 

used in other areas to control cost (Gray, 2010).

 Waste reduction. Reuse of a raw material that was considered a 

waste.

 Tire pile mitigation which means a reduction in soil and water

pollution. 

 Prevent atmospheric, soil and potentially water contamination by 

eliminating tire piles which could burn.

 Savings in disposal fees.

 Diminish the environmental impacts of virgin materials extraction and 

transportation.

 Savings in landfill space.

 Green Building certification. Facilities earn more points for the US 

Green Building Council’s LEED® certification program or for any other 

green building certification standard.

2.11.2.3 Issues that may arise from applying rubber for playground 

safety surfaces

The following issues were detected:

 Flammability. Tire rubber has a flash point of more than 290° Celsius 

(550° Fahrenheit), higher than dry wood chips, and so is not readily 

ignitable. Fires have occurred in loose-fill installations, but there were 

no injuries or environmental damage other than initial smoke (Gray, 

2010).

 Latex Sensitivity. A small percentage of people are sensitive to the 

latex present in some types of rubber. CalRecycle tested for latex 

sensitivity in styrenebutadiene rubber (SBR) derived from scrap tires 

as part of its comprehensive review of ground rubber playground 

surfacing. The testing showed no sensitivity using established testing 

procedures on SBR and EPDM ground rubber, and no documented 

cases were found in a literature search (California Integrated Waste 

Management Board, 2007). Yet it is presented since social rejection 

may present.
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 Toxicity. Toxicity and environmental questions associated with ground 

rubber have been raised for playground applications as well as for 

synthetic turf (Gray, 2010). This risk has been thoroughly investigated 

and results presented in the document “Review of the Human Health 

& Ecological Safety of Exposure to Recycled Tire Rubber found at 

Playgrounds and Synthetic Turf Fields. (ChemRisk, Inc., 2008)”, 

where its was concluded that “No adverse human health or ecological 

health effects are likely to result from these beneficial reuses of tire 

materials; and while these conclusions are supported by existing 

studies or screening risk assessments, additional research would 

provide useful supplemental data regarding the safety of recycled tire 

products and enhance the weight of evidence used in risk 

communication (ChemRisk, Inc., 2008)’.

 Zinc Leaching. Tire rubber contains about 1.5 percent zinc as a 

vulcanization accelerator within the rubber polymer matrix. Water can 

gradually leach small amounts of zinc from the chip into the underlying 

soil. Traces of zinc serve as a micronutrient for many species, but 

excessive quantities can have a negative impact on some plants and 

grasses. Leaching is slow and controlled with water flowing through 

chips on the surface of beds, but it could be accelerated by 

continuous submersion in water or soil (Gray, 2010). 

Zinc concentrations in rubber mulch leachate increase as the pH 

lowers and temperature increases. Zinc concentrations of rubber 

mulch leachate may be higher than 20 mg/L (Kanematsua, 2010)

which, as a reference, is the maximum permissible monthly average 

limit established by Mexican Official Standard NOM-001-SEMARNAT1996 of Zinc concentrations in water discharges on national water 

bodies or soil. In mediums with pH of 5 all rubber mulch leachates at 

any temperature, ranging from 10°C to 40°C, surpassed 10mg/L 

(Kanematsua, 2010) the maximum daily authorized average 

concentrations of Zinc in waste water discharges according to the 

mentioned standard. Rubber mulch and ground rubber are derived 

from tires for this reason on mediums with acidic pH it is not 

recommended to apply ground rubber for playground safety surfaces.

2.11.2.4 Legal restrictions and regulations regarding applying rubber 

for playground safety surfaces

No specific legal restrictions or regulations were found regarding this 

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2.12 Rubber mulch

Mulch is any material applied to the garden in order to retain soil humidity 

and suppress weeds. It also has esthetical purposes. It can be made of leaves, 

gravel, wood chips and rubber, among other many materials, which normally are 

locally available.

Image 8.15. 

Rubber mulch in wood like colors sold in Texas.

2.12.1 How to make rubber mulch

Today’s colored mulch is 1 - 2.5 cm (3/8 to 1 inch) chips made from 

scrap tires with 99 percent of the reinforcing wire removed. It is manufactured in 

many pleasing colors to simulate wood chips or to provide coordinating and 

contrasting colors (Gray, 2010).

2.12.2 Benefits of rubber mulch 

The following benefits were identified:

 Control weeds (Gray, 2010),

 Resist mold (Gray, 2010).

 Retain moisture (Gray, 2010), 

 Requires infrequent addition (Gray, 2010). 

 Does not harbor insects or attract neighborhood animals (Gray, 2010).

 Waste reduction. Reuse of a raw material that was considered a 

waste.
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 It is becoming an established product with increasing representation in 

major high-volume retailers throughout the United States. If current 

growth rates continue, colored rubber mulch could become a large, 

high-value market for small scrap tire chips (Gray, 2010).

 Tire pile mitigation which means a reduction in soil and water 

pollution. 

 Prevent atmospheric, soil and potentially water contamination by 

eliminating tire piles which could burn.

 Savings in disposal fees.

 Diminish the environmental impacts of virgin materials extraction and 

transportation.

 Savings in landfill space.

 Green Building certification. Facilities earn more points for the US 

Green Building Council’s LEED® certification program or for any other 

green building certification standard.

2.12.3 Issues that arise from using rubber mulch 

The following issues were detected:

 Flammability. Limited tests have shown that colored mulch has an 

ignition temperature above 290° Celsius (550° Fahrenheit), so 

flammability is comparable to dry wood chips (Gray, 2010).

 Temperature. Black ground rubber pieces absorb light and can heat 

up. Although colored mulch does not absorb as much energy thereby 

reducing the temperature increase (Gray, 2010).

 Zinc Leaching. Tire rubber contains about 1.5 percent zinc as a 

vulcanization accelerator within the rubber polymer matrix. Water can 

gradually leach small amounts of zinc from the chip into the underlying 

soil. Traces of zinc serve as a micronutrient for many species, but 

excessive quantities can have a negative impact on some plants and 

grasses. Leaching is slow and controlled with water flowing through 

chips on the surface of beds, but it could be accelerated by 

continuous submersion in water or soil (Gray, 2010). 

 Zinc concentrations in rubber mulch leachate increase as the pH 

lowers and temperature increases. Zinc concentrations of rubber 

mulch leachate may be higher than 20 mg/L (Kanematsua, 2010)

which, as a reference, is the maximum permissible monthly average 

limit established by Mexican Official Standard NOM-001-SEMARNAT1996 of Zinc concentrations in water discharges on national water 

bodies or soil. 
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In mediums with pH of 5 all rubber mulch leachates at any 

temperature, ranging from 10°C to 40°C, surpassed 10mg/L 

(Kanematsua, 2010) the maximum daily authorized average 

concentrations of Zinc in waste water discharges according to the 

mentioned standard. 

2.12.4 Legal restrictions and regulations regarding rubber 

mulch

No specific legal restrictions or regulations were found regarding this 

activity. 

2.13 Ground rubber for molded and extruded 

products 

Molded products are created when heated rubber is pressed into a mold 

or through a die cast to shape it into a new product. Extrusion normally involves 

using a screw system to mix, heat, and force a raw material through a die to 

produce a continuous shape (Gray, 2010). This market is very versatile and can 

create a wide variety of products.

Molded crumb rubber for example can be transformed into items such as 

pavers, tiles, splash guards, tree rings, curbing, mats, wheels for trash cans, 

traffic cones, vehicle bumpers, wheels, mud flaps, etc.

Long items such as hoses, weather stripping, tubes, molding, belting, pet 

toys, car bumpers, gaskets, garden hoses, complex components for medical and 

electrical equipment, synthetic woods, shingles and other structural materials are 

made by extrusion processes (Gray, 2010).

Image 8.16. 

Mud flaps can be potentially manufactured from ground crumb rubber.
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Image 8.17. 

Vehicle weather stripping made of extruded rubber.

2.13.1 How to obtain ground rubber for molded and extruded 

products

Ground rubber specifications for this market segment depend on the 

process, product, and economics. Desired product characteristics control the size 

requirements for ground rubber pieces used in these applications (Gray, 2010). 

Different producers in the same crumb market (e.g. molded products) 

may require different crumb sizes to produce their unique products. As a result, it 

appears to be difficult to generalize particle size requirements in each crumb 

market (Sunthonpagasit, 2002).

Any residual wire or fiber can accelerate wear, or damage extrusion 

heads and equipment (Gray, 2010).

Molded Products

There are many variations in molding technology, all using a similar basic 

process. A primary raw material or mixture is pretreated to allow it to flow into a 

mold where the material is cured, cooled, and released from the mold to yield a 

solid designed shape that meets defined specifications. 

Pretreatment can involve heat, mixing, and additives to create a semiviscous homogeneous raw material. Once it has been introduced into the mold, 

temperature, pressure, and reaction time allow the material to solidify. There are 

also broad variations in degree of automation, balancing capital and labor costs 

for a specific operating environment (Gray, 2010).
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Larger piece size reduces binder requirements and retains the 

characteristics of rubber, but the resulting product has less bonding strength and 

coarser surface texture. Finer particles (10 to 40 mesh) require more binder, with 

its associated strength, and yield a smoother surface that can approach virgin 

materials. Wheels and vehicle mud flaps are two examples of products that 

require such fine particles (Gray, 2010).

Bound Systems

Bound or bonded rubber products generally refer to use of 

polyurethanes, sulfur, latex, or other ingredients to bond particulate materials into 

a desired product. This is sometimes done using pressure and temperature to 

increase density or optimize efficiency. Larger piece size reduces binder 

requirements and retains the characteristics of rubber, but the resulting product 

has less bonding strength and coarser surface texture. Playground safety tiles are 

an example of an appropriate use of about 0.5 cm (1⁄4 inch) rubber (Gray, 2010).

Extrusion

Long items such as hoses, weather stripping, tubes, molding, and belting 

are commonly made by extrusion processes. There are also many variations of 

this technology, but it normally involves using a screw system to mix, heat, and 

force a raw material through a die to produce a continuous shape. This process is 

sensitive to multiple parameters and requires fine mesh ground rubber (30 to 200 

mesh) (Gray, 2010). 

2.13.2 Benefits from creating molded and extruded products 

from ground rubber

The following benefits were identified:

 Low-Cost Raw Material. Ground rubber can be a low-cost raw 

material with many of the intrinsic performance properties of rubber. 

 This market is very versatile and can create a variety of products.

 Waste reduction. Reuse of a raw material that was considered a 

waste.

 Tire pile mitigation which means a reduction in soil and water

pollution. 

 Prevent atmospheric, soil and potentially water contamination by 

eliminating tire piles which could burn.

 Savings in disposal fees.

 Savings in landfill space.

 Diminish the environmental impacts of virgin materials extraction and 

transportation.
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 Green Building certification. Facilities earn more points for the US 

Green Building Council’s LEED® certification program or for any other 

green building certification standard.

2.13.3 Issues involved in creating molded and extruded 

products from ground rubber

The following issues were detected:

 Displacement Challenges. Making any new product can involve 

substantial investment in processing technology, equipment, 

optimization, product testing, distribution, and marketing. All require 

time and resources that are often underestimated. Incorporating 

ground rubber into an existing formulation can pose similar 

challenges, especially in process optimization and product testing.

 A good understanding of existing products, performance 

requirements, processing technology, and economics is critical to 

developing these applications successfully. It typically takes a 

committed effort over a period of time to be successful (Gray, 2010).

 Any residual wire or fiber can accelerate wear, or damage extrusion 

heads and equipment (Gray, 2010). 

 This technology can be labor intensive in its basic form (Gray, 2010).

 Mixtures. Rubber generally functions as filler in mixtures with plastics. 

Thermoset rubber and thermoplastics do not naturally bond, resulting 

in significant changes in the performance characteristics of plastics 

when rubber is added. Impact resistance normally increases, but other 

critical properties such as tensile strength and elongation decrease 

significantly, thereby decreasing the strength of the resulting product 

(Gray, 2010). 

New tires can contain from 5% to 10% of recycled rubber, if more than 

that is added the tire will fail (Information provided by Francisco 

Martha Hernandez, general director of the Mexican rubber industry 

national chamber in a face to face interview).

Tire rubber dust can be de-vulcanized at very high cost, it would be 

over than 3 times more expensive than virgin materials. (Information 

provided by Francisco Martha Hernandez, general director of the 

Mexican rubber industry national chamber in a face to face interview).

Ground rubber for extruded products could also be presented as a 

separate market since additional equipment is necessary in order to 

achieve the fine mesh required by these applications (30-200 mesh).
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2.13.4 Legal restrictions and regulations regarding creating 

molded and extruded products from ground rubber

No specific legal restrictions or regulations were found regarding this 

activity. 

3 Market recommendations of tire derived 

products in Mexico

Each stakeholder should select the market that better suits him/her 

needs, the purpose of this section is to present the evaluation results in order to 

aid in the market selection process.

3.1 Tire derived products market prices 

The following attachments present information on market prices for the 

identified tire derived products:

 Attachment 27. Estimated and consulted market prices of tire derived 

products currently supplying the identified markets.

 Attachment 28. Daily prices of tire derived products and parts during 

May 2012.

 Attachment 29. Potential revenue per passenger tire equivalent (PTE) 

for each market and formulas applied to obtain each.

 Attachment 32, Scrap tire wire purchase prices in the Mexican side of 

the Texas-Mexico border region.

3.2 Required investments on equipment

The following attachments present information on equipment necessary 

to produce each of the identified tire derived products. It is relevant to note that 

the amounts presented are for equipment only, not including required land, 

facilities, secondary equipment, production costs, etc:

 Attachment 30. Matrix of required equipment per type of product.

 Attachment 31. Equipment quotations and pricing sources.

From the identified existing and potential markets the most expensive to 

access, based only on required investment on equipment, are the following (refer 

also to Figure 8.3):

 Type B tire derived aggregate (TDA) (bulk)

 Type A tire derived aggregate (TDA) (bulk)
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 Ground rubber for Rubberized Asphalt (RA) (bulk) 

 Ground rubber for Athletic and recreational surfaces (bulk).

 Rubber mulch (bulk).

 Ground rubber for molded and extruded products (bulk).

From the identified existing and potential markets the most accessible 

ones, based only on required investment on equipment, are the following (refer 

also to Figure 8.4):

 Passenger tire sidewalls (bulk).

 Tire-derived-geo-cylinders, (TDGC).

 Steel belted rubber for rammed-earth encased walls.

 Tire treads (bulk).

 Passenger tire de-beaded passenger sidewalls (bulk).

 Passenger tire sidewalls' bead wire (bulk).

 Cut tire tread tree and landscape edging 

 Cut tire tread fencing.

3.3 Recommendations 

A) The income per tire of any promoted market should be higher than 

the amount paid for the steel present in the tire to discourage tire 

open burning for metal extraction.

One of the main causes of tire fires, as Chapter 4 reports, is tire 

burning for metal extraction. This, as pointed in Chapter 4, is caused by 

the need to obtain resources through the sale of the steel wire embedded 

inside tires.

According to Mr. J Francisco Martha Hernandez, General 

Director of the Mexican Rubber Industry National Chamber (CNIH) a 

common radial truck tire posses from 6 to 7 kilograms (13 to 15 pounds) 

of steel wire in its structure and a passenger tire, as a maximum, posses 

1.5 kg (3.3 pounds) of steel per tire. 
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For example: scrap tire wire bought in Reynosa

13, Tamaulipas, 

Mexico at a price ranging between $2.6 and $3.2 Mexican pesos per kg14

($0.085 and $0.105 USD per pound)15 with an estimated mean of $2.92 

Mexican pesos per kg ($0.096 USD per pound). So the potential income 

per passenger tire by burning it for metal extraction is $4.38 Mexican 

pesos per passenger tire ($0.316 USD per passenger tire) in Reynosa. 

B) Zinc leaching should be considered an Environmental Issue of 

Concern (EIC)on some tire derived products

Since the following tire derived applications will be in direct 

contact with rain water and soil, it was considered relevant to consider 

this EIC also for them. Tire applications where zinc leaching may occur:

 Tire derived geo cells (TDGC).

 Landscaping edging.

 Tire derived aggregates (TDA) (bulk).

 Ground rubber for rubberized asphalt (RA) (bulk). 

 Ground rubber for athletic and recreational surfaces (bulk).

 Rubber mulch (bulk).

IEMS recommends that the Environmental Impact Assessment 

(EIA) performed for the application of any of the markets mentioned 

above should consider the impact caused by Zinc leachate from tire 

rubber when in contact with water. And propose mitigation alternatives to 

prevent contamination of soil and ground or surface water.

A mitigation alternative envisioned by IEMS is that tire 

manufacturers should lower zinc content in them.

C) To implement CPR dead tires campaigns, or similar, in the TexasMexico scope areas

A CPR dead tires campaign promotes waste tire generators to: 

1. CUT. Slit passenger waste tires on the shoulder to remove both 

sidewalls “Cut”.

2. PACK. Order and pack the resulting tread cylinders and sidewalls in 

a way the volume they occupy is minimum “Pack”.

 

13 The prices for Reynosa are used as reference due to the fact that in that municipality the highest price per 

kilogram of tire wire is paid, for further information refer to Attachment 32 of this report.

14 Prices obtained on June 25, 2012 through telephonic quotations with scrap companies located on the 

municipalities of Reynosa, Nuevo Laredo, Matamoros and Juarez. Exact sources on Attachment 32.

15 US dollar prices estimated based on the FIX Exchange value reported by the Bank of Mexico (BANXICO) on 

June 22, 2012 (13.8490 Mexican pesos/US dollars).
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3. RECYCLE. Recycle themselves or send the packed tire pieces to a 

recycling facility “Recycle”. 

Image 8.18. 

English version example of a CPR dead tires campaign advertisement.

Image 8.19. 

Spanish version example of a CPR dead tires campaign advertisement. 

3.3.1 How to implement a CPR dead tires campaign

The images presented above are only examples to illustrate how a CPR 

campaign could be promoted by imitating cardiopulmonary resuscitation signs.
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In IEMS’ opinion each individual community should perform the following 

based on what it’s presented in this document and other sources they consider 

appropriate:

 Decisions need to be deduced from principles, and principles need to 

be derived from core values. Only by first establishing the core values 

of the community of practice, then deriving the principles, and only 

then developing guidelines, can truly appropriate guidelines emerge.

 Guidelines and principles must be developed in participatory 

processes, include the people to whom the guidelines are directed. 

These are the people who ultimately need to develop ‘ownership’ of 

the guidelines if they are to be adopted and be utilized. (Vanclay, SIA 

principles, 2003)

By implementing a CPR dead tires campaign the following benefits 

could be obtained:

 Eliminate mosquito breeding areas. Mosquitoes commonly use water 

accumulated in the inner side of tires’ sidewalls to lay their eggs but 

tires without sidewalls don’t accumulate water so mosquitoes can’t 

breed in them.

 Health benefits. By eliminating mosquitoes breeding sites, their 

related diseases such as Dengue Fever and West Nile Virus are also 

fought.

 Storage space required by waste tires is greatly reduced.

 Transportation costs are reduced.

 Disposal fees are reduced.

 Promoting a Cut-Pack-recycle (CPR) campaign among waste tire 

generators would make tire derived cylinders (treads) and slit 

sidewalls available to recyclers, authorities and processors without the 

need of investing resources such as time, labor and money in sidewall 

removing activities.

Recommendations on disposal and transportation savings when 

sidewalls are removed from waste tires will discussed on following Chapters.

Packing alternatives for cut tires was discussed previously.

Also by implementing a CPR dead tires campaign recyclers, 

authorities and processors would have direct and cheap access to:

 Tire derived geo cells for civil engineering projects.

 Steel belted rubber for rammed earth tire walls.

 Slit sidewalls ready for de-beading.

 Packaged tire treads ready for transportation to processing or disposal 

sites at lower costs than when transporting whole waste tires.
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Image 8.20. 

Used tire dealership cutting tires’ sidewalls in Brownsville, Texas.

4 Markets evaluation

4.1 Legal evaluation

While none of the proposed market alternatives is illegal in Mexico, some 

alternatives are more heavily regulated and or restricted than others.

A general prohibition throughout the Mexican side of the border is the 

burning of tires in open air. Attachment 33 of this report presents laws and 

regulations regarding the burning of tires in all of the Mexican scope.

It is relevant to note that what is presented is not the legal framework of 

each market. Only laws, regulations and standards which apply specifically to a 

tire derived product are encompassed in this evaluation. 

Only for the Selling or Installing Rubberized Asphalt (RA) option, specific 

legal regulations were found, as discussed in the corresponding section. These 

regulations are focused on ensuring the quality control of the modified asphalt 

created in part of tire ground rubber.

It should be noted that even if no specific regulations were found, it 

doesn’t mean general regulations and laws don’t apply. The purpose of this 

search was to identify regulations that applied specifically to tire derived products, 

apart from the general regulations which apply to a traditional application.
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For example, the fact that no specific regulation was found regarding the 

installation of tire derived geo cells (TDGC) in a road sub-base means that the 

installation should comply with all the legal framework applying to road sub base 

construction and its specs, but no regulation applies only to TDGC. In other word: 

TDGC will compete in an equal legal framework with all traditional alternatives for 

sub base construction.

4.2 Economic evaluation

4.2.1 Market prices per tire

Attachment 27 presents the prices currently paid for each tire derived 

product identified. Since some of these products are not yet available on the 

market, the prices presented for these are the ones paid for similar products with 

which they would compete.

Figure 8.1 displays the potential income per Passenger Tire Equivalent16

(PTE) received when supplying each of the identified markets enumerated on 

section 3. 

The specific amounts and formulas applied to create this figure are 

available on Attachment 29.

It is relevant to note that the following are considered to use de-beaded 

tire sidewalls as rubber source17: 

 Ground rubber for athletic and recreational surfaces.

 Molded and extruded products.

Meaning that an alternative income for the tire treads sale can be 

obtained depending on the market supplied with them.

Also in the figure, violet bars represent consulted current prices of the tire 

derived products on existing markets. Gray bars represent estimated prices,

based on what similar products, are currently worth in the market. 

4.2.2 Required equipment investment per market

In order to supply any of the identified markets reported on chapter 3,

waste tires require modifications in order to comply with the demand specific 

needs. The equipment necessary to perform said modifications greatly varies in 

size, complexity, required energy input, required investment, labor needs, etc. 

 

16 Because most tire stockpiles contain mixtures of various tire sizes, density is normally expressed in terms of 

the passenger tire equivalent (PTE), which is equal to 20 pounds by definition. (US EPA, 2006)

17 Magnetically separated materials are not acceptable.
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The estimated economic investment on equipment to modify waste tires 

according to current and potential markets demands is presented on Figure 8.2.

This figure displays the required investment on equipment, not including 

the required facilities, labor, energy inputs, secondary equipment, etc. Specific 

amounts can be consulted on Attachment 30 of this report, quotations and 

sources for equipment pricing are presented on Attachment 31 of this report.

Rubber for extruded products is presented on a separate column in 

Figure 8.2 because mesh size required can be as low as 200 mesh, to obtain this 

mesh size it is required additional equipment which would further elevate the 

investment required. Since no quotations were obtained for this specific 

equipment it is only noted that the market which requires the largest investment 

on equipment is the ground rubber for extruded products.

The section below evaluates in more depth which markets require large 

investments on equipment to process tires.

4.2.3 Most expensive markets to enter based on equipment required 

investment

Based on the information presented on Figure 8.2 it is visible that some

markets require larger initial investments on processing equipment than others.

Of the identified existing and potential markets the most expensive to 

access, based only on required investment on equipment, are the following:

 Type B tire derived aggregate (TDA) (bulk)

 Type A tire derived aggregate (TDA) (bulk)

 Ground rubber for Rubberized Asphalt (RA) (bulk) 

 Ground rubber for Athletic and recreational surfaces (bulk).

 Rubber mulch (bulk).

 Ground rubber for molded and extruded products (bulk).

The following graph, Figure 8.3, illustrates the investment required by 

these more expensive markets to access.

Figure 8.3 still shows significant variations on investment required 

between type B TDA and the other most expensive markets to supply. It also 

makes evident that for ground rubber markets and type A TDA the investment is 

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Figure 8.1. 

Potential income per passenger tire equivalent on each market
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Figure 8.2. 

Required Investment on processing equipment to produce each tire derived product (US dollars)
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The purpose of this information is for stakeholders to have readily 

available information on the “buy in” cost in equipment only to supply any of these 

markets. Data presented only encompasses equipment, not including land, 

facilities, secondary equipment, etc. Equipment pricing may vary.

The section below evaluates in more depth the markets which require 

less investment on equipment in order to be supplied with tire derived products.

4.2.4 Most accessible markets based on equipment required 

investment

From the identified existing and potential markets, the most accessible 

ones based only on required investment on equipment are the following:

 Passenger tire sidewalls (bulk).

 Tire-derived-geo-cylinders, (TDGC).

 Steel belted rubber for rammed-earth encased walls.

 Tire treads (bulk).

 De-beaded passenger sidewalls (bulk).

 Passenger tire sidewalls' bead wire (bulk).

 Tire tread tree and landscape edging 

 Tire tread fencing.

Figure 8.4 displays a close up on the required investment on the 

equipment necessary to supply these more accessible markets.

Based on this, a relevant difference still exists on the required 

investments on equipment necessary to process waste tires. It is also evident 

that some markets require the same equipment to produce tire derived products. 

For example to sell passenger tire sidewalls, treads, TDGC and steel belted 

rubber for rammed earth tire walls the investment is the same. The same happens 

with the equipment required to produce de-beaded sidewalls and bead wire, and 

yet again on the fencing and edging markets. 

If we refer to Attachment 30 of this report we can observe that the 

investment in these markets is the same because the equipment necessary is the 

same. The past statement means that with the same investment more than one 

market can be supplied.
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Figure 8.3. 

Required Investment on processing equipment for most expensive markets to access (US dollars)
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Figure 8.4. 

Required Investment on processing equipment for more accessible markets (US dollars)
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More accessible equipment investment range from $3,900 USD ($54,011 

Mexican pesos)18 in order to manufacture:

 Passenger tire sidewalls in bulk.

 Tire-derived-geo-cylinders, (TDGC).

 Steel belted rubber for rammed-earth encased walls.

 Tire treads (bulk).

These markets require only removing the sidewalls of waste tires. 

Equipment investment to remove passenger tire sidewalls can be lowered to 

$15.2 USD ($210.5 Mexican pesos)19 for the purchase of a professional linoleum 

knife or even lower. Making the markets that only require removing one or both 

passenger tire sidewalls the most accessible based on required investment on 

equipment.

To a required equipment investment of $10,950 USD ($151,646.55 

Mexican pesos) 20 in order to manufacture cut tire tread for fencing.

Equipment investment amounts are available on Attachment 30 which 

also includes a matrix specifying equipment necessary for each market and its 

specific use. The sources consulted to obtain the prices of equipment are 

presented on Attachment 31.

4.3 Environmental evaluation

Performing environmental impact assessments on each application for 

each location in the Mexican scope area is not possible since many variables 

would be unknown. Such as: water bodies, biodiversity in the area, type of soil 

and its characteristics, climate, processes, etc.

Yet during fieldwork and deskwork activities IEMS identified 

environmental issues of concern which are presented as follows: 

4.3.1 Environmental Issues of Concern (EIC)

Zinc Leaching

Tire rubber contains about 1.5 percent zinc as a vulcanization 

accelerator within the rubber polymer matrix. Water can gradually leach small 

amounts of zinc from the chip into the underlying soil. 

 

18 US dollar prices estimated based on the FIX Exchange value reported by the Bank of Mexico (BANXICO) on 

June 22, 2012 (13.8490 Mexican pesos/US dollars).

19 US dollar prices estimated based on the FIX Exchange value reported by the Bank of Mexico (BANXICO) on 

June 22, 2012 (13.8490 Mexican pesos/US dollars).

20 US dollar prices estimated based on the FIX Exchange value reported by the Bank of Mexico (BANXICO) on 

June 22, 2012 (13.8490 Mexican pesos/US dollars).
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Traces of zinc serve as a micronutrient for many species, but excessive 

quantities can have a negative impact on some plants and grasses. Leaching is 

slow and controlled with water flowing through chips on the surface of beds, but it 

could be accelerated by continuous submersion in water or soil (Gray, 2010). 

The following information was obtained from the document “Kanematsua, 

Masakazu et al. (2010) Characterization and potential environmental risks of 

leachate from shredded rubber mulches”. Davis: National Institutes of Health21, 

and is presented textually to illustrate why Zinc leaching is an environmental issue 

of concern on some of the identified markets.

“In order to determine whether shredded rubber mulches (RM) 

posed water quality risks when used in stormwater best management 

practices (BMPs) such as bioretention basins, batch leaching tests were 

conducted to identify and quantify constituents in leachates from RM 

such as metal ions.

The results indicate that aqueous extracts of RM contain high 

concentrations of zinc (Zn) compared with wood mulches (WM), and its 

concentration increased at lower pH and higher temperature. 

.

Leaching of Zn from RM appears to be a potentially larger water 

quality issue for RM (Kanematsua, 2010)”.

Analysis of EIC

Some zinc concentrations on rubber mulch leachate are higher than 20 

mg/L (Kanematsua, 2010), which is the maximum permissible monthly average 

limit established by Mexican Official Standard NOM-001-SEMARNAT-199622 for 

zinc concentrations in water discharges on national water bodies or soil. Although 

this regulation does not directly apply to mulch leachate it provides a reference 

value of how relevant these concentrations are.

In mediums with pH of 5 all rubber mulch leachates at any temperature, 

ranging from 10°C to 40°C, surpassed zinc concentrations of 10mg/L 

(Kanematsua, 2010) which is the maximum daily authorized average 

concentration of zinc in waste water discharges according to the standard. 

Although the study of the NHS encompasses rubber mulch on a very 

conservative approach, since the following tire derived applications will be in 

direct contact with rain water and soil, it was considered relevant to consider this 

EIC also for them.

 

21 Published in final edited form as: Chemosphere. 2009 August ; 76(7): 952–958. 

doi:10.1016/j.chemosphere.2009.04.026.

22 The federal standard NOM-001-SEMARNAT-1996 establishes the maximum permissible limits of pollutants 

in waste water discharges in waters or national goods such as soil.
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Tire applications where relevant Zinc leaching may occur

 Tire derived geo cells (TDGC).

 Landscaping edging.

 Tire derived aggregates (TDA) (bulk).

 Ground rubber for rubberized asphalt (RA) (bulk). 

 Ground rubber for athletic and recreational surfaces (bulk).

 Rubber mulch (bulk).

IEMS strongly suggests that the Environmental Impact Assessment 

(EIA) performed for the application of any of the markets mentioned above should

consider the impact caused by zinc leaching from tire rubber when in contact with 

water. And propose mitigation alternatives to prevent contamination of soil and 

ground or surface water bodies.

4.3.2 Greenhouse gas emissions per PTE processed

The greenhouse emissions per PTE were estimated for each processing 

alternative in order to identify the cleanest options. As a rule of thumb the more 

energy required to process a product the more pollutant it is unless the energy is 

obtained from a clean source. 

Attachment 41 presents a matrix table which estimates the emissions of 

equivalent CO2 in kilograms based on the electrical energy requirements of the 

equipment required to process a passenger tire equivalent to manufacture each 

tire derived product. The following figure presents the results in a graphical way.23

It is relevant to note that (bulk) sidewalls and treads would be sold to be

further grinded and processed so they eventually would present similar emissions 

to ground rubber products.

Emissions can be further reduced if instead of a sidewall removing 

machine a knife is employed to manually remove the tires’ sidewalls.

 

23 Emission factor obtained from the following source (Energetic application technicians and professionals 

association, ATPAE (Asociación de Técnicos y Profesionistas en Aplicación Energética), 2003)
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Figure 8.5. 

Greenhouse emissions to process a passenger tire equivalent (Kg of equivalent CO2/ PTE)
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Chapter 9. 

Waste Tires 

Appropriate 

Disposal 

Alternatives
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1 Methodology

1.1 Identification methodology

In order to identify the appropriate waste tire disposal alternatives in the 

Texas-Mexico Border Region it was necessary to define what “appropriate” 

means: 

Appropriate disposal alternatives in this study are the ones which, as a 

base, comply with the legal regulations that apply where the disposal site is 

located. 

1.1.1 Sources consulted

Waste tire disposal stakeholders in both sides of the border were 

interviewed to gather the required information for this Chapter.

Texas waste tire disposal stakeholders interviewed and information 

required:

 Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ)

 Full registry of the Texas authorized whole-used or scrap tire 

generators, transporters, transportation facilities, recyclers, energy 

recovery facilities, and other processors, storage and disposal 

sites. Indication if they have complied with reporting duties or not.1

 Local environmental authorities

 How are waste tires handled on your city/county?

 What’s the adequate procedure to dispose of waste tires?

 What proportion of waste tires generated is estimated to be 

handled in accordance to the proper disposal procedures?2

 Local landfill managers3

 Local waste tire land reclamation projects using tires.

Mexican waste tire disposal stakeholders interviewed and 

information required:

 Municipal environmental authorities

 How are waste tires handled on your municipality?

 What’s the adequate procedure to dispose of waste tires? What 

proportion of waste tires is estimated to be handled in this way?4

 

1 Question number 1 directed to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) presented on the 

attachment 3 of the report.

2 Questions 2, 4 and 9 of the Environmental authorities’ questionnaire guide presented on the attachment 3 of 

the report.

3

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 Municipal local landfill representatives both public and private5

 Cement companies located in the Mexican states on the TexasMexico border. 

1.2 Description of identified alternatives

The results of the search previously described are briefly described, 

emphasizing on what the disposal alternative consists and its legal status (legal or 

illegal) is defined. This in order to allow the reader to understand each alternative 

and to deem if it would be considered appropriate for the purposes of this study. 

When available, sites location is also presented.

At the summary of the description section the appropriate disposal 

alternatives are clearly defined for each scope border region.

Sources consulted for this section include the following:

 Fieldwork obtained data.

 Deskwork obtained data.

 United States Environmental Protection Agency 

 Texas Commission on Environmental Quality 

 Official Mexican Standard NOM-083-SEMARNAT-2003.

 Scrap Tires in Ciudad Juarez and El Paso: Ranking the Risks

(Blackman & Palma, 2002).

 Handbook of solid waste management

 (Tchobanoglous & Kreith, 2002).

 California Integrated Waste Management Board.

 Kansas Department of Health and Environment.

 New Mexico Administrative Code

 Open pit mining and its environmental impacts (AECO-AT, 2001).

 Texas Department of Transportation 

 World Coal Association 

 Rubber Manufacturers Association 

 Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission.

 Railroad Commission of Texas

 Mexican Geologic Service 

 Mexican Economy Ministry 

 Coal mining and its geographical-economical impact in the mid west 

and northwest of Coahuila, Mexico (Sánchez Salazar, 1995).

 

4 Questions 2 and 8 of the questionnaire for municipal ecology representatives (Cuestionario detallado para 

autoridades municipales) presented on attachment 2 of the report.

5

The questionnaire applied to landfill representatives (Cuestionario detallado para representantes de sitios de 

disposición final) is presented on attachment 2 of the report.
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1.3 Recommendations

Recommendations are the conclusions to which IEMS arrived after the 

evaluation of the appropriate disposal alternatives identified during research.

To provide recommendations regarding appropriate tire disposal 

alternatives in the Texas-Mexico border region as well as on the status of current 

levels and activities of sustainability of waste and used tires as it relates to the 

Texas-Mexico border region, IEMS analyzed the social, environmental and 

economic evaluations, providing conclusions based on data collected in from 

them.

1.4 Evaluation methodology

In order to make recommendations regarding appropriate tire disposal 

alternatives, the identified alternatives social, environmental and economic 

impacts were assessed and compared. 

By analyzing each alternative under this triple bottom line approach 

(social-environmental-economic) IEMS intends to shed some light and make 

recommendations on the status of current levels and activities of sustainability of 

waste and used tires as it relates to the Texas-Mexico Border Region.

1.4.1 Alternatives evaluated 

Texas’ border region tire disposal alternatives evaluated:

Appropriate disposal sites in the Texas border area are:

 Land reclamation projects using tires (LRPUT).

 Landfills.

Mexico’s border area evaluated alternatives:

Appropriate disposal sites in the Texas border area encompassed were:

 Landfills

 Tire derived fuel in cement kilns (TDF)

Although there is no kilns using TDF process located within the TexasMexico border area, kilns using this process located in border scope Mexican 

states were evaluated as an alternative for waste tire disposal in the Mexican side 

of the border.
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1.4.2 Social and environmental evaluations methodology

A list of positive and negative social and environmental impacts is 

presented for each alternative. For every negative impact, mitigation 

recommendations are also presented. 

Impact sources were obtained from:

 Previous publications and study’s regarding the alternatives 

evaluated.

 IEMS professional experience and criteria.

1.4.2.1 Social evaluation description 

A "Social Impact Assessment includes the processes of analyzing, 

monitoring and managing the intended and unintended social consequences, 

both positive and negative, of planned interventions (policies, programs, plans, 

projects) and any social change processes invoked by those interventions. Its 

primary purpose is to bring about a more sustainable and equitable biophysical 

and human environment." (Vanclay, 2003)

It is IEMS point of view that the planned intervention regarding this 

Task is the:

 The massive disposal of waste tires accumulated and generated in 

the Texas-Mexico border region.

Disposal meaning getting rid of waste tires without receiving an 

economical compensation.

Objective of the social evaluation

Assist the Texas-Mexico border area communities and other 

stakeholders in identifying waste tire disposal alternatives which ensure that 

positive outcomes are maximized, rather than only minimizing harm from negative 

impacts.

In other words; “by identifying impacts in advance: 

1. Better decisions can be made about which interventions should 

proceed and how they should proceed; and 

2. Mitigation measures can be implemented to minimize the harm and 

maximize the benefits from a specific planned intervention or related 

activity.” (Vanclay, 2003)
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Scope of the social evaluation

According to the social impact assessment international principles 

published by the International Association for Impact Assessment, (Vanclay, 

2003); a convenient way of conceptualizing social impacts is as changes to one or 

more of the following:

 People’s way of life – that is, how they live, work, play and interact 

with one another on a day-to-day basis;

 Their culture – that is, their shared beliefs, customs, values and 

language or dialect;

 Their community – its cohesion, stability, character, services and

facilities;

 Their political systems – the extent to which people are able to 

participate in decisions that affect their lives, the level of 

democratization that is taking place, and the resources provided for 

this purpose;

 Their environment – the quality of the air and water people use; the 

availability and quality of the food they eat; the level of hazard or risk, 

dust and noise they are exposed to; the adequacy of sanitation, their 

physical safety, and their access to and control over resources;

 Their health and wellbeing – health is a state of complete physical, 

mental, social and spiritual wellbeing and not merely the absence of 

disease or infirmity;

 Their personal and property rights – particularly whether people are 

economically affected, or experience personal disadvantage which 

may include a violation of their civil liberties;

 Their fears and aspirations – their perceptions about their safety, 

their fears about the future of their community, and their aspirations 

for their future and the future of their children.

The purpose of presenting the scope and characteristics is to inform 

stakeholders on subjects that require identification prior to making a decision 

regarding waste tire disposal in the Texas-Mexico border region. No social 

evaluation is presented in this document.

1.4.2.2 Environmental evaluation description

In order to identify environmental impacts related to each identified 

disposal alternative previous studies and environmental impacts assessments 

publicly available were consulted. No conclusion is presented for each evaluation 

instead impacts and, when available on the sources, mitigation strategies are 

presented. The purpose of presenting in said way the impacts is to allow 

stakeholders arrive to their own conclusion on whether a disposal alternative is 

acceptable to him or not.
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An “Environmental Impact Assessment can be defined as:

The process of identifying, predicting, evaluating and mitigating the 

biophysical, social, and other relevant effects of development proposals prior to 

major decisions being taken and commitments made. (International Association 

for Impact Assessment, 1999)

Objectives of an environmental evaluation

The objective of the environmental evaluation in this study is to aid in the 

examination of the tire disposal alternatives in the Texas-Mexico border region in 

order for stakeholders to establish the preferred or most environmentally sound 

and benign option.

Additionally in compliance with the Principles of environmental impact 

assessment best practices (International Association for Impact Assessment, 

1999), the general objectives are:

1. To ensure that environmental considerations are explicitly addressed 

and incorporated into the development decision making process 

regarding tire disposal alternatives in the Texas-Mexico border region.

2. To anticipate and avoid, minimize or offset the adverse significant 

biophysical, social and other relevant effects of recommended 

alternatives.

3. To protect the productivity and capacity of natural systems and the 

ecological processes which maintain their functions; and

4. To promote development that is sustainable and optimizes resource 

use and management opportunities.

1.4.3 Economic evaluation

Evaluating proper disposal alternatives for the Texas-Mexico border area 

as a whole represents a challenge due to the size of the area comprised. 

Economic variables depend greatly on the distance between the waste tire 

generation and/or accumulation site and the proper disposal site. The longer the 

transportation haul the more expensive it is to transport waste tires.

Another variable economically affecting disposal costs is the fee charged 

by disposal or processing facilities.

In summary the economic evaluation considers :

 Transportation costs 

 disposal fees 
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1.4.3.1 Transportation costs

Common transportation options 

In order to aid stakeholders in choosing and planning a transportation 

strategy a cost per tire per mile evaluation was made considering the following 

commonly used vehicles6:

 Pickup trucks.

 Pickup truck with trailer.

 Box truck.

 Tractor with 48 foot trailer.

The evaluation considers variables such as transporting whole tires and 

cut tires and compares the overall efficiency difference between each option and 

variable.

Transportation costs in Texas

Transportation costs in Texas were estimated based on the methodology 

employed in the following publication:

 Scrap Tires: Handbook on Recycling Applications and Management 

for the U.S. and Mexico (EPA, 2010)

Assumptions made in order to estimate transportation costs in Texas are:

1. Waste tires are accumulated in a collection point in a town or area and 

then hauled in larger vehicles to regional processing facilities or 

markets.

2. Regulations and roads connecting accumulation points and disposal 

sites allow the circulation of tractor trailers.

3. The vehicle is full during the trip.

4. Cut tires maximum load (cut tires per load) depends on the vehicle 

maximum payload rather than volume.

The only transportation alternative considered for Texas total disposal 

costs calculations was:

 48 foot trailer.

Transportation costs per tire per mile, whole and cut, in Texas are 

presented in Attachment 42 of this report.

 

6 As reported in the Scrap Tires: Handbook on Recycling Applications and Management for U.S. and Mexico 

(EPA, 2010)
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Note: transportation costs for a pickup truck, a pickup with a cage trailer 

and box truck are also presented on Attachment 42 for illustrative and reference 

purposes.

Transportation costs in Mexico

Transportation costs in Mexico were obtained through quotations from 

trucking and rail companies. Equipment alternatives considered are:

 53 foot trailers.

 50 foot train wagons.

 60 foot train wagons.

Quotations obtained correspond to routes connecting the scope’s larger 

cities to nearby Mexican cities where cement kilns are located. Contrary to the 

Texas strategy of local disposal, the strategy for the Mexican side contemplates 

disposal in cities further south due to the lack of appropriate processing facilities 

or burial sites other than landfills.

For security reasons IEMS recommends employing routes considered 

safer by trucking companies with experience in each area. 

Train transportation in Mexico

In Mexico rail transportation is limited by the number of companies 

providing the service as well as by installed routes. Only two rail companies 

provide transportation services in the Mexican side of the Texas-Mexico border.

The Mexican scope cities in the states of Coahuila and Chihuahua are 

exclusively served by the rail company Ferrocarril mexicano S.A. de C.V.

(FERROMEX). The scope cities in the states of Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas are 

only serviced by the rail company Kansas City Southern de Mexico (KCSM).

Quotations from these companies were obtained in order to identify 

potential rail routes from Mexican scope cities to appropriate disposal locations far 

from them and shed some light on their costs.

Using the wagons maximum payload the estimated number of whole and 

cut passenger tire equivalents (PTE) per trip and afterwards the disposal costs 

per tire were estimated.
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1.4.3.2 Disposal fees

Disposal fees evaluated are the ones obtained from cement companies, 

public and private landfills and land reclamation projects using tires (LRPUT). 

Said prices were obtained either during fieldwork and desktop interviews or phone 

price requests. IEMS doesn’t warranty the disposal fees reported will be valid 

through time since they are reported to change at discretion of the interviewed 

sites and companies.

Note: interview and pricing requests were continuously sent to the private 

disposal company Promotora Ambiental S.A. de C.V. (PASA) yet no response 

was obtained, reason for which disposal fees on PASA’s landfills will be 

considered to be the same as the fees paid by Piedras Negras municipality for 

their waste tires disposal on a landfill managed by PASA and located on said 

municipality.

2 Identified disposal alternatives

Appropriate tire disposal alternatives identified in the Texas-Mexico 

border region and the ones developed by IEMS are the following:

1. Landfill, shred or cut waste tires.7

2. Burial of whole, shred or cut waste tires in Land Reclamation Projects 

Using Tires (LRPUT).

3. Burning, shred, cut or whole, waste tires as tire derived fuel in cement 

kilns.(TDF)

4. Reclamation of depleted open pit coal mines.

Options 1 and 2 are applied in the U.S. side of the border while only 1 

and 3 are applied in the Mexican side of the border. 

Option 4 was developed by IEMS’ team of engineers and is not yet 

applied in any side of the border.

2.1 Landfill shred or cut waste tires

Landfills are engineered areas where waste is placed into the land. 

Landfills usually have liner systems and other safeguards to prevent polluting the 

groundwater. (U.S. Environmental protection agency, 2012)

 

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Land filling whole tires was not considered an appropriate disposal alternative since they tend to trap air and 

float towards the surface as was reported by Stephen Geiss, city of Laredo solid waste services manager, 

interviewed on August 30, 2011 who stated: “If a tire is not shredded it will float, pop out in the landfill" 

because air is trapped in the tire sidewalls. 
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Modern landfills are well-engineered facilities that are located, designed, 

operated, and monitored to ensure compliance with federal regulations. Solid 

waste landfills must be designed to protect the environment from contaminants 

which may be present in the solid waste stream. (U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency, 2012)

Only split, quartered, or shredded tires may be disposed of in a landfill. 

Storage or processing activities must be specified in a landfill’s permit and scrap 

management registration is required (Texas Commission on Environmental 

Quality, TCEQ, 2012)

According to Mexican remote interviews private landfills in Mexico also 

receive waste tires. They are previously shredded in order to prevent them from 

floating into the surface.

Image 9.1. 

Hogzilla® shredder employed in the Brownsville Municipal Solid Waste 

Landfill to destroy waste tires

Image 9.2. 

City of Laredo Sanitary Landfill
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Landfills in the Texas side of the border area are classified, according to 

the type of waste they may receive, as follows: (TCEQ, 2011)

Type I landfills.- are authorized to accept municipal solid wastes.

Type IV landfills.- are normally more limited in that they may only accept 

brush, construction and demolition debris, and other waste that will not putrefy.

An additional designation “AE” in the landfill type indicates an “arid 

exempt” facility. AE landfills normally are limited in the amount of waste they are 

authorized to accept. 

Waste tires are considered by Mexican legislation as a special handling 

waste. The federal standard NOM-083-SEMARNAT-2003 dictates the 

environmental protection specifications for the selection, design, construction, 

operation, monitoring, closure and complementary works of an urban solid waste 

and special handling waste disposal sites.

Said standard classifies final disposal sites (landfills) based on the 

amount of daily waste entering to them, in metric tons (tonnes), as the following 

table displays: 

Table 9.1. 

Final disposal sites categories

Type Tonnes / Day

A More than 100

B From 50 to100

C From 10 to less than 50

D Less than10

Every final disposal site in Mexico must have a natural geologic barrier or 

an equivalent with a width of 1 meter (3.3 feet) and a hydraulic conductivity of at 

least 1X10-7cm/ sec (3.9 X10-8in/sec) over the area destined to the 

establishment of the final disposal cells; or also, to warranty it with an equivalent 

waterproofing system (NOM-083-SEMARNAT-2003).

2.1.1.1 Disposal of cut or shred tires in landfills.

Tires present unique and challenging disposal problems because of their 

size, shape, and physical and chemical properties. Landfill of whole tires 

consumes a large volume of landfill space because the tires are relatively 

incompressible and 75 percent of the space a tire occupies is empty. In addition, 

they tend to trap gases and rise to the top of landfills after being buried. As a 

result, laws in both Mexico and the United States prohibit landfill tires along with 

other types of waste (Blackman & Palma, 2002).
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In the United States of America the tire management laws in most states 

do not ban disposal outright. In all, 38 states have bans, however, of those states 

with tire bans, some states allow disposal if the tires have been shredded, 

chipped, or halved. To keep track of who is collecting and transporting tires some 

states also have put permitting or registration requirements into legislation

(Tchobanoglous & Kreith, Handbook of solid waste management, 2002). Along 

the Mexican boundary, solid waste disposal sites began accepting waste tires that 

had the sidewalls removed. There, the tires are buried in the landfill. Waste tires 

that have been shredded or cut into three pieces also are allowed to dispose in 

the landfills (California Integrated Waste Managment Board, 2009).

Private landfills in the Mexican side of the border, such as the Piedras 

Negras PASA facility, posses an exclusive cell for shredded of cut waste tire final 

disposal.8

In theory all sanitary landfills which comply with federal legislation in 

Mexico are able to receive cut or shred waste tires.

Cutting process description

Cutting the sidewalls out of waste passenger tires, and also making at 

least one cut across the tread for larger tires are the ways in which a tire must be 

processed prior to disposal at a landfill since these methods of processing reduce 

the volume of the tire by at least 50% and prevent the tire from retaining water

(Kansas Department of Health and Environment, 2011).

Image 9.3. 

Worker removing waste tires sidewalls 

 

8 Data provided by Piedras Negras , Coahuila, Mexico urban Image and Ecology authorities through a remote 

interview.
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2.2 Land reclamation projects using tires (LRPUT)

LRPUTs are projects to fill, rehabilitate, improve, or restore already 

excavated, deteriorated, or disturbed land, using no more than 50 percent by 

volume of tire pieces along with inert fill materials, to restore the land to its 

approximate natural grade and to prepare or reclaim the land for reuse. In Texas 

all tires used to fill land must be split, quartered, or shredded. Whole tires cannot 

be placed belowground. Completed projects must be covered with 18 inches 

(0.46 meters) of clean soil. (Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, TCEQ, 

2012)

Image 9.4. 

Land Reclamation Project Using Tires in El Paso, Texas.

In the state of New Mexico, USA, land reclamation projects are not 

required to cut or shred waste tires in order to bury them as it is stated in the New 

Mexico Administrative Code (NMAC) 20.9.20 and specifically in 20.9.20.43.9

Mexican legislation doesn’t contemplate the use of special handling 

wastes such as tires as filling material in abandoned open pit mines. The only 

allowed disposal alternative are sites which comply with standard NOM-083-

SEMARNAT-2003. 

 

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2.3 Tire derived fuel (TDF) in cement kilns

Calcinations of raw materials to manufacture clinker (a fundamental 

element in the production of cement) which takes place inside of kilns, is the core 

of the process within the cement plants; which requires a large amount of energy, 

supplied by fuel, which is injected into the kilns, and represents the bigger cost in 

the manufacture of cement. High temperatures in kilns and long residence times 

inherent to the cement manufacturing process, represent an high potential for the 

destruction of organic compounds, which enables the use of a wide variety of 

fuels, by-products of other industrial processes or derived from wastes, both solid 

(waste tires, wood, paper, cardboard, plastic, urban and industrial sludge, etc.) 

and liquids (solvents, used oils, distillation waste, etc.). This is why; cement plants 

meet the necessary conditions to carry out a clean burning of tires and taking 

advantage of its high caloric content instead of petroleum or coal. 

Image 9.5. 

Holcim Apasco cement kiln in the city of Ramos Arizpe, Coahuila, Mexico. 

The company Ecoltec S.A. de C.V. supplies waste tires for TDF applications in this plant.

The chemical characteristics of any energy resource affect its technical 

and environmental performance. Tires are a hydrocarbon-based material derived 

from oil and natural gas. Tires have a heat content of 14,000 to 15,500 

BTU/pound (7,800 to 8,600 kcal/ kg), depending on the type of tire and the 

amount of reinforcing wire that has been removed. By comparison, another solid 

fuel commonly displaced by use of tires as an energy resource is coal that 

typically contains 10,000 to 13,000 Btu/pound (5,550 to 7,200 kcal/kg) (EPA, 

2010)
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The technology for introducing and using whole and shredded tires in 

virtually all types of cement kilns has been proven over many years of operation in 

many facilities. Cement kilns have provided a constructive and inexpensive use 

for stockpiled tires in the United States, Canada, Mexico and many other 

countries. In fact, cement kilns are already using tires removed from stockpiles in 

the border areas of Mexico, such as Juarez during stockpile abatement. Also tires 

are shredded and transported to kilns in other cities.

No cement kilns are installed in the Texas side of the scope border area, 

only one kiln is located in the Mexican side of said border in the city of Ciudad 

Juarez, Chihuahua; which has no facilities for the use of tires as TDF. The 

General Law for the Prevention and Integral Management of Waste (Ley General 

para la Prevencion y Gestion Integral de Residuos, LGPGIR) promotes waste 

valorization, which encompasses the principle and group of associated actions 

whose objective is the recovery of the remaining value or caloric power of the 

materials which make up wastes, through their incorporation in productive 

processes, under shared responsibility criteria, integral management and 

environmental, technologic and economic efficiency. 

Figure 9.1 and Figure 9.2 present the location of cement kilns in Texas 

and Mexico. 

(EPA, 2010)

Figure 9.1. 

Cement kilns using tires in Texas location map
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(EPA, 2010)

2.4 Reclamation of depleted open pit coal mines.

Open pit mining is an industrial activity of high environmental, social and 

cultural impact. It is an inherently unsustainable industrial activity.

Technical innovations that have experienced mining from the second half 

of the XX century have radically changed the activity, so that it has gone from the 

exploitation of underground mines of high quality to exploitation in open pit mines 

of lower quality minerals in larger deposit areas. Open pit mining removes the 

surface layer or overload the soil to make accessible the extensive deposits and 

low quality ores. It is profitable because it is less expensive than an underground 

mine (AECO-AT, 2001).

Coal, like all other sources of energy, has a number of environmental 

impacts, from both coal mining and coal use. According to World Coal 

Association, coal mining raises a number of environmental challenges, including 

soil erosion, dust, noise and water pollution, and impacts on local biodiversity.

Figure 9.2. 

Cement kilns in Mexico location map
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Image 9.6. 

Active open pit coal mine in Coahuila, Mexico. 

The coal ore (darker soil) is exploited after removing the soil overload (light colored soil)

Image 9.7. 

Unrehabilitated inactive coal mine in Coahuila, Mexico.

2.4.1 IEMS’s Land reclamation proposal in open pit mines

In land reclamation projects using tires (LRPUT), tires are used as a fill 

material on land that has been mined or subjected to significant erosion and is in 

the process of being restored (reclaimed). Tires are used to level out the contour 

of the land before the land is covered with soil and reseeded. In 2007, about 70.8 

thousand tons of scrap tires were used in reclamation projects in the United 

States. Reclamation projects were reported in four states: Arkansas, Nebraska, 

New Mexico and Texas, being the later one that has the more relative usage of 

scrap tires in land reclamation projects (87.8 %) (TCEQ & TxDOT, 2004).

Land reclamation is commonly used in the United States; the second 

largest use category for scrap tires in Texas is Land Reclamation Projects Using 

Tires (LRPUT). Shredded scrap tires have routinely been used as fill material in 

civil engineering and reclamation projects for a number of years (Rubber 

Manufacturers Association, 2009)
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As a reference: in areas that have been strip mined or mined for sand 

and gravel, a 50:50 mixture of tire pieces and soil is usually used as fill material to 

reclaim the mined area (TCEQ & TxDOT, 2004). 

Mine rehabilitation activities (top) & mine rehabilitation activities (bottom). (World coal association)

The mine reclamation process proposed by IEMS consist in the use of a 

cut tires layer less than 1 meter thick followed by a soil layer with 1 meter thick 

and then repeated. Since the mineral coal extracted in Coahuila has 69-86% of 

carbon, it is feasible to refill open pit mines with waste tires, whose composition 

has 85% of total carbon approximately (TNRCC, 1999), practically replacing the 

coal extracted with a similar carbon source.

Since carbon mines are to be reclaimed at the end of their life, the 

reclamation equipment and machinery could very well be used for the burial of 

already cut or shredded tires. This assuming tires disposed by generators are cut 

or shredded before being sent for disposal. The Figure 9.4 displays a diagram of 

the proposed reclamation technique using tires.

Figure 9.3. 

Diagram of surface coal mining operations and mine rehabilitation activities
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The Figure displays the same diagram presented on figure 9.3, except it includes cut waste tire layers every 1 

meter (3.3 ft) inserted by IEMS.

To determinate layers thickness, IEMS proposes to apply the Design 

Guidelines to Minimize Internal Heating of Tire Shred Fills published by the EPA 

on the Scrap Tires: Handbook on Recycling Applications and Management for 

U.S. and Mexico (EPA, 2010) . According to this report, although there have 

been no projects with tire layers less than 4 meters (13.1 feet) that have 

experienced a catastrophic heating reaction, to be conservative, tire layers 

greater than 3 meters (9.8 feet) thick are not recommended. Additionally no 

design features are required to minimize heating of tires layer less than 1 meter 

thick.

It also recommends that tires are contaminant-free such as oil, grease, 

gasoline, diesel fuel, etc., that could create a fire hazard or leachate. In any case 

the cut tires shall not contain the remains of tires that have been subjected to a 

fire because the heat of a fire may liberate liquid petroleum products from the tire 

that could create a fire hazard or leachate when the tires are placed in a fill.

For every cubic meter of volume to be reclaimed 28 passenger tires 

could be disposed of. Considering millions of cubic meters of coal are extracted 

from the mines, a large disposal volume potential is available. Attachment 43 of 

this report presents estimated number of car tires to be buried per reclaimed cubic 

meter of mine space in a 50:50 mixture with soil.

2.4.1.1 Coal mining in the Texas border with Mexico

Currently four coal mines are located in the Texas side of the scope 

area. Three of them, located in Webb county, were still in reclamation process on 

August 2011 which presents a waste tire disposal opportunity for Texas border 

cities nearby. Figure 9.5 displays the coal mining locations in Texas.

Figure 9.4. 

Mine rehabilitation including cut waste tire layers
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Mines 5, 13 and 15 are currently on reclamation works. Mine 14 is active (Railroad Commission of 

Texas, 2011).

The currently active Eagle Pass mine could be an appropriate tire 

disposal site once it begins reclamation works for Del Rio and Eagle Pass cities 

which currently only posses a type 1 landfill for local waste tire disposal.

2.4.1.2 Coal mining in the State of Coahuila, Mexico

The coal mining industry and the variability of its activity have played a 

decisive role in the structuring and regional evolution of the central-eastern and 

northeastern areas of Coahuila state. The dependence of this region on mining 

exploitation in the absence of other economic activities that constitute real 

development alternatives, have made this region become vulnerable because of 

its geographical impact due to overexploitation of coal in open pit mines.

In 2010 State of Coahuila participated with 5.86% mining national 

production, occupying the first place in coal, iron and magnesium sulfate 

production. Coahuila is the Mexican state with more production of coal. (SGM & 

SE, 2011).

Figure 9.5. 

Permitted coal mines in Texas.
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Mining in Coahuila started in 1828 by extracting coal in mines. The 

overexploitation of coal deposits in Coahuila began in the Sabinas basin to serve 

the steel industry of Piedras Negras, Monclova and Monterrey. Coal exploitation 

was subsequently extended to Fuentes-Río Escondido Basin as a result of the 

need to supply fuel to Río Escondido and Carbon II power plants.

(Mexican geologic service, 2011)

The coal extracted from Coahuila open pit mines is Bituminous and has a 

total carbon concentration range of 69-86% (Sánchez Salazar, 1995) as well as 

high sulfur and ashes content, so according to international standards, it is 

considered of poor quality, due to having a high polluting potential, before and 

after being extracted, as well as during its use.

As it was previously mentioned on the LRPUT description current 

Mexican legislation doesn’t allow the final disposal of special handling wastes on 

sites unless they comply with the standard NOM-083-SEMARNAT-2003. 

Kilometers

I.-FUENTES- RIO ESCONDIDO BASIN

II.-SABINAS-MONCLOVA BASIN

SUB BASINS 

CRETACIC BASINS TERTIARY BASIN

III.- COLOMBIA-SAN IGNACIO BASIN

STATE LIMIT

CAPITAL CITY

MUNICIPAL HEAD

Graphical scale

Figure 9.6. 

State of Coahuila, Mexico coal basins
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3 Recommendations

The Texas-Mexico border region being of great extent does not present a 

unique disposal alternative for all of its population. Each city should evaluate 

independently which alternative fits its economic and social needs based on the 

presented cost estimations and environmental impacts. Nevertheless all 

alternatives recommended theoretically comply with their local, state and federal 

regulations and are authorized by their corresponding environmental authorities.

By identifying social, environmental and economic impacts in advanced a 

stakeholder:

1. Can make better decisions about which appropriate tire disposal 

alternatives to select, how to proceed; and 

2. Select what mitigation measures can be implemented to minimize the 

harm and maximize the social, environmental and economic benefits.

In IEMS’ opinion each individual community should perform the following 

based on what it’s presented in this document and other sources they consider 

appropriate:

 Decisions need to be deduced from principles, and principles need to 

be derived from core values. Only by first establishing the core values 

of the community of practice, then deriving the principles, and only 

then developing guidelines, can truly appropriate guidelines emerge.

 Guidelines and principles must be developed in participatory 

processes, include the people to whom the guidelines are directed. 

These are the people who ultimately need to develop ‘ownership’ of 

the guidelines if they are to be adopted and be utilized. (Vanclay, SIA 

principles, 2003)

3.1 Appropriate tire disposal alternatives 

Texas international border area appropriate tire disposal alternatives 

currently available:

A. Land Reclamation Projects Using Tires (LRPUT)

B. Type 1 Sanitary Landfills.

LRPUT being an option which does not occupy landfill space and its 

used in rehabilitation process its more socially and environmentally desirable tire 

disposal alternative than landfills. Although both are considered appropriate by 

this study.
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Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) authorized tire 

transporters and processors which finally dispose of waste tires in these 

alternatives or other TCEQ authorized alternatives located further north should 

also be considered appropriate. This study focus was specifically on final disposal 

alternatives, not including intermediaries.

Note: Type 1 and 4 landfills with Arid Exception (AE) could also receive 

cut or shred waste tires if authorized by the TCEQ and other corresponding 

authorities. During fieldwork and deskwork activities no landfill with AE was 

reported by generators as a disposal alternative.

The following Attachments present information regarding LRPUTs and 

type 1 landfills:

Attachment 44

List of appropriate tire disposal alternatives identified in the Texas side of 

the Texas-Mexico border area and disposal fees charged at the time this study 

was written.

Attachment 45

Display map of appropriate tire disposal alternatives identified in the 

Texas side of the Texas-Mexico border area.

Attachment 46

Environmental evaluation regarding the disposal of tires in land 

reclamation projects.

Attachment 47

Environmental evaluation regarding tire disposal in a sanitary landfill.

Attachment 48

Approximate driving distances from Texas scope cities to appropriate tire 

disposal sites in the Texas side of the Texas-Mexico border area.

Mexican side of the Texas-Mexico border:

A. Tire Derived Fuel in Cement Kilns

B. Sanitary Landfills complying with standard NOM-089-

SEMARNAT-2003

The following Attachments present information regarding Mexican 

alternatives:

Attachment 49

List of appropriate sites in the Mexican side of the Texas-Mexico border 

area and disposal fees charged at the time this study was written. 
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Attachment 50

Environmental performance report of using tires as fuel in cement kilns 

both in Mexico and the U.S.A.

Attachment 51

Approximate driving distances from Mexican scope cities to appropriate 

tire disposal sites in the Mexican side of the Texas-Mexico border area.

Attachment 52

Transportations costs to cement kilns available to the Mexican side of the 

Texas-Mexico border area (per city per whole, cut or shredded tire).

Attachment 53

Display map of appropriate tire disposal alternatives identified in the 

Mexican side of the Texas-Mexico border area.

3.2 Tire management recommendations

Waste tires should be cut or shred by generators prior to their 

transportation. From these actions, transportation and disposal benefits can be 

obtained

3.2.1 Transportation benefits

The Table 9.2 presents estimated savings obtained when transporting 

cut tires instead of whole tires. As displayed, important savings may be obtained 

when transporting cut tires instead of whole tires. These savings will be more 

relevant as the hauling distance increases. This savings are obtained because of 

the increase in the number of tires that can be transported. As an example a 48 

foot trailer may transport approximately 60% more tires if the tires are cut10.

Table 9.2. 

Estimated savings when transporting cut tires 

instead of whole

Vehicle Cost/tire/mile Savings*

whole cut

Pickup truck $0.017 $0.010 41%

Pickup with trailer $0.004 $0.003 29%

Box truck $0.003 $0.002 27%

Tractor with 48 foot trailer $0.002 $0.001 38%

*Increasing the gross weight at which a vehicle operates will increase its 

fuel consumption (Coyle, 2007) this increase is not considered when 

estimating the savings.

 

10 Estimation performed considering a 48’ trailer maximum load capacity of 1,400 whole tires against its 

maximum load capacity of 2,250 cut tires. Both capacities were estimated on Attachment 42 of this report.
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3.2.2 Disposal benefits

Additionally as reported on Attachment 44 tire disposal fees are 75%

minor when disposing of cut or shred waste tires in appropriate disposal sites 

compared to whole tire disposal fees on the same sites. This occurs because 

sites no longer need to further process waste tires in order to landfill or bury them.

4 Alternatives economic evaluation

As was mentioned on Chapter 2 of this report two main variables affect 

the disposal cost per tire:

1. Transportation costs

2. Disposal fees

4.1 Common transportation options 

The purpose of evaluating the different transporting options in this 

section is to aid the reader in choosing the one which better suits his/her needs.

The Figure 9.7 presents the cost per tire (whole and cut) per mile employing each 

type of equipment considered for Texas. 

The number of cut tires a vehicle may transport depends on payload capacity rather than volume. (Vehicle 

images and models are presented only for illustrative purposes). Numeric values are available on Attachment 42 

(PTE= Passenger tire equivalent, weights 20 pounds)

Figure 9.7. 

Estimated transportation cost per tire per mile 
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Based on the results presented on Figure 9.7 it is visible that tractors 

with trailers are the most cost efficient way to transport cut and whole tires, 

especially on large distances. Pickup trucks are the most inefficient in the same 

way. 

As previously mentioned in Table 9.2, important savings may be 

obtained when transporting cut tires instead of whole tires. These savings will be 

more relevant as the hauling distance increases. This savings are obtained 

because of the increase in the number of tires that can be transported. This 

increase in the number of tires that can be transported per trip is summarized in 

Table 9.3.

Table 9.3. 

Estimated increase in tires per load capacity when 

transporting cut tires instead of whole11.

Vehicle PTE / load Load capacity 

whole cut estimated increase

Pickup truck 50 85 70%

Pickup with trailer 250 350 40%

Box truck 400 550 38%

Tractor with 48 foot trailer 1400 2250 61%

It is worth mentioning that cost efficiency when transporting shredded 

tires on the mentioned vehicles and equipment would not further increase since 

their maximum payload capacity is already reached when transporting cut tires. 

In other words the maximum tire capacity of a truck can be estimated by applying 

the following formula:

Formula 1.

Vehicle maximum tire capacity 

(PTE / load) =

Vehicle maximum payload 

(lb /load)

PTE weight

(20 lb /PTE)

This applies as long as volume is not the loading limiting factor, as is the 

case for the equipment and vehicles presented above.

 

11 Estimation of load capacities presented on Attachment 42 of this report.
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4.2 Disposal fees per tire

Disposal costs per tire are presented separately for the Texas and 

Mexican sides of the border.

4.2.1 Texas side of the border

Attachment 44 presents a list of appropriate tire disposal alternatives 

identified in the Texas side of the Texas-Mexico border area and disposal fees 

charged at the time this study was written.

Since the tire disposal in reclamation of depleted open pit coal mines 

sites alternative is not currently being applied there is no available data regarding 

disposal fees that could be charged by the site owner. It could be presumed that 

fees would be similar to the ones charged on LRPUT currently working on the 

border area.

4.2.2 Mexico’s side of the border

Attachment 49 presents a list of appropriate tire disposal alternatives 

identified in the Mexican side of the Texas-Mexico border area and disposal fees 

charged at the time this study was written.
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 Zimmerman, A. (2011, May 6). Testing and analysis of modified rammed earth tire 

walls. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA: Swarthmore college department of 

engineering.
Tire Flow Study in the Texas-Mexico Border Region

Attachments

Printed on 100% recycled fiber paper using solid ink 

ATTACHMENT 1 

• Strategy re-adjustment 

petition with two attachments

• NADB strategy re-adjustment 

approval
Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico

July 1, 2011

REF:   Strategy re‐adjustment petition for the            

Tire Flow Study, Texas‐Mexico Border Region

MR. OSCAR CABRA

TECHNICAL SERVICES DIRECTOR

NORTH AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK

IEMS is reaffirming its full commitment to complete the project “Tire Flow Study, Texas‐Mexico

Border Region” for the North American Development Bank (NADB).  IEMS would like the NADB to

reconsider the current approved strategy to gather the information necessary for the project given

the escalating security issues along the US‐Mexico border.

In light of the security risks of the Texas‐Mexico border, four of our subcontractors have refused to

conduct the field activites and the rest agreed to only work in selected “safer” areas along the

Mexican border.  This process of negotiating and finding adequate personnel has been very long

and difficult.   We have concluded that a change in the general field work strategy is necessary to

satisfactorily complete the study.

IEMS can continue if the following modifications to the strategy are approved:

 A three‐month extension.  The due date will be February 29, 2012.

 A reduction in field exposure on the Mexican side.  This would consist of:

 Elimination of road reconnaissance trips (strategy number 7): Geographical

information of legal and illegal dumps would be obtained from available sources

(previous studies, interviews, and aerial photos) rather than from direct visit to the

sites, as this is the highest risk activity.

 Modification of interviews and surveys of stakeholders (strategies number 8 and 9):

Some key stakeholders (authorities, custom officials, representatives of tire

manufacturers, representatives of landfills) will be interviewed preferably remotely

through telephone, teleconferencing or via email, unless the stakeholder is adamant

on conducting a face‐to‐face interview. Personal interviews with the authorities

through appointments lower the exposure of field personnel. Other key stakeholders

that cannot be contacted remotely or with whom dedicated appointments cannot be
2

performed (small and medium tire dealers, tire dump employees, waste tire recyclers,

waste tire transporters) will be excluded to avoid putting personnel in high‐risk

situations. A detailed list of the stakeholders to be interviewed in this way is included

in Attachment 1, and a sample information request letter for each of the stakeholder

types is found in Attachment 2.

IEMS will request an official answer to the information request letter to properly

document all information exchanges.

 Elimination of direct surveys of general population (strategy number 10): Surveys of

general population expose the personnel to long hours in the streets, particularly in

less secure areas.    General population information will be conducted only in more

secure areas with greater security measures including deployment of more people per

group and reduced hours in field.

All desk‐based strategies and field work conducted in Texas can be performed as described in the

original strategy in Task 1.

Data obtained through this altered methodology would be sufficient to allow IEMS to analyze the

mechanisms of flow of new and used tires through the Texas‐Mexico border and produce a quality

report with recommendations on policy, market and disposal alternatives in the region.

IEMS appreciates you taking into consideration what we have discussed in this petition and hope

the NADB agrees with our approach to complete the study in a safe manner.

Ruben Villanueva Peon, M.Sc. , REPA

General Director

Integrated Environmental Management Services

Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico.
3

ATTACHMENT 1

Stakeholders to be contacted for remote

interviews
4

Table 1. Mexican Remote Interview Contacts Database

Tire Flow Study Texas‐Mexico Border Region

City Municipality State Government Rep. Civil Guard Rep. Customs Rep. 

1 Cd. Juarez Juarez Chihuahua Eliseo de la Fuente

Chief of the Technical

Assistance, Inspection

and Surveillance

Department

Guadalupe

Sandoval

Fire Department

Commander

Daniel Marin

Gomez

Manager

Pro

2 Guadalupe Juarez Chihuahua 3 Ojinaga Manuel Ojinaga Chihuahua

Carlos Hernandez

Municipal Services

Director

Abelardo

Vaquera

Heidi Patricia

Gonzalez

Ibarra

Manager

Mun

4 Cd. Acuña Acuña Coahuila

Edgar Villareal Vargas

Ecology Director

Eloy Rivera

Assistant to the Director

Rodolfo Balderas

Fremen Chief NA

Pro

5 Piedras Negras Piedras Negras Coahuila Alfredo Antonio Lucero Montemayor Ecology Director Raul Roberto Zepeda Civil Guard Coordinator Ernesto Alonso Gonzalez Hernanez Manager 

Pro

6 Nava Nava Coahuila Aroldo Villareal

Fernandez

Municipal President

Jesus Miguel de la Garza

Ecology Director

Manuel A.

Bermea Dueñes NA Jes

7 

Col. Venustiano Carranza Nava Coahuila

8 Anahuac Anahuac Nuevo Leon

Jose Guadalupe Martinez

Garcia

Chief of Primary Services

Samuel Trejo

Civil Guard

Director

Alejandro Diaz

Mundo

Manager

Jos

Ch

9 Nuevo Laredo Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas Roberto Gomez Zapata Ecology Director

Juan Ernesto

Rivera Gomez

Civil Guard

Director

Carlos

Hernando

Ramirez

Escoto

Manager
5

Table 1. Mexican Remote Interview Contacts Database

Tire Flow Study Texas‐Mexico Border Region

City Municipality State Government Rep. Civil Guard Rep. Customs Rep. 

10 Nueva Cd. Guerrero Guerrero Tamaulipas Edgar Garcia Roel Public Works and Ecology Director Edgar Garcia Roel Public Works and Ecology Director NA 

Pub

11 Cd. Miguel Aleman Miguel Aleman Tamaulipas Antonio Javier Sanchez Rios Ecology Director Jorge Luis Longotia Silva Firemen and Civil Guard Chief Jesus Aguilar Sub‐manager Anto12 Cd. Camargo Camargo Tamaulipas

Luz Antonio Garcia

Gonzalez

Public Works and

Ecology Director

Eduardo Raul

Rodriguez Cuellar

Civil Guard

Director

NA

Luz A

Pub

13 Cd. Gustavo Diaz Ordaz Gustavo Diaz Ordaz Tamaulipas Antonio Alvaro Gonzalez Cantu Ecology Director NA NA 14 Reynosa Reynosa Tamaulipas

Angel Garza

Ecology Director

Carlos Amadeo

Leal Lopez

Civil Guard

Director

Jorge

Fernando Boy

Espinosa

Manager

Pro

15 Cd. Rio Bravo Rio Bravo Tamaulipas Gonzalo Chew Bajan

Urban Development and

Ecology Director

NA NA

G

Ur

16 Nuevo Progreso Rio Bravo Tamaulipas17 Matamoros Matamoros Tamaulipas Enrique Cerda Castillo Public Cleaning Director

Oscar Javier de la

Cerda Maltos

Civil Guard

Director

Juan Huerta

Leon

Manager

E

Pu

NA: Not available at the close‐up of this letter.
6

Table 2. Mexican Non‐local Interview Contacts Database

Tire Flow Study Texas‐Mexico Border Region

Name Contact Person 

1 Asociacion Nacional de Distribuidores de Llantas y Plantas Renovadoras A.C. (Andellac) Ruben Lopez Albarran y Leal General Director 2 Camara Nacional de la Industria Hulera Jose Francisco Martha H General Director 3 Asociacion Nacional de Representantes, Importadores y Distribuidores de Refacciones y Accesorios Para Automoviles A.C. (ARIDRA) NA 
7

ATTACHMENT 2

Information Request and Questionnaire per

Stakeholder
 

MATAMOROS 1443 PONIENTE 

COL. MARIA LUISA 

MONTERREY, NUEVO LEÓN 

64040 MÉXICO 

T - 52 (81) 8047-6464 

F - 52 (81) 8047-6465 

T – 1 (305) 935-9295 (US) 

CARLOS VILLARREAL 3040 

COL. MARGARITAS 

CD. JUÁREZ, CHIHUAHUA 

32300 MÉXICO 

T - 52 (656) 611-2010 

F - 52 (656) 611-2114 

T – 1 (210) 858-6716 (US)

RIO MANTE 2420, LOCAL 10 

PLAZA GALERÍAS SUR 

COL. PROLONGACIÓN LONGORIA 

REYNOSA, TAMAULIPAS 

88699 MÉXICO 

T/F - 52 (899) 929-3511 

T – 1 (956) 467-5158 (US) 

CAMINO REAL DE CARRETAS No 343 

INTERIOR T2-7 

COL. MILENIO III 

QUERÉTARO, QUERÉTARO 

 76060 MÉXICO 

T/F 52 (442) 245-2146 

T – 1 (305) 407-9964 (US) 

4000 ISLAND BLVD. 

SUITE 2302 

AVENTURA, FL 33160 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 

T - 1 (305) 935-9295 

F - 1 (305) 395-7885 

www.iems-mex.com 

 

Integrated Environmental Management Services 

Matamoros 1443 Pte, Col. María Luisa 

64040, Monterrey, Nuevo León 

rubenv@iems-mex.com fernandar@iems-mex.com, estebani@iems-mex.com

XX de XX del 2011 

Solicitud de información 

 NOMBRE 

CARGO, AUTORIDAD MUNICIPAL 

PRESENTE. 

 

Por medio de la presente nos permitimos informarle que nuestra empresa IEMS 

(Integrated Enviromental Management Services) está llevando a cabo un estudio de 

vital importancia para la frontera Texas-México, dicho estudio será elaborado para el 

Banco de Desarrollo de América del Norte (BDAN) y para la Agencia de Protección 

Ambiental de E.U. (EPA), este estudio se refiere principalmente a determinar el flujo de 

llantas entre la frontera Texas-México. 

Como objetivo general tenemos determinar impactos económicos, sociales y 

ambientales del flujo transfronterizo de llantas nuevas y usadas desde Texas a los 

estados mexicanos con los cuales hace frontera. 

Por lo anterior estamos solicitando su valiosa colaboración para la obtención de la 

siguiente información de los temas que a continuación se describen: 

 Mecanismos legales e ilegales del paso de a través de la frontera. 

 Situación actual e histórica del flujo transfronterizo de llantas nuevas y usadas. 

 Manejo municipal de llantas de desecho. 

 Situación del municipio en cuanto al problema de tiraderos legales e ilegales de 

llantas. 

 Oportunidades en el municipio para el aprovechamiento de llantas de desecho. 
 

Anexo se encuentra un cuestionario detallado de la información y temas a tratarse 

durante la entrevista 

Agradecemos de antemano su disposición para con el presente estudio. Debido a 

cuestiones de seguridad la política de este proyecto es realizar entrevistas vía remota; 

por teléfono o mediante videoconferencia en la fecha que a usted le parezca más 

conveniente. Si esto no fuera posible agradeceríamos tener contacto con usted vía 

correo electrónico o fax. 

Para cumplir con el protocolo de calidad y documentación de este proyecto le 

solicitamos atentamente hacernos llegar por escrito vía correo electrónico o postal, su 

decisión en cuanto a la provisión de la información y su propuesta para la modalidad, 

fecha y día de la entrevista. Los datos de contacto se encuentran en el encabezado de 

la presente. 

Nuevamente gracias y estaremos al pendiente de su respuesta. 

Atentamente. 

 

M. en C. Rubén Villanueva Peón 

Director General 

Integrated Environmental Management Services S.A. de C.V.
 

ANEXO: CUESTIONARIO DETALLADO PARA AUTORIDADES MUNICIPALES 

1. ¿Quiénes tienen a su cargo el manejo de llantas de desecho en su municipio? 

2. ¿Cómo se manejan las llantas de desecho dentro de su municipio? 

3. Aproximadamente ¿cuántas llantas de desecho hay en el municipio? 

4. ¿Cuántos vehículos se encuentran registrados en el municipio’ (parque vehicular) 

5. ¿Cuántos deshuesaderos (yonkes) existen en el municipio? ¿Cuál es su tamaño 

aproximado? 

6. ¿De qué forma se usan las llantas de desecho en su municipio? (reuso, reciclaje, 

combustible, manufactura de productos, obra civil) 

7. ¿Tiene conocimiento de algún proyecto que se haya dado en su municipio 

referente al reciclaje, uso como combustible, uso para obra civil? Si es afirmativo, 

¿de quién fue iniciativa? ¿qué sucedió? 

8. ¿Cuál es el procedimiento adecuado para disponer de las llantas de desecho? 

¿Qué proporción de llantas se estima se manejan de esta manera? 

9. ¿Existen o han existido, programas municipales específicos para el manejo de 

llantas? ¿Por qué o por qué no? 

10. ¿Qué fracción del presupuesto municipal se destina al manejo de residuos 

sólidos urbanos o de manejo especial? ¿Qué fracción se destina a programas 

específicos de llantas? 

11. ¿Cuánto le cuesta al municipio el manejo adecuado de las llantas? 

12. ¿Existe algún cobro unitario (por llanta) para su disposición adecuada? Si es así, 

¿a quién se le cobra y cuánto es? 

13. ¿Existe algún sistema de seguimiento de llantas que son importadas legalmente 

desde la frontera de Texas? 

14. ¿Dónde se localizan los sitios de disposición legal de llantas y dónde los 

ilegales? (Mapa) 

15. Desde su perspectiva, ¿qué hace falta para que menos llantas vayan a los 

tiraderos? 

16. ¿Qué proporción de la población de su municipio estima que sea consumidor de 

llantas nuevas traídas de Texas? ¿de llantas nuevas nacionales? ¿de llantas 

usadas de Texas? ¿de llantas usadas nacionales? 

17. Además de la cercanía con Texas, ¿qué motiva que los ciudadanos consuman 

llantas de Texas en vez de las nacionales? 

18. Desde su perspectiva, ¿quiénes son los beneficiados y los afectados por el flujo 

de llantas nuevas y usadas desde Texas a su municipio? 

19. ¿Ha notado algunas tendencias de 2005 a la fecha respecto a la gravedad que 

los impactos de llantas de desecho ocasionan a su municipio? 

20. ¿Qué herramientas le serían más útiles para manejar adecuadamente las llantas 

de desecho en su municipio? 

21. En comparación a otros problemas ambientales con los que se enfrenta la 

población local, ¿qué tan importante es el problema de las llantas? ¿Cuáles son 

los problemas más graves? ¿Por qué? 
 

Nota las siguientes preguntas se realizarán en las entrevistas a todos los actores. 

22. ¿Cuál es su rol en el manejo de llantas de desecho? 

23. ¿Cómo afecta la seguridad debido al narcotráfico y trata de personas, el TLC, el 

nuevo muro fronterizo y otros acontecimientos actuales al flujo de bienes a través 

de la frontera, específicamente llantas? 

24. ¿Cuáles son los problemas más grandes del flujo transfronterizo de llantas 

nuevas y usadas? 

25. ¿Cuáles son las oportunidades más grandes del flujo transfronterizo de llantas 

nuevas y usadas
 

MATAMOROS 1443 PONIENTE 

COL. MARIA LUISA 

MONTERREY, NUEVO LEÓN 

64040 MÉXICO 

T - 52 (81) 8047-6464 

F - 52 (81) 8047-6465 

T – 1 (305) 935-9295 (US) 

CARLOS VILLARREAL 3040 

COL. MARGARITAS 

CD. JUÁREZ, CHIHUAHUA 

32300 MÉXICO 

T - 52 (656) 611-2010 

F - 52 (656) 611-2114 

T – 1 (210) 858-6716 (US)

RIO MANTE 2420, LOCAL 10 

PLAZA GALERÍAS SUR 

COL. PROLONGACIÓN LONGORIA 

REYNOSA, TAMAULIPAS 

88699 MÉXICO 

T/F - 52 (899) 929-3511 

T – 1 (956) 467-5158 (US) 

CAMINO REAL DE CARRETAS No 343 

INTERIOR T2-7 

COL. MILENIO III 

QUERÉTARO, QUERÉTARO 

 76060 MÉXICO 

T/F 52 (442) 245-2146 

T – 1 (305) 407-9964 (US) 

4000 ISLAND BLVD. 

SUITE 2302 

AVENTURA, FL 33160 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 

T - 1 (305) 935-9295 

F - 1 (305) 395-7885 

www.iems-mex.com 

 

Integrated Environmental Management Services 

Matamoros 1443 Pte, Col. María Luisa 

64040, Monterrey, Nuevo León 

rubenv@iems-mex.com fernandar@iems-mex.com, estebani@iems-mex.com

XX de XX del 2011 

Solicitud de información 

 NOMBRE 

CARGO, PROTECCIÓN CIVIL 

PRESENTE. 

 

Por medio de la presente nos permitimos informarle que nuestra empresa IEMS 

(Integrated Enviromental Management Services) está llevando a cabo un estudio de 

vital importancia para la frontera Texas-México, dicho estudio será elaborado para el 

Banco de Desarrollo de América del Norte (BDAN) y para la Agencia de Protección 

Ambiental de E.U. (EPA), este estudio se refiere principalmente a determinar el flujo de 

llantas entre la frontera Texas-México. 

Como objetivo general tenemos determinar impactos económicos, sociales y 

ambientales del flujo transfronterizo de llantas nuevas y usadas desde Texas a los 

estados mexicanos con los cuales hace frontera. 

Por lo anterior estamos solicitando su valiosa colaboración para la obtención de la 

siguiente información de los temas que a continuación se describen: 

 Incidentes ocurridos debido al mal manejo de llantas de desecho. 

 Situación actual e histórica del flujo transfronterizo de llantas nuevas y usadas. 

 Localización de tiraderos ilegales de llantas. 

 Frecuencia de incidentes (incendios, plagas, olas de enfermedades, 

inundaciones por bloqueo de cauces) ocasionados por llantas de desecho. 

 Costo de abatimiento de incendios y limpieza de cauces. 
 

Anexo se encuentra un cuestionario detallado de la información y temas a tratarse 

durante la entrevista 

Agradecemos de antemano su disposición para con el presente estudio. Debido a 

cuestiones de seguridad la política de este proyecto es realizar entrevistas vía remota; 

por teléfono o mediante videoconferencia en la fecha que a usted le parezca más 

conveniente. Si esto no fuera posible agradeceríamos tener contacto con usted vía 

correo electrónico o fax. 

Para cumplir con el protocolo de calidad y documentación de este proyecto le 

solicitamos atentamente hacernos llegar por escrito vía correo electrónico o postal, su 

decisión en cuanto a la provisión de la información y su propuesta para la modalidad, 

fecha y día de la entrevista. Los datos de contacto se encuentran en el encabezado de 

la presente. 

Nuevamente gracias y estaremos al pendiente de su respuesta. 

Atentamente. 

 

M. en C. Rubén Villanueva Peón 

Director General 

Integrated Environmental Management Services S.A. de C.V. 

Monterrey, Nuevo León
 

ANEXO: CUESTIONARIO PARA PROTECCIÓN CIVIL DETALLADO 

1. En su opinión, ¿existe un problema con llantas tiradas ilegalmente en el 

municipio? Si es así, ¿qué tan importante es con respecto a otros problemas? 

2. ¿Podría identificar, en su municipio, los tiraderos ilegales de llantas? 

3. ¿Cuáles son los riesgos a la población de un mal manejo de llantas usadas? 

4. ¿Qué incidentes ha habido en la localidad que se relacionen con tiraderos de 

llantas? ¿Del 2005 a la fecha? 

5. ¿Cuáles son los incidentes más frecuentes en relación a los tiraderos de llantas? 

(incendios, nido de fauna nociva, obstrucción de cauces de agua) 

6. ¿Qué tipo de incidentes afectan a más personas? 

7. De los incidentes mencionados, ¿cuántos atendieron? ¿Cuánto personal se 

requirió? ¿Cuánto tardaron en resolver el asunto? 

8. ¿Cuál fue la pérdida material ocasionada por estos incidentes? 

9. ¿Hubo fatalidades en alguno de ellos? 

10. ¿Cuántos recursos han destinado al combate de incidentes de 2005 a la fecha? 

11. ¿Cuántos recursos se han destinado a la prevención de incidentes de 2005 a la 

fecha? 

12. ¿Qué tipo de incidente es el más sencillo y el más difícil de prevenir? ¿Por qué? 

13. ¿Qué tipo de incidente es el más sencillo y el más difícil de combatir? ¿Por qué? 

14. ¿Tienen ustedes campañas de prevención de incidentes por causa de llantas mal 

desechadas? ¿Por qué? 

15. En su opinión, ¿cómo debería ser el manejo de llantas óptimo para minimizar los 

riesgos a la población? 

16. En su situación actual, ¿qué hace falta con más urgencia para minimizar los 

riesgos a la población ocasionados por un mal manejo de llantas de desecho?

Nota las siguientes preguntas se realizarán en las entrevistas a todos los actores. 

17. ¿Cuál es su rol en el manejo de llantas de desecho? 

18. ¿Cómo afecta la seguridad debido al narcotráfico y trata de personas, el TLC, el 

nuevo muro fronterizo y otros acontecimientos actuales al flujo de bienes a través 

de la frontera, específicamente llantas? 

19. ¿Cuáles son los problemas más grandes del flujo transfronterizo de llantas 

nuevas y usadas? 

20. ¿Cuáles son las oportunidades más grandes del flujo transfronterizo de llantas 

nuevas y usadas
 

MATAMOROS 1443 PONIENTE 

COL. MARIA LUISA 

MONTERREY, NUEVO LEÓN 

64040 MÉXICO 

T - 52 (81) 8047-6464 

F - 52 (81) 8047-6465 

T – 1 (305) 935-9295 (US) 

CARLOS VILLARREAL 3040 

COL. MARGARITAS 

CD. JUÁREZ, CHIHUAHUA 

32300 MÉXICO 

T - 52 (656) 611-2010 

F - 52 (656) 611-2114 

T – 1 (210) 858-6716 (US)

RIO MANTE 2420, LOCAL 10 

PLAZA GALERÍAS SUR 

COL. PROLONGACIÓN LONGORIA 

REYNOSA, TAMAULIPAS 

88699 MÉXICO 

T/F - 52 (899) 929-3511 

T – 1 (956) 467-5158 (US) 

CAMINO REAL DE CARRETAS No 343 

INTERIOR T2-7 

COL. MILENIO III 

QUERÉTARO, QUERÉTARO 

 76060 MÉXICO 

T/F 52 (442) 245-2146 

T – 1 (305) 407-9964 (US) 

4000 ISLAND BLVD. 

SUITE 2302 

AVENTURA, FL 33160 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 

T - 1 (305) 935-9295 

F - 1 (305) 395-7885 

www.iems-mex.com 

 

Integrated Environmental Management Services 

Matamoros 1443 Pte, Col. María Luisa 

64040, Monterrey, Nuevo León 

rubenv@iems-mex.com fernandar@iems-mex.com, estebani@iems-mex.com

XX de XX del 2011 

Solicitud de información 

 NOMBRE 

CARGO, ADUANA. 

PRESENTE. 

 

Por medio de la presente nos permitimos informarle que nuestra empresa IEMS 

(Integrated Enviromental Management Services) está llevando a cabo un estudio de 

vital importancia para la frontera Texas-México, dicho estudio será elaborado para el 

Banco de Desarrollo de América del Norte (BDAN) y para la Agencia de Protección 

Ambiental de E.U. (EPA), este estudio se refiere principalmente a determinar el flujo de 

llantas entre la frontera Texas-México. 

Como objetivo general tenemos determinar impactos económicos, sociales y 

ambientales del flujo transfronterizo de llantas nuevas y usadas desde Texas a los 

estados mexicanos con los cuales hace frontera. 

Por lo anterior estamos solicitando su valiosa colaboración para la obtención de la 

siguiente información de los temas que a continuación se describen: 

 Mecanismos legales e ilegales del paso de a través de la frontera. 

 Situación actual e histórica del flujo transfronterizo de llantas nuevas y usadas. 

 Cuotas de importación vigentes y las aplicadas cada año a partir del 2005. 

Anexo se encuentra un cuestionario detallado de la información y temas a tratarse 

durante la entrevista 
 

Agradecemos de antemano su disposición para con el presente estudio. Debido a 

cuestiones de seguridad la política de este proyecto es realizar entrevistas vía remota; 

por teléfono o mediante videoconferencia en la fecha que a usted le parezca más 

conveniente. Si esto no fuera posible agradeceríamos tener contacto con usted vía 

correo electrónico o fax. 

Para cumplir con el protocolo de calidad y documentación de este proyecto le 

solicitamos atentamente hacernos llegar por escrito vía correo electrónico o postal, su 

decisión en cuanto a la provisión de la información y su propuesta para la modalidad, 

fecha y día de la entrevista. Los datos de contacto se encuentran en el encabezado de 

la presente. 

Nuevamente gracias y estaremos al pendiente de su respuesta. 

Atentamente. 

 

M. en C. Rubén Villanueva Peón 

Director General 

Integrated Environmental Management Services S.A. de C.V
 

ANEXO: CUESTIONARIO DETALLADO PARA ADUANAS 

1. ¿Cuáles son los mecanismos legales de paso de llantas nuevas y usadas a 

través de la frontera? ¿Cómo es la pre-importación, los impuestos, la postimportación? 

2. ¿Cuáles son los mecanismos ilegales de paso de llantas nuevas y usadas a 

través de la frontera? 

3. ¿Cuál es la frecuencia de hallazgos de contrabando de llantas (mes/año)? 

4. ¿Cuántas llantas incautan al año de 2005 a la fecha? ¿Cómo se manejan? 

5. ¿Cuáles han sido la cuota de llantas nuevas y usadas (cantidad) de importación 

del año 2005 a la fecha? 

6. ¿Cuál ha sido el impuesto de importación por llanta nueva y usada del año 2005 

a la fecha? 

7. ¿Se mantienen registros específicos para las llantas nuevas y usadas que cruzan 

por esta aduana? 

8. ¿Cuál es el número de llantas que han cruzado por esta aduana del 2005-a la 

fecha? 

9. ¿Han notado tendencias en el flujo de llantas nuevas y usadas? (10,5, 1 año) 

10. ¿Existe alguna tendencia de flujo según época del año? (clima, por fechas 

especiales, por temporadas agrícolas) 

11. ¿El flujo de llantas nuevas y usadas legales es constante o se da por lotes 

grandes esporádicos? 

12. ¿El flujo de llantas usadas ilegales es constante o se da por lotes grandes 

esporádicos? 

13. ¿Conoce el destino general de las llantas usadas que cruzan por esta aduana? 

(reventa, reciclaje, energía) 

14. ¿Cuál es la proporción de llantas nuevas y usadas de automóviles, camiones, y 

agrícolas que cruzan la frontera? 

15. ¿Quiénes cruzan las llantas? ¿Existen compañías o personas con grandes 

concesiones o no? 

16. ¿Cuál es el tipo de vehículos que se usan para transportar las llantas? (Legal e 

ilegal) ¿Son vehículos viejos o nuevos? 

17. Aproximadamente ¿cuántas llantas se transportan por tipo de vehículo? 

18. La mayoría de los vehículos usados para el transporte ¿son americanos o 

mexicanos? ¿sus conductores? 
 

Nota las siguientes preguntas se realizarán en las entrevistas a todos los actores. 

19. ¿Cuál es su rol en el manejo de llantas de desecho? 

20. ¿Cómo afecta la seguridad debido al narcotráfico y trata de personas, el TLC, el 

nuevo muro fronterizo y otros acontecimientos actuales al flujo de bienes a través 

de la frontera, específicamente llantas? 

21. ¿Cuáles son los problemas más grandes del flujo transfronterizo de llantas 

nuevas y usadas? 

22. ¿Cuáles son las oportunidades más grandes del flujo transfronterizo de llantas 

nuevas y usadas? 
 

MATAMOROS 1443 PONIENTE 

COL. MARIA LUISA 

MONTERREY, NUEVO LEÓN 

64040 MÉXICO 

T - 52 (81) 8047-6464 

F - 52 (81) 8047-6465 

T – 1 (305) 935-9295 (US) 

CARLOS VILLARREAL 3040 

COL. MARGARITAS 

CD. JUÁREZ, CHIHUAHUA 

32300 MÉXICO 

T - 52 (656) 611-2010 

F - 52 (656) 611-2114 

T – 1 (210) 858-6716 (US)

RIO MANTE 2420, LOCAL 10 

PLAZA GALERÍAS SUR 

COL. PROLONGACIÓN LONGORIA 

REYNOSA, TAMAULIPAS 

88699 MÉXICO 

T/F - 52 (899) 929-3511 

T – 1 (956) 467-5158 (US) 

CAMINO REAL DE CARRETAS No 343 

INTERIOR T2-7 

COL. MILENIO III 

QUERÉTARO, QUERÉTARO 

 76060 MÉXICO 

T/F 52 (442) 245-2146 

T – 1 (305) 407-9964 (US) 

4000 ISLAND BLVD. 

SUITE 2302 

AVENTURA, FL 33160 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 

T - 1 (305) 935-9295 

F - 1 (305) 395-7885 

www.iems-mex.com 

 

Integrated Environmental Management Services 

Matamoros 1443 Pte, Col. María Luisa 

64040, Monterrey, Nuevo León 

rubenv@iems-mex.com fernandar@iems-mex.com, estebani@iems-mex.com

XX de XX del 2011 

Solicitud de información 

 NOMBRE 

CARGO, REPRESENTANTES DE LA INDUSTRIA LLANTERA/HULERA 

PRESENTE. 

 

Por medio de la presente nos permitimos informarle que nuestra empresa IEMS 

(Integrated Enviromental Management Services) está llevando a cabo un estudio de 

vital importancia para la frontera Texas-México, dicho estudio será elaborado para el 

Banco de Desarrollo de América del Norte (BDAN) y para la Agencia de Protección 

Ambiental de E.U. (EPA), este estudio se refiere principalmente a determinar el flujo de 

llantas entre la frontera Texas-México. 

Como objetivo general tenemos determinar impactos económicos, sociales y 

ambientales del flujo transfronterizo de llantas nuevas y usadas desde Texas a las 

comunidades fronterizas de los cuatro estados con que colinda. 

Por lo anterior estamos solicitando su valiosa colaboración para la obtención de la 

siguiente información de los temas que a continuación se describen: 

 Cifras de llantas nuevas y usadas importadas de Texas a México 

 Situación actual e histórica del flujo transfronterizo de llantas nuevas y usadas. 

 Oportunidades de mercado en la frontera para las llantas usadas nacionales o 

importadas. 

 Valor de mercado del flujo transfronterizo de llantas 
 

Anexo se encuentra un cuestionario detallado de la información y temas a tratarse 

durante la entrevista 

Agradecemos de antemano su disposición para con el presente estudio. Debido a 

cuestiones de seguridad la política de este proyecto es realizar entrevistas vía remota s 

sus instalaciones se encuentran en la frontera Texas-Mexico; por teléfono o mediante 

videoconferencia en la fecha que a usted le parezca más conveniente. Si esto no fuera 

posible agradeceríamos tener contacto con usted vía correo electrónico o fax, o si sus 

instalaciones no se encuentran en esta franja, agradeceríamos la oportunidad de 

conducir una entrevista personal. 

Para cumplir con el protocolo de calidad y documentación de este proyecto le 

solicitamos atentamente hacernos llegar por escrito vía correo electrónico o postal, su 

decisión en cuanto a la provisión de la información y su propuesta para la modalidad, 

fecha y día de la entrevista. Los datos de contacto se encuentran en el encabezado de 

la presente. 

Nuevamente gracias y estaremos al pendiente de su respuesta. 

Atentamente. 

 

M. en C. Rubén Villanueva Peón 

Director General 

Integrated Environmental Management Services S.A. de C.V. 
 

ANEXO: CUESTIONARIO DETALLADO PARA REPRESENTANTES DE LA 

INDUSTRIA LLANTERA/HULERA 

1. ¿La oferta de llantas nacionales nuevas es suficiente para satisfacer la 

demanda? 

2. ¿Qué calidades de llantas se manejan en México? 

3. ¿Cuál es el mercado para cada nivel de calidad de llanta? 

4. ¿Cuál es el mercado de mayor tamaño en número de llantas vendidas? 

5. ¿Qué porcentaje del mercado es para llantas usadas y que porcentaje para 

llantas nuevas? 

6. ¿Qué año, del 2005 a la fecha, fue el mejor en ventas de llantas nuevas? 

7. ¿Qué año, del 2005 a la fecha, fue el peor en ventas de llantas nuevas? 

8. ¿Cómo clasifican las llantas usadas? Según su tipo y calidad. 

9. ¿Qué proporción de las llantas que venden son usadas? 

10. ¿Cuál es el precio de venta de las llantas usadas? (Para auto, camioneta, 

camión y agrícola) 

11. ¿Cuál es el precio de compra de las llantas usadas? (Para auto, camioneta, 

camión y agrícola) 

12. ¿Cuál mercado de llantas usadas es el más lucrativo? Por tipo de llanta. (Para 

auto, camioneta, camión y agrícola) 

13. ¿Cómo encuentran/contactan a los distribuidores de llantas usadas en EUA? 

14. ¿Cuál es la diferencia de precios entre llantas usadas legales e ilegales? 

15. ¿La oferta de llantas nacionales usadas es suficiente para satisfacer la 

demanda? 

16. ¿Qué año, del 2005 a la fecha, fue el mejor en ventas de llantas usadas? 

17. ¿Qué año, del 2005 a la fecha, fue el peor en ventas de llantas usadas? 

18. ¿Cuántas llantas se vendieron cada año, del 2005 a la fecha? 

19. Además del reuso como llanta en servicio, ¿cuál es el mercado para el reciclaje, 

combustible alterno, materia prima para otros productos y uso en obra civil de las 

llantas usadas? 

20. Cantidad de llantas fueron fabricadas en Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León y 

Tamaulipas. 

21. Cantidad y origen de llantas importadas. 

22. Distribución del mercado que posee cada marca de llantas. 

23. ¿Cuáles son los porcentajes que representa la venta de llantas por tipo? (autos, 

camionetas utilitarias, camión, agrícolas). 

24. ¿Qué proporción de las llantas usadas que reciben es inservible? 

25. ¿Cuál ha sido el costo de disposición final de una llanta, del 2005 a la fecha? 
 

26. ¿Considera que en general el fenómeno de reúso de llantas es positivo o 

negativo para los habitantes? 

27. En su opinión, ¿Cuáles son las soluciones para un buen manejo de llantas 

usadas en la frontera? 

28. ¿Qué tendencias ha notado en el flujo transfronterizo de llantas nuevas y usadas 

del año 2005 a la fecha? 

Nota las siguientes preguntas se realizarán en las entrevistas a todos los actores. 

29. ¿Cuál es su rol en el manejo de llantas de desecho? 

30. ¿Cómo afecta la seguridad debido al narcotráfico y trata de personas, el TLC, el 

nuevo muro fronterizo y otros acontecimientos actuales al flujo de bienes a través 

de la frontera, específicamente llantas? 

31. ¿Cuáles son los problemas más grandes del flujo transfronterizo de llantas 

nuevas y usadas? 

32. ¿Cuáles son las oportunidades más grandes del flujo transfronterizo de llantas 

nuevas y usadas?
 

MATAMOROS 1443 PONIENTE 

COL. MARIA LUISA 

MONTERREY, NUEVO LEÓN 

64040 MÉXICO 

T - 52 (81) 8047-6464 

F - 52 (81) 8047-6465 

T – 1 (305) 935-9295 (US) 

CARLOS VILLARREAL 3040 

COL. MARGARITAS 

CD. JUÁREZ, CHIHUAHUA 

32300 MÉXICO 

T - 52 (656) 611-2010 

F - 52 (656) 611-2114 

T – 1 (210) 858-6716 (US)

RIO MANTE 2420, LOCAL 10 

PLAZA GALERÍAS SUR 

COL. PROLONGACIÓN LONGORIA 

REYNOSA, TAMAULIPAS 

88699 MÉXICO 

T/F - 52 (899) 929-3511 

T – 1 (956) 467-5158 (US) 

CAMINO REAL DE CARRETAS No 343 

INTERIOR T2-7 

COL. MILENIO III 

QUERÉTARO, QUERÉTARO 

 76060 MÉXICO 

T/F 52 (442) 245-2146 

T – 1 (305) 407-9964 (US) 

4000 ISLAND BLVD. 

SUITE 2302 

AVENTURA, FL 33160 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 

T - 1 (305) 935-9295 

F - 1 (305) 395-7885 

www.iems-mex.com 

 

Integrated Environmental Management Services 

Matamoros 1443 Pte, Col. María Luisa 

64040, Monterrey, Nuevo León 

rubenv@iems-mex.com fernandar@iems-mex.com, estebani@iems-mex.com

XX de XX del 2011 

Solicitud de información 

 NOMBRE 

CARGO, REPRESENTANTES DE SITIOS DE DISPOSICIÓN FINAL 

PRESENTE. 

 

Por medio de la presente nos permitimos informarle que nuestra empresa IEMS 

(Integrated Enviromental Management Services) está llevando a cabo un estudio de 

vital importancia para la frontera Texas-México, dicho estudio será elaborado para el 

Banco de Desarrollo de América del Norte (BDAN) y para la Agencia de Protección 

Ambiental de E.U. (EPA), este estudio se refiere principalmente a determinar el flujo de 

llantas entre la frontera Texas-México. 

Como objetivo general tenemos determinar impactos económicos, sociales y 

ambientales del flujo transfronterizo de llantas nuevas y usadas desde Texas a los 

estados mexicanos con los cuales hace frontera. 

Por lo anterior estamos solicitando su valiosa colaboración para la obtención de la 

siguiente información de los temas que a continuación se describen: 

 Cantidad de llantas almacenadas en su sitio de disposición final 

 Manejo de llantas que llegan al relleno. 

 Incidentes causados por las llantas de desecho. 

 Tendencias en la forma de disposición, cantidad, y origen de las llantas en sus 

sitios. 

 Mercados alternos para llantas usadas. 
 

Anexo se encuentra un cuestionario detallado de la información y temas a tratarse 

durante la entrevista 

Agradecemos de antemano su disposición para con el presente estudio. Debido a 

cuestiones de seguridad la política de este proyecto es realizar entrevistas vía remota; 

por teléfono o mediante videoconferencia en la fecha que a usted le parezca más 

conveniente. Si esto no fuera posible agradeceríamos tener contacto con usted vía 

correo electrónico o fax. 

Para cumplir con el protocolo de calidad y documentación de este proyecto le 

solicitamos atentamente hacernos llegar por escrito vía correo electrónico o postal, su 

decisión en cuanto a la provisión de la información y su propuesta para la modalidad, 

fecha y día de la entrevista. Los datos de contacto se encuentran en el encabezado de 

la presente. 

Nuevamente gracias y estaremos al pendiente de su respuesta. 

Atentamente. 

 

M. en C. Rubén Villanueva Peón 

Director General 

Integrated Environmental Management Services S.A. de C.V.
 

ANEXO: CUESTIONARIO DETALLADO PARA REPRESENTANTES DE SITIOS DE 

DISPOSICIÓN FINAL 

1. ¿Reciben llantas? ¿Por qué si/no? 

2. ¿Tiene un costo el desechar llantas en su relleno? ¿Cuál es? ¿En qué se aplica 

el dinero recibido? 

3. ¿Qué porcentaje del total en masa, representan las llantas? 

4. ¿Qué porcentaje del total en volumen, representan las llantas? 

5. ¿Qué porcentaje del total en costo de disposición representan las llantas? 

6. ¿Se procesa de alguna forma las llantas que ingresan? 

7. ¿El acceso al sitio es controlado? 

8. Si existen pepenadores; ¿Estos recolectan las llantas? ¿Por qué si o no? 

9. ¿Existe un área especial para colocar llantas exclusivamente? ¿Por qué? 

10. ¿Han tenido algún incidente que involucre llantas? 

11. ¿Cómo se resolvió el incidente? 

12. ¿Cuánto costó el incidente? 

13. ¿Cuántas personas se ocuparon en resolverlo? 

14. ¿Cuánto tiempo tomó resolverlo? 

15. ¿Tiene conocimiento de incidentes que involucraran llantas en la zona, que 

hayan ocurrido en los 5 años pasados? 

16. ¿Observa alguna tendencia en el número de llantas que ingresan legalmente? 

17. ¿Observa alguna tendencia en el número de llantas colectadas? 

18. ¿Observa alguna tendencia en el número de llantas que ingresan ilegalmente? 

19. ¿Observa alguna tendencia en el número de llantas en general? 

20. ¿Es posible identificar las llantas que provienen de Texas? ¿Cómo lo hacen? 

21. ¿Cuál ha sido la cantidad de llantas almacenadas anualmente del 2005 a la 

fecha? 

22. ¿Lleva un registro de la cantidad de llantas que ingresan? ¿Cómo? ¿Por qué? 

De manera ideal: 

23. ¿Cómo mejoraría el manejo de las llantas en su relleno? 

24. ¿Cómo evitaría que las llantas de desecho fueran abandonadas en sitios ilegales 

y fueran llevadas al relleno? 

25. ¿Cómo piensa que se deberían de manejar las llantas de desecho a nivel 

regional? 
 

Nota las siguientes preguntas se realizarán en las entrevistas a todos los actores. 

1. ¿Cuál es su rol en el manejo de llantas de desecho? 

2. ¿Cómo afecta la seguridad debido al narcotráfico y trata de personas, el TLC, el 

nuevo muro fronterizo y otros acontecimientos actuales al flujo de bienes a través 

de la frontera, específicamente llantas? 

3. ¿Cuáles son los problemas más grandes del flujo transfronterizo de llantas 

nuevas y usadas? 

4. ¿Cuáles son las oportunidades más grandes del flujo transfronterizo de llantas 

nuevas y usadas?

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Mexican authorities and 

stakeholders
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Table 1. 

Local authorities and stakeholders

State County / 

Municipality City Municipal Authority (Ecology) Disposal Site Representative(s) Civil protection Rep 

Chihuahua Juarez Cd Juarez

Eliseo de la fuente 

Chief of the technical assistance, 

inspection and surveillance 

department 

Ing Raul de León 

Environmental compliance director 

Ricardo Lopez 

Landfill manager 

Promotora Ambiental S. A. de C. V. Efren Matamoros Barraza 

Civil protection director 

Chihuahua Juarez Guadalupe

Ing Ricardo A Alarcon Pacheco 

General Sub director 

Municipal public services department 

Chihuahua Manuel Ojinaga Ojinaga Carlos Hernandez 

Municipal services director 

Carlos Hernandez 

Municipal services director 

Abelardo Vaquera Carrasco 

Civil protection chief 

Coahuila Acuña Cd Acuña Caleb Rodriguez 

Ecology Director 

Ricardo Lopez 

Landfill manager 

Promotora Ambiental S. A. de C. V. 

Yassin Mendoza 

Civil protection officer 

Coahuila Piedras Negras Piedras 

Negras

Alfredo Antonio Lucero Montemayor 

Urban Image and Ecology Director

Ricardo Lopez 

Landfill manager 

Promotora Ambiental S. A. de C. V. 

Wrilbert Gandara 

Fireman in charge during the day 

shift

Coahuila Nava Nava

Jesus Miguel Flores de la Garza 

Ecology director 

Jesus Miguel Flores de la Garza 

Ecology director 

Martin Macias Perez 

Coahuila Nava Civil protection director Col Venustiano 

Carranza

Nuevo Leon Anahuac Anahuac Martin Delgado Molina 

Ecology director

Jose Guadalupe Martinez Garcia 

Chief of primary services 

Samuel Trejo 

Civil protection director

Tamaulipas Nuevo Laredo Nuevo Laredo Roberto Gomez Zapata 

Ecology director

Marco Rosales 

Servicios de tecnologia ambiental S.A. 

de C.V. 

Landfill manager 

Juan Ernesto Rivera Gomez 

Firemen and civil protection 

director
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Table 1. 

Local authorities and stakeholders

State County / 

Municipality City Municipal Authority (Ecology) Disposal Site Representative(s) Civil protection Rep 

Tamaulipas Guerrero Nueva Cd 

Guerrero

Edgar Garcia Roel 

Public works and ecology director 

Edgar Garcia Roel 

Public works and ecology director 

Edgar Garcia Roel 

Public works and ecology director 

Tamaulipas Miguel Aleman Cd Miguel 

Aleman

Antonio Javier Sanchez Rios 

Ecology director 

Antonio Javier Sanchez Rios 

Ecology director 

Jorge Luis Longoria Silva 

Firemen and Civil protection 

Chief 

Tamaulipas Camargo Cd Camargo Luz Antonio Garcia Gonzalez 

Ecology and public works Director

Luz Antonio Garcia Gonzalez Ecology 

and public works Director

Eduardo Raul Rodriguez 

Cuellar Civil protection 

director 

Tamaulipas Gustavo Diaz 

Ordaz

Cd Gustavo 

Diaz Ordaz

Antonio Alvaro Gonzalez Cantu 

Ecology director Not available

Julio Bermudez 

Recently retired civil protection 

director 

Tamaulipas Reynosa Reynosa Mauricio Chalons Salazar 

Environmental services chief 

Ricardo Lopez 

Landfill manager 

Promotora Ambiental S. A. de C. V. Carlos Amadeo Leal Lopez 

Civil protection director 

Jesus Espinoza 

Operations Manager 

RECO de Reynosa S A de C V 

Tamaulipas Rio Bravo Cd Rio Bravo Gonzalo Chew Bajan 

Urban development and ecology 

director 

Gonzalo Chew Bajan 

Urban development and ecology 

director 

Axel Gongora de Isla 

Firemen and civil protection chief Tamaulipas Rio Bravo Nuevo 

Progreso

Tamaulipas Matamoros Matamoros Rusvelt Rocha Aguiñaga 

Public cleaning director 

Rusvelt Rocha Aguiñaga 

Public cleaning director 

Oscar Javier de la Cerda Maltos 

Civil Protection Director 

Cells highlighted in red and black typography present stakeholders who denied the requested information.

Cells highlighted in yellow present stakeholders who provided the requested information but denied the signed confirmation letter.
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Table 2. 

Non local authorities and stakeholders

Location Organization Contact person

Mexico city

National association of tire 

distributors and renewal 

plants A.C. (Andellac)

Ruben Lopez Albarran y Leal

General Director 

Mexico city Rubber industry national 

chamber (CNIH)

Jose Francisco Martha H. 

General Director 

Mexico city National ecology Institute 

(INE) 

Veronica Garibay 

General research direction of 

urban and regional pollution 

(DGICUR)

Chihuahua, 

Chihuahua.

Economy ministry (SE) 

Chihuahua

Federal institute of access 

to public information (IFAIP)

Mexico city

Mario Molina center for 

strategic energy and 

environment studies.

Rodolfo Lacy
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Surveys designed to be applied 

on Texas fieldwork
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Texas Environmental Commission of Environmental Quality (TCEQ)

Registry

1. Full registry of the Texas authorized whole-used or scrap tire generators, 

transporters, transportation facilities, recyclers, energy recovery facilities 

and other processors, storage and disposal sites. Indication if they have 

complied with reporting duties or not.

2. Address and telephone of additional delivery destinations reported by 

processors.

Amounts 

3. Annual amount (from 2005 to the present) of whole used and scrap tires 

reported by each registered:

a. Generator

b. Transporter

c. Storage area

d. Recycler

e. Energy recovery facility

f. Disposal site

g. Others

Information for all types of tires (light and heavy vehicles, agriculture) per number 

of tires and per weight.

4. Total storage capacity of whole used and scrap tires reported by all the 

above. (From 2005 to the present).

5. Maximum processing capacity of each registered:

a. Transporter

b. Recycler

c. Energy recovery facility

d. Other processors

From 2005 to present day.

6. Annual number of whole used or scrap tires stored, received and 

transferred in each storage site from 2005 to present day.

7. Estimated number of tires stored in illegal disposal sites from 2005 to this 

day.

8. Number of tires reportedly reused in Texas annually from 2005 to the 

present day.

9. Location and intended final destination of tires for reuse from 2005 to the 

present day.

10. Final destinations of used tires from 2005 to the present day in quantities 

and percentages (per type of destination).
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Used tire-related emergencies

11. Used tire-related emergencies that have occurred each year from 2005 

to this date.

12. Infrastructure, settlements (or number of people), and environmental 

features damaged by the registered emergencies.

13. Location of the emergency and estimated damage radius.

14. Frequency of used tire-related emergencies by type (i.e. fires, flash 

floods due to waterway obstruction, dengue fever episodes, rodent, 

poisonous snakes, or other noxious fauna plagues, etc.)

15. How were people affected in each of the emergencies? Which were the 

most damaging? Why?

16. Were there any legal actions taken by the affected population? What 

were the results?

17. What was the yearly budget allocated from 2005 to the present day for 

the type of emergencies related to improper used-tire disposal?

18. What was the yearly expenditure from 2005 to the present day for the 

actual used tire-related emergencies? How much per each type of 

emergency?

Impacts of emergencies

19. Environmental impacts caused by each contingency.

20. How was each impact mitigated?

21. Social impacts caused by each contingency (fatalities, displacements, 

loss of agricultural land, loss of residential area, etc.)

22. How was each impact mitigated?

23. Economical impacts caused by each contingency.

24. How was each impact mitigated?

25. What was the yearly expenditure from 2005 to the present day to

mitigate the environmental, social and economical impacts caused by 

used tire-related emergencies? How much per type of impact and 

emergency?

26. What is the yearly expenditure from 2005 to the present day to prevent

the environmental, social and economical impacts caused by used tirerelated emergencies? How much per type of impact and emergency?

Management

27. Do you have any management programs for waste tires? Briefly 

describe.

28. What is the yearly budget allocated for waste tire management? Where 

does the money come from?
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29. Personnel employed in the management and proper disposition of used 

tires each year from 2005 to this day.

30. What are the biggest challenges in the management of used tires?

31. What is the costliest aspect in the waste tire management? Why?

32. How would you rate the success of good waste tire management from 

2005 to the present day? Has the situation in general improved or 

worsen? If it has improved in some areas but worsen in others, which 

ones? 

33. What are the measures taken to prevent used-tire related emergencies?

Others

34. Is there additional study, report or information you would consider 

relevant regarding used tires?
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Texas State Health Department

Conversation type interview which focused on the following subjects:

1. What are the diseases mosquitoes can spread?

2. How do these diseases develop and affect the Texas population.

3. Prevention and treatment methods.

4. History of cases and outbreaks of said diseases in Texas.

5. Trends.

6. Are tires a major cause for the spreading of the diseases.

7. Asking for any document or information regarding the diseases 

mentioned and their relation with mosquitoes and waste tires.
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Council of governments

Conversation type interview which focused on the following subjects:

1. What’s the role of the Council of governments regarding waste tire 

management?

2. Do you implement any programs regarding waste tires?

3. Do you have any records on what has been done and the number of tires 

handled?

4. How many resources do you spend in performing your role regarding 

waste tire management?

5. What’s the source of the resources you spend?

6. What are the main problems you handle regarding waste tires?

7. Trends.
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Environmental authorities’ questionnaire guide

Management

1. Who is in charge of managing waste tires on your city/county?

2. How are waste tires handled on your city/county?

3. How are waste tires used on your city/county? (reuse, recycling, fuel, 

product manufacturing, civil works)

4. What’s the adequate procedure to dispose of waste tires?

5. Did specific waste tire management programs exist or existed? Why or 

why not?

6. Do you keep track of used and/or waste tires sent into Mexico?

7. Do you know of any project implemented on your city/county referring to 

the recycling, use as fuel, civil works? If yes; whose initiative was it? 

What were the results?

Quantities and data

8. Approximately how many waste tires exist on your city/county? How has 

this amount changed from year 2005 to this date?

9. What proportion of the waste tires generated is estimated to be handled 

in accordance to the proper disposal procedures?

10. Where are the legal and illegal waste tires disposal sites located?

11. What proportion of the population purchases used tires instead of new 

ones?

Economic impacts

12. What fraction of the budget is destined to urban waste management?

13. How much money is spent on waste tire specific programs?

14. How much Money is spent on waste tires proper disposal?

15. Does the city charges for adequate waste tire disposal? To whom and 

how much?

Environmental impacts

16. From 2005 to this day; have you noticed any trends regarding the 

impacts caused by waste tires on your city/ county?

17. In comparison with other environmental problems affecting the local 

population, How big is the waste tire problem? What problems are bigger 

than the tire problem? Why?

On your opinion

18. What’s necessary to avoid waste tires ending up on landfills and dumps?

19. What tools would be useful to you in order to adequately handle waste 

tires on your city/county?
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General questions

20. ¿What’s your role on waste management?

21. How does the war on drugs, people traffic, NAFTA, the new border wall 

and other current situations affect the flow of waste tires through the 

border?
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Vector control proposed questionnaire

1. How many mosquito breeding locations have been reported annually 

since 2005?

2. How many of the annual mosquito breeding locations reported consisted 

of used or scrap tires from 2005 to this date?

3. Do you keep a record of the location of tires breeding mosquitoes?

4. What happens after a mosquito breeding location consisting of used tires 

has been identified? Please describe the process.

5. How much money does your department spend each year in the control 

of mosquito breeding locations?

6. Description of the costs and the percentage each one represents to the 

total, from 2005 to this day.

7. Source(s) of the money spent in the control of mosquito breeding 

locations.

8. Personnel employed in the control of mosquito breeding locations each 

year from 2005 to this day.

9. What benefits do employees receive?

10. Classify the percentage of employees in your department according to 

the country they live in. (i.e. 40% in Mexico, 60% USA-Texas)

11. Is there additional study, report or information you would consider 

relevant regarding used tires?

In case they collect the tires:

12. Does your department collect whole used or scrap tires?

13. How many tires has the department collected annually, from 2005 to this 

date?

14. Where has the department taken the collected tires?

15. Do you charge or pay for collecting used tires? How much?

16. Source of the money spent in used in the management and proper 

disposition of used tires each year from 2005 to this day.
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Proposed questionnaire for code compliance (Illegal dumping)

1. How many Illegal dumping reports have you received annually from 2005 

to this date?

2. How many of such reports involved whole used or scrap tires?

3. What is the location of each whole used or scrap tires illegal dumping 

site?

4. How many tires were involved in each incident?

5. What happens after a whole used or scrap tires illegal dumping site has 

been reported? Please describe the process.

6. How much money does your department spend each year in the control 

of illegal dumping sites?

7. How much money does your department spend each year in the control 

whole used or scrap tires illegal dumping sites?

8. Description of the costs and the percentage each one represents to the 

total, from 2005 to this day.

9. Source(s) of the money spent in the control of whole used or scrap tires 

illegal dumping site.

10. How much personnel has been employed in the control of whole used or 

scrap tires illegal dumping sites each year from 2005 to this day.

11. What benefits do employees receive?

12. Classify the percentage of employees in your department according to 

the country they live in. (i.e. 40% in Mexico, 60% USA-Texas)

13. Is there additional study, report or information you would consider 

relevant regarding whole used or scrap tires illegal dumping sites?
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Proposed questionnaire for fire departments

1. To how many problems or emergencies have you attended each year 

from 2005 to this date?

2. What problems involving whole used or scrap tires do you attend to?

3. How many of each of the problems mentioned have occurred in your 

jurisdiction each year from 2005 to this date?

4. When and where did the events occur? (Date and Address.)

5. Approximately how many tires were involved in each incident?

6. What was the cause of each event?

7. How many human loses and injured did each event caused?

8. How many people had to be evacuated or were affected by each event, 

in any side of the border?

9. Which were the material damages or loses caused by each event? 

10. How do you think each event could have been prevented?

11. How much time and money does your department spend each year in 

the control of whole used and scrap tire related events?

12. Description of the costs and the percentage each one represents to the 

total, from 2005 to this day.

13. Source(s) of the money spent in whole used and scrap tire related 

events.

14. How many people in your department deals with whole used and scrap 

tire related events?

15. What benefits do employees receive?

16. Classify the percentage of employees in your department according to 

the country they live in. (i.e. 40% in Mexico, 60% USA-Texas)
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Proposed questionnaire for large Tire dealers

New tires

1. What type of tires do you sell? (light, heavy, agricultural vehicles)

2. How many new tires do you sell annually since 2005? (How many for 

light vehicles? How many for heavy vehicles? Agricultural?)

3. Do you keep a record of your clients and quantities of tires they buy?

4. Do you consider yourself one of the largest tire dealers in the area? Or 

medium?

Used tires

5. What do you do with the used tires that are left over from you client’s tire 

replacement?

6. What fee do you charge to dispose of your client’s used tires? Has this 

fee changed much since 2005?

7. How many used tires do you normally stock? How frequently do you 

have to haul them away?

8. Are you registered with the TCEQ as a tire generator? Why?

9. Are your employees allowed to take the used tires themselves? Why? Is 

this a formal or an informal policy?

10. Is your policy regarding the employees taking away the used tires 

obeyed?

11. Do you keep a record of the tires employees take away?

12. Do you allow or have knowledge of people external to the company 

taking away used tires without any record of it?

13. Do you consider that most people in the area buy new tires or used 

ones? 

14. Would you consider that the sale of used tires is a big competition for 

your business?

15. Do you also sell used tires? Why?

If you sell used tires

16. How many used tires have you sold annually from 2005?

17. Who buys used tires? Why?

18. Do you keep a record of your clients and quantities of used tires they 

buy?

19. Do you only sell used tires derived from your own business or do you get 

additional used tires from someone else? Do you keep a registry of your 

used tire suppliers?

20. Do you sell used tires to someone who re-sells them across the border?

21. Do you know if most of the people who buy your used tires are locals or 

do they come from other locations, for example Mexico?
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22. Do you have some standard on the used tires that you can sell? When 

do you decide that a used tire is no longer fit for driving?

23. What percentage of the used tires you get from client’s replacement or 

otherwise can be reused for vehicles?

24. If you have used tires that can no longer be used in vehicles, can you sell 

them to other people? For what purposes?

25. Approximately what is the useful life of a used tire?

Others

26. Have there been any incidents or accidents regarding used tires from 

2005 to this date? Elaborate please.

27. How do you keep attire related accidents or risky incidents from 

happening?

28. Do you keep a record of the used reusable tires you have in inventory? 

Why?

29. How many employees do you have?

30. How many people do you employ in this process?

31. Do your employees last for a long time or do you have a lot of rotation?
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Used tire dealers proposed questionnaire

About the origin:

1. Where do they come from?

About the sales:

2. Do you sell wholesale, retail or both?

3. How do they sell more tires? (retail or wholesale)

4. Do you export?

5. How many tires they sell a month?

6. What time of the year they sell more.

7. How can I cross my tires?

8. Who buys in retail?

9. Who buys in wholesale?

10. What is the average price of a used car or light truck tire?

11. What is the average price of a used heavy truck tire?

12. Do your clients leave the scrap tires with you?

13. How much do you charge your clients for receiving their used tires?

14. In general which are the tire sizes that Mexican people look for?

About the tires:

15. Sizes available?

16. Is there a warranty?

17. How do they price them?

About legal compliment:

18. Are you registered in the TCEQ?

19. Where do you dispose of your scrap tires?

20. How much do you pay for disposal?

Social impact

21. How many people do you employ?

Ask him if he could sign a quotation letter.

Finally:

• Describe the store (take pictures).

• Ask for a business card.

• Ask who else sells used tires?
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Tire haulers proposed questionnaire.

Management

1. What is your role as a used tire hauler?

2. What is the process of a used tire since it’s picked up until it arrives to its 

final destination?

3. What has been the fee for the transport of used tires from 2005 to the 

present day? What are the main reasons for the change in the fee? (Gas 

prices, stringent waste management enforcement, etc.)

4. Do you only transport used tires? What other items do you transport? Do 

you transport mixed items in the same container?

5. Who are your used and scrap tire suppliers? Who generates the largest 

percentage?

6. Who are your used and scrap tire destinataries? Who accepts the largest 

percentage?

7. What kind of vehicles do you use in the transport of used and scrap 

tires? How many do you have?

8. How many tires fit in your vehicles? 

9. How many tires do you typically haul in one ride?

10. In a single trip, do you transport tires from only a single generator or you 

go to several generators until you fill the vehicle?

11. Do you transport tires across the border into Mexico?

12. If you do, how frequently are you hired for the service?

13. Do you allow your workers or employees to take away used tires?

14. Do you have a formal or implicit policy regarding employees or taking 

away used tires? Is it obeyed?

15. Do you allow or have knowledge of people external to the company 

taking away used tires without any record of it?

16. What percentage of the tires you receive is considered reusable for 

vehicles? What percentage is just scrap?

17. Do you ever sell reusable tires to clients from across the border? Does 

your competition? How frequent would you say this is in general?

18. Would you say that hiring tire haulers for illegal dumping is a common 

practice in the area where you live? Where is it common?

Registration and legal requirements

19. Is your business registered in the TCEQ?

20. Do you know the environmental laws that regulate your operation as a 

tire hauler?

21. Do you comply with the environmental laws that regulate your operation 

as a tire hauler? How?
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22. If you transport tires across the border to Mexico, what are the 

documents and legal requirements that apply?

23. What are the requirements that the final destinatary must have in order 

for you to deliver the used tires? Does this matter very much?

24. Do you keep a record of the number, origin and destiny of the used and 

scrap tires you transport?

25. Do you have a contract or other legal bindings with your used and scrap 

tires receivers? Why?

Recordkeeping and stock

26. Do you keep a record of the used tires received? Why?

27. Would you provide us with a list of your used and scrap tires receivers?

28. Do you keep a record of your used and scrap tire suppliers? Who are the 

largest and who the smallest?

29. What is the average stock of tires that you transport in a month? Is it 

constant or does it change throughout the year?

30. What tendencies in the number of used tires that you transport have you 

seen in the past 5 years (i.e. 2005 to the present day)?

31. Do you keep a record of the people from which you receive used 

reusable tires?

32. How many used reusable tires have you received annually from 2005 to 

this date?

33. Do you keep a record of the used reusable tires you have in inventory? 

Why?

34. How many used reusable tires did you have in storage at the end of each 

year from 2005 to this date?

35. Do you keep a record of tires employees take away?

36. Do you keep a record of the used reusable tires you transfer or sell? 

Why?

37. Do you keep a record of your clients and quantities of used reusable tires 

they buy?

38. How many used reusable tires have you transferred or sold annually 

from 2005 to this date?

Storage

39. Do you stock or accumulate used and/or scrap tires? ¿Why? ¿How many 

in average?

40. Where do you stock or accumulate used and/or scrap tires?

41. What are the conditions of your storage facilities?

42. Do you store used tires you would consider to be reusable?

43. Do you charge to store used and scrap tires? How much?

44. How much has the storage of one tire cost from 2005 till today?
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45. Do you have a contract or other legal bindings with your used and scrap 

tires suppliers? Why?

46. Do you know the applications the used and scrap tires will have after you 

deliver them? Which ones?

47. Is the transport of used and scrap tires your main business? If not, which 

is?

48. How many people do you employ?

49. How many days of the year do you operate?

50. What benefits do the employees receive?
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Proposed questionnaire for collection stations

1. ¿Are you registered in the TCEQ ?

2. How are you registered? Generator, transporter, processor, storage 

facility or disposal facility? 

3. Do you ever receive used tires you would consider to be reusable?

4. Do you keep a record of the used reusable tires received? Why?

5. Is there a period of the year when the entrance of used reusable tires 

increases or diminishes? Do you know or have a theory of why this 

happens?

6. Do you keep a record of the people from which you receive used 

reusable tires?

7. How many used reusable tires have you received annually from 2005 to 

this date?

8. Do you store used tires you would consider to be reusable?

9. Do you keep a record of the used reusable tires you have in inventory? 

Why?

10. How many used reusable tires did you have in storage at the end of each 

year from 2005 to this date?

11. Do you allow your workers or employees to take away used tires?

12. Do you have a formal or implicit policy regarding employees taking away 

used tires? Is it obeyed?

13. Do you keep a record of the tires employees take away?

14. Do you allow or have knowledge of external people taking away used 

tires without any record of it?

15. Do you charge or pay for receiving used and scrap tires? How much?

16. Do you charge or pay for receiving used reusable tires? How much?

17. Do you charge or pay for transferring used and scrap tires? How much?

18. Do you charge or pay for transferring used reusable tires? How much?
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Proposed questionnaire for storage facilities

1. Are you registered with TCEQ as a scrap tire generator? 

2. Have there been any incidents or accidents regarding used tires from 

2005 to this date? Elaborate please.

3. How do you keep accidents or risky incidents from happening?

4. Do you transport used tires?

5. What kind of vehicle do you use to transport used tires?

6. Do you ever receive used tires you would consider to be reusable?

7. Do you keep a record of the used reusable tires received? Why?

8. Is there a period of the year when the entrance of used reusable tires 

increases or diminishes? Do you know or have a theory of why this 

happens?

9. Do you keep a record of the people from which you receive used 

reusable tires?

10. How many used reusable tires have you received annually from 2005 to 

this date?

11. Do you store used tires you would consider to be reusable?

12. Do you keep a record of the used reusable tires you have in inventory? 

Why?

13. How many used reusable tires did you have in storage at the end of each 

year from 2005 to this date?

14. Do you allow your workers or employees to take away used tires?

15. Do you have a formal or implicit policy regarding employees or taking 

away used tires? Is it obeyed?

16. Do you keep a record of tires employees take away?

17. Do you allow or have knowledge of people external to the company 

taking away used tires without any record of it?

18. Do you export used tires? To where? 

19. Do you ever transfer or sell used reusable tires?

20. Do you attend people interested in obtaining exclusively tires considered 

reusable?

21. Do you keep a record of the used reusable tires you transfer or sell? 

Why?

22. Do you keep a record of your clients and quantities of used reusable tires 

they buy?

23. How many used reusable tires have you transferred or sold annually 

from 2005 to this date?

24. Are there any conditions a person has to comply in order for you to sell 

or transfer to him reusable tires?

25. How much time passes before a client returns to buy again used 

reusable tires?
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26. How do you distinguish between a reusable and a non-reusable tire?

27. What percentage of the tires you receive is considered reusable?

28. Do you charge or pay for receiving used and scrap tires? How much?

29. Do you charge or pay for receiving used reusable tires? How much?

30. Do you charge or pay for transferring used and scrap tires? How much?

31. Do you charge or pay for transferring used reusable tires? How much?

32. Which has been the approximate cost of storing one tire from 2005 to 

this date?

33. Would you provide us with an estimate of the inputs and the percentage 

each input represents in the cost of storage of one tire?

34. Would you please describe the storage process, from meeting the source 

of tires, receiving them to handling and disposal or transfer of them?

35. How many people do you employ in this process?

36. What benefits do the employees receive?

37. Classify the percentage of employees in your recycling facilities 

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Landfill managers proposed questionnaire

General

1. Do your operations include the land filling of used and scrap tires?

2. Please describe the typical process of how your facility manages used 

and scrap tires from collection point and method to yearly reports to the 

authorities of tires disposed of.

3. Is your landfill registered with the TCEQ? What is the registry number?

4. Are there any other registered landfills within 30 miles that also handle 

used and scrap tires?

5. What is the capacity of your landfill? When was it built? When will the 

capacity be reached?

Recordkeeping

6. How many tires have you processed/disposed of yearly from 2005 to the 

current date?

7. How do you keep an account of the tires you process or dispose of?

8. Do you keep any other records concerning the processing or disposal of 

used or scrap tires? (i.e. how many you shredded vs. how many were 

land filled as a whole, how many tires are shredded and used for other 

purposes or sold, how many come from specific sources such as 

collection points vs. how many are picked up in the streets, etc.)

9. Have you ever had an accident regarding used or scrap tires? (i.e. fires).

If so, do you have a procedure to document it and save it in your 

records?

10. What has been the operative cost of disposal per tire from 2005 to this 

day?

11. What do you charge the end user for disposal per tire from 2005 to this 

day?

Used tire management

12. Do you commercialize or transfer used tires in good condition? Why?

13. Is it legally possible for you to commercialize or transfer used tires in 

good condition? What would be the procedure? Would it be profitable?

14. If a used tire in relatively good condition arrives, are employees allowed 

to take it with them to reuse?

15. In your view, is this policy obeyed?

16. Do you allow or have knowledge of people external to the company 

taking away used tires without any record of it?

17. How do you distinguish used tires in “good condition” to be reused in 

vehicles?

18. What percentage of the tires you handle would you consider reusable?
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19. Do you landfill used tires directly without processing them (i.e. shredding, 

chipping, etc.)

20. Are you registered as a scrap tire facility in the TCEQ? Why?

21. Do you transport the tires from the collection point until your landfill? If 

yes, are you registered as a transporter before the TCEQ?

22. Do you use separate vehicles to transport tires than the rest of the waste 

you collect? Why?

23. Do you landfill tires in the same cells than the rest of the waste? Why?

24. Do you have or know of any plans to recycle the tires you receive? (i.e. 

chip them to manufacture other products, or use the whole tires as 

support walls for the landfill, etc?)

Others

25. How do used and scrap tires compare to the other waste you handle? 

For example in terms of space costs, handling, pre-processing costs, 

etc?

26. Would you say that land filling used and scrap tires is a profitable 

business? Why or why not?

27. In your view, what would be the most sensible way of dealing with used 

and scrap tires? Why?

28. What is necessary to achieve that solution?

29. How many people do you employ? Are any of them used exclusively for 

tire management?

30. Do any of your employees live in Mexico?

31. Have you seen any trends in the number of tires you have managed from 

2005 to this day? What do you think are the reasons behind?

32. How do you keep tire related accidents or risky incidents from 

happening?

33. Do you know of any illegal tire dumps in your area?

34. Is there a legal way to transfer used tires to Mexico to be disposed of? 

Which one is it?

35. How profitable would it be to dispose of the tires in Mexico? Why?
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Information request

MR. MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL 

US/MEXICO BORDER REGION SCRAP TIRE COMMITTEE, 

RUBBER MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION

By this mean of contact we allow ourselves to inform you that our company IEMS 

(Integrated Environmental Management Services) is performing a study 

of vital relevance for the Texas-México border, the study will be 

elaborated for the North American Development Bank (NADB) and for 

the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), it is mainly 

about determining the tire flow through the Texas-Mexico border.

As a general objective; the intention is to determine the environmental, social and 

economic impacts of the flow through the border of new and used tires 

from the state of Texas to the Mexican states with which it shares a 

border.

This is why we request your valuable collaboration to obtain the information 

regarding the topics described below:

• Amount of tires manufactured and sold in Texas from 2005 to this date 

(best if the information can be provided on a yearly basis).

• Amount of tires imported from other states or countries and sold in Texas 

from 2005 to this date.

• Amount of used tires (from Texas manufacturing plants, from other U.S. 

States or from other countries) sold in Texas from 2005 to this date, and 

the general state of this market.

• Amount of tires recycled, used as alternative fuel for cogeneration or 

disposed of in Texas from 2005 to this date.

• Amount of new and used tires exported from Texas to Mexico from 2005 

to this date.

• Legal and illegal mechanisms to cross tires through the Texas-Mexico 

border. 

• Costs involved in the export of new and used tires from Texas to Mexico.

• Retail and wholesale price of used and new tires in the state of Texas.

• The disposal alternatives for used tires along with your organization’s 

policy on the recommended methods.
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We wish to thank you in advance for your cooperation in providing information on 

these topics whether via e-mail or telephone conference.

Kindest regards,

Ruben Villanueva Peon, M.Sc.

General Manager

Integrated Environmental Management Services S.A. de C.V.

Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico.
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Surveys designed to be applied 

on Mexico’s remote interviews
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Anexo: cuestionario Secretaria de Economía (A través de IFAI)

Se solicita información del año 2005 a la fecha. (Información desglosada 

por año, o por mes, como esté disponible).

Llantas nuevas

1. Número de llantas nuevas importadas a través de cada cruce 

fronterizo entre México y Texas (2005- ahora) por tipo de llanta (vehículos ligeros, 

camiones, agrícolas, motocicletas, etc.)

2. ¿Cuál ha sido el número máximo de llantas nuevas que han cruzado 

la frontera entre México y Texas del 2005 a la fecha?

3. Destino final (reportado en los pedimentos) de las llantas nuevas 

importadas a través de cada cruce fronterizo entre México y Texas (2005 –

ahora).

4. Destino de los recursos económicos captados por los aranceles 

aplicados a la importación de llantas nuevas en cada cruce fronterizo entre 

México y Texas (2005- ahora).

5. Padrón de importadores de llantas nuevas a través de los cruces 

fronterizos entre México y Texas (2005- ahora).

Llantas usadas

1. Cupo de importación de llantas usadas a México (2005- ahora) para 

cada cruce fronterizo entre México y E.U.

2. Número de llantas usadas importadas a través de cada cruce 

fronterizo entre México y E.U. (2005- ahora) por tipo de llanta (vehículos ligeros, 

camiones, agrícolas, motocicletas, etc.).

3. ¿Cuál ha sido el número máximo de llantas usadas que han cruzado 

la frontera entre México y Texas del 2005 a la fecha?

4. Destino final (reportado en los pedimentos) de las llantas usadas 

importadas a través de cada cruce fronterizo entre México y Texas (2005-ahora).

5. Destino de los recursos económicos captados por los aranceles 

aplicados a la importación de llantas usadas en cada cruce fronterizo entre 

México y Texas (2005- ahora).

6. Padrón de importadores de llantas usadas a través de los cruces 

fronterizos entre México y Texas (2005- ahora).

7. Cupos asignados a cada importador de llantas usadas a través de los 

cruces fronterizos entre México y Texas (2005- ahora).

8. Registros de llantas nuevas y usadas que cruzaron la frontera entre 

Texas y México (de 2005 a la fecha).

9. ¿México exporta llantas usadas? ¿Cuántas? ¿A dónde?

General

10. ¿Por qué se permite la importación de llantas usadas de E.U. a 

México?

11. ¿Cuáles son los requisitos solicitados para convertirse en un 

importador de llantas usadas?

12. Vigencia de los cupos asignados a los importadores.
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13. ¿Cuáles son los criterios para la asignación de cupos de importación 

de llantas usadas? ¿Cómo se deciden los cupos anuales? ¿Cómo se decide a

qué importador asignarle determinado cupo?

14. ¿Cuál es la proporción de llantas nuevas y usadas de automóviles,

camiones, y agrícolas que cruzan la frontera?

15. ¿Cuáles son los cruces fronterizos donde encuentran más 

importación ilegal de llantas? ¿Tiene algunas estadísticas?

16. ¿México exporta llantas usadas? ¿Cuántas? ¿A dónde?

17. Número de vehículos importados a través de la frontera TexasMéxico para su desmantelación (2005-fecha).

18. ¿Cuál es el criterio utilizado para decidir si una llanta usada se 

puede importar a México o no? (para reúso, reciclaje, combustible alterno).

19. ¿Cuál es la política mexicana en cuanto a permitir el paso de llantas 

usadas desde E.U. que solo se desecharán?
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Cuestionario enviado al delgado René Chavira, Secretaria de 

Economia delegación Chihuahua. 

- ¿Cuales fueron los cupos de importación de llanta usada autorizados 

para Ciudad Juárez? en los años:

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

- Y/o si existe alguna ley, acuerdo o publicación donde se puedan 

consultar dichos cupos.
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Anexo: Cuestionario Administración Central de Contabilidad y 

Glosa parte del Sistema de Administración Tributaria (a través de IFAI)

Se solicita información del año 2005 a la fecha. (Información desglosada 

por año, o por mes, como esté disponible).

Llantas nuevas

1. Número de llantas nuevas importadas a través de cada cruce 

fronterizo entre México y Texas (2005- ahora) por tipo de llanta (vehículos ligeros, 

camiones, agrícolas, motocicletas, etc.)

2. ¿Cuál ha sido el número máximo de llantas nuevas que han cruzado 

la frontera entre México y Texas del 2005 a la fecha?

3. Destino final (reportado en los pedimentos) de las llantas nuevas 

importadas a través de cada cruce fronterizo entre México y Texas (2005 –

ahora).

4. Arancel aplicado a la importación de llantas nuevas provenientes de 

E.U. de 2005 a la fecha.

5. Cantidad recaudada por los aranceles aplicados a la importación de 

llantas nuevas en cada cruce fronterizo entre México y Texas (2005- ahora).

6. Destino de los recursos económicos captados por los aranceles 

aplicados a la importación de llantas nuevas en cada cruce fronterizo entre 

México y Texas (2005- ahora).

7. Padrón de importadores de llantas nuevas a través de los cruces 

fronterizos entre México y Texas (2005- ahora).

8. Origen de llantas nuevas importadas a través de los cruces fronterizos 

entre México y Texas (2005- ahora).

9. Origen de llantas nuevas importadas en México.

Llantas usadas

1. Cupo de importación de llantas usadas a México (2005- ahora).

2. Número de llantas usadas importadas a través de cada cruce 

fronterizo entre México y E.U. (2005- ahora) por tipo de llanta (vehículos ligeros, 

camiones, agrícolas, motocicletas, etc.).

3. ¿Cuál ha sido el número máximo de llantas usadas que han cruzado 

la frontera entre México y Texas del 2005 a la fecha?

4. Destino final (reportado en los pedimentos) de las llantas usadas 

importadas a través de cada cruce fronterizo entre México y Texas (2005-ahora).

5. Arancel aplicado a la importación de llantas usadas provenientes de 

E.U. de 2005 a la fecha.

6. Cantidad recaudada por los aranceles aplicados a la importación de 

llantas usadas en cada cruce fronterizo entre México y Texas (2005- ahora).

7. Destino de los recursos económicos captados por los aranceles 

aplicados a la importación de llantas usadas en cada cruce fronterizo entre 

México y Texas (2005- ahora).

8. Padrón de importadores de llantas usadas a través de los cruces 

fronterizos entre México y Texas (2005- ahora).

9. Cupos asignados a cada importador de llantas usadas a través de los 

cruces fronterizos entre México y Texas (2005- ahora).
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10. Origen de llantas usadas importadas a través de los cruces 

fronterizos entre México y Texas (2005- ahora).

11. Número de llantas usadas ilegales decomisadas en los cruces 

fronterizos entre México y E.U. (2005- ahora).

12. Frecuencia de hallazgos de contrabando de llantas usadas.

13. ¿Qué destino y manejo se le da a las llantas incautadas?

14. Registros de llantas nuevas y usadas que cruzaron la frontera entre 

Texas y México? (de 2005 a la fecha).

15. ¿México exporta llantas usadas? ¿Cuántas? ¿A dónde?

General

17. ¿Existe algún representante del sector llantero en la administración 

general de aduanas? ¿Cuál es su contacto?

18. ¿Cuál es la proporción de llantas nuevas y usadas de automóviles, 

camiones, y agrícolas que cruzan la frontera?

19. ¿Cuáles son los cruces fronterizos donde encuentran más 

importación ilegal de llantas? ¿Tiene algunas estadísticas?

20. ¿México exporta llantas usadas? ¿Cuántas? ¿A dónde?

21. Número de vehículos importados a través de la frontera TexasMéxico para su desmantelación (2005-fecha).
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Anexo: solicitud de información a secretario Ing. Fernando 

Gutiérrez Moreno, Secretaría de Desarrollo Sustentable del Estado de 

Nuevo León

1. Listado de los rellenos sanitarios, basureros y tiraderos localizados 

por la Secretaría en el estado de Nuevo León. 

(Si es posible, su localización o datos para localizar cada uno, ya sea 

por medio de su dirección, coordenadas geográficas o cercanía con alguna 

población) 

2. Cualquier estudio o información que incluya a sitios de disposición, 

manejo, venta, transporte o importación de llantas usadas con que cuente la 

Secretaría. (Incluyendo el estudio base para la realización de su manual de 

gestión integral de residuos “proyecto de limpieza de tiraderos a cielo abierto en 

22 municipios de Nuevo león 2008-2009”)

3. Datos de contacto de sus homólogos involucrados en el seguimiento 

a la problemática generada por las llantas usadas en los estados de Tamaulipas, 

Coahuila y Chihuahua.
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Anexo: cuestionario para aduanas detallado

1. ¿Cuáles son los mecanismos legales de paso de llantas nuevas y 

usadas a través de la frontera? ¿Cómo es la pre-importación, los impuestos, la 

post-importación?

2. ¿Cuáles son los mecanismos ilegales de paso de llantas nuevas y 

usadas a través de la frontera?

3. ¿Cuál es la frecuencia de hallazgos de contrabando de llantas 

(mes/año)?

4. ¿Cuántas llantas incautan al año de 2005 a la fecha? ¿Cómo se 

manejan?

5. ¿Cuáles han sido la cuota de llantas nuevas y usadas (cantidad) de 

importación del año 2005 a la fecha?

6. ¿Cuál ha sido el impuesto de importación por llanta nueva y usada 

del año 2005 a la fecha?

7. ¿Se mantienen registros específicos para las llantas nuevas y 

usadas que cruzan por esta aduana?

8. ¿Cuál es el número de llantas que han cruzado por esta aduana del 

2005-a la fecha? 

9. ¿Han notado tendencias en el flujo de llantas nuevas y usadas? 

(10,5, 1 año)

10. ¿Existe alguna tendencia de flujo según época del año? (clima, por 

fechas especiales, por temporadas agrícolas)

11. ¿El flujo de llantas nuevas y usadas legales es constante o se da 

por lotes grandes esporádicos?

12. ¿El flujo de llantas usadas ilegales es constante o se da por lotes 

grandes esporádicos?

13. ¿Conoce el destino general de las llantas usadas que cruzan por 

esta aduana? (reventa, reciclaje, energía)

14. ¿Cuál es la proporción de llantas nuevas y usadas de automóviles, 

camiones, y agrícolas que cruzan la frontera?

15. ¿Quiénes cruzan las llantas? ¿Existen compañías o personas con 

grandes concesiones o no?

16. ¿Cuál es el tipo de vehículos que se usan para transportar las 

llantas? (Legal e ilegal) ¿Son vehículos viejos o nuevos?

17. Aproximadamente ¿cuántas llantas se transportan por tipo de 

vehículo?

18. La mayoría de los vehículos usados para el transporte ¿son 

americanos o mexicanos? ¿sus conductores?
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Nota las siguientes preguntas se realizarán en las entrevistas a 

todos los actores.

19. ¿Cuál es su rol en el manejo de llantas de desecho?

20. ¿Cómo afecta la seguridad debido al narcotráfico y trata de 

personas, el TLC, el nuevo muro fronterizo y otros acontecimientos actuales al 

flujo de bienes a través de la frontera, específicamente llantas?

21. ¿Cuáles son los problemas más grandes del flujo transfronterizo de 

llantas nuevas y usadas?

22. ¿Cuáles son las oportunidades más grandes del flujo transfronterizo 

de llantas nuevas y usadas?
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Anexo: cuestionario detallado para autoridades ambientales 

municipales (ecología)

Manejo 

1. ¿Quiénes tienen a su cargo el manejo de llantas de desecho en su 

municipio?

2. ¿Cómo se manejan las llantas de desecho dentro de su municipio?

3. ¿De qué forma se usan las llantas de desecho en su municipio? 

(reúso, reciclaje, combustible, manufactura de productos, obra civil.)

4. ¿Cuál es el procedimiento adecuado para disponer de las llantas de 

desecho? 

5. ¿Existen o han existido, programas municipales específicos para el 

manejo de llantas? ¿Por qué o por qué no?

6. ¿Existe algún sistema de seguimiento de llantas que son importadas 

legalmente desde la frontera de Texas?

7. ¿Tiene conocimiento de algún proyecto que se haya dado en su 

municipio referente al reciclaje, uso como combustible, uso para obra civil? Si es 

afirmativo, ¿de quién fue iniciativa? ¿qué sucedió?

Datos y cantidades.

8. Aproximadamente ¿cuántas llantas de desecho hay en el municipio? 

¿Cómo ha cambiado esta cantidad del año 2005 a la fecha?

9. ¿Cuántos vehículos se encuentran registrados en el municipio’ 

(parque vehicular)

10. ¿Cuántos deshuesaderos (yonkes) existen en el municipio? ¿Cuál 

es su tamaño aproximado?

11. ¿Qué proporción de llantas se estima se manejan de acuerdo al 

procedimiento adecuado para disponer de ellas?

12. ¿Dónde se localizan los sitios de disposición legal de llantas y 

dónde los ilegales? (Mapa)

13. ¿Qué proporción de la población de su municipio estima que sea 

consumidor de llantas nuevas traídas de Texas? ¿de llantas nuevas nacionales? 

¿de llantas usadas de Texas? ¿de llantas usadas nacionales?

Impactos económicos

14. ¿Qué fracción del presupuesto municipal se destina al manejo de 

residuos sólidos urbanos o de manejo especial? 

15. ¿Qué fracción se destina a programas específicos de llantas?

16. ¿Cuánto le cuesta al municipio el manejo adecuado de las llantas?

17. ¿Existe algún cobro unitario (por llanta) para su disposición 

adecuada? Si es así, ¿a quién se le cobra y cuánto es?

Impactos ambientales
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18. ¿Ha notado algunas tendencias de 2005 a la fecha respecto a la 

gravedad que los impactos de llantas de desecho ocasionan a su municipio?

19. En comparación a otros problemas ambientales con los que se 

enfrenta la población local, ¿qué tan importante es el problema de las llantas? 

¿Cuáles son los problemas más graves? ¿Por qué?

Su opinión experta

20. Desde su perspectiva, ¿qué hace falta para que menos llantas 

vayan a los tiraderos?

21. Además de la cercanía con Texas, ¿qué motiva que los ciudadanos 

consuman llantas de Texas en vez de las nacionales?

22. Desde su perspectiva, ¿quiénes son los beneficiados y los 

afectados por el flujo de llantas nuevas y usadas desde Texas a su municipio?

23. ¿Qué herramientas le serían más útiles para manejar 

adecuadamente las llantas de desecho en su municipio?

Nota: las siguientes preguntas se realizarán en las entrevistas a 

todos los actores.

24. ¿Cuál es su rol en el manejo de llantas de desecho?

25. ¿Cómo afecta la seguridad debido al narcotráfico y trata de 

personas, el TLC, el nuevo muro fronterizo y otros acontecimientos actuales al 

flujo de bienes a través de la frontera, específicamente llantas?

26. ¿Cuáles son los problemas más grandes del flujo transfronterizo de 

llantas nuevas y usadas?

27. ¿Cuáles son las oportunidades más grandes del flujo transfronterizo 

de llantas nuevas y usadas?
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Anexo: cuestionario para protección civil detallado

Incidentes relacionados a llantas usadas

1. ¿Qué incidentes ha habido en la localidad que se relacionen con 

tiraderos de llantas? ¿Del 2005 a la fecha?

2. De los incidentes mencionados, ¿cuántos atendieron? ¿Cuánto 

personal se requirió? ¿Cuánto tardaron en resolver el asunto?

3. ¿Hubo fatalidades en alguno de ellos?

4. ¿Cuál fue la pérdida material ocasionada por estos incidentes?

5. ¿Cuáles son los incidentes más frecuentes en relación a los 

tiraderos de llantas?

6. ¿Qué tipo de incidente es el más sencillo y el más difícil de 

prevenir? ¿Por qué?

7. ¿Qué tipo de incidente es el más sencillo y el más difícil de 

combatir? ¿Por qué?

Daños a la población relacionados a llantas usadas

8. ¿Qué tipo de incidentes afectan a más personas?

9. ¿Tienen ustedes campañas de prevención de incidentes por causa 

de llantas mal desechadas? ¿Por qué?

10. ¿Podría identificar, en su municipio, los tiraderos ilegales de llantas? 

(mapa).

11. ¿Cuáles son los riesgos a la población de un mal manejo de llantas 

usadas?

Gastos relacionados a llantas usadas

12. ¿Cuántos recursos han destinado al combate de incidentes de 2005 

a la fecha?

13. ¿Cuántos recursos se han destinado a la prevención de incidentes 

de 2005 a la fecha?

14. En su situación actual, ¿qué hace falta con más urgencia para 

minimizar los riesgos a la población ocasionados por un mal manejo de llantas de 

desecho?

Su opinión experta

15. En su opinión, ¿existe un problema con llantas tiradas ilegalmente 

en el municipio? Si es así, ¿qué tan importante es con respecto a otros 

problemas?

En su opinión, ¿cómo debería ser el manejo de llantas óptimo para 

minimizar los riesgos a la población?
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Nota: las siguientes preguntas se realizarán en las entrevistas a 

todos los actores.

16. ¿Cuál es su rol en el manejo de llantas de desecho?

17. ¿Cómo afecta la seguridad debido al narcotráfico y trata de 

personas, el TLC, el nuevo muro fronterizo y otros acontecimientos actuales al 

flujo de bienes a través de la frontera, específicamente llantas?

18. ¿Cuáles son los problemas más grandes del flujo transfronterizo de 

llantas nuevas y usadas?

¿Cuáles son las oportunidades más grandes del flujo transfronterizo de 

llantas nuevas y usadas?
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Anexo: cuestionario detallado para representantes de sitios de 

disposición final y tabla de características de sitio.

Sobre el sitio:

1. Direcciones para su fácil localización.

2. ¿Volumen de basura que recibe diariamente (m3

/día)?

3. ¿Número de llantas acumuladas de manera separada?

4. ¿Tiempo de operación? (años)

5. ¿Vida útil? (años)

6. ¿Número de celdas en uso, cerradas y por utilizarse?

7. ¿Área de cada celda (m2

)?

8. Profundidad bajo el nivel del suelo de cada celda. (m)

9. Altura sobre el suelo para cada celda.

10. ¿El acceso al sitio es controlado?

11. ¿Lleva un registro de la cantidad de llantas que ingresan? ¿Cómo? 

¿Por qué?

12. ¿Existe un área especial para colocar llantas exclusivamente? ¿Por 

qué?

13. Si existen pepenadores; ¿Estos recolectan las llantas? ¿Por qué si o 

no?

Tabla de características del sitio:

Número de 

celdas en 

uso.

Número 

de celda 

en uso.

Área de 

cada celda. 

(m2)

Profundidad 

bajo el nivel 

del suelo de 

cada celda. 

(m)

Altura sobre 

el suelo 

planeada 

para cada 

celda. 

(m)
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Número de 

celdas 

cerradas o 

por cerrarse 

en menos 

de un año.

Número 

de celda 

cerrada o 

por 

cerrarse 

en menos 

de un año.

Área de 

cada celda. 

(m2

)

Profundidad 

bajo el nivel 

del suelo de 

cada celda. 

(m)

Altura sobre 

el suelo 

planeada 

para cada 

celda. 

(m)

Número de 

celdas por 

usarse.

Celdas por 

usarse.

Área de 

cada celda. 

(m2

)

Profundidad 

bajo el nivel 

del suelo de 

cada celda. 

(m)

Altura sobre 

el suelo 

planeada 

para cada 

celda. 

(m)

Sobre llantas de desecho:

23. ¿Reciben llantas? ¿Por qué si/no?

24. ¿Cuál ha sido la cantidad de llantas almacenadas anualmente del 

2005 a la fecha?

25. ¿Qué porcentaje del total en masa, representan las llantas?

26. ¿Qué porcentaje del total en volumen, representan las llantas?

27. ¿Se procesa de alguna forma las llantas que ingresan?

28. ¿Observa alguna tendencia en el número de llantas que ingresan 

legalmente?

29. ¿Observa alguna tendencia en el número de llantas colectadas?

30. ¿Observa alguna tendencia en el número de llantas que ingresan 

ilegalmente?

31. ¿Observa alguna tendencia en el número de llantas en general?

32. ¿Es posible identificar las llantas que provienen de Texas? ¿Cómo 

lo hacen?
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Sobre impactos económicos:

33. ¿Tiene un costo el desechar llantas en su relleno? ¿Cuál es? ¿En 

qué se aplica el dinero recibido?

34. ¿Qué porcentaje del total del costo de disposición representan las 

llantas?

Incidentes que involucren llantas:

35. ¿Han tenido algún incidente que involucre llantas?

36. ¿Cómo se resolvió el incidente?

37. ¿Cuánto costó el incidente?

38. ¿Cuántas personas se ocuparon en resolverlo?

39. ¿Cuánto tiempo tomó resolverlo?

40. ¿Tiene conocimiento de incidentes que involucraran llantas en la 

zona, que hayan ocurrido en los 5 años pasados?

De manera ideal:

41. ¿Cómo mejoraría el manejo de las llantas en su relleno?

42. ¿Cómo evitaría que las llantas de desecho fueran abandonadas en 

sitios ilegales y fueran llevadas al relleno?

43. ¿Cómo piensa que se deberían de manejar las llantas de desecho a 

nivel regional?

Nota: las siguientes preguntas se realizarán en las entrevistas a 

todos los actores.

44. ¿Cuál es su rol en el manejo de llantas de desecho?

45. ¿Cómo afecta la seguridad debido al narcotráfico y trata de 

personas, el TLC, el nuevo muro fronterizo y otros acontecimientos actuales al 

flujo de bienes a través de la frontera, específicamente llantas?

46. ¿Cuáles son los problemas más grandes del flujo transfronterizo de 

llantas nuevas y usadas?

47. ¿Cuáles son las oportunidades más grandes del flujo transfronterizo 

de llantas nuevas y usadas?
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Anexo: cuestionario para recicladores de llanta muerta y 

potenciales recicladores de llanta muerta

Datos generales

1. Nombre de la empresa:

2. Dirección:

3. Persona otorgando la entrevista:

4. Puesto:

5. Giro industrial:

6. Productos que generan:

Llantas procesadas

7. ¿Utilizan llantas usadas como insumo?

Si No

8. ¿Qué beneficios obtienen a partir del aprovechamiento de llantas de 

desecho?

9. ¿Cuánta es la máxima cantidad de llantas que pueden consumir en 

un año?

10. ¿Cuántas llantas procesaron en los años?

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

11. ¿Pueden recibir llantas enteras? 

 Si No ¿Qué 

tamaños?________________________

12. ¿Pueden recibir llantas molidas? 

 Si No ¿Qué tamaños de 

partícula?_______________
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13. ¿Pueden recibir llantas cortadas en 3 partes? (es decir a las cuales 

se les cortaron las paredes) 

Si No ¿Porqué? 

_________________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________________

_______________

14. ¿Las llantas que reciben deben cumplir con características 

específicas?

 Si No 

¿Cuáles?__________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________________

_________

Modificaciones a su proceso

15. ¿En qué parte de su proceso utilizan llantas como insumo?

16. ¿Fue necesario modificar su planta para poder recibir llantas?

Si No 

El cambio consistió en: 

_________________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________________

______

17. ¿De cuánto fue la inversión para poder recibir llantas?

18. ¿Cuánto tiempo tomó hacer las modificaciones?
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Abastecimiento

19. ¿De dónde provienen las llantas de desecho que consumen?

20. Para recibir llantas:

Cobran Pagan ¿Cuánto?_______________

21. ¿Existen requisitos para ser su proveedor de llantas de desecho?

22. ¿Mantienen un inventario al aire libre para asegurar el abasto de 

llanta de desecho?

No Si ¿De cuántas llantas aprox?_______________

Reúso de llantas

23. Del total de llantas que manejan ¿Qué porcentaje es revendido 

como llanta usada?

24. Del total de llantas usadas revendidas (Si aplica); que porcentaje 

se clasifica como: 

 Tipo 

Porcentaje

 Seminuevas 

 Tipo 1 (40-60% Vida útil restante)

 Tipo 2 (20-40% Vida útil restante)

 Tipo 3 (hasta 20% de vida útil restante) 

 100%
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Anexo: cuestionario detallado ingeniero Rodolfo Lacy centro Mario Molina, 

delegación Cuajimalpa, México Distrito Federal.

Les solicito encarecidamente información sobre el estudio que se 

menciona en su página de internet, específicamente sobre los siguientes datos:

“se realizó un estudio de caso en Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, por ser una 

entidad con elevados problemas de contaminación atmosférica con un parque 

vehicular de aproximadamente 450 mil unidades, donde el 90% son autos usados 

provenientes de Estados Unidos." 1

Sobre la cuantificación de vehículos:

1. ¿Año en que se realizó el conteo de vehículos?

2. ¿Ha habido actualizaciones?

3. ¿Cuentan con cifras históricas del incremento de vehículos del 2005 

a la fecha?

4. ¿Cuentan con estudios ó cifras similares para otras ciudades de la 

frontera norte?

5. ¿Sería posible obtener una copia del estudio o sus reportes?

En su opinión como experto en la materia:

6. ¿Considera que el número de automóviles por habitante de Ciudad 

Juárez y su porcentaje de origen americano es extrapolable a las demás 

ciudades en la frontera de México con Texas?

7. ¿La quema y/o incendio de llantas tiene o ha tenido algún impacto 

relevante en la calidad del aire en las ciudades fronterizas? (Corto, mediano y 

largo plazo. 

 1 Centro Mario Molina (2007) Campaña de Medición de Emisiones Vehiculares de Ciudad Juárez. Extraído el 

20 de Octubre del 2011 desde http://www.centromariomolina.org/calidad-del-aire/juarez/
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Solicitud de información a SAT a través de IFAI

Necesito saber ¿Cuáles fueron las cuotas de importación de llantas usadas 

autorizadas por la Secretaría de Economía para Cd. Juárez Chihuahua? Para los años 

2005,2006,2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012.
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ATTACHMENT 5

Texas fieldwork itinerary
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Table 1.

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No. Date Interviewer(s) County City Type of stakeholder 

interviewed Position / Public Institution 

1 8/29/2011 Esteban Ibarra Webb Laredo New & used tires dealer Not available.

2 8/29/2011 Esteban Ibarra Webb Laredo New & used tires dealer Not available.

3 8/29/2011 Esteban Ibarra Webb Laredo New & used tires dealer Not available.

4 8/29/2011 Esteban Ibarra Webb Laredo Used tires dealer Not available.

5 8/30/2011 Esteban Ibarra Webb Laredo City officials Environmental Services Department Director/ City of 

Laredo

6 8/30/2011 Esteban Ibarra Webb Laredo City officials Solid Waste Services Manager/ City of Laredo

7 8/30/2011 Esteban Ibarra Webb Laredo City and County official Health Department Environmental Health Services 

Sanitarian III/ City of Laredo

8 8/30/2011 Esteban Ibarra Webb Laredo City officials Fire Prevention Div. Fire Inspector/City of Laredo Fire 

Department

9 8/30/2011 Esteban Ibarra Webb Laredo City officials Building Development Services Environmental 

Engineer/City of Laredo

10 8/30/2011 Esteban Ibarra Webb Laredo New tires dealer Not available.

11 8/30/2011 Esteban Ibarra Webb Laredo Hauler/Processor Not available.

12 8/30/2011 Esteban Ibarra Webb Laredo Used tires dealer Not available.

13 8/31/2011 Esteban Ibarra Webb Laredo County official Chief investigator, Assistant County Attorney/ Office of 

the Webb County Attorney

14 8/31/2011 Esteban Ibarra Webb Laredo New tires dealer Not available.

15 8/31/2011 Esteban Ibarra Webb Laredo New tires dealer Not available.
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Table 1.

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No. Date Interviewer(s) County City Type of stakeholder 

interviewed Position / Public Institution 

16 8/31/2011 Esteban Ibarra Webb Laredo Used tires dealer Not available.

17 8/31/2011 Esteban Ibarra Webb Laredo Used tires dealer Not available.

18 8/31/2011 Esteban Ibarra Webb Laredo Used tires dealer Not available.

19 9/1/2011 Esteban Ibarra Cameron Brownsville City officials Fire Marshal/Brownsville Fire Department.

20 9/1/2011 Esteban Ibarra Cameron Brownsville City officials Department of public health Ordinance Enforcement 

Officer II/City of Brownsville

21 9/1/2011 Esteban Ibarra Cameron Brownsville New & used tires dealer Not available.

22 9/1/2011 Esteban Ibarra Cameron Brownsville New & used tires dealer Not available.

23 9/1/2011 Esteban Ibarra Cameron Brownsville New & used tires dealer Not available.

24 9/1/2011 Esteban Ibarra Cameron Brownsville New & used tires dealer Not available.

25 9/1/2011 Esteban Ibarra Cameron Brownsville New & used tires dealer Not available.

26 9/1/2011 Esteban Ibarra Cameron Brownsville New & used tires dealer Not available.

27 9/1/2011 Esteban Ibarra Cameron Brownsville New & used tires dealer Not available.

28 9/1/2011 Esteban Ibarra Cameron Brownsville Used tires dealer Not available.

29 9/2/2011 Esteban Ibarra Cameron Brownsville City officials Public Works Department Assistant Director/City of 

Brownsville

30 9/2/2011 Esteban Ibarra Cameron Brownsville City officials Public Works Department Landfill Staff/ City of 

Brownsville 
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No. Date Interviewer(s) County City Type of stakeholder 

interviewed Position / Public Institution 

31 9/2/2011 Esteban Ibarra Cameron Brownsville City officials Public Works Department / City of Brownsville

32 9/6/2011 Esteban Ibarra El Paso El Paso City officials Code Compliance Supervisor, Environmental Services 

Department/ The City of El Paso

33 9/6/2011 Esteban Ibarra El Paso El Paso City officials Sustainability Manager/ The City of El Paso

34 9/6/2011 Esteban Ibarra El Paso El Paso City officials Environmental Services Department Director/ The City 

of El Paso

35 9/6/2011 Esteban Ibarra El Paso El Paso City officials Solid Waste Operations Manager, Environmental 

Services / The City of El Paso

36 9/6/2011 Esteban Ibarra El Paso El Paso City officials

Senior Environmental Scientist, Environmental 

Services Ordinance & Policy Coordinator/ The City of 

El Paso

37 9/6/2011 Esteban Ibarra El Paso El Paso

Texas Commission on 

Environmental Quality 

(TCEQ)

Lead Border Team Coordinator, Intergovernmental 

Relations, Border Affairs Division/ Texas Commission 

on Environmental Quality (TCEQ).

38 9/7/2011 Esteban Ibarra El Paso El Paso

Texas Commission on 

Environmental Quality 

(TCEQ)

Environmental investigator, Office of Compliance and 

Enforcement/ Texas Commission on Environmental 

Quality (TCEQ).

39 9/7/2011 Esteban Ibarra El Paso El Paso

Texas Commission on 

Environmental Quality 

(TCEQ)

Compliance Assistance Specialist, Small business and 

local government assistance/ Texas Commission on 

Environmental Quality (TCEQ).

40 9/7/2011 Esteban Ibarra El Paso El Paso Hauler/Processor Not available.

41 9/7/2011 Esteban Ibarra El Paso El Paso Used tires dealer Not available.

42 9/7/2011 Esteban Ibarra El Paso El Paso Used tires dealer Not available.

43 9/7/2011 Esteban Ibarra El Paso El Paso Used tires dealer Not available.
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Table 1.

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No. Date Interviewer(s) County City Type of stakeholder 

interviewed Position / Public Institution 

44 9/8/2011 Esteban Ibarra

El Paso, 

Presidio, 

Hudspeth, Jeff 

Davis, Doña 

Ana, 

Culberson, 

Brewster.

El Paso Council Of Governments 

officials

Environmental Services Coordinator/ Rio Grande 

Council Of Governments

45 9/8/2011 Esteban Ibarra El Paso El Paso New tires dealer Not available.

46 9/8/2011 Esteban Ibarra El Paso El Paso New tires dealer Not available.

47 9/12/2011 Esteban Ibarra Hidalgo Pharr City officials Public works assistant director/City of Pharr Public 

Works Department

48 9/12/2011 Esteban Ibarra Hidalgo Pharr New & used tires dealer Not available.

49 9/12/2011 Esteban Ibarra Hidalgo Pharr New tires dealer Not available.

50 9/12/2011 Esteban Ibarra Hidalgo Pharr Used tires dealer/ hauler Not available.

51 9/12/2011 Esteban Ibarra Hidalgo Pharr Used tires dealer Not available.

52 9/12/2011 Esteban Ibarra Hidalgo Pharr Used tires dealer Not available.

53 9/12/2011 Esteban Ibarra Hidalgo Pharr Used tires dealer Not available.

54 9/13/2011 Esteban Ibarra

Cameron, 

Hidalgo, 

Willacy

Hidalgo Council Of Governments 

officials

Regional Planning & Services/ Lower Rio Grande 

Valley Development Council

55 9/13/2011 Esteban Ibarra Hidalgo Hidalgo County official Health & human services department executive 

assistant / The County of Hidalgo, Texas

56 9/13/2011 Esteban Ibarra Hidalgo Hidalgo County official Health & human services department Division 

Manager/The County of Hidalgo, Texas

57 9/13/2011 Esteban Ibarra Hidalgo Pharr City officials Health coordinator/ City of Pharr

58 9/13/2011 Esteban Ibarra Hidalgo Pharr City officials Assistant Fire Marshal/ City of Pharr Fire Rescue
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Table 1.

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No. Date Interviewer(s) County City Type of stakeholder 

interviewed Position / Public Institution 

59 9/13/2011 Esteban Ibarra Hidalgo Pharr City officials Community planning and development assistant 

director/ City of Pharr

60 9/13/2011 Esteban Ibarra Hidalgo Pharr Private solid waste 

management company Not available.

61 9/15/2011 Fernanda Rivas, Esteban 

Ibarra Hidalgo Mc Allen City officials Fire Marshal/ City of McAllen Fire Department

62 9/15/2011 Fernanda Rivas, Esteban 

Ibarra Hidalgo Mc Allen City officials Director of environmental & health/ City of McAllen Code Compliance

63 9/15/2011 Fernanda Rivas, Esteban 

Ibarra Hidalgo Mc Allen City officials Stormwater & Environmental Education Manager / City of McAllen Public Works 

64 9/16/2011 Fernanda Rivas, Esteban 

Ibarra Hidalgo Progreso Used tires dealer Not available.

65 9/16/2011 Fernanda Rivas, Esteban 

Ibarra Hidalgo Progreso Used tires dealer Not available.

66 9/19/2011 Fernanda Rivas, Esteban 

Ibarra Starr Rio Grande City City officials Planning director/ City of Rio Grande

67 9/19/2011 Fernanda Rivas, Esteban 

Ibarra Starr Rio Grande City City officials Planner & code enforcement officer/ City of Rio Grande

68 9/19/2011 Fernanda Rivas, Esteban 

Ibarra Starr Rio Grande City City officials Vector Control/ City of Rio Grande

69 9/19/2011 Fernanda Rivas, Esteban 

Ibarra Starr Rio Grande City City officials Computer operator/Landfill transfer station 

70 9/19/2011 Fernanda Rivas, Esteban 

Ibarra Starr Rio Grande City City officials Fire chief/Rio Grande City Fire Department

71 9/19/2011 Fernanda Rivas, Esteban 

Ibarra Starr Rio Grande City City officials Public works director/City of Rio Grande

72 9/19/2011 Fernanda Rivas, Esteban 

Ibarra Starr Rio Grande City New & used tires dealer Not available.

73 9/19/2011 Fernanda Rivas, Esteban 

Ibarra Starr Rio Grande City Used tires dealer Not available.
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No. Date Interviewer(s) County City Type of stakeholder 

interviewed Position / Public Institution 

74 9/19/2011 Fernanda Rivas, Esteban 

Ibarra Starr Rio Grande City Used tires dealer Not available.

75 9/20/2011 Fernanda Rivas, Esteban 

Ibarra Hidalgo Mc Allen Used tires dealer Not available.

76 9/20/2011 Fernanda Rivas, Esteban 

Ibarra Hidalgo Pharr New & used tires dealer Not available.

77 9/20/2011 Fernanda Rivas, Esteban 

Ibarra Hidalgo Pharr New & used tires dealer Not available.

78 9/21/2011 Fernanda Rivas, Esteban 

Ibarra Hidalgo La Joya Used tires dealer Not available.

79 9/21/2011 Fernanda Rivas, Esteban 

Ibarra Starr Roma City officials Public Works Director/ City of Roma

80 9/21/2011 Fernanda Rivas, Esteban 

Ibarra Starr Roma City officials Landfill secretary/ City of Roma

81 9/21/2011 Fernanda Rivas, Esteban 

Ibarra Starr Roma New & used tires dealer Not available.

82 9/21/2011 Fernanda Rivas, Esteban 

Ibarra Starr Roma New tires dealer Not available.

83 9/22/2011 Esteban Ibarra Hidalgo Mc Allen New & used tires dealer Not available.

84 9/23/2011 Esteban Ibarra Hidalgo Linn Hauler/Processor Not available.

85 9/27/2011 Esteban Ibarra Harris Baytown Hauler/Processor Not available.

86 9/27/2011 Esteban Ibarra Harris Houston Hauler/Processor Not available.

87 9/28/2011 Esteban Ibarra Travis Austin

Texas Commission on 

Environmental Quality 

(TCEQ)

Scrap Tire Program Support/ Texas Commission on 

Environmental Quality

88 9/29/2011 Esteban Ibarra Valverde Del Rio new & used tires dealer / 

hauler Not available.

89 9/29/2011 Esteban Ibarra Valverde Del Rio City officials Code Compliance, Health Inspector / City of Del Rio
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No. Date Interviewer(s) County City Type of stakeholder 

interviewed Position / Public Institution 

90 9/29/2011 Esteban Ibarra Valverde Del Rio City officials Assistant Chief /City of Del Rio Fire & Rescue 

Department 

91 9/29/2011 Esteban Ibarra Valverde Del Rio City officials workers/ Del Rio Recycling Center

92 9/30/2011 Esteban Ibarra Valverde Del Rio City officials Landfill Coordinator, Refuse Department/ City of Del 

Rio

93 9/30/2011 Esteban Ibarra Maverick Eagle Pass City officials Recycling Supervisor / City of Eagle Pass Recycling 

Center

94 9/30/2011 Esteban Ibarra Maverick Eagle Pass City officials Code compliance officer/ City of Eagle Pass

95 9/30/2011 Esteban Ibarra Maverick Eagle Pass City officials Public Works & Vector control chief/ City of Eagle Pass

96 9/30/2011 Esteban Ibarra

Valverde, 

Kinney, 

Maverick, 

Dimmit, La 

Salle, Zavala, 

Uvalde, Real, 

Edwards.

Carrizo 

Springs

Council Of Governments 

officials

Solid Waste Coordinator/ Middle Rio Grande 

Development Council

97 10/3/2011 Esteban Ibarra Valverde Del Rio New & used tires dealer Not available.

98 10/3/2011 Esteban Ibarra Valverde Del Rio New & used tires dealer Not available.

99 10/3/2011 Esteban Ibarra Valverde Del Rio New & used tires dealer Not available.

100 10/3/2011 Esteban Ibarra Valverde Del Rio New & used tires dealer Not available.

101 10/3/2011 Esteban Ibarra Valverde Del Rio Used tires dealer Not available.

102 10/3/2011 Esteban Ibarra Maverick Eagle Pass City officials Training Officer/ Eagle Pass Fire Department

103 10/3/2011 Esteban Ibarra Maverick Eagle Pass Used tires dealer Not available.

104 10/3/2011 Esteban Ibarra Maverick Eagle Pass new & used tires dealer / 

hauler Not available.

105 10/3/2011 Esteban Ibarra Maverick Eagle Pass New tires dealer Not available.
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No. Date Interviewer(s) County City Type of stakeholder 

interviewed Position / Public Institution 

106 10/3/2011 Esteban Ibarra Maverick Eagle Pass new & used tires dealer Not available.

107 10/3/2011 Esteban Ibarra Maverick Eagle Pass Used tires dealer Not available.

108 10/3/2011 Esteban Ibarra Maverick Eagle Pass Used tires dealer Not available.

109 10/5/2011 Esteban Ibarra Presidio Presidio Texas Department of 

State Health Services

Nurse II/ Team Leader Family and Community Health 

Services HSR 9&10 / Texas Department of State 

Health

110 10/5/2011 Esteban Ibarra Presidio Presidio City officials Code enforcement officer / City of Presidio

111 10/5/2011 Esteban Ibarra Presidio Presidio City officials City Administrator/ City of Presidio

112 10/5/2011 Esteban Ibarra Presidio Presidio City officials NREMT-P, CCEMT-P, LP Director of Emergency 

Services/ City of Presidio

113 10/5/2011 Esteban Ibarra Presidio Presidio New & used tires dealer Not available.

114 10/5/2011 Esteban Ibarra Presidio Presidio Used tires dealer Not available.

115 10/6/2011 Esteban Ibarra El Paso El Paso Generator/ Storage 

facility/former processor Not available.

116 10/6/2011 Esteban Ibarra El Paso El Paso new & used tires dealer Not available.

117 10/6/2011 Esteban Ibarra El Paso El Paso new & used tires dealer Not available.

118 10/6/2011 Esteban Ibarra El Paso El Paso new & used tires dealer Not available.

119 10/6/2011 Esteban Ibarra El Paso El Paso new & used tires dealer Not available.

120 10/6/2011 Esteban Ibarra El Paso fabens new & used tires dealer Not available.

121 10/6/2011 Esteban Ibarra El Paso Socorro Used tires dealer Not available.

122 10/7/2011 Esteban Ibarra El Paso Canutillo Hauler/Processor Not available.

123 10/7/2011 Esteban Ibarra El Paso El Paso Texas Department of 

State Health Services

Regional veterinarian Zoonosis Control HSR 9-10 / 

Texas Department of State Health Services
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NADB cooperation request letter 

(Spanish and English versions)


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ATTACHMENT 7

Ultimate disposal locations of 

waste tires that are being 

transported from Texas into 

Mexico
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Table 1.

Ultimate disposal locations of waste tires that are being transported from Texas into Mexico on the Texas-Mexico border 

area

General Data

Accumulated 

waste tires 

(tires) 

Directions to the site

site's coordinates 

(UTM, Datum WGS84) Elevation

Id 

# Municipality State Zone X Y (FASL) (MASL)

1 Matamoros Tamaulipas 2,250,000

"Ejido of Guadalupe". 

Road to Reynosa Km 11.5 (7.15 

miles)

14 642436 2866898 33 10

2 Rio Bravo Tamaulipas 32,000

Taking federal highway 2 (ReynosaMatamoros) turn right 4.17 km (2.59 

miles) after "Camioneta Tahoe" road. 

Cross a ditch and continue 3.45km 

(2.14 miles), turn right and continue 

400m (0.25 miles)

14 598665 2868165 89 27

3 Reynosa Tamaulipas 200,000

Open air dump "Las Anacuas". 

Taking the Reynosa-San Fernando 

road, turn right on "Beatriz Velazco" 

(or "Puerto Escondido"), then turn left 

on "Prolongacion Boulevard Loma 

Bonita", continue 1.42Km (0.89 

miles), the road will turn right, 

continue 1.17Km (0.72 miles) and the 

disposal site is located on the right 

side of the road.

14 568689 2876212 194 59

4 Reynosa* Tamaulipas* 50,000* Open air dump "Las Calabazas"* 14* Unknown* Unknown* Unknown* Unknown*

5 Reynosa* Tamaulipas* 50,000*

Open air dump "Corrales"* UTM 

coordinates point an approximate 

location.

14* 575974.53* 2882372.51* 0* 0*
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Table 1.

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area

General Data

Accumulated 

waste tires 

(tires) 

Directions to the site

site's coordinates 

(UTM, Datum WGS84) Elevation

Id 

# Municipality State Zone X Y (FASL) (MASL)

6 Reynosa* Tamaulipas* 50,000* Open air dump "Cumbres"* 14* Unknown* Unknown* Unknown* Unknown*

7 Reynosa* Tamaulipas* 50,000* "Las Colmenas" Landfill* 14* Unknown* Unknown* Unknown* Unknown*

8 Reynosa* Tamaulipas* 50,000* "Alto Bonito" Landfill* 14* Unknown* Unknown* Unknown* Unknown*

9 Reynosa Tamaulipas 200

Km 187.5 (116.5 miles) MonterreyReynosa road. UTM coordinates 

point an approximate location.

14 558979 2880564 263 80

10 Gustavo Dias 

Ordaz Tamaulipas Unknown 

4Km (2.48 miles) taking the road to 

Monterrey from Gustavo Diaz Ordaz 

city.

14 541240 2897625 125 38

11 Camargo Tamaulipas 800

"Las Flores" colony municipal yards. 

Entering Camargo city from Reynosa 

turn right on "Acceso No. 4” Drive 

750 meters (0.465 miles) then turn 

left. Continue one block to arrive to 

the municipal grounds. UTM 

coordinates point an approximate 

location.

14 518635 2910553 164 50

12 Miguel Aleman Tamaulipas 3,000

Located on the "5 de Junio" overpass 

in "Rodriguez" colony. UTM 

coordinates point an approximate 

location.

14 496410 2920211 0 0
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Table 1.

Ultimate disposal locations of waste tires that are being transported from Texas into Mexico on the Texas-Mexico border 

area

General Data

Accumulated 

waste tires 

(tires) 

Directions to the site

site's coordinates 

(UTM, Datum WGS84) Elevation

Id 

# Municipality State Zone X Y (FASL) (MASL)

13 Guerrero Tamaulipas 200

"General Lazaro Cardenaz" street 

corner with "Adrian Gonzalez 

Gonzalez". Take "Avenida Hermanos 

Gutierrez de Lara" towards the city 

center, turn left on "sexta", and 

continue 3 blocks west. Behind the 

city's cemetery.

14 475931 2938002 325 99

14 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas

Unknown, site 

was remediated 

on year 2012 

Integral center for the handling of 

waste tires. Located on Km 18 (11.2 

miles) of national highway Mexico 85. 

Take Nuevo Laredo-Sabinas Hidalgo 

road (Mexico 85) continue 11.88km 

(7.38 miles) starting from the corner 

with "Luis Donaldo Colosio" 

boulevard, then turn left and continue 

1.5 km (0.96 miles) towards east.

14 443827 3022773 446 136

15 Anahuac Nuevo Leon 13,000

6.5 Km (4 miles) from the city center 

on the Anahuac-Nuevo Laredo road, 

on the left side.

14 392412.45 3016770 686 209

16 Cerralvo* Nuevo 

Leon* 200* Not available* 14* 445886* 2888049* Unknown* Unknown*

17 Cerralvo* Nuevo 

Leon* Unknown* Not available* 14* 442743* 2888198* Unknown* Unknown*
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Table 1.

Ultimate disposal locations of waste tires that are being transported from Texas into Mexico on the Texas-Mexico border 

area

General Data

Accumulated 

waste tires 

(tires) 

Directions to the site

site's coordinates 

(UTM, Datum WGS84) Elevation

Id 

# Municipality State Zone X Y (FASL) (MASL)

18 Cerralvo* Nuevo 

Leon* Unknown* Not available* 14* 442709* 2888207* Unknown* Unknown*

19 Cerralvo* Nuevo 

Leon* 1,500* Not available* 14* 442706* 2888060* Unknown* Unknown*

20 Sabinas 

Hidalgo*

Nuevo 

Leon* 8,000* Not available* 14* 384468* 2926343* Unknown* Unknown*

21 Los Aldamas* Nuevo 

Leon* 230* Not available* 14* 480135* 2881301* Unknown* Unknown*

22 Los Aldamas* Nuevo 

Leon* Unknown* Not available* 14* 480115* 2881384* Unknown* Unknown*

23 Los Aldamas* Nuevo 

Leon* Unknown* Not available* 14* 480099* 2881301* Unknown* Unknown*

24 General Bravo* Nuevo 

Leon* 450* Not available* 14* 481032* 2846332* Unknown* Unknown*

25 General Bravo* Nuevo 

Leon* Unknown* Not available* 14* 480653* 2846462* Unknown* Unknown*

26 General Bravo* Nuevo 

Leon* Unknown* Not available* 14* 481099* 2846526* Unknown* Unknown*

27 General Bravo* Nuevo 

Leon* Unknown* Not available* 14* 480626* 2846671* Unknown* Unknown*

28 Vallecillo* Nuevo 

Leon* 65* Not available* 14* 402210* 2948724* Unknown* Unknown*

29 Vallecillo* Nuevo 

Leon* Unknown* Not available* 14* 402182* 2948764* Unknown* Unknown*
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Table 1.

Ultimate disposal locations of waste tires that are being transported from Texas into Mexico on the Texas-Mexico border 

area

General Data

Accumulated 

waste tires 

(tires) 

Directions to the site

site's coordinates 

(UTM, Datum WGS84) Elevation

Id 

# Municipality State Zone X Y (FASL) (MASL)

30 Vallecillo* Nuevo 

Leon* Unknown* Not available* 14* 402393* 2948827* Unknown* Unknown*

31 Acuña Coahuila 200,000

Acuña-Santa Eulalia road 7.18km 

(4.46miles) from the "Emilio 

Mendoza Cisneros" overpass.

14 299864 3245347 1085 330

32 Piedras Negras Coahuila 115,500

Taking the Piedras Negras-Acuña 

road (Federal 2), turn right 7.5km 

(4.64miles) after the "Manuel Perez 

Trevino" overpass and drive north 

800m (0.5miles).

14 345497 3182226 833 254

33 Nava Coahuila 1,000 Progreso street, 2km (1.24 miles) 

west of downtown Nava. 14 328493 3143850 1049 321

34 Ojinaga Chihuahua 50,000

Taking the Chihuahua freeway turn 

right 8.4km (5.23 miles) after 

crossing the overpass with the road 

to Camargo (Avenida de la 

Juventud). The site is located 

100meters (328 feet) from the 

freeway.

13 548717 3269389 2684 818
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Table 1.

Ultimate disposal locations of waste tires that are being transported from Texas into Mexico on the Texas-Mexico border 

area

General Data

Accumulated 

waste tires 

(tires) 

Directions to the site

site's coordinates 

(UTM, Datum WGS84) Elevation

Id 

# Municipality State Zone X Y (FASL) (MASL)

35 Juarez Chihuahua 2,500,000

Located at km 27.5 (17 miles) of the 

Panamerican freeway (Mexico 45). 

Taking Mexico 45 towards the south 

turn right 6Km (3.72 miles) after 

crossing Federal 2 freeway, finally 

continue 1.5 km (0.93 miles) towards 

the west.

13 358959 3492229 4065 1239

36 Matamoros Tamaulipas 400,000

Federal Freeway number 101, Km. 

21 (75.2 miles) without number, turn 

right and follow the road 1.54Km 

(0.96 miles)

14 641485 2843741 23 7

* Means data was not confirmed with a key stakeholder, it is presented as it was obtained from previous tire pile inventories mentioned on Chapter 3 and public 

Geographical Information Systems.

Tire sites 16 to 30 are not located within the study's selected search area but are located within 100km from the Texas-Mexico border.

MASL = meters above sea level. FASL = feet above sea level
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Operation and management 

procedures of each waste tires 

accumulation site of the Mexican 

side of the Texas-Mexico border 

area
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Table 1.

Operation and management procedures of each waste tires accumulation site of the Mexican side of the Texas-Mexico border 

area

General Data

Number of waste 

tires accumulated

Operation and management procedures 

Id 

# Municipality State

Responsible 

of the site's 

management

Type of site Waste tires inflow 

source 

Waste tires outflow 

destiny Status

1 Matamoros Tamaulipas 2,250,000 Municipal 

government

Municipal 

Waste Tires 

Collection 

Center

All waste tires collected in 

the cleaning of drainage 

ditches, junk collection 

programs, incidentally 

collected by garbage 

trucks, disposed by 

factories, among other 

sources used to be taken 

to this collection and 

storage center by the 

municipal authorities. Site 

is currently not receiving 

waste tires, they are being 

sent to the landfill waste 

tire storage center.

Tires are sent to a cement 

kiln to be used as Tire 

Derived Fuel (TDF) in the 

city of Monterrey, state of 

Nuevo Leon, Mexico. 32,000 

waste tires were sent on the 

year 2011. 

Active

2 Rio Bravo Tamaulipas 32,000 Municipal 

government

Municipal 

Landfill and 

waste tires 

storage center

Waste tires are collected 

by the municipal 

government employees 

from people's homes and 

taken to the storage 

center. 

Non Active

3 Reynosa Tamaulipas 200,000 Municipal 

government

City open-air 

dump.

Municipal employees 

collect the waste tires 

throughout the city and 

leave them in the open air 

dump. 

On 2010 nearly 800,000 

waste tires were burned in a 

fire. 

Active
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Attachment 8

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Table 1.

Operation and management procedures of each waste tires accumulation site of the Mexican side of the Texas-Mexico border 

area

General Data

Number of waste 

tires accumulated

Operation and management procedures 

Id 

# Municipality State

Responsible 

of the site's 

management

Type of site Waste tires inflow 

source 

Waste tires outflow 

destiny Status

4 Reynosa * Tamaulipas* 50,000* Unknown*

Open air dump 

"Las 

Calabazas"*

Unknown* Unknown* Active*

5 Reynosa * Tamaulipas* 50,000* Unknown* Open air dump 

"Corrales"* Unknown* Unknown* Active*

6 Reynosa * Tamaulipas* 50,000* Unknown* Open air dump 

"Cumbres"* Unknown* Unknown* Active*

7 Reynosa * Tamaulipas* 50,000* Unknown* "Las Colmenas" 

Landfill* Unknown* Unknown* Active*

8 Reynosa * Tamaulipas* 50,000* Unknown* "Alto Bonito" 

Landfill* Unknown* Unknown* Active*

9 Reynosa Tamaulipas 200

Private 

company: 

RECO de 

Reynosa S.A. 

de C.V.

Private landfill.

Waste tires generated by 

their own vehicles or 

accidentally introduced 

into garbage collecting 

trucks.

Waste tires are used within 

the landfill to delineate 

roads, to create planters and 

when 100 waste tires are 

accumulated they are used 

as daily cell base. 

Inactive

10 Gustavo Dias 

Ordaz Tamaulipas Unknown Municipal government Open air dump.

Waste tires are taken and 

dumped into the municipal 

open air dump. 

Waste tires are burned as 

they arrive to the municipal 

open air dump. 

Active
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Attachment 8

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Table 1.

Operation and management procedures of each waste tires accumulation site of the Mexican side of the Texas-Mexico border 

area

General Data

Number of waste 

tires accumulated

Operation and management procedures 

Id 

# Municipality State

Responsible 

of the site's 

management

Type of site Waste tires inflow 

source 

Waste tires outflow 

destiny Status

11 Camargo Tamaulipas 800 Municipal 

government

Municipal 

Waste Tires 

Collection 

Center

Tires are collected and 

stored were the municipal 

junk yard was located 

waiting to be processed. 

Non Active

12 Miguel Aleman Tamaulipas 3,000 Municipal 

government

Provisional 

Municipal 

Waste Tires 

Collection 

Center

Tires are collected and 

stored on the municipal 

fair grounds. 

During a period of time 

waste tires were sent to 

Nuevo Laredo for their 

handling. Actually they are 

stored waiting for disposal 

due to a lack of budget. 

Active

13 Guerrero Tamaulipas 200 Municipal 

government

Municipal openair dump

Tires are collected and 

sent to the open air 

municipal dump. 

The Mexican armed forces 

use them as barricades. Also 

400 waste tires were lost 

during a fire. 

Active

14 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas

Unknown, during 

year 2012 site was 

remediated

Municipal 

government Storage center

Waste tires are collected 

on 5 mobile collection 

centers by the 

environmental municipal 

authority, taken to the 

storage center where they 

are counted.

Waste tires are shredded 

and sent to the city of Ramos 

Arizpe in the state of 

Coahuila, Mexico to be used 

as Tire Derived Fuel (TDF) in 

a cement kiln. 300,000 waste 

tires were burned during a 

fire in August 2011. 

Active
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Attachment 8

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Table 1.

Operation and management procedures of each waste tires accumulation site of the Mexican side of the Texas-Mexico border 

area

General Data

Number of waste 

tires accumulated

Operation and management procedures 

Id 

# Municipality State

Responsible 

of the site's 

management

Type of site Waste tires inflow 

source 

Waste tires outflow 

destiny Status

15 Anahuac Nuevo Leon 13,000 Municipal 

government

Municipal 

Landfill

Tires are collected by the 

municipal authorities from 

tire repair shop and stored 

in a storage center 

adjacent to the city landfill. 

Also the inhabitants 

dispose of their waste tires 

on said location.

Waste tires are sent to the 

city of Monterrey in the state 

of Nuevo Leon, Mexico were 

they are shredded and used 

as Tire Derived Fuel (TDF) in 

cement Kilns or sent to a 

state managed landfill.

Active

16 Cerralvo* Nuevo 

Leon* 200* Not available* Unknown* Unknown* Unknown* Inactive*

17 Cerralvo* Nuevo 

Leon* Unknown* Not available* Unknown* Unknown* Unknown* Unknown*

18 Cerralvo* Nuevo 

Leon* Unknown* Not available* Unknown* Unknown* Unknown* Unknown*

19 Cerralvo* Nuevo 

Leon* 1,500* Not available* Unknown* Unknown* Unknown* Inactive*

20 Sabinas Hidalgo* Nuevo 

Leon* 8,000* Not available* Unknown* Unknown* Unknown* Active*

21 Los Aldamas* Nuevo 

Leon* 230* Not available* Unknown* Unknown* Unknown* Inactive*

22 Los Aldamas* Nuevo 

Leon* Unknown* Not available* Unknown* Unknown* Unknown* Unknown*

23 Los Aldamas* Nuevo 

Leon* Unknown* Not available* Unknown* Unknown* Unknown* Unknown*
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Table 1.

Operation and management procedures of each waste tires accumulation site of the Mexican side of the Texas-Mexico border 

area

General Data

Number of waste 

tires accumulated

Operation and management procedures 

Id 

# Municipality State

Responsible 

of the site's 

management

Type of site Waste tires inflow 

source 

Waste tires outflow 

destiny Status

24 Gral. Bravo* Nuevo 

Leon* 450* Not available* Unknown* Unknown* Unknown* Active*

25 Gral. Bravo* Nuevo 

Leon* Unknown* Not available* Unknown* Unknown* Unknown* Unknown*

26 Gral. Bravo* Nuevo 

Leon* Unknown* Not available* Unknown* Unknown* Unknown* Unknown*

27 Gral. Bravo* Nuevo 

Leon* Unknown* Not available* Unknown* Unknown* Unknown* Unknown*

28 Vallecillo* Nuevo 

Leon* 65* Not available* Unknown* Unknown* Unknown* Inactive*

29 Vallecillo* Nuevo 

Leon* Unknown* Not available* Unknown* Unknown* Unknown* Unknown*

30 Vallecillo* Nuevo 

Leon* Unknown* Not available* Unknown* Unknown* Unknown* Unknown*

31 Acuña Coahuila 200,000 Municipal 

government

Municipal 

Landfill

Waste tires are taken to 

collection centers by tire 

repair shops personnel 

and by regular people 

motivated by different 

education campaigns. 

Then taken to a storage 

center by the Ecology 

municipal authorities. 

Non Active
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Table 1.

Operation and management procedures of each waste tires accumulation site of the Mexican side of the Texas-Mexico border 

area

General Data

Number of waste 

tires accumulated

Operation and management procedures 

Id 

# Municipality State

Responsible 

of the site's 

management

Type of site Waste tires inflow 

source 

Waste tires outflow 

destiny Status

32 Piedras Negras Coahuila 115,500

Promotora 

Ambiental S.A. 

De C.V.

Private landfill.

The municipal Ecology 

and Urban Image 

department picks up the 

tires throughout the city 

and takes them to the 

private company landfill.

Tires are shredded and 

buried in an exclusive cell. 

Also waste tires were 

transported, by train, to the 

city of Torreon, state of 

Coahuila, Mexico for their 

handling.

Active

33 Nava Coahuila 1,000 Municipal 

government Storage center

Tires are collected from 

tire repair shops by 

municipal workers and 

accumulated in a storage 

center adjacent to the 

municipal landfill waiting 

for an adequate disposal. 

Inhabitants also take there 

their waste tires. 

Non Active

34 Ojinaga Chihuahua 50,000 Municipal 

government Storage center

Tires are collected from 

tire repair shops by 

municipal public services 

workers and accumulated 

in a storage center 

adjacent to the municipal 

landfill waiting for an 

adequate disposal. 

Non Active
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Attachment 8

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Table 1.

Operation and management procedures of each waste tires accumulation site of the Mexican side of the Texas-Mexico border 

area

General Data

Number of waste 

tires accumulated

Operation and management procedures 

Id 

# Municipality State

Responsible 

of the site's 

management

Type of site Waste tires inflow 

source 

Waste tires outflow 

destiny Status

35 Juarez Chihuahua 2,500,000 Municipal 

government Storage center

Tires are accumulated in 

a storage center adjacent 

to the municipal landfill. 

Tires are sent to a cement 

kiln to be used as Tire 

Derived Fuel (TDF). 

Active

36 Matamoros Tamaulipas 400,000 Municipal 

government

Municipal 

landfill waste 

tire storage 

center

Waste tires collected in 

the cleaning of drainage 

ditches, junk collection 

programs, incidentally 

collected by garbage 

trucks, disposed by 

factories, among other 

sources are taken to the 

collection and storage 

center by the municipal 

authorities. 

Tires are cut in four pieces 

by a machine. Then the 

pieces are accumulated.

Active

* Means data was not confirmed with a key stakeholder, it is presented as it was obtained from previous tire pile inventories mentioned on section 2.0.1 of the Chapter 3.

Tire sites 16 to 30 are not located within the study's selected search area but are located within 100km from the Texas-Mexico border.

The information presented on this attachment was obtained through remote interviews with the key stakeholders mentioned on Attachment 1.
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ATTACHMENT 9

Ultimate disposal locations map 

of waste tires being transported 

from Texas into Mexico
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CLIENT.

TITLE. PROJECT.

LOCATION.

DATE.

DRAWN BY.

SCALE.

CHECK.

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15

4

2

5 6

7

8

31

32

14

3

11 12

19

20

33

26

25

27

23 22

17

18

29

30 10

9

24

21

16

13 28

 Ultimate 

 disposal locations 

N A D B Texas-Mexico 

Border Region

432.01 1 / 02 / 2012

E s te b a n Ib a rra

1:5'900,000

MK

RV

>1’000,000

100,000 - 1 ́000,000 500 - 9,999 <500 Non 

significant

Quantity 

unknown

Approximate amount of waste tires per pile:

1,14,34,33, 29,24.

Site ́s Identification 

Numbers

The color of the Id. number depends on 

the approximate amount of waste tires in 

the pile.

10,000 - 99,999

36

35

1

AUTH.
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ATTACHMENT 10

Geo referenced potential waste 

tire generators location list
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Attachment 10 2

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Table 1. 

Potential waste tire generators from the vehicle importation tire flow generated through 

a GIS visual search

Name-Number Municipality State

UTM coordinates

(Datum WGS84)

Zone X Y

1 Juarez Chihuahua 13 363187.97 3499995.48

2 Juarez Chihuahua 13 368348.88 3503551.81

3 Juarez Chihuahua 13 361693.84 3509923.47

4 Juarez Chihuahua 13 363271.43 3500107.5

5 Juarez Chihuahua 13 363680.81 3500508.57

6 Juarez Chihuahua 13 364146.16 3502558.98

7 Juarez Chihuahua 13 357295.85 3513128.46

8 Juarez Chihuahua 13 357342.36 3513159.67

9 Juarez Chihuahua 13 357127.06 3513108.33

10 Juarez Chihuahua 13 357015.3 3513084.66

11 Juarez Chihuahua 13 356913.85 3512905.39

12 Juarez Chihuahua 13 356624.73 3513307.63

13 Juarez Chihuahua 13 355283.77 3513366.02

14 Juarez Chihuahua 13 355128 3511714

15 Juarez Chihuahua 13 354954.14 3511593.48

16 Juarez Chihuahua 13 361242.56 3500045.74

17 Juarez Chihuahua 13 361209.11 3500010.49

18 Juarez Chihuahua 13 361127.84 3499915.5

19 Juarez Chihuahua 13 361071.54 3499732.41

20 Juarez Chihuahua 13 361136.84 3499616.15

21 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360813.99 3499227.44

22 Juarez Chihuahua 13 362753.59 3498727.33

23 Juarez Chihuahua 13 368936.31 3507037.75

24 Juarez Chihuahua 13 368894.12 3506991.66

25 Juarez Chihuahua 13 361383.53 3511007.72

26 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360949.25 3512724.77

27 Juarez Chihuahua 13 369198.87 3503572.01

28 Juarez Chihuahua 13 369018.06 3503327.04

29 Juarez Chihuahua 13 369099.17 3503393.02

30 Juarez Chihuahua 13 369179.78 3503368.62

31 Juarez Chihuahua 13 369242.64 3503419.03

32 Juarez Chihuahua 13 369245.88 3503355.1

33 Juarez Chihuahua 13 369388.3 3503395.13

34 Juarez Chihuahua 13 369522.74 3503327.88
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Table 1. 

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a GIS visual search

Name-Number Municipality State

UTM coordinates

(Datum WGS84)

Zone X Y

35 Juarez Chihuahua 13 369541.73 3503303.31

36 Juarez Chihuahua 13 369666.18 3503139.89

37 Juarez Chihuahua 13 369853.9 3503011.92

38 Juarez Chihuahua 13 369995.59 3502981.17

39 Juarez Chihuahua 13 370013.59 3502946.9

40 Juarez Chihuahua 13 370065.59 3502955.36

41 Juarez Chihuahua 13 370110.49 3502942.38

42 Juarez Chihuahua 13 370273.35 3502916.4

43 Juarez Chihuahua 13 370479.03 3502937.83

44 Juarez Chihuahua 13 370451.52 3502986.33

45 Juarez Chihuahua 13 370354.39 3503013.03

46 Juarez Chihuahua 13 368919.17 3503473.6

47 Juarez Chihuahua 13 368467.46 3503377.01

48 Juarez Chihuahua 13 368404.51 3503397.46

49 Juarez Chihuahua 13 368347.5 3503395.23

50 Juarez Chihuahua 13 368430.3 3503543.32

51 Juarez Chihuahua 13 354807.77 3516163.9

52 Juarez Chihuahua 13 354912.74 3516122.16

53 Juarez Chihuahua 13 354932.35 3516313.89

54 Juarez Chihuahua 13 354985.33 3516309.07

55 Juarez Chihuahua 13 355033.36 3516300.53

56 Juarez Chihuahua 13 355053.24 3516296.05

57 Juarez Chihuahua 13 354992.66 3516217.57

58 Juarez Chihuahua 13 355051.98 3516204.95

59 Juarez Chihuahua 13 355078.81 3516213.11

60 Juarez Chihuahua 13 355762.06 3515500.8

61 Juarez Chihuahua 13 354837.06 3515021.61

62 Juarez Chihuahua 13 354854.72 3515017.91

63 Juarez Chihuahua 13 355249.53 3515570.66

64 Juarez Chihuahua 13 355439.44 3515191.78

65 Juarez Chihuahua 13 363253.94 3503987.31

66 Juarez Chihuahua 13 363208.41 3503729.15

67 Juarez Chihuahua 13 365129.95 3504373.04

68 Juarez Chihuahua 13 364864.3 3504664.61
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Table 1. 

Potential waste tire generators from the vehicle importation tire flow generated through 

a GIS visual search

Name-Number Municipality State

UTM coordinates

(Datum WGS84)

Zone X Y

69 Juarez Chihuahua 13 363314.86 3505139.94

70 Juarez Chihuahua 13 359653.66 3513273.92

71 Juarez Chihuahua 13 359545.67 3510896.24

72 Juarez Chihuahua 13 364029.04 3509256.55

73 Juarez Chihuahua 13 363311.89 3507976.68

74 Juarez Chihuahua 13 363399.99 3507540.32

75 Juarez Chihuahua 13 361673.07 3496458.05

76 Juarez Chihuahua 13 361596.99 3496622.39

77 Juarez Chihuahua 13 361551.42 3496659.6

78 Juarez Chihuahua 13 361525.56 3496679.58

79 Juarez Chihuahua 13 361464.23 3496831.4

80 Juarez Chihuahua 13 361464.92 3496796.62

81 Juarez Chihuahua 13 361534.45 3496871.09

82 Juarez Chihuahua 13 361764.46 3496350.59

83 Juarez Chihuahua 13 361760.15 3496439.79

84 Juarez Chihuahua 13 361838.48 3496552.01

85 Juarez Chihuahua 13 361988 3496611

86 Juarez Chihuahua 13 363158.87 3499861.24

87 Juarez Chihuahua 13 363213.56 3499979.52

88 Juarez Chihuahua 13 363263.66 3500079.62

89 Juarez Chihuahua 13 363286.09 3500132.5

90 Juarez Chihuahua 13 363288.4 3500167.23

91 Juarez Chihuahua 13 363175.23 3500155.36

92 Juarez Chihuahua 13 363388.17 3500420.24

93 Juarez Chihuahua 13 363298.27 3500509.35

94 Juarez Chihuahua 13 363578.52 3500491.97

95 Juarez Chihuahua 13 363091.42 3502873.49

96 Juarez Chihuahua 13 363061.61 3502799.2

97 Juarez Chihuahua 13 363059.52 3503138.61

98 Juarez Chihuahua 13 361158 3495291

99 Juarez Chihuahua 13 361618 3496357

100 Juarez Chihuahua 13 352898 3498484

101 Juarez Chihuahua 13 353460 3498567

102 Juarez Chihuahua 13 353575 3498580
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Table 1. 

Potential waste tire generators from the vehicle importation tire flow generated through 

a GIS visual search

Name-Number Municipality State

UTM coordinates

(Datum WGS84)

Zone X Y

103 Juarez Chihuahua 13 354125 3498708

104 Juarez Chihuahua 13 354530 3498521

105 Juarez Chihuahua 13 354570 3498553

106 Juarez Chihuahua 13 354682 3498575

107 Juarez Chihuahua 13 354840 3498751

108 Juarez Chihuahua 13 354827 3498531

109 Juarez Chihuahua 13 354921 3498817

110 Juarez Chihuahua 13 354937 3498708

111 Juarez Chihuahua 13 355017 3498691

112 Juarez Chihuahua 13 355475 3499413

113 Juarez Chihuahua 13 356101 3498711

114 Juarez Chihuahua 13 356243 3498652

115 Juarez Chihuahua 13 356736 3498340

116 Juarez Chihuahua 13 357231 3498105

117 Juarez Chihuahua 13 357568 3497915

118 Juarez Chihuahua 13 357976 3497864

119 Juarez Chihuahua 13 358636 3497699

120 Juarez Chihuahua 13 359117 3497772

121 Juarez Chihuahua 13 359312 3497701

122 Juarez Chihuahua 13 359343 3497792

123 Juarez Chihuahua 13 359396 3497809

124 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360004 3497713

125 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360176 3497618

126 Juarez Chihuahua 13 359802 3498147

127 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360285 3498046

128 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360447 3498163

129 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360340 3497982

130 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360251 3497971

131 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360267 3497935

132 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360755 3497789

133 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360664 3497984

134 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360849 3497909

135 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360972 3498005

136 Juarez Chihuahua 13 361118 3497972
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Table 1. 

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a GIS visual search

Name-Number Municipality State

UTM coordinates

(Datum WGS84)

Zone X Y

137 Juarez Chihuahua 13 361284 3497882

138 Juarez Chihuahua 13 362632 3497685

139 Juarez Chihuahua 13 362591 3497852

140 Juarez Chihuahua 13 362181 3498063

141 Juarez Chihuahua 13 362246 3498379

142 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360595 3492948

143 Juarez Chihuahua 13 372345 3500726

144 Juarez Chihuahua 13 372296 3501205

145 Juarez Chihuahua 13 372279 3501288

146 Juarez Chihuahua 13 372061 3501316

147 Juarez Chihuahua 13 372280 3501361

148 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360831 3494314

149 Juarez Chihuahua 13 361663 3495882

150 Juarez Chihuahua 13 361831 3496114

151 Juarez Chihuahua 13 361885 3496008

152 Juarez Chihuahua 13 361780 3496691

153 Juarez Chihuahua 13 361757 3496848

154 Juarez Chihuahua 13 362043 3496665

155 Juarez Chihuahua 13 361517 3497081

156 Juarez Chihuahua 13 376046 3496427

157 Juarez Chihuahua 13 375459 3497745

158 Juarez Chihuahua 13 375430 3497835

159 Juarez Chihuahua 13 375364 3497924

160 Juarez Chihuahua 13 374077 3499598

161 Juarez Chihuahua 13 373732 3499684

162 Juarez Chihuahua 13 373255 3500913

163 Juarez Chihuahua 13 373012 3501057

164 Juarez Chihuahua 13 371566 3504452

165 Juarez Chihuahua 13 372525 3504628

166 Juarez Chihuahua 13 354317 3498350

167 Juarez Chihuahua 13 354389 3498339

168 Juarez Chihuahua 13 351994 3497288

169 Juarez Chihuahua 13 356414 3515331

170 Juarez Chihuahua 13 356570 3515315
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Table 1. 

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a GIS visual search

Name-Number Municipality State

UTM coordinates

(Datum WGS84)

Zone X Y

171 Juarez Chihuahua 13 355716 3512457

172 Juarez Chihuahua 13 355711 3512517

173 Juarez Chihuahua 13 355625 3512578

174 Juarez Chihuahua 13 355655 3512593

175 Juarez Chihuahua 13 355504 3515231

176 Juarez Chihuahua 13 355099 3516288

177 Juarez Chihuahua 13 355101 3512478

178 Juarez Chihuahua 13 355254 3512427

179 Juarez Chihuahua 13 355308 3512407

180 Juarez Chihuahua 13 355164 3512238

181 Juarez Chihuahua 13 354171 3513049

182 Juarez Chihuahua 13 354220 3513079

183 Juarez Chihuahua 13 353906 3511327

184 Juarez Chihuahua 13 354099 3513416

185 Juarez Chihuahua 13 358074 3512251

186 Juarez Chihuahua 13 357802 3510001

187 Juarez Chihuahua 13 357778 3509785

188 Juarez Chihuahua 13 357719 3509594

189 Juarez Chihuahua 13 357420 3509275

190 Juarez Chihuahua 13 357337 3509257

191 Juarez Chihuahua 13 357343 3509320

192 Juarez Chihuahua 13 357265 3509213

193 Juarez Chihuahua 13 357442 3508926

194 Juarez Chihuahua 13 358301 3510654

195 Juarez Chihuahua 13 358484 3509904

196 Juarez Chihuahua 13 358616 3510225

197 Juarez Chihuahua 13 359027 3510290

198 Juarez Chihuahua 13 359401 3508701

199 Juarez Chihuahua 13 358802 3507893

200 Juarez Chihuahua 13 358774 3506922

201 Juarez Chihuahua 13 359677 3508150

202 Juarez Chihuahua 13 359790 3508345

203 Juarez Chihuahua 13 359986 3508516

204 Juarez Chihuahua 13 359852 3508086
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Table 1. 

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a GIS visual search

Name-Number Municipality State

UTM coordinates

(Datum WGS84)

Zone X Y

205 Juarez Chihuahua 13 359746 3508056

206 Juarez Chihuahua 13 359729 3507758

207 Juarez Chihuahua 13 359410 3507574

208 Juarez Chihuahua 13 358763 3506053

209 Juarez Chihuahua 13 359321 3506907

210 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360273 3508320

211 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360942 3508749

212 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360899 3508634

213 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360577 3508271

214 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360407 3508262

215 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360201 3508088

216 Juarez Chihuahua 13 359992 3507832

217 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360112 3507724

218 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360157 3507694

219 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360237 3507686

220 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360251 3507719

221 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360296 3507804

222 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360577 3507714

223 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360753 3507721

224 Juarez Chihuahua 13 361777 3508457

225 Juarez Chihuahua 13 361720 3508419

226 Juarez Chihuahua 13 361666 3508333

227 Juarez Chihuahua 13 361398 3508306

228 Juarez Chihuahua 13 361366 3508284

229 Juarez Chihuahua 13 361444 3508210

230 Juarez Chihuahua 13 361337 3508142

231 Juarez Chihuahua 13 361267 3508098

232 Juarez Chihuahua 13 361301 3508006

233 Juarez Chihuahua 13 361251 3507916

234 Juarez Chihuahua 13 361136 3507902

235 Juarez Chihuahua 13 361082 3507877

236 Juarez Chihuahua 13 361022 3507840

237 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360953 3507858

238 Juarez Chihuahua 13 361063 3507751
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Table 1. 

Potential waste tire generators from the vehicle importation tire flow generated through 

a GIS visual search

Name-Number Municipality State

UTM coordinates

(Datum WGS84)

Zone X Y

239 Juarez Chihuahua 13 361038 3507733

240 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360923 3507773

241 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360896 3507756

242 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360812 3507711

243 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360753 3507589

244 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360720 3507611

245 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360731 3507567

246 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360669 3507617

247 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360747 3507547

248 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360578 3507540

249 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360716 3507237

250 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360555 3507557

251 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360503 3507613

252 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360509 3507508

253 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360415 3507363

254 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360425 3507414

255 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360602 3507370

256 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360673 3507270

257 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360806 3507330

258 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360766 3507431

259 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360834 3507460

260 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360924 3507422

261 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360989 3507490

262 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360997 3507463

263 Juarez Chihuahua 13 361073 3507457

264 Juarez Chihuahua 13 359839 3506830

265 Juarez Chihuahua 13 359834 3506768

266 Juarez Chihuahua 13 359917 3506576

267 Juarez Chihuahua 13 359954 3506638

268 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360061 3506927

269 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360024 3506950

270 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360245 3507084

271 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360280 3507057

272 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360130 3507147
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Table 1. 

Potential waste tire generators from the vehicle importation tire flow generated through 

a GIS visual search

Name-Number Municipality State

UTM coordinates

(Datum WGS84)

Zone X Y

273 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360081 3507357

274 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360090 3507398

275 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360203 3507418

276 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360131 3507625

277 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360078 3507698

278 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360334 3504669

279 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360271 3504951

280 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360058 3505249

281 Juarez Chihuahua 13 359961 3506078

282 Juarez Chihuahua 13 359776 3506539

283 Juarez Chihuahua 13 359693 3506878

284 Juarez Chihuahua 13 359658 3506930

285 Juarez Chihuahua 13 359563 3506841

286 Juarez Chihuahua 13 359615 3507244

287 Juarez Chihuahua 13 359618 3507183

288 Juarez Chihuahua 13 359613 3507202

289 Juarez Chihuahua 13 359643 3507640

290 Juarez Chihuahua 13 359958 3507684

291 Juarez Chihuahua 13 359897 3507680

292 Juarez Chihuahua 13 359839 3507675

293 Juarez Chihuahua 13 359558 3506513

294 Juarez Chihuahua 13 359613 3506207

295 Juarez Chihuahua 13 359761 3505655

296 Juarez Chihuahua 13 359879 3505488

297 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360015 3505156

298 Juarez Chihuahua 13 359978 3504805

299 Juarez Chihuahua 13 361385 3507762

300 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360336 3506933

301 Juarez Chihuahua 13 361858 3508405

302 Juarez Chihuahua 13 361929 3508448

303 Juarez Chihuahua 13 361549 3508576

304 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360277 3507145

305 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360807 3508009

306 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360805 3508036
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Attachment 1011

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Table 1. 

Potential waste tire generators from the vehicle importation tire flow generated through 

a GIS visual search

Name-Number Municipality State

UTM coordinates

(Datum WGS84)

Zone X Y

307 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360778 3508077

308 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360833 3508013

309 Juarez Chihuahua 13 361136 3508703

310 Juarez Chihuahua 13 359537 3508037

311 Juarez Chihuahua 13 359576 3508059

312 Juarez Chihuahua 13 361455 3505383

313 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360641 3505473

314 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360819 3505479

315 Juarez Chihuahua 13 361112 3505334

316 Juarez Chihuahua 13 362922 3504898

317 Juarez Chihuahua 13 362396 3504985

318 Juarez Chihuahua 13 361661 3505044

319 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360560 3505057

320 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360338 3505033

321 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360264 3505060

322 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360116 3505121

323 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360702 3504804

324 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360782 3504838

325 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360909 3504912

326 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360888 3504833

327 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360853 3504728

328 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360445 3504704

329 Juarez Chihuahua 13 361475 3504454

330 Juarez Chihuahua 13 361447 3504443

331 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360794 3504486

332 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360804 3504469

333 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360489 3504513

334 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360593 3504460

335 Juarez Chihuahua 13 362048 3506080

336 Juarez Chihuahua 13 362221 3506606

337 Juarez Chihuahua 13 361686 3506758

338 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360202 3506634

339 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360419 3506917

340 Juarez Chihuahua 13 362247 3507756
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Table 1. 

Potential waste tire generators from the vehicle importation tire flow generated through 

a GIS visual search

Name-Number Municipality State

UTM coordinates

(Datum WGS84)

Zone X Y

341 Juarez Chihuahua 13 363220 3503777

342 Juarez Chihuahua 13 363667 3505590

343 Juarez Chihuahua 13 363710 3505739

344 Juarez Chihuahua 13 363728 3505867

345 Juarez Chihuahua 13 363427 3506883

346 Juarez Chihuahua 13 363374 3502973

347 Juarez Chihuahua 13 363630 3502886

348 Juarez Chihuahua 13 364009 3502585

349 Juarez Chihuahua 13 364318 3502588

350 Juarez Chihuahua 13 364349 3502659

351 Juarez Chihuahua 13 364179 3502318

352 Juarez Chihuahua 13 364666 3503468

353 Juarez Chihuahua 13 364614 3503541

354 Juarez Chihuahua 13 365146 3505730

355 Juarez Chihuahua 13 365132 3506058

356 Juarez Chihuahua 13 365307 3502617

357 Juarez Chihuahua 13 365739 3503388

358 Juarez Chihuahua 13 366025 3504242

359 Juarez Chihuahua 13 366660 3504309

360 Juarez Chihuahua 13 366874 3504423

361 Juarez Chihuahua 13 366718 3502835

362 Juarez Chihuahua 13 366691 3502828

363 Juarez Chihuahua 13 366695 3502889

364 Juarez Chihuahua 13 370600 3502435

365 Juarez Chihuahua 13 370397 3502120

366 Juarez Chihuahua 13 370360 3502089

367 Juarez Chihuahua 13 367903 3501598

368 Juarez Chihuahua 13 366867 3501226

369 Juarez Chihuahua 13 367200 3501055

370 Juarez Chihuahua 13 366863 3501177

371 Juarez Chihuahua 13 366791 3501745

372 Juarez Chihuahua 13 366537 3502245

373 Juarez Chihuahua 13 366622 3502296

374 Juarez Chihuahua 13 366497 3502375
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Table 1. 

Potential waste tire generators from the vehicle importation tire flow generated through 

a GIS visual search

Name-Number Municipality State

UTM coordinates

(Datum WGS84)

Zone X Y

375 Juarez Chihuahua 13 366982 3503300

376 Juarez Chihuahua 13 366205 3502810

377 Juarez Chihuahua 13 366107 3502873

378 Juarez Chihuahua 13 366105 3502808

379 Juarez Chihuahua 13 366209 3503325

380 Juarez Chihuahua 13 366425 3503887

381 Juarez Chihuahua 13 366298 3504101

382 Juarez Chihuahua 13 366490 3503846

383 Juarez Chihuahua 13 366531 3503789

384 Juarez Chihuahua 13 366522 3503385

385 Juarez Chihuahua 13 366383 3502714

386 Juarez Chihuahua 13 366627 3502579

387 Juarez Chihuahua 13 366689 3502593

388 Juarez Chihuahua 13 366617 3503195

389 Juarez Chihuahua 13 366680 3503190

390 Juarez Chihuahua 13 366699 3503648

391 Juarez Chihuahua 13 366713 3504109

392 Juarez Chihuahua 13 366916 3503824

393 Juarez Chihuahua 13 367115 3503271

394 Juarez Chihuahua 13 367076 3502910

395 Juarez Chihuahua 13 367107 3503529

396 Juarez Chihuahua 13 367084 3503916

397 Juarez Chihuahua 13 367173 3504031

398 Juarez Chihuahua 13 366983 3504127

399 Juarez Chihuahua 13 359454 3511374

400 Juarez Chihuahua 13 359841 3510397

401 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360180 3509818

402 Juarez Chihuahua 13 362094 3508372

403 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360250 3510067

404 Juarez Chihuahua 13 362348 3510168

405 Juarez Chihuahua 13 362415 3510202

406 Juarez Chihuahua 13 362430 3510448

407 Juarez Chihuahua 13 362190 3510329

408 Juarez Chihuahua 13 362032 3510497
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Table 1. 

Potential waste tire generators from the vehicle importation tire flow generated through 

a GIS visual search

Name-Number Municipality State

UTM coordinates

(Datum WGS84)

Zone X Y

409 Juarez Chihuahua 13 361567 3510102

410 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360273 3511972

411 Juarez Chihuahua 13 361504 3510510

412 Juarez Chihuahua 13 359910 3512632

413 Juarez Chihuahua 13 361543 3511531

414 Juarez Chihuahua 13 361522 3511405

415 Juarez Chihuahua 13 363387 3507806

416 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360750 3512067

417 Juarez Chihuahua 13 365293 3508287

418 Juarez Chihuahua 13 363863 3509592

419 Juarez Chihuahua 13 364934 3508872

420 Juarez Chihuahua 13 364094 3509726

421 Juarez Chihuahua 13 365119 3509501

422 Juarez Chihuahua 13 368492 3505795

423 Juarez Chihuahua 13 369441 3506896

424 Juarez Chihuahua 13 371656 3504862

425 Juarez Chihuahua 13 369812 3506429

426 Juarez Chihuahua 13 369396 3506677

427 Juarez Chihuahua 13 369746 3506018

428 Juarez Chihuahua 13 370829 3503251

429 Juarez Chihuahua 13 370325 3502880

430 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360390 3512965

431 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360621 3513082

432 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360901 3513115

433 Juarez Chihuahua 13 366498 3509156

434 Juarez Chihuahua 13 365322 3512693

435 Juarez Chihuahua 13 361272 3512761

436 Juarez Chihuahua 13 363549 3513021

437 Juarez Chihuahua 13 363878 3512855

438 Juarez Chihuahua 13 372124 3501375

439 Juarez Chihuahua 13 371049 3497907

440 Juarez Chihuahua 13 367003 3495946

441 Juarez Chihuahua 13 359760 3504971

442 Juarez Chihuahua 13 359517 3502814
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Table 1. 

Potential waste tire generators from the vehicle importation tire flow generated through 

a GIS visual search

Name-Number Municipality State

UTM coordinates

(Datum WGS84)

Zone X Y

443 Juarez Chihuahua 13 359498 3502992

444 Juarez Chihuahua 13 359170 3503079

445 Juarez Chihuahua 13 359017 3502918

446 Juarez Chihuahua 13 359039 3502978

447 Juarez Chihuahua 13 358927 3502934

448 Juarez Chihuahua 13 358955 3503059

449 Juarez Chihuahua 13 358840 3503404

450 Juarez Chihuahua 13 358989 3503044

451 Juarez Chihuahua 13 362159 3498172

452 Juarez Chihuahua 13 362504 3501501

453 Juarez Chihuahua 13 362170 3501467

454 Juarez Chihuahua 13 363518 3502512

455 Juarez Chihuahua 13 363565 3502483

456 Juarez Chihuahua 13 363760 3502522

457 Juarez Chihuahua 13 363387 3502636

458 Juarez Chihuahua 13 363282 3502602

459 Juarez Chihuahua 13 363312 3502763

460 Juarez Chihuahua 13 362906 3502825

461 Juarez Chihuahua 13 361997 3503331

462 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360523 3504179

463 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360409 3504251

464 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360014 3504340

465 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360527 3504445

466 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360640 3504206

467 Juarez Chihuahua 13 361153 3504080

468 Juarez Chihuahua 13 362593 3503791

469 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360334 3504085

470 Juarez Chihuahua 13 361098 3497169

471 Juarez Chihuahua 13 360973 3497358

472 Juarez Chihuahua 13 361601.64 3495455.6

473 Juarez Chihuahua 13 363367.75 3511240.82

474 Juarez Chihuahua 13 363136.35 3499810.88

475 Juarez Chihuahua 13 361602.62 3511931.5

476 Juarez Chihuahua 13 359888.4 3505970.69
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Table 1. 

Potential waste tire generators from the vehicle importation tire flow generated through 

a GIS visual search

Name-Number Municipality State

UTM coordinates

(Datum WGS84)

Zone X Y

477 Juarez Chihuahua 13 359718.52 3506850.51

478 Juarez Chihuahua 13 362798.57 3510223.93

479 Juarez Chihuahua 13 357949.85 3514266.41

480 Juarez Chihuahua 13 362971.35 3504592.95

481 Juarez Chihuahua 13 357171.01 3513186.92

482 Juarez Chihuahua 13 371489.58 3503430.56

483 Juarez Chihuahua 13 364570.82 3503848.05

484 Juarez Chihuahua 13 361896.93 3508180.03

485 Ojinaga Chihuahua 13 555975 3265530

486 Ojinaga Chihuahua 13 555952 3267084

487 Ojinaga Chihuahua 13 555607 3268614

488 Ojinaga Chihuahua 13 555785 3269365

489 Ojinaga Chihuahua 13 554299 3268246

490 Ojinaga Chihuahua 13 554929 3268702

491 Ojinaga Chihuahua 13 555344 3267453

492 Ojinaga Chihuahua 13 554973 3267648

493 Ojinaga Chihuahua 13 554246 3267911

494 Ojinaga Chihuahua 13 556705 3267112

495 Ojinaga Chihuahua 13 558667 3268275

496 Ojinaga Chihuahua 13 558017 3268824

497 Ojinaga Chihuahua 13 555991 3268250

498 Ojinaga Chihuahua 13 557781 3269228

499 Ojinaga Chihuahua 13 557824 3270104

500 Ojinaga Chihuahua 13 556004 3269559

501 Ojinaga Chihuahua 13 554707 3268839

502 Acuña Coahuila 14 309125.51 3246423.84

503 Acuña Coahuila 14 304989.74 3246888.05

504 Acuña Coahuila 14 305664.27 3247018.18

505 Acuña Coahuila 14 308374.85 3245458.68

506 Acuña Coahuila 14 309658.64 3245400.69

507 Acuña Coahuila 14 309057.71 3245594.18

508 Acuña Coahuila 14 308754.86 3245940.87

509 Acuña Coahuila 14 308323.71 3245822.03

510 Acuña Coahuila 14 307973.2 3245751.81
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Table 1. 

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a GIS visual search

Name-Number Municipality State

UTM coordinates

(Datum WGS84)

Zone X Y

511 Acuña Coahuila 14 314858 3241657

512 Acuña Coahuila 14 312656 3244566

513 Acuña Coahuila 14 310062 3246429

514 Acuña Coahuila 14 314112 3239863

515 Acuña Coahuila 14 314225 3240939

516 Acuña Coahuila 14 311603 3243322

517 Acuña Coahuila 14 310949 3243480

518 Acuña Coahuila 14 310849 3243546

519 Acuña Coahuila 14 309902 3243733

520 Acuña Coahuila 14 310365 3244594

521 Acuña Coahuila 14 311041 3246371

522 Acuña Coahuila 14 308272 3245679

523 Acuña Coahuila 14 308015 3245707

524 Acuña Coahuila 14 307390 3244916

525 Acuña Coahuila 14 308019 3246538

526 Acuña Coahuila 14 306307 3246002

527 Anahuac Nuevo Leon 14 386286 3012261

528 Anahuac Nuevo Leon 14 385708 3011458

529 Anahuac Nuevo Leon 14 385616 3011604

530 Anahuac Nuevo Leon 14 386146 3012714

531 Anahuac Nuevo Leon 14 388368 3014430

532 Anahuac Nuevo Leon 14 387001 3013825

533 Camargo Tamaulipas 14 520694 2908654

534 Camargo Tamaulipas 14 515565 2912120

535 Guerrero Tamaulipas 14 476679 2937342

536 Guerrero Tamaulipas 14 476208 2937733

537 Guerrero Tamaulipas 14 477897 2937796

538

Gustavo Diaz 

Ordaz Tamaulipas 14 540291 2899917

539

Gustavo Diaz 

Ordaz Tamaulipas 14 540675 2899167

540

Gustavo Diaz 

Ordaz Tamaulipas 14 540480 2900083

541

Gustavo Diaz 

Ordaz Tamaulipas 14 539361 2901204
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Table 1. 

Potential waste tire generators from the vehicle importation tire flow generated through 

a GIS visual search

Name-Number Municipality State

UTM coordinates

(Datum WGS84)

Zone X Y

542

Gustavo Diaz 

Ordaz Tamaulipas 14 540508 2900850

543

Gustavo Diaz 

Ordaz Tamaulipas 14 540579 2900179

544 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 646234 2865330

545 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 646404 2865155

546 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 646424 2865041

547 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 647051 2864629

548 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 647229 2864467

549 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 647175 2864400

550 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 647514 2864144

551 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 640301 2860880

552 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 635639 2859995

553 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 647119 2852460

554 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 647824 2853765

555 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 647844 2854151

556 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 648235 2855036

557 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 648735 2857026

558 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 648797 2856958

559 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 649270 2855730

560 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 649566 2855976

561 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 650258 2857213

562 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 650221 2857370

563 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 650205 2857849

564 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 650244 2857935

565 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 650655 2858387

566 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 650655 2858484

567 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 650553 2858556

568 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 647906 2855612

569 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 647541 2855636

570 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 647205 2855446

571 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 647047 2855588

572 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 646786 2855576

573 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 643817 2866815
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Table 1. 

Potential waste tire generators from the vehicle importation tire flow generated through 

a GIS visual search

Name-Number Municipality State

UTM coordinates

(Datum WGS84)

Zone X Y

574 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 644031 2866916

575 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 644249 2866744

576 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 644355 2866686

577 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 644542 2866610

578 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 646712 2857422

579 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 646321 2857360

580 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 645974 2857779

581 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 648299 2856984

582 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 646862 2858176

583 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 646897 2858418

584 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 645968 2850811

585 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 651994 2860998

586 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 641200 2868358

587 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 653209 2860886

588 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 610182 2868222

589 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 610182 2868222

590 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 612715 2867397

591 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 612715 2867397

592 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 618108 2864471

593 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 618108 2864471

594 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 622279 2868913

595 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 622279 2868913

596 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 622441 2869105

597 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 622441 2869105

598 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 624774 2874339

599 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 624774 2874339

600 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 659664 2858366

601 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 659664 2858366

602 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 654883 2861320

603 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 654883 2861320

604 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 658581 2858066

605 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 658581 2858066

606 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 651385 2862382

607 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 651385 2862382
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Table 1. 

Potential waste tire generators from the vehicle importation tire flow generated through 

a GIS visual search

Name-Number Municipality State

UTM coordinates

(Datum WGS84)

Zone X Y

608 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 652618 2859881

609 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 652618 2859881

610 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 651754 2861229

611 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 651754 2861229

612 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 654282 2857272

613 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 654282 2857272

614 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 653373 2858319

615 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 653373 2858319

616 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 652462 2858555

617 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 652462 2858555

618 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 651540 2859656

619 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 651540 2859656

620 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 651411 2859635

621 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 651411 2859635

622 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 651573 2860251

623 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 651573 2860251

624 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 651049 2859034

625 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 651049 2859034

626 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 651256 2858571

627 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 651256 2858571

628 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 650193 2858811

629 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 650193 2858811

630 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 649488 2853813

631 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 649488 2853813

632 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 649491 2852706

633 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 649491 2852706

634 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 648046 2853696

635 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 648046 2853696

636 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 647763 2853656

637 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 647763 2853656

638 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 647518 2853267

639 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 647518 2853267

640 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 646997 2853936

641 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 646997 2853936
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Table 1. 

Potential waste tire generators from the vehicle importation tire flow generated through 

a GIS visual search

Name-Number Municipality State

UTM coordinates

(Datum WGS84)

Zone X Y

642 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 649840 2854467

643 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 649840 2854467

644 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 649422 2854304

645 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 649422 2854304

646 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 648112 2854820

647 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 648112 2854820

648 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 648120 2855049

649 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 648120 2855049

650 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 648393 2855374

651 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 648393 2855374

652 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 648164 2855298

653 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 648164 2855298

654 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 649312 2855658

655 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 649312 2855658

656 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 647502 2855553

657 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 647502 2855553

658 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 648942 2855487

659 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 646990 2855572

660 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 646853 2855359

661 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 648514 2855871

662 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 650575 2856639

663 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 650202 2857134

664 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 650245 2857123

665 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 646381 2857608

666 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 646270 2857597

667 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 649583 2858221

668 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 649969 2858295

669 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 650142 2858832

670 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 645904 2857624

671 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 645073 2857890

672 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 647144 2860380

673 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 645490 2861933

674 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 645434 2861796

675 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 647572 2863206
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Table 1. 

Potential waste tire generators from the vehicle importation tire flow generated through 

a GIS visual search

Name-Number Municipality State

UTM coordinates

(Datum WGS84)

Zone X Y

676 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 647474 2863138

677 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 644888 2862058

678 Matamoros Tamaulipas 14 641150 2861092

679 Miguel Aleman Tamaulipas 14 489472 2919669

680 Miguel Aleman Tamaulipas 14 490981 2918872

681 Miguel Aleman Tamaulipas 14 491723 2918951

682 Miguel Aleman Tamaulipas 14 491792 2918914

683 Miguel Aleman Tamaulipas 14 491683 2918829

684 Miguel Aleman Tamaulipas 14 491581 2919121

685 Miguel Aleman Tamaulipas 14 492436 2919306

686 Miguel Aleman Tamaulipas 14 493089 2919335

687 Miguel Aleman Tamaulipas 14 493295 2919214

688 Miguel Aleman Tamaulipas 14 494399 2919529

689 Miguel Aleman Tamaulipas 14 494444 2919507

690 Miguel Aleman Tamaulipas 14 494464 2919596

691 Miguel Aleman Tamaulipas 14 494695 2919440

692 Miguel Aleman Tamaulipas 14 502442 2917890

693 Miguel Aleman Tamaulipas 14 497542 2918757

694 Miguel Aleman Tamaulipas 14 497228 2918814

695 Miguel Aleman Tamaulipas 14 494901 2919446

696 Miguel Aleman Tamaulipas 14 495028 2918712

697 Miguel Aleman Tamaulipas 14 491297 2918290

698 Miguel Aleman Tamaulipas 14 490982 2919077

699 Miguel Aleman Tamaulipas 14 493465 2919255

700 Miguel Aleman Tamaulipas 14 495523 2917294

701 Miguel Aleman Tamaulipas 14 495287 2917418

702 Miguel Aleman Tamaulipas 14 495871 2916816

703 Miguel Aleman Tamaulipas 14 496086 2917004

704 Miguel Aleman Tamaulipas 14 495874 2917088

705 Miguel Aleman Tamaulipas 14 496251 2920234

706 Miguel Aleman Tamaulipas 14 496191 2919771

707 Miguel Aleman Tamaulipas 14 496576 2917250

708 Miguel Aleman Tamaulipas 14 496594 2917085

709 Miguel Aleman Tamaulipas 14 496607 2917190
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Table 1. 

Potential waste tire generators from the vehicle importation tire flow generated through 

a GIS visual search

Name-Number Municipality State

UTM coordinates

(Datum WGS84)

Zone X Y

710 Miguel Aleman Tamaulipas 14 496492 2916904

711 Miguel Aleman Tamaulipas 14 496523 2916759

712 Miguel Aleman Tamaulipas 14 497116 2917332

713 Nava Coahuila 14 327641.05 3145112.36

714 Nava Coahuila 14 328536 3147815

715 Nava Coahuila 14 328298 3147624

716 Nava Coahuila 14 328235 3147582

717 Nava Coahuila 14 328878 3144244

718 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 446531.21 3039323.19

719 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 446550.81 3039374.9

720 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 446471.2 3039319.96

721 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 446553.18 3039423.51

722 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 446563.23 3039534.24

723 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 446711.55 3039528.77

724 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 446755.51 3039505.9

725 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 444218.41 3038419.32

726 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 444237.5 3038775.08

727 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 444051.25 3039025.18

728 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 444052.63 3039530.38

729 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 443733.2 3040382.04

730 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 443913.71 3040405.83

731 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 444158.51 3040602.31

732 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 442759.41 3040139.64

733 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 442677.65 3040195.08

734 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 442856.83 3040143.28

735 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 443862.07 3041300.67

736 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 443869.25 3041260.66

737 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 443864.21 3041225.93

738 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 443867.89 3041185.59

739 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 443863.51 3041157.73

740 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 443877.37 3041127.43

741 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 444018.83 3042042.84

742 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 444009.72 3042097.21

743 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 444025.1 3042127.72
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Table 1. 

Potential waste tire generators from the vehicle importation tire flow generated through 

a GIS visual search

Name-Number Municipality State

UTM coordinates

(Datum WGS84)

Zone X Y

744 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 444352.2 3043092.73

745 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 444567.83 3043599.87

746 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 447625.37 3029442.48

747 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 448793.18 3034515.94

748 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 449229.45 3039611.32

749 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 445272.76 3041998.25

750 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 445827.27 3041362.1

751 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 445870.9 3041353.92

752 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 445892.4 3041311.35

753 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 442796 3022473

754 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 443702 3022791

755 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 442440 3023173

756 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 443441 3025629

757 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 443484 3025661

758 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 443509 3025706

759 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 443505 3025789

760 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 443543 3025852

761 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 443903 3026502

762 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 443943 3026577

763 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 443981 3026633

764 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 443977 3026718

765 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 443981 3026767

766 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 444074 3026851

767 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 444120 3026918

768 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 444208 3026875

769 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 443965 3027122

770 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 444084 3027035

771 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 444323 3027089

772 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 444452 3027342

773 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 444455 3027383

774 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 445474 3028738

775 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 445593 3028774

776 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 445072 3028894

777 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 445490 3029999
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Table 1. 

Potential waste tire generators from the vehicle importation tire flow generated through 

a GIS visual search

Name-Number Municipality State

UTM coordinates

(Datum WGS84)

Zone X Y

778 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 445599 3030004

779 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 445712 3029991

780 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 445773 3030002

781 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 445836 3030238

782 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 446525 3030452

783 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 445541 3031048

784 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 446413 3031277

785 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 446335 3031290

786 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 446793 3032072

787 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 446843 3032226

788 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 447983 3034574

789 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 446515 3031021

790 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 442493 3036959

791 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 447953 3036386

792 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 448322 3036581

793 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 444269 3037820

794 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 444130 3037735

795 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 444127 3037679

796 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 444024 3037505

797 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 444352 3037868

798 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 443949 3037844

799 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 443796 3037814

800 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 443693 3037824

801 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 444144 3038335

802 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 447575 3037202

803 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 444738 3038900

804 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 442823 3040037

805 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 441834 3040703

806 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 448896 3037213

807 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 447909 3038096

808 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 445675 3039106

809 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 445626 3039104

810 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 445592 3039031

811 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 445578 3039112
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Table 1. 

Potential waste tire generators from the vehicle importation tire flow generated through 

a GIS visual search

Name-Number Municipality State

UTM coordinates

(Datum WGS84)

Zone X Y

812 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 443899 3040212

813 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 443737 3040259

814 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 443670 3040470

815 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 441368 3042007

816 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 445387 3039636

817 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 448942 3037882

818 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 449261 3037629

819 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 448990 3039007

820 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 450543 3038503

821 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 450540 3038642

822 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 444593 3040639

823 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 448684 3040278

824 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 443520 3040758

825 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 444546 3041380

826 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 442547 3045356

827 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 442495 3044072

828 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 442687 3044490

829 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 442573 3045380

830 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 444053 3042261

831 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 445500 3043046

832 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 446228 3030559

833 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas 14 449675.15 3040597.71

834 Piedras Negras Coahuila 14 346166 3179291

835 Piedras Negras Coahuila 14 346315 3179366

836 Piedras Negras Coahuila 14 346312 3179003

837 Piedras Negras Coahuila 14 346209 3179000

838 Piedras Negras Coahuila 14 346297 3178820

839 Piedras Negras Coahuila 14 346239 3178885

840 Piedras Negras Coahuila 14 340782 3160370

841 Piedras Negras Coahuila 14 341342 3160952

842 Piedras Negras Coahuila 14 346852 3167637

843 Piedras Negras Coahuila 14 346829 3167600

844 Piedras Negras Coahuila 14 346823 3167518

845 Piedras Negras Coahuila 14 347187 3167795
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Table 1. 

Potential waste tire generators from the vehicle importation tire flow generated through 

a GIS visual search

Name-Number Municipality State

UTM coordinates

(Datum WGS84)

Zone X Y

846 Piedras Negras Coahuila 14 347231 3167860

847 Piedras Negras Coahuila 14 347126 3167896

848 Piedras Negras Coahuila 14 347103 3167854

849 Piedras Negras Coahuila 14 347040 3168050

850 Piedras Negras Coahuila 14 346987 3168291

851 Piedras Negras Coahuila 14 347391 3170666

852 Piedras Negras Coahuila 14 347450 3170885

853 Piedras Negras Coahuila 14 347123 3170835

854 Piedras Negras Coahuila 14 347269 3170966

855 Piedras Negras Coahuila 14 347220 3170864

856 Piedras Negras Coahuila 14 347419 3171090

857 Piedras Negras Coahuila 14 349928 3171904

858 Piedras Negras Coahuila 14 349868 3175909

859 Piedras Negras Coahuila 14 348967 3178439

860 Piedras Negras Coahuila 14 348804 3175843

861 Piedras Negras Coahuila 14 349524 3174388

862 Piedras Negras Coahuila 14 348796 3175035

863 Piedras Negras Coahuila 14 347413 3178076

864 Piedras Negras Coahuila 14 348536 3170626

865 Piedras Negras Coahuila 14 348139 3172510

866 Piedras Negras Coahuila 14 346535 3179250

867 Piedras Negras Coahuila 14 345117 3181275

868 Piedras Negras Coahuila 14 347677 3172831

869 Piedras Negras Coahuila 14 348706 3169290

870 Piedras Negras Coahuila 14 346858 3172227

871 Piedras Negras Coahuila 14 346809 3173317

872 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 572481.99 2877835.55

873 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 569454 2880069

874 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 569212.7 2880882.55

875 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 569368.77 2880869.44

876 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 569060.65 2880907.96

877 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 566581.9 2881463.58

878 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 566657.47 2882221.39

879 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 566520.98 2882433.26
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Table 1. 

Potential waste tire generators from the vehicle importation tire flow generated through 

a GIS visual search

Name-Number Municipality State

UTM coordinates

(Datum WGS84)

Zone X Y

880 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 540847 2872382

881 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 550787 2876263

882 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 552440 2877351

883 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 556348 2879215

884 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 561817 2879717

885 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 561549 2881055

886 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 561589 2881398

887 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 561826 2881129

888 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 561874 2881502

889 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 561258 2888937

890 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 562591 2881629

891 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 562505 2881788

892 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 562570 2881799

893 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 562605 2881849

894 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 562373 2881729

895 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 562598 2882004

896 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 562150 2881608

897 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 561362 2881441

898 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 561364 2881784

899 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 561520 2881904

900 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 562922 2892710

901 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 563079 2885305

902 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 563978 2882261

903 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 565172 2892157

904 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 564308 2882454

905 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 564488 2882532

906 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 564518 2882547

907 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 565671 2891448

908 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 566164 2883735

909 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 566329 2883797

910 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 561898 2881522

911 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 564677 2882584

912 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 566238 2883588

913 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 564703 2882600
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Table 1. 

Potential waste tire generators from the vehicle importation tire flow generated through 

a GIS visual search

Name-Number Municipality State

UTM coordinates

(Datum WGS84)

Zone X Y

914 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 564723 2882617

915 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 564798 2882669

916 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 565532 2882840

917 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 569054 2884481

918 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 568642 2886786

919 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 570472 2885853

920 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 579178 2880287

921 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 572205 2876752

922 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 572402 2877895

923 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 571941 2876716

924 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 572188 2879787

925 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 572276 2879746

926 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 572349 2879865

927 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 572188 2879906

928 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 572303 2880117

929 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 571908 2880330

930 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 571598 2880224

931 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 571309 2880626

932 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 571227 2880684

933 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 570867 2881458

934 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 570963 2881782

935 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 570986 2881563

936 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 570629 2882454

937 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 569088 2884516

938 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 573547 2881520

939 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 580227 2879275

940 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 579947 2880144

941 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 579019 2877949

942 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 577544 2878521

943 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 578569 2876900

944 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 577183 2879005

945 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 577172 2878937

946 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 576775 2879674

947 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 576130 2879857
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Table 1. 

Potential waste tire generators from the vehicle importation tire flow generated through 

a GIS visual search

Name-Number Municipality State

UTM coordinates

(Datum WGS84)

Zone X Y

948 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 576173 2876227

949 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 575519 2878903

950 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 574456 2878027

951 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 573987 2882461

952 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 573830 2882320

953 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 573607 2879469

954 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 573734 2879089

955 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 573402 2879571

956 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 572680 2878992

957 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 572712 2878978

958 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 572678 2879008

959 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 572691 2879316

960 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 572676 2879883

961 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 572631 2879921

962 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 572346 2883115

963 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 572079 2879100

964 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 571715 2885585

965 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 571843 2877062

966 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 571539 2884942

967 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 570876 2886366

968 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 570847 2883906

969 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 570737 2880690

970 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 570642 2880557

971 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 570609 2880501

972 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 570404 2880426

973 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 570184 2880618

974 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 570790 2879795

975 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 570817 2879328

976 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 570885 2879348

977 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 570833 2879390

978 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 570913 2879118

979 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 570486 2880160

980 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 570289 2879999

981 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 570327 2879987
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Table 1. 

Potential waste tire generators from the vehicle importation tire flow generated through 

a GIS visual search

Name-Number Municipality State

UTM coordinates

(Datum WGS84)

Zone X Y

982 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 570372 2879960

983 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 570340 2879803

984 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 570577 2879333

985 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 570523 2879598

986 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 570120 2879855

987 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 570218 2881743

988 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 570121 2882076

989 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 570089 2882782

990 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 569609 2886766

991 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 569619 2886221

992 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 569764 2882628

993 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 569700 2881772

994 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 569363 2880449

995 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 569015 2881247

996 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 569056 2881712

997 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 569047 2880971

998 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 569585 2879804

999 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 569654 2877708

1000 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 568528 2885454

1001 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 568545 2882074

1002 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 568115 2880847

1003 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 568184 2884372

1004 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 568453 2886480

1005 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 568361 2886382

1006 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 568055 2886617

1007 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 568055 2886617

1008 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 568102 2885090

1009 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 568102 2885090

1010 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 567732 2881177

1011 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 567732 2881177

1012 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 567868 2886959

1013 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 567868 2886959

1014 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 567526 2884540

1015 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 567526 2884540
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Table 1. 

Potential waste tire generators from the vehicle importation tire flow generated through 

a GIS visual search

Name-Number Municipality State

UTM coordinates

(Datum WGS84)

Zone X Y

1016 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 567314 2881346

1017 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 567314 2881346

1018 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 567212 2881313

1019 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 567212 2881313

1020 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 566991 2881467

1021 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 566991 2881467

1022 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 566977 2881557

1023 Reynosa Tamaulipas 14 566977 2881557

1024 Rio Bravo Tamaulipas 14 587098 2875861

1025 Rio Bravo Tamaulipas 14 587039 2875609

1026 Rio Bravo Tamaulipas 14 587874 2873917

1027 Rio Bravo Tamaulipas 14 587990 2870775

1028 Rio Bravo Tamaulipas 14 588163 2870177

1029 Rio Bravo Tamaulipas 14 588143 2869697

1030 Rio Bravo Tamaulipas 14 588150 2873867

1031 Rio Bravo Tamaulipas 14 588150 2873867

1032 Rio Bravo Tamaulipas 14 588628 2874981

1033 Rio Bravo Tamaulipas 14 588794 2874879

1034 Rio Bravo Tamaulipas 14 588934 2874925

1035 Rio Bravo Tamaulipas 14 591683 2876757

1036 Rio Bravo Tamaulipas 14 593140 2875008

1037 Rio Bravo Tamaulipas 14 593279 2875052

1038 Rio Bravo Tamaulipas 14 593179 2873596

1039 Rio Bravo Tamaulipas 14 594016 2875045

1040 Rio Bravo Tamaulipas 14 594086 2874944

1041 Rio Bravo Tamaulipas 14 594494 2873191

1042 Rio Bravo Tamaulipas 14 594646 2873068

1043 Rio Bravo Tamaulipas 14 594320 2875257

1044 Rio Bravo Tamaulipas 14 595716 2872939

1045 Rio Bravo Tamaulipas 14 591998 2873991

1046 Rio Bravo Tamaulipas 14 587485 2874915

1047 Rio Bravo Tamaulipas 14 587402 2874655

1048 Rio Bravo Tamaulipas 14 595100 2873010
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Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico.

Part of the 

city Date Source

N-E-W 05/27/2010 Image ©2012 GeoEye

S-E-C 10/22/2010 Image ©2012 GeoEye

S 8/28/2009 Image ©2012 Digital Globe

N-E 12/31/2008 Image Texas General Land Office

C 01/30/2009 U.S. Geological Survey

C 01/30/2009 Image Texas General Land Office

C 12/19/2007 Image ©2012 Digital Globe

E-W 1/19/2008 Image ©2012 Digital Globe

E 1/30/2009 Image ©2012 Digital Globe

W 12/05/2009 Image ©2012 GeoEye

Rio Bravo, Tamaulipas, Mexico.

Part of the 

city Date Source

N-W 2/27/2009 U.S. Geological Survey

N-W-C 1/30/2009 Image Texas General Land Office

W 6/29/2006 Image ©2012 Digital Globe

E 1/29/2004 Image ©2012 Digital Globe

S 12/23/2003 Image ©2012 Digital Globe

C 10/30/2008 U.S. Geological Survey

C 6/29/2006 U.S. Geological Survey

Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico.

Part of the 

city

Date of 

image Source

N-E 12/25/2010 U.S. Geological Survey

E-W-C 2/27/2009 U.S. Geological Survey

N-E-W 1/30/2009 Image Texas General Land Office

S-C 07/04/2009 Image ©2012 GeoEye

S 05/27/2007 Image ©2012 Digital Globe
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Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, Tamaulipas, Mexico.

Part of the 

city

Date of 

image Source

N-S-E-W-C 1/30/2009 Image Texas General Land Office

N-S-E-W-C 10/30/2008 Texas Orthoimagery Program

Camargo, Tamaulipas, Mexico.

Part of the 

city

Date of 

image Source

N-S-E-W-C 10/30/2008 Texas Orthoimagery Program

N-S-E-W-C 10/21/2005 U.S. Geological Survey

Miguel Aleman, Tamaulipas, Mexico.

Part of the 

city

Date of 

image Source

E 10/30/2008 Texas Orthoimagery Program

E 10/21/2005 U.S. Geological Survey

S-N-W-C 9/30/2010 Image ©2012 GeoEye

S-N-W-C 10/30/2008 Texas Orthoimagery Program

Miguel Aleman, Tamaulipas, Mexico.

Part of the 

city

Date of 

image Source

N-S-E-W-C 10/30/2008 Texas Orthoimagery Program

N-S-E-W-C 10/18/2007 Image ©2012 Digital Globe

Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico.

Part of the 

city

Date of 

image Source

S 10/30/2008 Texas Orthoimagery Program

S 10/21/2005 Image ©2012 Digital Globe

W-S-O-C 09/14/2010 Image ©2012 GeoEye

W-S-O-C 11/27/2010 Image ©2012 GeoEye

N 11/27/2010 Image ©2012 GeoEye

N 08/12/2010 Image ©2012 GeoEye
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Anahuac, Nuevo Leon, Mexico.

Part of the 

city

Date of 

image Source

N-S-E-W-C 9/27/2006 Image ©2012 GeoEye

Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico.

Part of the 

city

Date of 

image Source

S 06/11/2006 Image ©2012 Digital Globe

N-S-E-W-C 10/30/2008 Texas Orthoimagery Program

S-E 10/21/2005 U.S. Geological Survey

C 10/21/2005 USDA Farm Service Agency

Nava, Coahuila, Mexico.

Part of the 

city

Date of 

image Source

N-S-E-W-C 7/17/2006 Image ©2012 Digital Globe

Acuña, Coahuila, Mexico.

Part of the 

city

Date of 

image Source

N-S-E-W-C 10/30/2008 Texas Orthoimagery Program

E 09/08/2007 USDA Farm Service Agency

N-S-C 10/21/2005 USDA Farm Service Agency

W-C 12/14/2010 Image ©2012 GeoEye

S-C 10/21/2005 U.S. Geological Survey

Ojinaga, Chihuahua, Mexico.

Part of the 

city

Date of 

image Source

N-S-E-W-C 07/02/2009 Image ©2012 GeoEye

N-S-E-W-C 10/30/2008 Texas Orthoimagery Program
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Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico.

Part of the 

city

Date of 

image Source

S-W 03/01/2011 Image ©2012 GeoEye

S-W-C 08/14/2007 Image ©2012 Digital Globe

S-W 12/10/2006 Image ©2012 Digital Globe

N-S-E-C 08/19/2007 Image ©2012 Digital Globe

N-S-E-W-C 05/23/2008 Image ©2012 Digital Globe

N 10/30/2008 Texas Orthoimagery Program

N 08/14/2009 USDA Farm Service Agency

N-E-W-C 03/31/2008 Texas Orthoimagery Program

N 04/14/2007 Image ©2012 Digital Globe

E 2/25/2007 Image ©2012 Digital Globe
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ATTACHMENT 11

Geo referenced potential illegal 

waste tire piles location list
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Table 1.

Possible illegal tire pile sites identified during GIS visual search.

Id. 

Name zone

UTM coordinates

Municipality State Date of satellite 

image Source

x y

R1 14 561049.00 2889376.00 Reynosa Tamaulipas 2/27/2009 U.S. Geological Survey, 

GoogleTMEarth 

J1 13 363334.02 3508112.13 Juarez Chihuahua 5/23/2008 GoogleTMEarth 

J2 13 363350.06 3508053.10 Juarez Chihuahua 5/23/2008 GoogleTMEarth 

J3 13 363424.03 3507532.97 Juarez Chihuahua 5/23/2008 GoogleTMEarth 

J4 13 361429.00 3495273.00 Juarez Chihuahua 8/14/2007 ©2012 Digital globe, 

GoogleTMEarth 

J5 13 366147.00 3501599.00 Juarez Chihuahua 5/23/2008 GoogleTMEarth 

J6 13 364146.16 3502558.98 Juarez Chihuahua 5/23/2008 GoogleTMEarth 

GIS= Geographical Information Systems
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ATTACHMENT 12

Waste tire sites display map per 

Mexican city
TITLE PROJECT DATE

CUENT. LOCATION. DRAWN BY.

SCALE.

CHECK.

APRP

N

432.01 23/08/2012

N A D B

EI

RV

Marcel Lopez

 

Ciudad Juarez

sites display map.

Ciudad Juarez

Chihuahua, Mexico.

0 5 km

Graphic

35
TITLE PROJECT DATE

CUENT. LOCATION. DRAWN BY.

SCALE.

CHECK.

APRP

N

432.01 23/08/2012

N A D B

EI

RV

Marcel Lopez

 

Ojinaga

sites display map.

Ojinaga

Chihuahua, Mexico.

0 2 km

Graphic

34
TITLE PROJECT DATE

CUENT. LOCATION. DRAWN BY.

SCALE.

CHECK.

APRP

N

432.01 23/08/2012

N A D B Marcel Lopez

EI

RV

Acuña

sites display map.

Acuña

Coahuila, Mexico.

0 2 km

Graphic

31
TITLE PROJECT DATE

CUENT. LOCATION. DRAWN BY.

SCALE.

CHECK.

APRP

N

432.01 23/08/2012

N A D B

EI

RV

Marcel Lopez

 

Piedras Negras

sites display map.

Piedras Negras

Coahuila, Mexico.

0 6 km

Graphic

32
TITLE PROJECT DATE

CUENT. LOCATION. DRAWN BY.

SCALE.

CHECK.

APRP

N

432.01 23/08/2012

N A D B

EI

RV

Marcel Lopez

 

Nava

sites display map.

Nava

Coahuila, Mexico.

0 1 km

Graphic

33
TITLE PROJECT DATE

CUENT. LOCATION. DRAWN BY.

SCALE.

CHECK.

APRP

N

432.01 23/08/2012

N A D B

EI

RV

Anahuac

sites display map.

Anahuac

Nuevo Leon, 

Mexico.

Marcel Lopez

0 1.5 km

Graphic

15
TITLE PROJECT DATE

CUENT. LOCATION. DRAWN BY.

SCALE.

CHECK.

APRP

N

432.01 23/08/2012

N A D B

EI

RV

Marcel Lopez

 

Nuevo Laredo

sites display map.

Nuevo Laredo

Tamaulipas, Mexico.

0 4 km

Graphic

14
TITLE PROJECT DATE

CUENT. LOCATION. DRAWN BY.

SCALE.

CHECK.

APRP

N

432.01 23/08/2012

N A D B

EI

RV

Marcel Lopez

 

Nueva Cd. 

Guerrero

sites display map.

Nueva Cd. Guerrero

Tamaulipas, Mexico.

0 1.5 km

Graphic

13
TITLE PROJECT DATE

CUENT. LOCATION. DRAWN BY.

SCALE.

CHECK.

APRP

N

432.01 23/08/2012

N A D B

EI

RV

 

Miguel Aleman

sites display map.

Miguel Aleman

Tamaulipas, Mexico. Marcel Lopez

0 1.5 km

Graphic

12
TITLE PROJECT DATE

CUENT. LOCATION. DRAWN BY.

SCALE.

CHECK.

APRP

N

432.01 23/08/2012

N A D B

EI

RV

Marcel Lopez

 

Camargo

sites display map.

Camargo

Tamaulipas, Mexico.

0 2 km

Graphic

11
TITLE PROJECT DATE

CUENT. LOCATION. DRAWN BY.

SCALE.

CHECK.

APRP

N

432.01 23/08/2012

N A D B

EI

RV

Marcel Lopez

 

Gustavo Diaz Ordaz

sites display map.

Gustavo Diaz Ordaz

Tamaulipas, Mexico.

0 1 km

Graphic

10
TITLE PROJECT DATE

CUENT. LOCATION. DRAWN BY.

SCALE.

CHECK.

APRP

N

432.01 23/08/2012

N A D B

EI

RV

Marcel Lopez

 

Reynosa

sites display map.

Reynosa

Tamaulipas, Mexico.

0 6 km

Graphic

3

5

9
TITLE PROJECT DATE

CUENT. LOCATION. DRAWN BY.

SCALE.

CHECK.

APRP

N

Rio Bravo

sites display map. 432.01 23/08/2012

N A D B

Rio Bravo

Tamaulipas, Mexico.

Marcel Lopez

EI

RV

0 2 km

Graphic

2
TITLE PROJECT DATE

CUENT. LOCATION. DRAWN BY.

SCALE.

CHECK.

APRP

N

432.01 23/08/2012

N A D B

EI

RV

Marcel Lopez

 

Matamoros

sites display map.

Matamoros

Tamaulipas, Mexico.

0 6 km

Graphic

1

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ATTACHMENT 13

Quotation questions applied to 

used tire dealers in 

representative Mexican scope 

cities (Spanish)
Cuestionario para vendedores de llantas usadas

1.- ¿Cuál es el precio de las siguientes llantas usadas?

Rin 13 Rin 14 Rin 15 Rin 16 Rin 17

Huella restante

Gallito solo 

para ciudad

(Clase 3)

Que 

aguante 

carretera

(Clase 2)

Gallito 

solo para 

ciudad 

(Clase 3)

Que aguante 

carretera 

(Clase 2)

Gallito 

solo para 

ciudad 

(Clase 3)

Que 

aguante 

carretera 

(Clase 2)

Gallito 

solo 

para 

ciudad 

(Clase 3)

Que 

aguante 

carretera 

(Clase 2)

Gallito 

solo 

para 

ciudad 

(Clase 3)

Que 

aguante 

carretera 

(Clase 2)

Precio por una 

llanta (pesos 

mexicanos)

2.-¿El precio de la llanta ha subido en los últimos 7 años? 

Si No ¿Cuánto?___________________

3.- ¿Qué tamaño de llanta es el que más se vende?

R13 R14 R15 R16 R17 ó mayores

4.- ¿De qué ciudad o proveedor surten sus llantas usadas?

Nombre del negocio__________________________________ 

Dirección_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Persona que te atendió________________________________
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ATTACHMENT 14

Tire piles fire risk estimations 

according to Mexican Official 

Standard NOM-002-STPS-2010
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Table 1. 

Significant Tire Piles Fire Risk Classification

General Data Number of 

waste tires 

Approximated 

weight 

(Kilograms)1

Fire risk3

Id # Municipality State Type of site

1 Matamoros Tamaulipas

Municipal Waste 

Tires Collection 

Center

2,250,000 20,411,640 High

2 Rio Bravo Tamaulipas

Municipal Landfill 

and waste tires 

storage center

32,000 290,299 High

3 Reynosa Tamaulipas "Las Anacuas" City 

open-air dump. 550,000 4,989,512 High

4 Reynosa Tamaulipas Open air dump "Las 

Calabazas" 50,000 453,592 High

7 Reynosa Tamaulipas "Las Colmenas" 

Landfill 1,000 9,072 Ordinary

8 Reynosa Tamaulipas "Alto Bonito" 

Landfill 100,000 907,184 High

11 Camargo Tamaulipas

Municipal Waste 

Tires Collection 

Center

800 7,257 Ordinary

12 Miguel Aleman Tamaulipas

Provisional 

Municipal Waste 

Tires Collection 

Center

3,000 27,216 High

13 Guerrero Tamaulipas Municipal open-air 

dump 200 1,814 Ordinary

14 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas Storage center Cleaned up2 NA High

15 Anahuac Nuevo Leon Municipal Landfill 13,000 117,934 High

19 Cerralvo* Nuevo Leon* Unknown* 1,500 13,608 Ordinary

20 Sabinas 

Hidalgo* Nuevo Leon* Unknown* 8,000 72,575 High

31 Acuña Coahuila Municipal Landfill 200,000 1,814,368 High

32 Piedras negras Coahuila Private landfill. 115,500 1,047,798 High

33 Nava Coahuila Storage center 1,000 9,072 Ordinary

34 Ojinaga Chihuahua Storage center 50,000 453,592 High

35 Juarez Chihuahua Storage center 2,500,000 22,679,600 High

36 Matamoros Tamaulipas

Municipal landfill 

waste tire storage 

center

400,000 3,628,736 High

“Significant Tire Pile” and “Dump Sites” are defined as any tire pile or dump site with more than 500 tires.

Numbers colored in red signal sites which accumulated less than 500 tires, but since they continue active the number will be 

eventually reached if no output is employed.

1 Estimation based on the weight of a Passenger Tire Equivalent (PTE) mass of 20 pounds (9.07 Kg) per tire.

2 Nuevo Laredo tire pile was cleaned up during the write-up of this Task Report according to the remote interview applied to the 

municipal Environment and Climate Change Coordinator on April 20, 2012 (signed confirmation pending).

3 Fire Risk based on the Official Mexican Standard NOM-002-STPS-2010 which states that any workplace accumulating 15,000 

Kg or more of combustible solid materials are classified as High Fire Risk.
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Rim 13 and 15 inches manual 

cutting of waste tire’s sidewalls 

time and volume diminishing 

field measurements
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IEMS performed a simple field test with the assistance of 3 tire repair shop 

workers-owners. The test was performed in the city of Queretaro, Mexico. Due to security 

reasons fieldwork testing in the Mexican Texas-Mexico border area weren’t performed. 

Objectives

To obtain real life data regarding the following matters:

1. When sidewalls area separated from their tread; what percentage of 

the original whole tire volume is occupied by the tread when 

compacted? (Not considering the resulting sidewall rings).

2. When placing a sidewall ring, without tread, over another; what is their 

vertical width?

3. How much time does it take to manually remove a passenger tire 

sidewall using a knife?

4. What kind of knife is the most comfortable when manually removing 

waste tires sidewalls?

Background

During fieldwork activities in the Texas side of the Texas-Mexico border several 

used tire dealers and a processor highlighted the volume reduction and facilitation of the 

logistics regarding waste tire management by simply removing the sidewalls in order to 

reduce the waste tires volume. IEMS decided to perform this field test to assess how 

beneficial the reduction really is.

Materials

Materials used in the field test: 

 2 waste tires rim size of 15 inches 

 1 waste tire rim size 13 inches

 1 Chronometer

 1 Flexometer.
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 1 Linoleum knife

Image 1. 

Linoleum knife

Brand: Truper

Handle material: wood

Blade: carbon steel 1060 with double thermal treatment.

Model: NI-8

 1 Retractable knife 6’

Image 2.

Retractable knife 6’

Brand: Pretul

Handle material: injected plastic

Blade: steel (no more data available)

Model: Not available (NA)

 1 Plastic cutter knife

Image 3.

Plastic cutter knife

Brand: Truper

Handle material: plastic

Blade: SK4-0.4

Model: Not available (NA)
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 1 Hacksaw

Image 4.

Hacksaw

Brand: Pretul

Handle material: resistant plastic with anti skid design

Blade: 24dpp 12’

Model: NA

Procedure

1. IEMS proceeded to a roadside tire repair shop.

2. IEMS asked the owner-worker if he could help us in performing a test 

to measure the volume of a whole tire against the volume of a tire 

whose sidewalls had been removed and measure the time it takes to 

remove a sidewall using diverse tools. 

3. The owner-worker selected a waste tire.

4. IEMS measured and registered the whole tire rim size, diameter and 

sidewall height.

5. IEMS asked the shop owner-worker to select a tool and to start cutting 

a sidewall.

6. IEMS measured and registered the time it took to cut one sidewall of 

the waste tire.

7. IEMS asked the shop owner-worker to select a second tool and to cut 

the remaining sidewall of the waste tire.

8. IEMS measured and registered the time it took to cut the second 

sidewall of the waste tire.
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9. One IEMS personnel stood over the resulting waste tire tread in order 

to compact or fold it.

10. IEMS measured and registered its width when compacted (measuring 

on the folding area which was the place with the highest width).

11. IEMS measured and registered the tread’s length when compactedfolded.

12. IEMS placed one sidewall ring over the other and measured the 

resulting width and radius.

13. IEMS ask the owner-worker which tool was the most comfortable to 

use and registered the answer received.

Calculations

Fieldwork volume reduction

Formula 1.

Cylinder volume (m3

) = π x radius (m) x height (m)

Table 1. 

Whole tire volume estimation

No. of Test 1 2 3

Data Amount Amount Amount Units Source

rim size 13 15 15 in Waste tire sidewall

radius ( r ) 0.28 0.39 0.27 m measured during fieldwork

height ( h ) 0.18 0.23 0.18 m measured during fieldwork

pi 3.1415927 3.1415927 3.1415927 - -

Volume (V) 0.0443 0.1099 0.0412 m3 estimated with Formula 1

whole tire 

radius

whole tire 

height
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Formula 2.

Hexahedron volume = length (m) x width (m) x height(m)

Table 2. 

Volume of cut tire tread without sidewalls estimation

Data Amount Amount Amount Units Source

rim size 13 15 15 in Waste tire sidewall

length 0.83 0.96 0.84 m measured during fieldwork

width 0.09 0.2 0.18 m measured during fieldwork

height 0.05 0.06 0.05 m measured during fieldwork

Volume 0.003735 0.01152 0.00756 m3 estimated with Formula 2

Formula 3.

Volume reduction if 

sidewalls are not 

considered

=

Volume of tire tread 

without sidewalls x 100% Whole tire volume

Table 3. 

Volume reduction estimation (not considering the tire walls pieces volume)

Data Amount Amount Amount Units Source

Rim Size 13 15 15 in Waste tire sidewall

Volume 

reduction if 

sidewalls are 

not considered*

92% 90% 82% percentage estimated with Formula 3

*Sidewall rings volume wasn’t considered in this fieldwork estimation.

Formula 4.

Mean volume 

reduction not 

considering 

the tire walls 

pieces 

(percentage)

n

= ( Π Volume reduction not 

considering the tire walls ) Λ 1 / n

(percentage)

i =1

n= number of tests

Cut tire tread length

Cut tire tread

height
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Table 4.

Mean volume reduction ( not considering the tire walls pieces volume)

Data Amount Units Source

Mean volume reduction if 

sidewalls are not 

considered

87% percentage estimated with Formula 4

Sidewall’s diameter and stacking width

Table 5.

Sidewall stacking width

Test No. Amount Units Source

1 NA m NA

2 0.05 m measured during fieldwork

3 0.03 m measured during fieldwork

Time for manual cutting of sidewalls

Formula 5.

Mean time 

for manual 

removing of 

sidewalls

n

= ( Π Time to manually remove a tire 

sidewall using specific types of 

knives ) Λ 1 / n

(seconds / sidewall)

i =1

n= number of tests

Sidewall stacking

 width

Sidewall rings diameter
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Table 6.

Time to manually remove a tire sidewall using different types of 

knives (seconds/ sidewall)

Test No. Linoleum knife Retractable knife 6’

1 120 84

2 41 34

3 54 107

Mean time for manual 

removing of sidewalls 64 67

Most comfortable and reliable tool for manually cutting tire 

sidewalls:

Tools compared:

1. Cutter knife

2. Hacksaw

3. Linoleum knife

4. Retractable knife 6’

Note: Hacksaw and plastic cutter knife were immediately discarded on the first 

test and no testing was continued using them

Table 7.

Most comfortable tool reports

Test No. Linoleum knife Retractable knife 6’

1 * -

2 * -

3 NA NA

Total 2 0

NA = Not Applicable. The owner-worker of the tire repair shop answered that if 

only the retractable knife had a longer blade and the locking mechanism worked properly 

when firmly griping the tool with the fist it would be the most comfortable.
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Results

Fieldwork volume reduction

Table 4.

Mean volume reduction (not considering the tire walls pieces volume)

Data Amount Units Source

Mean volume reduction if 

sidewalls are not 

considered

87% percentage estimated with Formula 4

Sidewall’s stacking width

Table 5.

Sidewall stacking width

Test No. Amount Units Source

1 NA m NA

2 0.05 m measured during fieldwork

3 0.03 m measured during fieldwork

Time to manually remove a sidewall

Table 6.

Time to manually remove a tire sidewall using different types of 

knives (seconds/ sidewall)

Test No. Linoleum knife Retractable knife 6’

1 120 84

2 41 34

3 54 107

Mean time for manual 

removing of sidewalls 64 67
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Most comfortable tool for manually cutting tire sidewalls:

 Cutter knife was ruled out since the blade kept breaking on its division lines 

endangering the user.

 Hacksaw was ruled out on the first attempt since it couldn’t cut through the 

tire sidewall in order to reach the tread-sidewall radius in order to remove the 

sidewall.

 The linoleum knife was reported as the most comfortable by 2 out of 3. 

 The retractable knife was reported as potentially the most comfortable by 1 

out of 3 if only it could have a longer blade and the locking mechanism 

worked properly when firmly griping the tool with the fist.

Conclusions

1. If rim 13 and 15 inches tires’ sidewalls are separated from their tread, the 

compacted tread approximately occupies 13% of the original whole tire 

volume, not considering the resulting sidewall rings.

2. Sidewall stacking width for rim 15 tires ranged from 3 to 5 centimeters. 

3. On rim 13 and 15 in tires; it takes an average time of 64 seconds to remove 

a tire sidewall using a linoleum knife and about 67 seconds by using a 

retractable knife.

4. Linoleum knives are more comfortable for users when being employed in the 

removal of waste tires sidewalls.

Data analysis

Data obtained is only representative for rim 13 and 15 waste tires. Conclusions of 

this test should only be employed to illustrate on the benefits of using linoleum knives 

versus other kinds of knives when using them to manually remove waste tires sidewalls. 

Other data obtained was calculated in order to possess real life measurements with which 

estimate approximated costs and calibrate dimensions reduction estimations.
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ATTACHMENT 16

Tires’ volume reduction 

theoretical estimation if 

sidewalls are removed
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IEMS developed a simple formula that estimated the volume reduction of a waste 

tire when the sidewalls are removed from it, it is based on the commercial sizing codes 

placed in all commercial passenger tires sold in the United States and Mexico.

Tires’ code names (width, rim diameter and Aspect radio) displayed on their 

sidewalls provide a significant amount of information regarding the tire's dimensions, as it 

is explained on figure 1 as follows:

Figure 1.

Visual explanation of tire size information (Goodyear).
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Figure 2.

Most popular tire sizes in the United States during year 2011.
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Rim 13

Rim 14

Rim 15

Rim 16

11%

37% 39%

9%

Figure 3. 

Mexican’s specific rim size preference when buying 

used tires from retailers whose used tires come 

from USA (percentage) Error margin of 3%
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Table 1. 

USA-Mexico most popular tire sizes theoretical reduced volume when sidewalls are removed and 

resulting pieces tightly packed or when sidewalls are not considered.

Section width 

(milimeters, 

mm)

Sidewall 

aspect ratio 

(percentage, 

%)

Tire and 

wheel 

diameter 

(inches, 

in)

Whole 

tire 

volume 

(cubic 

meters, 

m3)

Cut or 

packed 

tread 

without 

sidewalls 

volume 

(m3)

Cut in half 

and/or 

packed 

sidewall 

rings 

theoretical 

volume 

(m3)

Approximate 

volume 

reduction 

(m3)

Volume 

reduction if 

sidewall 

rings are 

not 

considered 

(m3)

155 80 13 0.041 0.004 0.009 68% 90%

165 80 13 0.046 0.005 0.010 69% 90%

175 70 13 0.045 0.005 0.009 70% 90%

185 70 13 0.050 0.005 0.009 71% 90%

175 70 14 0.050 0.005 0.009 71% 90%

185 70 14 0.055 0.005 0.010 72% 90%

195 70 14 0.061 0.006 0.011 73% 90%

205 70 14 0.066 0.006 0.011 74% 91%

195 65 15 0.062 0.006 0.010 74% 91%

195 60 15 0.058 0.006 0.009 74% 90%

205 65 15 0.068 0.006 0.011 75% 91%

235 75 15 0.099 0.008 0.015 76% 92%

205 65 16 0.073 0.007 0.011 76% 91%

205 55 16 0.064 0.006 0.009 76% 91%

215 60 16 0.075 0.007 0.011 76% 91%

215 60 16 0.075 0.007 0.011 76% 91%

215 65 16 0.079 0.007 0.012 76% 91%

215 85 16 0.101 0.008 0.017 75% 92%

225 60 16 0.081 0.007 0.011 77% 91%

225 60 16 0.081 0.007 0.011 77% 91%

225 75 16 0.098 0.008 0.015 76% 92%

225 75 16 0.098 0.008 0.015 76% 92%

235 70 16 0.100 0.008 0.015 77% 92%

235 85 16 0.120 0.009 0.019 77% 93%

245 75 16 0.115 0.009 0.017 77% 92%

245 75 16 0.115 0.009 0.017 77% 92%

265 75 16 0.135 0.010 0.019 78% 93%

285 75 16 0.156 0.011 0.021 79% 93%

215 55 17 0.075 0.007 0.010 77% 91%

225 50 17 0.076 0.007 0.010 78% 91%

235 65 17 0.100 0.008 0.014 78% 92%

235 80 17 0.120 0.009 0.018 77% 93%

245 70 17 0.116 0.009 0.016 78% 92%

245 75 17 0.123 0.009 0.018 78% 92%
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Table 1. 

USA-Mexico most popular tire sizes theoretical reduced volume when sidewalls are removed and 

resulting pieces tightly packed or when sidewalls are not considered.

Section width 

(milimeters, 

mm)

Sidewall 

aspect ratio 

(percentage, 

%)

Tire and 

wheel 

diameter 

(inches, 

in)

Whole 

tire 

volume 

(cubic 

meters, 

m3)

Cut or 

packed 

tread 

without 

sidewalls 

volume 

(m3)

Cut in half 

and/or 

packed 

sidewall 

rings 

theoretical 

volume 

(m3)

Approximate 

volume 

reduction 

(m3)

Volume 

reduction if 

sidewall 

rings are 

not 

considered 

(m3)

245 70 17 0.116 0.009 0.016 78% 92%

245 75 17 0.123 0.009 0.018 78% 92%

265 70 17 0.134 0.010 0.018 79% 93%

265 70 17 0.134 0.010 0.018 79% 93%

265 70 17 0.134 0.010 0.018 79% 93%

265 70 17 0.134 0.010 0.018 79% 93%

285 70 17 0.154 0.011 0.020 80% 93%

265 60 18 0.125 0.010 0.015 80% 92%

265 70 18 0.143 0.010 0.019 80% 93%

275 65 18 0.143 0.011 0.018 80% 93%

275 70 18 0.153 0.011 0.020 80% 93%

275 65 18 0.143 0.011 0.018 80% 93%

275 65 20 0.162 0.011 0.019 81% 93%

Geometric mean of volume reduction in most popular tire sizes 77% 92%

Source of USA most common tire sizes: 2011 Estimates, 2012 RMA Preliminary Factbook

Mexico's most common tire sizes are 13, 14 and 15 inches reason for which 4 different models for each of these sizes were considered for 

this estimation.

Note: tire size 31x10.50R15LT wasn't included in the estimation

Table 2.

Estimated tire volume reduction when sidewalls are 

removed and resulting pieces packed

Tire and wheel 

diameter (inches, in) Mean volume reduction (%)

13 70%

14 73%

15 72%

16 74%

17 76%

18 78%

20 79%
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Figure 5.

Estimated volume reduction of a whole tire when its sidewalls are removed and the 

three resulting pieces are tightly packed of cut.

Table 3.

Estimated tire volume reduction when 

sidewalls removed are not considered

Tire and wheel 

diameter 

(inches, in)

Approximated volume 

reduction (%)

13 90%

14 90%

15 91%

16 92%

17 92%

18 93%

20 93%

65%

70%

75%

80%

12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21

Tire and rim diameter (in)

Approximated waste tires volume reduction when sidewalls are 

removed and the resulting pieces packed
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 Formula 1.

Whole tire 

theoretical 

radius 

(meters)

= (

Section width 

(millimeters, 

mm) x

Sidewall aspect ratio 

(percentage, %)

) + ( Tire and wheel 

diameter (inches, in)

0.0254 

(meters / in) ) 100 x

1000 (mm/meter) 2

Formula 2.

Whole tire theoretical 

height (meters) =

Section width 

(millimeters, mm)

1000 

(mm/ meters)

Formula 3.

^ 2

Whole tire 

theoretical 

volume (m3

) 

= π x

Whole tire 

theoretical 

radius (meters) x Whole tire theoretical 

height (meters)
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Figure 4.

Cut tire tread height diagram.

Formula 4.

Cut or packed tread 

without sidewalls 

volume (m3

)

= 2 x π x

Whole tire 

theoretical 

radius (meters)

x Cut tire tread 

height (meters) x

Section width 

(milimeters, mm)

1000 (mm/ meters)

Cut tire tread height will be considered a constant of 3cm = 0.03 meters obtained on fieldwork tests explained on Attachment 15

Formula 5.

Cut in half 

and/or packed 

sidewall rings 

theoretical 

volume (m3

)

= ( π x

Whole tire 

theoretical 

radius 

(meters)

^ 2

x

Sidewall 

stacking 

width 

(meters)

) - ( π x (

Tire and 

wheel 

diameter 

(inches, in) x

0.0254 

(meters / in) )

^ 2

x

Sidewall 

stacking 

width 

(meters)

)

2
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ATTACHMENT 17

Tread cutting, sidewall remover 

and sidewall debeader machines 

technical brochure and 

quotations for delivery in Juarez, 

Mexico and delivery in the U.S.
BIOS 

Thomas Dom  Founder/President  Mechanical Engineer (ASU)

Alex Dom  Mechanical Engineer (NYIT)

Matthew Dom  Welding Degree (EVIT)  11 MIG and TIG certifications  Fabricator

5432 Any Street West

Townsville, State 54321

555.543.5432 ph 

555.543.5433 fax

www.adatum.com

EECO

6869 E. Vernon Ave.

Scottsdale, Az 85257

USA

Shop 480-264-8780

Office 480-990-2037

Fax 480-990-2037

www.eaeco.com

www.eaeco.com

EECO’S BUSINESS ETHICS 

At EECO we believe in manufacturing 

equipment using 3 simple ideas:  Use ingenuity and creativeness to 

create simple operating machines

 Implement modern technology and 

efficient manufacturing methods

 Incorporate standard/common parts 

and hardware

These simple rules result in affordable, 

dependable and easily repairable

machines for anyone looking to improve 

their tire recycling business or to start their 

own. .

ENGINEERING & EQUIPMENT CO.

This brochure was designed to use less ink 

FUN FACTS  Founded in 1991  3 U.S. Patents  Sold over 380 machines to 11

different countries

Because we are family owned and 

operated we focus our personal 

attention to suit any of your custom 

tire recycling needs.
PRODUCTS 

Sidewall Cutter

Tread Cutter

DeBeader

Production Rate: 

180 sidewalls per hour

(average)

Cutters:

Standard heavy duty utility 

knife blades

Price:

$3900 w/ Free shipping

Production Rate: 

180 sidewalls per hour 

(average)

Cutters:

Hardened steel cutting disc

Price:

$3400 w/ Free shipping

Production Rate: 

360 sidewalls per hour 

(average)

Cutters:

Standard heavy duty utility 

knife blades

Price:

$3650 w/ Free shipping

BACKGROUND 

Engineering and Equipment Co.

manufactures tire recycling equipment; 

our Sidewall and Tread Cutter as well 

as our Bead Remover use simple, 

standard and easily accessible parts. 

All machines are mobile and easy to 

operate.

We also offer engineering design and 

analysis of any custom machine built to 

fit your needs. 

 3D Modeling with PRO/E and 

SolidWorks (drawings and stress 

analysis)

 Certified TIG, MIG and Arc 

Welding

 CNC Machining and CNC Plasma 

Cutting

Ever since the first version of our 

Sidewall Cutter we continue to improve 

our machines every step of the way. 

We perform Research and Development 

to develop better tire recycling 

machines as well as other innovative 

ideas. Check out our website to see our 

current projects.

WHAT’S NEW 

Research and Development is being 

conducted for 3 new machines that will hit 

our product line by the end of 2011!

 Our Semi-Truck Sidewall Cutter 

will remove Semi-Truck Sidewalls 

at equal rates as our competitors, 

but at half the cost!

 Our up and coming Sidewall 

Chipper will produce a chip size of 

1⁄2”x 1⁄2” from car and light truck tire 

sidewalls.

 We are in the midst of testing our 

Bead Stripping Machine that 

essentially peels away the rubber 

left on beads cut from car and light 

truck tires from our DeBeader 

Machine; leaving the clean high 

quality steel ring to be recycled!

www.eaeco.com 
Engineering & Equipment Co.

SALES QUOTE

6869 E. Vernon Ave.

Scottsdale, Az USA 85257 www.eaeco.com

email eaeco@hotmail.com

tel 480-264-8780

fax 480-990-2037

quote # SQ-000010

date 4/20/2012

billing address Integrated Environmental Management Services shipping address Integrated Environmental Management Services

Warez

Mexico

contact

phone

Esteban Ibarra

305-407-9964

sales rep payment terms

Alex Dom Payment Due Before Shipment

ITEM DESCRIPTION QUANTITY UNIT PRICE DISCOUNT SUB-TOTAL

DeBeader Removes bead from sidewall 3 $3,650.00 5 % $10,402.50

Sidewall Cutter Removes Sidewalls 3 $3,900.00 5 % $11,115.00

Truck Tire Sidewall 

Cutter

Removes sidewalls from truck tires and 

super singles

3 $7,000.00 5 % $19,950.00

TT Tread Cutter Cuts Treads of Truck Tires 3 $4,400.00 5 % $12,540.00

Tread Cutter Tire Cutting Machine and manual - 1 

Crate - 480 Lbs, 65"L x 37"W x 39"H

3 $3,400.00 5 % $9,690.00

FREIGHT

TOTAL

$1,950.00

$65,647.50

SUB-TOTAL $63,697.50

Make all checks payable to EECO

We Appreciate Your Purchase And Promise to Continue Our Service For As Long As You Own Our Equipment. Page 1 of 1
Engineering & Equipment Co.

SALES QUOTE

6869 E. Vernon Ave.

Scottsdale, Az USA 85257 www.eaeco.com

email eaeco@hotmail.com

tel 480-264-8780

fax 480-990-2037

quote # SQ-000010

date 4/20/2012

billing address Integrated Environmental Management Services shipping address Integrated Environmental Management Services

El Paso, TX

USA

contact

phone

Esteban Ibarra

305-407-9964

sales rep payment terms

Alex Dom Payment Due Before Shipment

ITEM DESCRIPTION QUANTITY UNIT PRICE DISCOUNT SUB-TOTAL

DeBeader Removes bead from sidewall 3 $3,650.00 5 % $10,402.50

Sidewall Cutter Removes Sidewalls 3 $3,900.00 5 % $11,115.00

Truck Tire Sidewall 

Cutter

Removes sidewalls from truck tires and 

super singles

3 $7,000.00 5 % $19,950.00

TT Tread Cutter Cuts Treads of Truck Tires 3 $4,400.00 5 % $12,540.00

Tread Cutter Tire Cutting Machine and manual - 1 

Crate - 480 Lbs, 65"L x 37"W x 39"H

3 $3,400.00 5 % $9,690.00

TOTAL $63,697.50

SUB-TOTAL $63,697.50

Make all checks payable to EECO

We Appreciate Your Purchase And Promise to Continue Our Service For As Long As You Own Our Equipment. Page 1 of 1
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ATTACHMENT 18

34 target compounds (weighted 

based on toxicity and expected 

ambient air concentrations) that 

should be considered for air 

monitoring during a tire fire 

(Environmental Protection Agency, 1997)
27

TABLE 12. TARGET COMPOUNDS BY CRITERIA

Target Compound

Criteria

CA TLV Subchronic Chronic

RfC RfC

Acenaphthene X

Acenaphthylene X

Arsenic X

Barium X

Benz(a)anthracene X

Benzene X

Benzo(a)pyrene X

Benzo(b)fluoranthene X

Benzylchloride X

Butadiene X

Carbon monoxide X

Carbon tetrachloride X

Chloroform X

Chromium X

Chrysene X

Coal tar pitch volatiles X X

Cumene X X

1,2-Dichloropropane X X X

Dibenz(a,h)anthracene X

Ethylene dichloride X

Hexachloroethane X

Hexane X X

Lead X

Methylene chloride X

Nickel X

Phenol X

Styrene X X

Sulfur dioxide X

Sulfuric acid X X

Toluene X X

1,1,2-Trichloroethane X

Trichloroethylene X

Vanadium X

o-Xylene X

CA = Suspected or Confirmed Human Carcinogen. 

TLV = Reported Value is 33% of Threshold Limit Value. 

RfC = Inhalation Reference Concentration.
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ATTACHMENT 19

Disposal cost per tire in Texas
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Table 1. 

Disposal cost per tire in Texas

Disposal fee per tire

City

Waste tires proper 

disposal alternatives 

reported by generators 

and city authorities

Whole tires 

(US 

dollars, 

dollars) 

Cut 

tires 

(dollars) 

Whole 

tires 

(Mexican 

pesos, 

pesos1) 

Cut 

tires 

(pesos)

Additional information

Brownsville City's solid waste 

dumpsters NA $0.25 NA $3.24

Fieldwork reported the common practice for used tire dealers is to manually 

cut the sidewalls of their waste tires and dispose of the pieces in the 2 

cubic yards (1.53 cubic meters) dumpster the city takes away once a week 

with a cost of 60 dollars ($765 pesos) each month. No specific disposal fee 

for waste tires is paid. The price per tire varies depending on the number of 

waste tires disposed of in a month. In theory a dumpster can be filled with 

59 cut tires2 tightly packed. During a four week month; 236 cut tires can be 

disposed of. The disposal fee per cut tire reported in this row is based on 

this number. Said practice is authorized by the city's landfill authorities 

because cut tires are authorized to be landfilled.

Brownsville City landfill $0.91 $0.33 $11.60 $4.21

The city landfill charges $36 dollars ($459 pesos) per ton of cut tires and 

$100 dollars ($1,275 pesos) per ton of whole tires. Considering a 

Passenger Tire Equivalent of 20 pounds (9.07Kilograms) (United States 

Environmental Protection Agency, 2006) the disposal cost per equivalent 

tire is $0.33 dollars (4.2 pesos) per cut tire and $0.91 dollars ($11.6 pesos) 

per whole tire. Whole tires are shredded of bailed and then landfilled.

Progreso City dump $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 Due to the low generation volume generators dispose of their waste tires 

with no charge in adjacent city's dumps. (Which city dump wasn't specified)

Pharr LIBERTY TIRE 

RECYCLING LLC $1.25 NA $15.94 NA TCEQ ID:6025071

Pharr Donna recycling center NA 0.35 - 0.5 NA $4.46 -

$6.38

Dealers cut their tires and dispose of them in this location paying the fee 

mentioned.

Pharr Public works -$0.50 NA -$6.38 NA A pilot program was applied where the city paid $0.5 dollars ($$6.38 pesos) 

per tire. This way the city saved money in collection personnel and liability.
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Table 1. 

Disposal cost per tire in Texas

Disposal fee per tire

City

Waste tires proper 

disposal alternatives 

reported by generators 

and city authorities

Whole tires 

(US 

dollars, 

dollars) 

Cut 

tires 

(dollars) 

Whole 

tires 

(Mexican 

pesos, 

pesos1) 

Cut 

tires 

(pesos)

Additional information

Pharr UTW TIRE COLLECTION 

SERVICES NA NA NA NA TCEQ ID:6027055

Pharr JUAN SALINAS $1.50 NA $19.13 NA No additional information was provided. No transporter or processor under 

this name is registered on the TCEQ database.

Pharr Recycling center of Pharr $1.50 NA $19.13 NA

Residents may dispose up to 5 tires every six months with no charge. 

Water bill and drivers license must be presented to prove residency in 

Pharr. The city public works department absorbs the disposal costs. Fees 

to dispose of tires may apply after said amount at $1.5 dollars ($19.13 

pesos) thereafter. It is forbidden to dispose of waste tires with the regular 

trash. Illegal dumping fines start at $1,000 dollars ($12,750 pesos).

Mc Allen City recycling center $0.00 NA $0.00 NA

McAllen residents may dispose up to 5 tires per month free of charge, the 

city absorbs the disposal costs on Edinburg landfill or with a private 

company.

Mc Allen DLD NA $1.25-

$1.5 NA $15.94 -$19.13

Tire hauler reported by interviewees to be on 401 Border Road, Alamo, 

Texas. No registry under this name or similar was found on the TCEQ 

database.

Mc Allen Edinburg landfill $5.00 NA $63.75 NA The city of McAllen has no landfill of it's own.

La Joya Edinburg collection center $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 No additional information was provided.

Rio Grande City Transfer station $1.00 $0.00 $12.75 $0.00

For the disposal of a passenger tire charges $1 dollar ($12.75 pesos) , for 

a commercial truck tire $5 dollars ($63.5 pesos) and for an agricultural tire 

$20 dollars ($255 pesos).
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Table 1. 

Disposal cost per tire in Texas

Disposal fee per tire

City

Waste tires proper 

disposal alternatives 

reported by generators 

and city authorities

Whole tires 

(US 

dollars, 

dollars) 

Cut 

tires 

(dollars) 

Whole 

tires 

(Mexican 

pesos, 

pesos1) 

Cut 

tires 

(pesos)

Additional information

Roma CAMERON LAND AND 

CATTLE INC 1.75-$18 NA $22.3-$229.5 NA

This company based in San Antonio charges the city for picking up tires in 

Roma as follows: $1.75 dollars ($22.3 pesos) per passenger tire, $8 dollars 

($102 pesos) per truck tire and $18 dollars ($229.5 pesos) per tractor tire. If 

tires are delivered directly to the in San Antonio, Texas they charge as 

follows: $1.25 dollars ($15.94 pesos) per passenger tire, $7.25 dollars 

($92.4pesos) per truck tire and $16 dollars ($204 pesos) per tractor tire. 

Tires with rim are charged extra. TCEQ ID:26992

Laredo City landfill $0.00 NA $0.00 NA

Residents may dispose of 4 tires each month showing their water bill. They 

shreds them and then landfill. When the tires overstock or are oversized 

they are sent to a private company's Land Reclamation Project (UTW TIRE 

COLLECTION SERVICES) in Laredo.

Laredo Environmental Services 

Department -$0.50 NA -$6.38 NA

3 times a year the department buys waste tires paying $0.5dollars ($6.38 

pesos) per tire. The location of the collection area changes. The 

explanation for this is that it is cheaper to have residents and non profit 

organizations bringing waste tires than to have collection crews throughout 

the city picking up tires.

Laredo LIBERTY TIRE 

RECYCLING LLC NA NA NA NA TCEQ ID:6025071

Laredo A TO Z TIRE & BATTERY NA NA NA NA TCEQ ID:6200163

Laredo UTW TIRE COLLECTION 

SERVICES $1.00 NA $12.75 NA Charges 25 USD /ton or $1 dollar ($12.8 pesos) per passenger tire and $5 to $6 dollars ($63.5 to $76.5 pesos ) per truck tire. TCEQ ID:6027055

Eagle Pass J & M TRUCK TIRE SHOP 

INC NA NA NA NA TCEQ ID:25033

Eagle Pass GUTIERREZ USED TIRES $0.85 NA $10.84 NA Gutierrez tire shop disposes of the waste tires in a private company in San 

Antonio, Texas. TCEQ ID:8739
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Table 1. 

Disposal cost per tire in Texas

Disposal fee per tire

City

Waste tires proper 

disposal alternatives 

reported by generators 

and city authorities

Whole tires 

(US 

dollars, 

dollars) 

Cut 

tires 

(dollars) 

Whole 

tires 

(Mexican 

pesos, 

pesos1) 

Cut 

tires 

(pesos)

Additional information

Eagle Pass City Recycling Center $1.50 NA $19.13 NA

The city recycling center charges $1.5 dollars ($19.3 pesos) for each 

passenger tire, $6 dollars ($76.5 pesos) per truck tire and a bigger amount 

for bigger waste tires. The tires are loaded into a private hauling company 

trailer and the disposal paid to said company.

Del Rio City landfill $2-$5 NA $38.3-$76.5 NA

landfill authorities charge $2 dollars ($25.5 pesos) for the disposal of each 

passenger tire and $5 dollars ($63.75 pesos) for each tire larger than rim 

size 16. The city uses a Laredo private disposal company to dispose of the 

tires. Waste tires left by residents are loaded into a trailer and when it's full 

the company picks it up and leaves an empty one. For this service the city 

pays $1,500 dollars ($19,125 pesos) per trailer.

Del Rio City solid waste 

management $3.00 NA $38.25 NA The city picks up waste tires from generators and charges them for this service.

Del Rio SOUTHWEST TIRE $1.50 NA $19.13 NA

Private company which charges $1.5 dollars (19.3 pesos) for each 

passenger tire, $5 dollars ($63.75 pesos) for 18thwheeler tires and $10 to 

$15 dollars ($127.5 to $191.25 pesos) for each agricultural tire. TCEQ 

ID:6200637

Del Rio LIBERTY TIRE 

RECYCLING LLC $1.00 NA $12.75 NA TCEQ ID:6025071

Presidio - NA NA NA NA

There is not an appropriate location to dispose of waste tires in the city of 

Presidio. Waste tires are stored in a warehouse next to the city landfill. In 

the past through a grant of the Border Environment Cooperation 

Commission (BECC) on the Border 2012 program they spent 12,000 

dollars ($153,000 pesos) to dispose of 3,000 waste tires. As a condition to 

obtain said grant they had to collect the waste tires dumped in the city's 

outskirts.
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Table 1. 

Disposal cost per tire in Texas

Disposal fee per tire

City

Waste tires proper 

disposal alternatives 

reported by generators 

and city authorities

Whole tires 

(US 

dollars, 

dollars) 

Cut 

tires 

(dollars) 

Whole 

tires 

(Mexican 

pesos, 

pesos1) 

Cut 

tires 

(pesos)

Additional information

Fabens El Paso, TX NA NA NA NA Fabens generators dispose in the options available in the city of El Paso, 

Texas.

El Paso City landfill $3 -$10 NA $38.3-

$127.5 NA

The landfill authorities charge $3 dollars( $38.3 pesos) for the disposal of 

each passenger tire with rim size lower than 19.5 inches, larger tires must 

pay $10 dollars ($127.5 pesos) per tire. Waste tires are not landfilled; once 

received are loaded into a trailer and send to a Land Reclamation Project 

owned by a private company in New Mexico, for this the city is charged $80 

dollars ($1,020 pesos) per ton of tires, plus the costs of transportation and 

unloading of the tires from the trailer.

El Paso Citizen Collection Stations $0.00 NA $0.00 NA

Residents may dispose of 8 tires (without rims) each year free of charge 

presenting their water bill. City's collection stations are located throughout 

the city open 5 days a week all year long.

El Paso CHAPARRAL SAND & 

GRAVEL $0.73-$0.9 NA $9.31-$11.48 NA

$80 to $99 dollars ($1,020 to $1,262.3 pesos) per ton. Considering a 

Passenger Tire Equivalent of 20 pounds (9.07Kilograms) (United States 

Environmental Protection Agency, 2006) the cost per equivalent tire is 

$0.73 to $0.9 USD ($9.31 to $11.48 pesos) per tire. The cost of 

transportation to New Mexico is not included. Waste tires are buried in a 

Land Reclamation Project (LRP) without being cut or shredded because, 

contrary to Texas, in New Mexico it is legal to bury whole tires. TCEQ 

ID:27034

El Paso ROAD MASTERS $0.75-$1.5 NA $9.56-$19.3 NA

The price varies depending on the number of tires that will be disposed of. 

The lower price is for generators of 6,000 waste tires or more. Reusable 

tires are separated from waste tires. Waste tires are shredded and 

disposed in a local landfill. TCEQ ID:26828
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Table 1. 

Disposal cost per tire in Texas

Disposal fee per tire

City

Waste tires proper 

disposal alternatives 

reported by generators 

and city authorities

Whole tires 

(US 

dollars, 

dollars) 

Cut 

tires 

(dollars) 

Whole 

tires 

(Mexican 

pesos, 

pesos1) 

Cut 

tires 

(pesos)

Additional information

El Paso TRES PESETAS INC $1.5-$3 $0.75 $19.3-

$38.25 $9.56

Depending on commercial agreements generators are charged from $1.5 

to $3 dollars ($19.3 to $38.25 pesos) for each whole tire, for each cut tire 

$0.75 dollars ($9.56 pesos) are charged for its disposal. Reusable tires are 

resold to used tire dealers. Waste tires are shredded and the resulting 

pieces are used in a Land Reclamation Project (LRP) or sent to a cement 

kiln in Mexico. TCEQ ID:26869

1 All pesos values in this table were estimated based on an exchange value of $12.75 Mexican pesos / US dollar for March 2012. (Bank of Mexico (BANXICO), 2012)

2 Estimation based on the geometric mean volume for most common tires sizes in USA. 

Private companies presented, in CAPITAL LETTERS, in this table are the ones currently being used by generators interviewed in the scope's area. Haulers who collect tires in more than one city may be 

presented more than once. Other private companies are likely to operate in the area as well, for a whole list of authorized active private transporters and processors registered in Texas please refer to the 

TCEQ Scrap Tire program web page were active scrap tire generators, transporters, processors, recyclers, storages, scrap tire facilities, energy recovery, Land Reclamation Project Using Tires (LRPUT) 

and transportation facilities are displayed on a data base. ( http://www5.tceq.state.tx.us/TireQuery/ ) Searches can be based on TCEQ ID or registration number, company name, city, zip code, county, 

region and type of registration.

NA= Not available 

TCEQ= Texas Commission on Environmental Quality 

TCEQ ID= or registration number, is a unique code assigned to every scrap tire TCEQ registered generator, transporter, processor, recycler, storage, scrap tire facility, energy recovery, Land Reclamation 

Project Using Tires (LRPUT) and transportation facilities.
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Disposal cost per tire in the 

Mexican side of the TexasMexico Border Region
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Table 1. 

Disposal cost per tire in the Mexican side of the Texas-Mexico Border Region

State Municipality

Waste tires 

disposal site 

alternatives made 

available by 

municipal 

authorities to 

generators

Disposal fee charged to 

generators per waste tire

Additional information

Mexican 

pesos 

(pesos) 

US dollars1 

(dollars) 

Chihuahua Ciudad Juarez

Municipal landfill's 

waste tire storage 

center

$6.00 $ 0.47 

Price for disposing of a tire with size up to rim 17. 

Medium and large tires, up to rim 24.5, must pay 

$20.8 pesos ($1.63 dollars) per tire. Also used tire 

generators must pay $273 pesos ($21.41 dollars) to 

renovate a distinctive eco sticker. 

Chihuahua Ojinaga

Municipal landfill's 

waste tire storage 

center

$0.00 $ - 

The municipality absorbs the cost of $2.13 pesos 

($0.17 dollars) per tire, this includes collection, 

transport, storage and disposal, general population 

and generators aren't charged for the disposal of their 

tires. Used tire repair shops are charged a monthly 

fee of $60 pesos ($4.71 dollars) for the transportation

of their waste tires to the disposal site.

Coahuila de 

Zaragoza Nava municipal open air dump' strorage center $0.00 $ - 

The municipality spends $10,000 pesos ($784.31 

dollars) in the collection and transport of waste tires 

to their storage center in the municipal dump; they 

don't know the average amount of tires collected 

each month. There is no disposal fee charged by the 

municipal dump.

Coahuila de 

Zaragoza Piedras Negras Private landfill $0.00 $ - 

The municipality absorbs the cost of waste tires 

collection, processing and landfilling charged by a 

private company (Promotora Ambiental S.A. de C.V., 

PASA) who is concessionary of the municipal waste 

tires collection and disposal service. PASA charges 

$800 pesos ($62.75 dollars) per ton of waste tires, 

which are shredded and landfilled in an exclusive cell 

in their own private landfill. Considering a Passenger 

Tire Equivalent of 20 pounds (9.07Kilograms) (United 

States Environmental Protection Agency, 2006) the 

cost per equivalent tire is $7.26 pesos (0.57 dollars) 

which is absorbed by the municipality.
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Table 1. 

Disposal cost per tire in the Mexican side of the Texas-Mexico Border Region

State Municipality

Waste tires 

disposal site 

alternatives made 

available by 

municipal 

authorities to 

generators

Disposal fee charged to 

generators per waste tire

Additional information

Mexican 

pesos 

(pesos) 

US dollars1 

(dollars) 

Coahuila de 

Zaragoza Acuña

Municipal landfill's 

waste tire storage 

center

$0.00 $ - 

The municipality absorbs the cost of waste tires 

disposal and storage in the municipal landfill ́s waste 

tire storage center. They used to charge from $10 to 

$30 pesos to dispose of a tire. 

Nuevo Leon Anahuac

Municipal dump's 

waste tire storage 

center

$0.00 $ - 

The municipality absorbs the cost of waste tires 

disposal and storage in the municipal dump's waste 

tire storage center. 

Tamaulipas Nuevo Laredo Municipal waste tire 

storage center $0.00 $ - 

The municipality absorbs the cost of waste tires 

disposal and storage in the municipal waste tire 

storage center. Before 2007 for tires with rim sizes 15 

and 16 the municipality used to charge $6 pesos 

($0.47 dollars) and for rim 17 and bigger waste tires 

$20 pesos (1.57 dollars) per tire.

Tamaulipas Guerrero Municipal open-air 

dump $0.00 $ - 

The municipality absorbs the disposal costs in the 

municipal open air dump. No fee is charged for 

disposal.

Tamaulipas Miguel Aleman

Provisional Municipal 

Waste Tires Collection 

Center

$0.00 $ - 

The municipality absorbs the disposal costs in the 

municipal provisional waste tires collection center. No 

fee is charged for disposal.

Tamaulipas Camargo Municipal Waste Tires 

Collection Center $0.00 $ - 

The municipality absorbs the disposal costs in the 

municipal waste tires collection center. No fee is 

charged for disposal.

Tamaulipas Gustavo Diaz Ordaz Open air dump. $0.00 $ - People take their waste tires to the municipal open air 

dump. No fee has ever been charged for disposal.

Tamaulipas Reynosa "Las Anacuas", open 

air dumps $0.00 $ - 

The municipality absorbs the disposal costs in the 

municipal open air dumps. No fee is charged for 

disposal.
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Table 1. 

Disposal cost per tire in the Mexican side of the Texas-Mexico Border Region

State Municipality

Waste tires 

disposal site 

alternatives made 

available by 

municipal 

authorities to 

generators

Disposal fee charged to 

generators per waste tire

Additional information

Mexican 

pesos 

(pesos) 

US dollars1 

(dollars) 

Tamaulipas Rio bravo

Municipal dump's 

waste tires storage 

center

$0.00 $ - 

The municipality absorbs the disposal costs in the 

municipal dump's waste tires collection center. They 

used to charge, before January 2011, from $5 to $20 

pesos ($0.39 to $1.57 dollars) per waste tire, 

depending on its size, for the collection and disposal 

of waste tires. 

Tamaulipas Matamoros

Municipal Waste Tires 

Collection Center and 

Municipal landfill's 

waste tire storage 

center 

$0.00 $ - 

The municipality absorbs the disposal costs in the 

municipal waste tires collection center and in the 

municipal landfill's waste tire storage center. They 

used to charge for the collection and disposal of 

waste tires. 

1 All dollar values in this table were estimated based on an exchange value of $12.75 Mexican pesos / US dollar for March 2012. (Bank of Mexico (BANXICO), 2012)
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ATTACHMENT 21

Harmonized system tariff 

schedule
Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (2012) (Rev.1)

Annotated for Statistical Reporting Purposes

VII

40-17

Heading/ Stat. Unit Rates of Duty

Subheading Suf- Article Description of 1 2

fix Quantity General Special

4012 Retreaded or used pneumatic tires of rubber; solid or

cushion tires, tire treads and tire flaps, of rubber:

Retreaded tires:

4012.11 Of a kind used on motor cars (including station

wagons and racing cars):

4012.11.40 00 Radial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No.. . . . . . 4% Free (A,AU,BH, 10%

CA,CL,E,IL,

J,JO,KR,MA,

MX,OM,P,

PE,SG)

4012.11.80 00 Other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No.. . . . . . 3.4% Free (A,AU,BH, 10%

CA,CL,E,IL,

J,JO,KR,MA,

MX,OM,P,

PE,SG)

4012.12 Of a kind used on buses or trucks:

4012.12.40 Radial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4% Free (A,AU,BH, 10%

CA,CL,E,IL,

J,JO,KR,MA,

MX,OM,P,

PE,SG)

On-the-highway truck and bus tires:

15 Light truck. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No.

25 Other.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No.

35 Other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No.

4012.12.80 Other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.4% Free (A*,AU,BH, 10%

CA,CL,E,IL,

J,JO,KR,MA,

MX,OM,P,

PE,SG)

On-the-highway truck and bus tires:

19 Light truck. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No.

29 Other.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No.

50 Other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No.

4012.13.00 Of a kind used on aircraft. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Free 30%

10 For use in civil aircraft. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No.

50 Other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No.

4012.19 Other:

4012.19.20 00 Designed for tractors provided for in

subheading 8701.90.10 or for agricultural or

horticultural machinery or implements provided

for in chapter 84 or in subheading 8716.80.10. . . No.. . . . . . Free Free

Other:

4012.19.40 00 Radial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No.. . . . . . 4% Free (A,AU,BH, 10%

CA,CL,E,IL,

J,JO,KR,MA,

MX,OM,P,

PE,SG)

4012.19.80 00 Other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No.. . . . . . 3.4% Free (A,AU,BH, 10%

CA,CL,E,IL,

J,JO,KR,MA,

MX,OM,P,

PE,SG)
Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (2012) (Rev.1)

Annotated for Statistical Reporting Purposes

VII

40-18

Heading/ Stat. Unit Rates of Duty

Subheading Suf- Article Description of 1 2

fix Quantity General Special

4012 (con.) Retreaded or used pneumatic tires of rubber; solid or

cushion tires, tire treads and tire flaps, of rubber(con.):

4012.20 Used pneumatic tires:

4012.20.10 Aircraft.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Free 30%

10 For use in civil aircraft. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No.

50 Other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No.

Designed for tractors provided for in

subheading 8701.90.10 or for agricultural or

horticultural machinery or implements provided

for in chapter 84 or in subheading 8716.80.10:

4012.20.15 00 Of a kind used on vehicles, including tractors,

for the on-highway transport of passengers

or goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No.. . . . . . Free Free

4012.20.45 00 Other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No.. . . . . . Free Free

Other:

4012.20.60 00 Of a kind used on vehicles, including tractors,

for the on-highway transport of passengers

or goods, or on vehicles of heading 8705. . . . . . . No.. . . . . . Free 10%

4012.20.80 00 Other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No.. . . . . . Free 10%
Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (2012) (Rev.1)

Annotated for Statistical Reporting Purposes

VII

40-19

Heading/ Stat. Unit Rates of Duty

Subheading Suf- Article Description of 1 2

fix Quantity General Special

4012 (con.) Retreaded or used pneumatic tires of rubber; solid or

cushion tires, tire treads and tire flaps, of rubber (con.):

4012.90 Other:

4012.90.10 00 Solid or cushion tires.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No.. . . . . . Free 25%

Other:

Of natural rubber:

4012.90.30 00 Bicycle rim strips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . kg. . . . . . . Free 35%

No.

4012.90.45 00 Other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . kg. . . . . . . 4.2% Free (A,AU,BH, 35%

No. CA,CL,E,IL,

J,JO,KR,MA,

MX,OM,P,

PE,SG)

Other:

4012.90.70 00 Bicycle rim strips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . kg. . . . . . . Free 80%

No.

4012.90.90 00 Other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . kg. . . . . . . 2.7% Free (A,AU,BH, 80%

No. CA,CL,E,IL,

J,JO,KR,MA,

MX,OM,P,

PE,SG)

4013 Inner tubes, of rubber:

4013.10.00 Of a kind used on motor cars (including station wagons

and racing cars), buses or trucks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.7% Free (A,AU,BH, 25%

CA,CL,E,IL,

J,JO,KR,MA,

MX,OM,P,

PE,SG)

10 Motor car. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No.

20 Truck and bus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No.

4013.20.00 00 Of a kind used on bicycles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No.. . . . . . Free 30%

4013.90 Other:

4013.90.10 00 Designed for tires provided for in

subheadings 4011.61.00, 4011.92.00,

4012.19.20, 4012.20.15 and 4012.20.45. . . . . . . . . . No.. . . . . . Free Free

4013.90.50 Other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.7% Free (A,AU,BH, 25%

CA,CL,E,IL,

J,JO,KR,MA,

MX,OM,P,

PE,SG)

10 Motorcycle (including moped). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No.

50 Other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No.

4014 Hygienic or pharmaceutical articles (including nursing

nipples), of vulcanized rubber other than hard rubber, with

or without fittings of hard rubber:

4014.10.00 00 Sheath contraceptives.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X. . . . . . . . Free 25%

4014.90 Other:

4014.90.10 00 Nursing nipples. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . gross.. . . . Free 25%

4014.90.50 00 Other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X. . . . . . . . 4.2% Free (A,AU,BH, 25%

CA,CL,E,IL,

J,JO,KR,MA,

MX,OM,P,

PE,SG)
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Waste Tire Management 

Regulatory Framework
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1 International treaties

1.1 NAFTA

CHAPTER NINE: Standards-Related Measures

Article 913: Committee on Standards-Related Measures

5. Further to paragraph 4, the Committee shall establish:

(a) The following subcommittees

(i) Land Transportation Standards Subcommittee, in accordance with 

Annex 913.5.a-1.

1.2 North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation

Article 5. Government enforcement action

With the aim of achieving high levels of environmental protection and 

compliance with its environmental laws and regulations through appropriate 

governmental action, subject to Article 37, such as:

a. Appointing and training inspectors

b. monitoring compliance and investigating suspected violations, 

including through on-site inspections;

c. seeking assurances of voluntary compliance and compliance 

agreements;

d. publicly releasing non-compliance information;

e. issuing bulletins or other periodic statements on enforcement 

procedures;

f. promoting environmental audits;

g. requiring record keeping and reporting; 

h. providing or encouraging mediation and arbitration services;

i. using licenses, permits or authorizations;

j. initiating, in a timely manner, judicial, quasi-judicial or administrative 

proceedings to seek appropriate sanctions or remedies for violations of its 

environmental laws and regulations;

k. providing for search, seizure or detention; or

l. issuing administrative orders, including orders of a preventative, 

curative or emergency nature.

Each party shall ensure that judicial, quasi-judicial or administrative 

enforcement proceedings are available under its law to sanction or remedy 

violations of its environmental laws and regulations.

Sanctions and remedies provided for a violation of a Party's 

environmental laws and regulations shall, as appropriate:

a) take into consideration the nature and gravity of the violation, any 

economic benefit derived from the violation by the violator, the economic condition 

of the violator, and other relevant factors; and

b) include compliance agreements, fines, imprisonment, injunctions, 

the closure of facilities, and the cost of containing or cleaning up pollution.

Article 10. Council Functions

2 The Council may consider, and develop recommendations regarding:

(m) the environmental implications of goods throughout their life cycles;
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Article 37. Enforcement principle

Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed to empower a party's 

authorities to undertake environmental law enforcement activities in the territory of 

another party.

1.3 Agreement on Cooperation for the Protection and Improvement 

of the Environment in the Border Area

Article 8. Each Party designates a national coordinator whose principal 

functions will be to coordinate and monitor implementation of this Agreement, 

make recommendations to the Parties, and organize the annual meetings referred 

to in Article 10, and the meetings of the experts referred to in Article 11. Additional 

responsibilities of the national coordinators may be agreed to in an annex to this 

Agreement. In the case of Mexico the national coordinator shall be the Secretaria 

de Desarrollo Urbano y Ecologia, through the Subsecretaria de Ecologia, and in 

the case of the United States of America it shall be the Environmental Protection 

Agency.

1.4 Basel Convention about Control of Transboundary Movements 

of Hazardous Waste and their Disposal

Article 4

1. General Obligations 

(a) Parties exercising their right to prohibit the import of hazardous 

waste or other waste for disposal shall inform the other Parties of their decision 

pursuant to Article 13. 

(b) Parties shall prohibit or shall not permit the export of hazardous 

waste and other waste to the Parties which have prohibited the import of such 

waste, when notified pursuant to subparagraph (a) above. 

(c) Parties shall prohibit or shall not permit the export of hazardous 

waste and other waste if the State of import does not consent in writing to the 

specific import, in the case where that State of import has not prohibited the 

import of such waste.

2. Each Party shall take the appropriate measures to:

(d) Ensure that the transboundary movement of hazardous waste and 

other waste is reduced to the minimum consistent with the environmentally sound 

and efficient management of such waste, and is conducted in a manner which will 

protect human health and the environment against the adverse effects which may 

result from such movement; 

(f ) Require that information about a proposed transboundary movement 

of hazardous waste and other waste be provided to the States concerned, 

according to Annex V A, to state clearly the effects of the proposed movement on 

human health and the environment; 

(g) Prevent the import of hazardous waste and other waste if it has 

reason to believe that the waste in question will not be managed in an 

environmentally sound manner;
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(h) Co-operate in activities with other Parties and interested 

organizations, directly and through the Secretariat, including the dissemination of 

information on the transboundary movement of hazardous waste and other waste, 

in order to improve the environmentally sound management of such waste and to 

achieve the prevention of illegal traffic. 

3. The Parties consider that illegal traffic in hazardous waste or other 

waste is criminal. 

4. Each Party shall take appropriate legal, administrative and other 

measures to implement and enforce the provisions of this Convention, including 

measures to prevent and punish conduct in contravention of the Convention.

7. Furthermore, each Party shall:

(a) Prohibit all persons under its national jurisdiction from transporting or 

disposing of hazardous waste or other waste unless such persons are authorized 

or allowed to perform such types of operations; 

(b) Require that hazardous waste and other waste that are to be the 

subject of a transboundary movement be packaged, labeled, and transported in 

conformity with generally accepted and recognized international rules and 

standards in the field of packaging, labeling, and transport, and that due account 

is taken of relevant internationally recognized practices; 

(c) Require that hazardous waste and other waste be accompanied by a 

movement document from the point at which a transboundary movement 

commences to the point of disposal.

9. Parties shall take the appropriate measures to ensure that the transboundary movement of hazardous waste and other waste only be allowed if: 

(a) The State of export does not have the technical capacity and the 

necessary facilities, capacity or suitable disposal sites in order to dispose of the 

waste in question in an environmentally sound and efficient manner; or 

(b) The waste in question are required as a raw material for recycling or 

recovery industries in the State of import; or (c) The transboundary movement in 

question is in accordance with other criteria to be decided by the Parties, provided 

those criteria do not differ from the objectives of this Convention. 

10. The obligation under this Convention of States in which hazardous 

waste and other waste are generated to require that those waste are managed in 

an environmentally sound manner may not under any circumstances be 

transferred to the States of import or transit.

13. Parties shall undertake to review periodically the possibilities for the 

reduction of the amount and/or the pollution potential of hazardous waste and 

other waste which are exported to other States, in particular to developing 

countries.

Article 5. Designation of competent authorities and focal point 

To facilitate the implementation of this Convention, the Parties shall: 1. 

Designate or establish one or more competent authorities and one focal point. 

One competent authority shall be designated to receive the notification in case of 

a State of transit. 2. Inform the Secretariat, within three months of the date of the 

entry into force of this Convention for them, which agencies they have designated 
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as their focal point and their competent authorities. 3. Inform the Secretariat, 

within one month of the date of decision, of any changes regarding the 

designation made by them under paragraph 2 above.

Article 10. International co-operation

1. The Parties shall co-operate with each other in order to improve and 

achieve environmentally sound management of hazardous waste and other 

waste. 

2. To this end, the Parties shall: 

(a) Upon request, make available information, whether on a bilateral or 

multilateral basis, with a view to promoting the environmentally sound 

management of hazardous waste and other waste, including harmonization of 

technical standards and practices for the adequate management of hazardous 

waste and other waste; 

(b) Co-operate in monitoring the effects of the management of 

hazardous waste on human health and the environment; 

(c) Co-operate, subject to their national laws, regulations and policies, in 

the development and implementation of new environmentally sound low-waste 

technologies and the improvement of existing technologies with a view to 

eliminating, as far as practicable, the generation of hazardous waste and other 

waste and achieving more effective and efficient methods of ensuring their 

management in an environmentally sound manner, including the study of the 

economic, social and environmental effects of the adoption of such new or 

improved technologies; 

(d) Co-operate actively, subject to their national laws, regulations and 

policies, in the transfer of technology and management systems related to the 

environmentally sound management of hazardous waste and other waste. They 

shall also co-operate in developing the technical capacity among Parties, 

especially those which may need and request technical assistance in this field; 

(e) Co-operate in developing appropriate technical guidelines and/ or 

codes of practice. 

3. The Parties shall employ appropriate means to co-operate in order to 

assist developing countries in the implementation of subparagraphs a, b, c and d 

of paragraph 2 of Article 4.

4. Taking into account the needs of developing countries, co-operation 

between Parties and the competent international organizations is encouraged to 

promote, inter alia, public awareness, the development of sound management of 

hazardous waste and other waste and the adoption of new low-waste 

technologies.

1.5 Customs Convention for the Temporary Importation of Private 

Road Vehicles.

Article 26. Customs authorities shall not have the right to require from the 

guaranteeing association payment of import duties and import taxes on vehicles 

or component parts temporarily imported when the non discharge of the 

temporary importation papers has not been notified to the guaranteeing 

association within a year of the date of expiry of the validity of those papers.
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Article 27. 

1. The guaranteeing associations shall have a period of one year from 

the date of notification of the non-discharge of temporary importation papers in 

which to furnish proof of the re-exportation of the vehicles or component parts in 

question under the conditions laid down in this Convention.

2. If such proof is not furnished within the time allowed, the guaranteeing 

association shall forthwith deposit or pay provisionally the import duties and 

import taxes payable. This deposit or payment shall become final after a period of 

one year from the date of the deposit or provisional payment. During the latter 

period, the guaranteeing association may still avail itself of the facilities provided 

by the preceding paragraph with a view to repayment of the sums deposited or 

paid.

3. For countries whose regulations do not provide for the deposit or

provisional payment of import duties, payments made in conformity with the 

provisions of the preceding paragraph will be regarded as final, it being 

understood that the sums paid may be refunded when the conditions laid down in 

this article are fulfilled.

4. In the case of the non-discharge of temporary importation papers, the 

guaranteeing association shall not be required to pay a sum greater than the total 

of the import duties and import taxes applicable to the vehicles or component 

parts not reexported, together with interest if applicable.

1.6 Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in 

International Business Transactions

Article 1. The Offence of Bribery of Foreign Public Officials

1. Each Party shall take such measures as may be necessary to 

establish that it is a criminal offence under its law for any person intentionally to 

offer, promise or give any undue pecuniary or other advantage, whether directly 

or through intermediaries, to a foreign public official, for that official or for a third 

party, in order that the official act or refrain from acting in relation to the 

performance of official duties, in order to obtain or retain business or other 

improper advantage in the conduct of international business.

2. Each Party shall take any measures necessary to establish that 

complicity in, including incitement, aiding and abetting, or authorization of an act 

of bribery of a foreign public official shall be a criminal offence. Attempt and 

conspiracy to bribe a foreign public official shall be criminal offences to the same 

extent as attempt and conspiracy to bribe a public official of that Party.

3. The offences set out in paragraphs 1 and 2 above are hereinafter 

referred to as “bribery of a foreign public official”.

4. For the purpose of this Convention:

“foreign public official” means any person holding a legislative, 

administrative or judicial office of a foreign country, whether appointed or elected; 

any person exercising a public function for a foreign country, including for a public 

agency or public enterprise; and any official or agent of a public international 

organization;
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“foreign country” includes all levels and subdivisions of government, from 

national to local;

“act or refrain from acting in relation to the performance of official duties” 

includes any use of the public official’s position, whether or not within the official’s 

authorized competence.

Article 3. Sanctions 

1. The bribery of a foreign public official shall be punishable by effective, 

proportionate and dissuasive criminal penalties. The range of penalties shall be 

comparable to that applicable to the bribery of the Party’s own public officials and 

shall, in the case of natural persons, include deprivation of liberty sufficient to 

enable effective mutual legal assistance and extradition. 

2. In the event that, under the legal system of a Party, criminal 

responsibility is not applicable to legal persons, that Party shall ensure that legal 

persons shall be subject to effective, proportionate and dissuasive non-criminal

sanctions, including monetary sanctions, for bribery of foreign public officials. 

3. Each Party shall take such measures as may be necessary to provide 

that the bribe and the proceeds of the bribery of a foreign public official, or 

property the value of which corresponds to that of such proceeds, are subject to 

seizure and confiscation or that monetary sanctions of comparable effect are 

applicable. 

4. Each Party shall consider the imposition of additional civil or 

administrative sanctions upon a person subject to sanctions for the bribery of a 

foreign public official 

1.7 World Health Regulations

ANNEX 1 – B. Core Capacity Requirements for Designated Airports, 

Ports and Ground Crossings

1. At all times

The capacities:

(e) to provide as far as practicable a programmed and trained personnel 

for the control of vectors and reservoirs in and near points of entry.

ANNEX 5 – Specific Measures for Vector-Borne Diseases

1. WHO shall publish, on a regular basis, a list of areas where 

disinfection or other vector control measures are recommended for conveyances 

arriving from these areas. Determination of such areas shall be made pursuant to 

the procedures regarding temporary or standing recommendations, as 

appropriate.

2. Every conveyance leaving a point of entry situated in an area where 

vector control is recommended should be disinfected and kept free of vectors. 

When there are methods and materials advised by the Organization for these 

procedures, these should be employed. The presence of vectors on board 

conveyances and the control measures used to eradicate them shall be included:

(a) in the case of aircraft, in the Health Part of the Aircraft General 

Declaration, unless this part of the Declaration is waived by the competent 

authority at the airport of arrival;
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(b) in the case of ships, on the Ship Sanitation Control Certificates; and 

(c) in the case of other conveyances, on a written proof of treatment 

issued to the consignor, consignee, carrier, the person in charge of the 

conveyance or their agent, respectively.

3. States Parties should accept disinfecting, deratting and other control 

measures for conveyances applied by other States if methods and materials 

advised by the Organization have been applied.

4. States Parties shall establish programs to control vectors that may 

transport an infectious agent that constitutes a public health risk to a minimum 

distance of 400 meters from those areas of point of entry facilities that are used 

for operations involving travelers, conveyances, containers, cargo and postal 

parcels, with extension of the minimum distance if vectors with a greater range 

are present.

5. If a follow-up inspection is required to determine the success of the 

vector control measures applied, the competent authorities for the next known 

port or airport of call with a capacity to make such an inspection shall be informed 

of this requirement in advance by the competent authority advising such followup. In the case of ships, this shall be noted on the Ship Sanitation Control 

Certificate.

6. A conveyance may be regarded as suspect and should be inspected 

for vectors and reservoirs if:

(a) it has a possible case of vector-borne disease on board;

(b) a possible case of vector-borne disease has occurred on board 

during an international voyage; or

(c) it has left an affected area within a period of time where on-board 

vectors could still carry disease.

8. A State Party may apply vector control measures to a conveyance 

arriving from an area affected by a vector-borne disease if the vectors for the 

foregoing disease are present in its territory.

1.8 Guidance Manual for the Control of Transboundary Movements 

of Recoverable Waste

ANNEX B: OECD consolidated list of waste subject to the green control 

procedure

B3140. Waste pneumatic tires, excluding those destined for Appendix 5A 

operations

1.9 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea

PART XII: Protection and Preservation of the Marine Environment

SECTION 6. Enforcement

Article 217

Enforcement by flag States

1. States shall ensure compliance by vessels flying their flag or of their 

registry with applicable international rules and standards, established through the 

competent international organization or general diplomatic conference, and with 
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their laws and regulations adopted in accordance with this Convention for the 

prevention, reduction and control of pollution of the marine environment from 

vessels and shall accordingly adopt laws and regulations and take other 

measures necessary for their implementation. Flag States shall provide for the 

effective enforcement of such rules, standards, laws and regulations, irrespective 

of where a violation occurs.

2. States shall, in particular, take appropriate measures in order to 

ensure that vessels flying their flag or of their registry are prohibited from sailing, 

until they can proceed to sea in compliance with the requirements of the 

international rules and standards referred to in paragraph 1, including 

requirements in respect of design, construction, equipment and manning of 

vessels.

3. States shall ensure that vessels flying their flag or of their registry 

carry on board certificates required by and issued pursuant to international rules 

and standards referred to in paragraph 1. States shall ensure that vessels flying 

their flag are periodically inspected in order to verify that such certificates are in 

conformity with the actual condition of the vessels. These certificates shall be 

accepted by other States as evidence of the condition of the vessels and shall be 

regarded as having the same force as certificates issued by them, unless there 

are clear grounds for believing that the condition of the vessel does not 

correspond substantially with the particulars of the certificates. 

4. If a vessel commits a violation of rules and standards established 

through the competent international organization or general diplomatic 

conference, the flag State, without prejudice to articles 218, 220 and 228, shall 

provide for immediate investigation and where appropriate institute proceedings in 

respect of the alleged violation irrespective of where the violation occurred or 

where the pollution caused by such violation has occurred or has been spotted.

5. Flag States conducting an investigation of the violation may request 

the assistance of any other State whose cooperation could be useful in clarifying 

the circumstances of the case. States shall endeavor to meet appropriate 

requests of flag States.

6. States shall, at the written request of any State, investigate any 

violation alleged to have been committed by vessels flying their flag. If satisfied 

that sufficient evidence is available to enable proceedings to be brought in respect 

of the alleged violation, flag States shall without delay institute such proceedings 

in accordance with their laws.

7. Flag States shall promptly inform the requesting State and the 

competent international organization of the action taken and its outcome. Such 

information shall be available to all States.

8. Penalties provided for by the laws and regulations of States for 

vessels flying their flag shall be adequate in severity to discourage violations 

wherever they occur.

Article 218

Enforcement by port States

1. When a vessel is voluntarily within a port or at an off-shore terminal of 

a State, that State may undertake investigations and, where the evidence so 

warrants, institute proceedings in respect of any discharge from that vessel 
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outside the internal waters, territorial sea or exclusive economic zone of that State 

in violation of applicable international rules and standards established through the 

competent international organization or general diplomatic conference.

2. No proceedings pursuant to paragraph 1 shall be instituted in respect 

of a discharge violation in the internal waters, territorial sea or exclusive economic 

zone of another State unless requested by that State, the flag State, or a State 

damaged or threatened by the discharge violation, or unless the violation has 

caused or is likely to cause pollution in the internal waters, territorial sea or 

exclusive economic zone of the State instituting the proceedings.

3. When a vessel is voluntarily within a port or at an off-shore terminal of 

a State, that State shall, as far as practicable, comply with requests from any 

State for investigation of a discharge violation referred to in paragraph 1, believed 

to have occurred in, caused, or threatened damage to the internal waters, 

territorial sea or exclusive economic zone of the requesting State. It shall likewise, 

as far as practicable, comply with requests from the flag State for investigation of 

such a violation, irrespective of where the violation occurred.

4. The records of the investigation carried out by a port State pursuant to 

this article shall be transmitted upon request to the flag State or to the coastal 

State. Any proceedings instituted by the port State on the basis of such an 

investigation may, subject to section 7, be suspended at the request of the coastal 

State when the violation has occurred within its internal waters, territorial sea or 

exclusive economic zone. The evidence and records of the case, together with 

any bond or other financial security posted with the authorities of the port State, 

shall in that event be transmitted to the coastal State. Such transmittal shall 

preclude the continuation of proceedings in the port State.

Article 219

Measures relating to seaworthiness of vessels to avoid pollution

Subject to section 7, States which, upon request or on their own initiative, 

have ascertained that a vessel within one of their ports or at one of their off-shore 

terminals is in violation of applicable international rules and standards relating to 

seaworthiness of vessels and thereby threatens damage to the marine 

environment shall, as far as practicable, take administrative measures to prevent 

the vessel from sailing. Such States may permit the vessel to proceed only to the 

nearest appropriate repair yard and, upon removal of the causes of the violation, 

shall permit the vessel to continue immediately.
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2 American regulatory framework

2.1 Federal Law

2.1.1 US Disposal of Solid Waste Code – Section 6002 - 102

(e) GUIDELINES — The Administrator, after consultation with the 

Administrator of General Services, the Secretary of Commerce (acting through 

the Bureau of Standards), and the Public Printer, shall prepare, and from time to 

time, revise, guidelines for the use of procuring agencies in complying with the 

requirements of this section. Such guidelines shall—

(1) Designate those items which are or can be produced with recovered 

materials and whose procurement by procuring agencies will carry out the 

objectives of this section, and in the case of paper, provide for maximizing the use 

of postconsumer recovered materials referred to in subsection (h)(1); and 

(2) Set forth recommended practices with respect to the procurement of 

recovered materials and items containing such materials and with respect to 

certification by vendors of the percentage of recovered materials used, and shall 

provide information as to the availability, relative price, and performance of such 

materials and items and where appropriate shall recommend the level of 

recovered material to be contained in the procured product. The Administrator 

shall prepare final guidelines for paper within one hundred and eighty days after 

the enactment of the Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments of 1984, and for 

three additional product categories (including tires) by October 1, 1985. In making 

the designation under paragraph (1), the Administrator shall consider, but is not 

limited in his considerations, to—

(A) The availability of such items; 

(B) The impact of the procurement of such items by procuring agencies 

on the volume of solid waste which must be treated, stored or disposed of; 

(C) The economic and technological feasibility of producing and using 

such items; and 

(D) Other uses for such recovered materials.

2.2 State laws

2.2.1 State of Texas

2.2.1.1 Texas Health and Safety Code 361.112 - Storage, 

Transportation, and Disposal of Used or Scrap Tires

TEXAS CODES

HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE

TITLE 5

Subtitle B

CHAPTER 361

Subchapter C

361.112 - Storage, Transportation, and Disposal of Used or Scrap Tires 

Current as of: 2009 
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(a) A person may not store more than 500 used or scrap tires for any 

period on any publicly or privately owned property unless the person registers the 

storage site with the commission. This subsection does not apply to the storage, 

protection, or production of agricultural commodities. 

(b) The commission may register a site to store more than 500 used or 

scrap tires. 

(c) A person may not dispose of used or scrap tires in a facility that is not 

permitted by the commission for that purpose. 

(d) The commission may issue a permit for a facility for the disposal of 

used or scrap tires

(e) The commission by rule shall adopt application forms and procedures 

for the registration and permitting processes authorized under this section. 

(f) A person may not store more than 500 used or scrap tires or dispose 

of any quantity of used or scrap tires unless the tires are shredded, split, or 

quartered as provided by commission rule. The commission may grant an 

exception to this requirement if the commission finds that circumstances warrant 

the exception. The prohibition provided by this subsection regarding storage does 

not apply to a registered waste tire energy recovery facility or a waste tire energy 

recovery facility storage site. The prohibition provided by this subsection does not 

apply to a person who, for eventual recycling, reuse, or energy recovery, 

temporarily stores scrap tires in a designated recycling collection area at a landfill 

permitted by the commission or licensed by a county or by a political subdivision 

exercising the authority granted by Section 361.165. 

(g) The commission shall require a person who transports used or scrap 

tires for storage or disposal to maintain records and use a manifest or other 

appropriate system to assure that those tires are transported to a storage site that 

is registered or to a disposal facility that is permitted under this section for that 

purpose. 

(h) The commission may amend, extend, transfer, or renew a permit 

issued under this section as provided by this chapter and commission rule. 

(i) The notice and hearing procedures provided by this subchapter apply 

to a permit issued, amended, extended, or renewed under this section. 

(j) The commission may, for good cause, revoke or amend a permit it 

issues under this section for reasons concerning public health, air or water 

pollution, land use, or violation of this section as provided by Section 361.089. 

(k) The commission may not register or issue a permit to a facility 

required by Section 361.479 to provide evidence of financial responsibility unless 

the facility has complied with that section. 

(l) In this section, "scrap tire" means a tire that can no longer be used for 

its original intended purpose. 

(m) The commission may adopt rules to regulate the storage of scrap or 

shredded tires that are stored at a marine dock, rail yard, or trucking facility for 

more than 30 days.
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2.3 Local Law

Based on Code of Ordinances for the following cities.

2.3.1 City of El Paso 

2.3.1.1 Chapter 9.04 - Solid Waste Management 

ARTICLE I - General Provisions

9.04.010 - Creation and purpose of department 

The city is responsible for public health, cleanliness and sanitation in El 

Paso. The purpose of this chapter is to provide for protection of the health, safety 

and welfare of the residents of the city by prescribing minimum standards for the 

generation, storage, collection, transportation and disposal of solid waste and 

related matter, by providing for the issuance of permits to persons engaging in 

those activities, by providing for the payment of fees, and by providing for 

enforcement techniques, including inspections of premises and equipment, the 

revocation of permits and the issuance of citations. The department of 

environmental services was created to carry out this purpose as well as to 

oversee and perform duties and services relating to areas of environmental 

concerns, including ordinance, statutory and other regulatory enforcement by the 

director and his designees and by the employees in the code enforcement 

division of the department, who shall also have enforcement authority as 

authorized and provided in this Code; and to generally perform duties and 

services relating to areas of public health, animal related regulatory services, 

cleanliness and sanitation concerns as to be determined by the city manager. In 

partial furtherance of the purpose discussed herein, curbside recycling reduces 

the amount of refuse sent to landfills. 

(Ord. No. 17380, § 1, 8-24-2010; Ord. No. 17634, § 2, 8-30-2011)

9.04.020 - Definitions. 

As used in this chapter the following words, terms, and phrases shall 

have the following meanings, except where the context clearly indicates a 

different meaning: 

3. "Bulk waste" means municipal solid waste composed of materials not 

easily containerized in a cart such as, but not limited to, appliances, brush, carpet, 

furniture, pallets and other large items. Bulk waste shall exclude animal waste, 

dead animals, construction or demolition material, and excluded waste. 

4. "Cart" means any watertight plastic receptacle approved by the 

department for the purpose of containing municipal solid waste or program 

recyclable materials that is equipped with wheels and an attached tight-fitting lid 

designed or intended to be mechanically or manually dumped into a garbage 

collection truck. 

5. "Citizen collection station" means a site designated by the department 

for the drop-off of municipal solid waste and/or recyclable material, by residential 

property occupants. 

6. "Collection" means as defined in 30 TAC § 330.3. 

7. "Commercial property" means all improved property other than a 

residential property. 
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8. "Composting" means as defined in 30 TAC § 330.3. 

11. "Container" means a dumpster or compactor. 

12. "Compactor" means a watertight receptacle, regardless of its size, 

which has a compaction mechanism, whether stationary or mobile, equipped with 

closeable doors intended to be loaded onto a motor vehicle. 

14. "Department" means the department of environmental services. 

15. "Designated or authorized municipal solid waste facility" means any 

municipal solid waste facility designated by the city manager in the case of a 

designated municipal solid waste facility, or by the environmental protection 

agency in the case of an authorized municipal solid waste facility, for processing, 

storing, or disposing of municipal solid waste, including construction or demolition 

material, generated within the city. 

16. "Director" means the director of the department of environmental 

services or his designee or other designees of the city manager. 

17. "Discard" means as defined in 30 TAC § 330.3. 

18. "Disposal" or "dispose" means the deposit of any solid waste at a 

municipal solid waste facility. 

19. "Dumpster" means a watertight receptacle, with a capacity of 

approximately two cubic yards up to approximately eight cubic yards, equipped 

with tight-fitting lid and designed or intended to be mechanically dumped into a 

loader-packer type truck. 

21. "Established fee" means the fee that is authorized in this chapter 

which is set in the amount identified in the adopted budget resolution for the 

current fiscal year or by other duly adopted resolution of the city council. 

22. "Excluded waste" means solid waste not accepted by any designated 

or authorized municipal solid waste facility as posted at such designated or 

authorized municipal solid waste facility. 

24. "Garbage" means as defined in 30 TAC § 330.3. 

25. "Generator" means as defined in 30 TAC § 330.3. 

27. "Hauler" means a person other than a self-transporter who provides 

collection of solid waste or recyclable materials within the city. 

28. "Hauler permit" means the authorization of a hauler by the 

department for the privilege to provide collection of solid waste and/or recyclable 

materials within the city and/or delivery of solid waste to a designated or 

authorized municipal solid waste facility during the term of such permit and 

subject to all the terms and conditions imposed by this ordinance and related laws 

and other ordinances and resolutions of the city.

29. "Hazardous waste" means as defined in 30 TAC § 330.3. 

30. "Household hazardous waste" means as defined by 30 TAC § 

330.402. 

31. "Illegal dumping" means the offense as defined by Texas Litter 

Abatement Act. 

32. "Industrial solid waste" means as defined in 30 TAC § 330.3. 

34. "Landfill" means as defined in 30 TAC § 330.3. 

35. "Litter" means as defined in Texas Litter Abatement Act; garbage, 

rubbish and refuse; decayable waste and non-decayable solid waste. 

40. "Municipal solid waste" means as defined in 30 TAC § 330.3 

excluding animal waste and excluded waste. 
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41. "Municipal solid waste facility" means as defined in 30 TAC § 330.3. 

42. "Nuisance" means as defined in 30 TAC § 330.3. 

46. "Permitted hauler" means hauler holding a valid hauler permit. 

47. "Permitted vehicle" means a vehicle or trailer used by a permitted 

hauler within the city for the purpose of collecting solid waste and/or recyclable 

materials generated within the city. 

48. "Permitted hauler vehicle log" means a form provided by the 

department to record deliveries of solid waste regulated by this chapter by 

permitted haulers to a designated or authorized municipal solid waste facility. 

49. "Processing" or "processed" means as defined by 30 TAC § 330.3. 

50. "Program recyclable materials" means recyclable materials defined 

by the department as part of the residential recycling program. 

52. "Recyclable material" means as defined by 30 TAC § 330.3. 

53. "Recycling" means as defined by 30 TAC § 330.3. 

54. "Recycling facility" means a facility that either has the required 

authorization from Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, or equivalent 

state agency, for processing of recyclable materials and is in compliance with 

local, state, and federal laws. 

56. "Residential recycling program" means the collection of recyclable 

materials, as defined by the department, from residential properties. 

57. "Retail or service establishment" means a business operation located 

on an improved property that has as its primary purpose the selling of goods, 

merchandise and/or providing services to members of the public from a fixed 

location, such as a shop, store or building complex. Examples of retail or service 

establishments include, but are not limited to restaurants and bars, gas stations, 

convenience stores, and shopping centers. 

58. "Roll-off" means any watertight receptacle, with a capacity of 

approximately ten cubic yards up to approximately forty cubic yards, intended to 

be loaded onto a motor vehicle. 

59. "Rubbish" means as defined by 30 TAC § 330.3. 

60. "Scavenging" means as defined by 30 TAC § 330.3. 

61. "Self-transporter" means the following: 

a. Generator, who directly, without use of a hauler, transports solid waste 

generated by the generator to a municipal solid waste facility or recyclable 

materials generated by the generator to a recycling facility; utilizing the following 

methods of transport: 

1. A factory-unmodified Class 1, 2, or 3 truck, based on US DOT Federal 

Highway Administration Vehicle Inventory and Use Survey standards; or 

2. A vehicle as described in 1. above, with an attached single axle trailer. 

b. A person conducting services on behalf of a generator, including, but 

not limited to building contractors, home repairmen/handymen, landscapers, or 

roofers, at that generator's location of business or residence, may be considered 

a self-transporter of solid waste or recyclable materials generated as a result of 

such service, provided the vehicle limitations specified in Part 1 of this definition 

are met. 

63. "Side door" means a collection location for a municipal solid waste 

and/or program recyclable materials cart other than curbside. Side door can be at 

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and program recyclable materials. The department shall designate the location for 

side door collection of municipal solid waste and program recyclable materials. 

65. "Solid waste" means as defined by 30 TAC § 330.3. 

66. "Special waste" means as defined by 30 TAC § 330.3. 

67. "Storage" means as defined by 30 TAC § 330.3. 

(Ord. No. 17380, § 1, 8-24-2010; Ord. No. 17471, §§ 1, 2, 12-21-2010; 

Ord. No. 17604, § 1, 7-19-2011)

9.04.030 - Applicability. 

A. Except where expressly provided otherwise in this chapter, this 

chapter shall apply to the solid waste and recyclable materials generated, 

collected, disposed, processed, and/or otherwise found in the area under 

jurisdiction of the city as presently or hereafter established. 

(Ord. No. 17380, § 1, 8-24-2010)

9.04.040 - Purpose. 

The purposes of this chapter include, but are not necessarily limited to, 

the following: 

A. To protect the health, safety, and general welfare of the city and the 

city residents; 

B. To provide environmentally sound, cost-efficient solid waste 

management; 

C. To provide for the safe and proper handling of solid waste generated, 

stored, collected, and/or disposed of within the city; 

D. To develop data to ensure sufficient disposal capacity and/or recycling 

programs for solid waste and recyclable materials generated, stored, collected, 

disposed, processed, and otherwise found within the city; 

E. To deter illegal dumping; 

F. To facilitate conservation of vital natural resources; 

G. To protect against risk that current municipal solid waste facilities 

become unable to accept municipal solid waste generated within the city; 

H. To encourage and enforce recycling programs, including source 

separation at point of generation, throughout the city; and 

I. To provide a convenient and effective means of financing the city's 

solid waste services.

(Ord. No. 17380, § 1, 8-24-2010)

ARTICLE II - Municipal Solid Waste and Recyclable Materials Generated 

at Residential Properties

9.04.050 - Applicability. 

This article shall apply to: 

A. Owners of residential properties in the city, where an owner is also the 

occupant; 

B. Owners of residential properties in the city, where the residential 

property is vacant; 

C. Occupants of residential properties in the city, where an owner is not 

an occupant; 
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D. Self-transporters of municipal solid waste and recyclable materials 

generated at residential properties in the city; and 

E. Haulers of municipal solid waste generated at residential properties in 

the city. 

(Ord. No. 17380, § 1, 8-24-2010)

9.04.060 - Accumulation and storage. 

Municipal solid waste and recyclable materials generated at residential 

properties applicable to this article shall be accumulated and stored in compliance 

with the following provisions: 

A. Municipal solid waste. Excluding bulk waste, municipal solid waste 

shall be contained in secured, odor, and vector-tight plastic bags, and stored in 

carts. Municipal solid waste shall not be accumulated or stored outside of carts, 

and cart lids shall remain closed at all times when not adding municipal solid 

waste to carts. 

B. Recyclable materials. Program recyclable materials shall be stored, 

uncontainerized (with the exception of shredded paper), in carts designated by 

the city for collection of program recyclable materials. Program recyclable 

materials shall not be accumulated or stored outside of carts, and cart lids must 

remain closed at all times when not adding program recyclable materials to carts. 

Recyclable materials other than program recyclable materials may only be 

accumulated and stored at the residential property if in accordance with federal, 

state and local laws. 

C. Prohibited waste. The following waste and materials are prohibited 

from being placed for collection in carts: 

1. Household hazardous waste; and 

2. High-density waste or material, including, but not limited to sand, 

gravel, bricks, rock, concrete and tree stumps. 

(Ord. No. 17380, § 1, 8-24-2010)

9.04.070 - Collection provider. 

Excluding self-transporters, the city shall be the exclusive hauler of 

municipal solid waste and program recyclable materials generated at residential 

properties; however, an owner or occupant of residential properties containing a 

triplex or quadriplex shall have the option to utilize a permitted hauler other than 

the city as collection provider. 

(Ord. No. 17380, § 1, 8-24-2010; Ord. No. 17604, § 2, 7-19-2011)

9.04.080 - Disposal provider. 

The self-transporter or the permitted hauler shall deliver municipal solid 

waste to a designated or authorized municipal solid waste facility. 

(Ord. No. 17380, § 1, 8-24-2010)

ARTICLE III - Solid Waste and Recyclable Materials Generated at 

Commercial Properties and Mixed-Use Properties

9.04.150 - Applicability. 

This article shall apply to: 

A. Owners and occupants of commercial properties in the city; 
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B. Owners and occupants of mixed-use properties in the city; 

C. Self-transporters of solid waste, other than Class 1 industrial waste, 

and recyclable materials generated at commercial properties in the city; 

D. Self-transporters of solid waste, other than Class 1 industrial waste, 

and recyclable materials generated at mixed-use properties in the city; 

E. Haulers of solid waste, other than Class 1 industrial waste, and 

recyclable materials generated at commercial properties in the city; and 

F. Haulers of solid waste, other than Class 1 industrial waste, and 

recyclable materials generated at mixed-use properties in the city. 

(Ord. No. 17380, § 1, 8-24-2010)

9.04.160 - Accumulation and storage. 

Solid waste and recyclable materials generated at commercial property 

and mixed-use property within the city shall be accumulated and stored in 

compliance with the following provisions: 

A. Solid waste. Excluding bulk waste, solid waste shall be contained in 

carts and/or containers. Cart or container lids shall remain closed at all times 

when not adding solid waste to the carts or containers. Solid waste, including bulk 

waste, shall not be stored in a manner that constitutes a nuisance. 

B. Recyclable materials. Commercial property and mixed-use owners or 

occupants are encouraged to participate in recycling. Commercial property and 

mixed-use property occupants who elect to participate in recycling shall 

accumulate and store such recyclable materials in accordance with federal, state 

and local laws. 

(Ord. No. 17380, § 1, 8-24-2010)

9.04.170 - Collection provider. 

Excluding self-transporters, owners or occupants of commercial 

properties and mixed-use properties shall contract with a permitted hauler to 

collect all solid waste and recyclable materials generated at such commercial 

properties and mixed-use properties. 

(Ord. No. 17380, § 1, 8-24-2010)

9.04.180 - Disposal provider. 

Self-transporters and permitted haulers shall deliver all solid waste to a 

designated or authorized municipal solid waste facility. 

(Ord. No. 17380, § 1, 8-24-2010)

9.04.200 - Authority to mandate collection. 

A. Overflowing carts and/or containers. Excluding bulk waste, solid waste 

shall be contained in secured, odor, and vector-tight plastic bags, and stored in 

carts and/or containers designated by the director for the collection of municipal 

solid waste. Municipal solid waste shall not be accumulated or stored outside of 

carts and/or containers, and cart and/or container lids must remain closed at all 

times when not adding municipal solid waste to the cart and/or container. 

B. Harborage of vectors or other health hazards. In any instance where 

the director finds that a cart and/or container requires immediate emptying or 

replacement due to breeding or harborage of vectors or circumstances creating 

significant potential for breeding or harborage of vectors, or other health hazards, 
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the city official is authorized to order the owners and/or occupants of such 

commercial property or mixed-use property to have such condition corrected 

within twenty-four hours of written notice from the city official. 

C. Protection of public health and safety. Evidence of overflowing or 

uncollected solid waste and for harborage of vectors or other health hazards 

constitutes evidence that the owner and/or occupant of commercial property or 

mixed-use property is in violation of 9.04.170, which status allows the city to 

exercise its option of collecting the solid waste from that property. Prior to the city 

collecting the solid waste from the commercial property or mixed-use property in 

violation of 9.04.170, the city shall issue a notice to the owner/occupant of said 

property that said violation must be corrected within twenty-four hours of delivery 

of the notice. Failure to comply with the notice shall result in the city collecting the 

solid waste and for billing the owner/occupant of the property. The 

owner/occupant remains subject to applicable criminal penalty for continued noncompliance. (Ord. No. 17380, § 1, 8-24-2010) 

ARTICLE V - Identification as Recyclable Materials for Commercial 

Collection

9.04.350 - Identification as recyclable materials. 

Material managed in accordance with all of the following requirements 

shall be considered commercial recyclable materials for purposes of this chapter. 

The management of carts and program recyclable materials identified as being 

included within the residential recycling program are not subject to the 

requirements of this article. 

A. Separation. Commercial recyclable materials shall: 

1. Be separated by the generator from any solid waste generated at the 

property; and 

2. Be composed of cardboard, paper, plastic, glass, metal or other 

materials as designated by the director from time to time. 

B. Storage. Commercial recyclable materials shall: 

1. Not be commingled with any solid waste during storage and/or 

collection; 

2. Be stored in carts, containers and/or roll-offs specifically designated to 

store commercial recyclable materials, or bulked and secured in a manner not 

contributing to a nuisance or potential fire hazard; 

3. Be stored in carts, containers, roll-offs or as bulked material with 

affixed labels, decals, paint or signs that clearly indicate "RECYCLABLE 

MATERIAL" in letters at least two inches in height, in a color boldly contrasting 

the paint color of the cart, container, roll-off or bulked material; and 

4. Be stored in carts, containers, roll-offs or as bulked material in a 

manner not constituting a nuisance or contributing to windblown litter or discharge 

to the environment. 

C. Records. In order to verify commercial recyclable material collection 

service, generator shall retain a copy of a written contract or agreement securing 

recyclable material collection service with an identified third party and retain 

written copies of bills or invoices for the most recent period of twelve calendar 

months. 

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ARTICLE VI - Other Waste

9.04.380 - Other waste. 

Generators of waste, other than waste described in Article II, III, IV, and 

V above, shall be solely responsible for the accumulation and storage, collection, 

processing, and disposal of such waste in full compliance with federal, state, and 

local laws regarding such waste. Generators of waste, other than waste described 

and permitted in Article II, III, IV, and V above, shall not place such waste in carts, 

containers, or roll-offs for municipal solid waste, recyclable materials, and/or 

construction or demolition material. 

(Ord. No. 17380, § 1, 8-24-2010; Ord. No. 17471, § 1, 12-21-2010) 

ARTICLE VII - Haulers

9.04.390 - Hauler permit required. 

A. No hauler shall collect, process or dispose of solid waste or other 

materials at the designated or authorized municipal solid waste facility without 

holding a valid hauler permit granted in accordance with this chapter. A hauler 

permit issued pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall be a mere grant or 

privilege during the term of such permit and subject to all terms and conditions 

imposed by this chapter and related laws and other ordinances and resolutions of 

the city. This chapter shall not be construed to require a hauler permit for the 

transportation of waste through the city, provided that such waste was not 

generated, collected, or otherwise found within the city and such waste was not 

disposed at the designated or authorized municipal solid waste facility. 

B. No hauler permit shall be issued under this Article VII unless the 

hauler enters into a franchise agreement with the city. Each franchise agreement 

shall be subject to the following provisions: 

1. All permitted haulers shall maintain their cart or container free of 

graffiti; and. 

2. All permitted haulers shall report their customers who are not 

purchasing adequate waste services to the department. 

(Ord. No. 17380, § 1, 8-24-2010) 

9.04.400 - Hauler permit term. 

Upon the effective date of this ordinance, the city may grant a hauler 

permit for a term commencing on the date of the issuance of the hauler permit, as 

set forth in Section 9.04.390, and expiring on August 31st of each calendar year. 

(Ord. No. 17380, § 1, 8-24-2010) 

9.04.410 - Hauler permit application, issuance, and appeal procedures. 

A. Hauler permits application. To acquire a hauler permit for the first 

time, or to add any additional vehicles to a current, valid hauler permit, a hauler 

must submit an application to the department for a hauler permit a minimum of 

fourteen calendar days prior to the proposed commencement of collection within 

the city. Any currently-permitted hauler must submit an application for renewal to 

the director for a hauler permit a minimum of sixty calendar days prior to the 

expiration of the valid hauler permit. 

Haulers shall submit a hauler permit application in accordance with this 

chapter and the policies and procedures established by the director. The hauler 
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shall, under penalty of perjury, swear that all information contained in the hauler 

permit application and all information submitted in connection with the hauler 

permit application is true and correct. At a minimum, the application for a hauler 

permit shall require a hauler to provide the following information: 

1. The name, address and telephone number of the applicant; 

2. All names under which the applicant is doing business or has 

conducted business during the past three calendar years; 

3. A list of all proposed permitted vehicles to be used within the city for 

the purpose of collecting solid waste and/or recyclable materials including the 

following information for each vehicle: 

a. The state motor vehicle registration number; 

b. Description of chassis by year and manufacturer; 

c. Description of the body by year and manufacturer; 

d. The legal weight limit; 

e. The volume of the body of the vehicle in cubic yards; and 

f. Copy of insurance coverage for each vehicle in an amount not less 

than the minimum coverage required by Texas law. 

4. The types of solid waste and/or recyclable materials to be collected, 

transported, processed, and/or disposed. 

5. Proof of an executed, current franchise agreement with the city for 

hauler services. 

6. Any additional data and information deemed necessary by the director 

in order to verify the accuracy of information contained in the permit application 

forms and attendant documents. 

B. Review, issuance, denial and appeal of hauler permit application. An 

application for an initial or renewed hauler permit submitted pursuant to this article 

may be granted or denied by the director. Such application may be denied for one 

or more of the following reasons: 

1. The applicant has failed to provide some or all of the information 

required by Section 9.04.410A, including, but not limited to, proof of an executed, 

current franchise agreement with the city for hauler services.

2. The applicant has supplied false information to the city in connection 

with any matter regulated under this chapter. 

3. The applicant has failed to pay all or any portion of the established 

hauler permit fee, franchise fees, other fees, penalties, or interest required or 

imposed pursuant to this chapter. 

4. The applicant has failed to comply with Texas state requirements for 

vehicles governed by 30 TAC § 330.105. 

The director shall grant or deny a hauler permit application within sixty 

calendar days of the applicant's submission of a completed application. In the 

event the hauler permit application is denied by the director, the appeals process 

shall be conducted in accordance with this chapter.

(Ord. No. 17380, § 1, 8-24-2010) 

9.04.420 - Permitted vehicle requirements. 

A. Permitted vehicle ownership, identification, and appearance. 

Permitted hauler shall submit any changes to the information provided in the 

hauler permit to the director within fourteen calendar days of such change. 
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Permitted hauler shall use only permitted vehicles identified on the hauler permit 

application to collect solid waste and/or recyclable materials within the city. Hauler 

shall solely utilize permitted vehicles within the city that are: 

1. Owned or leased by the hauler; 

2. Listed in the hauler permit application as a permitted vehicle; 

3. Cleaned regularly and upon the request of the director as to maintain 

permitted vehicles in accordance with 30 TAC § 330.105; 

4. Affixed to the windshield with the city permitted hauler decal as 

designated by the director; and 

5. Identified with paint or decal on the driver's-side door, indicating hauler 

permit number and permitted vehicle number or letter identifier below hauler 

permit number. Numbers or letters must be a minimum of two inches in height 

and of a color contrasting to the paint color of the vehicle. 

B. Permitted vehicle construction and maintenance. Permitted haulers 

shall use only permitted vehicles identified on the hauler permit application to 

collect solid waste and/or recyclable materials that meet the following minimum 

requirements, both prior to and after the issuance of a hauler permit: 

1. The permitted vehicle body shall be capable of being readily emptied; 

2. The permitted vehicle shall be kept in a sanitary condition, in 

accordance with 30 TAC § 330.105; 

3. The permitted vehicle shall be so equipped that all loading openings 

on the bodies have tightly fitting doors or covers which latch, clamp or fasten to 

keep them closed and rubber or other suitable gasket to render them leak proof, 

spill proof, dust proof, and odor proof to the maximum extent practicable; 

4. The permitted vehicle shall be equipped with heavy-duty front hooks, 

loops or shackles, good and serviceable tires and other accessories as necessary 

for operation and/or navigation in or about any designated or authorized municipal 

solid waste facility; and 

5. The permitted vehicle shall meet all other requirements as determined 

by current and adopted State of Texas and local regulations to protect the health, 

safety, and general welfare of the city and the city residents. 

C. Inspection and documentation of permitted vehicles. The director may 

inspect any permitted vehicle used or proposed for use by a permitted hauler 

together with the contents of such permitted vehicle. Haulers shall maintain 

accurate documents in each permitted vehicle which identify the contents as solid 

waste or recyclable materials and the city, county, and state of origin of the solid 

waste or recyclable materials. 

D. Permitted hauler vehicle log. A single copy of the permitted hauler 

vehicle log will be provided by the department to each permitted hauler upon the 

granting or renewal of a hauler permit; whereupon the hauler is permitted to 

reproduce as many copies as needed during the validity of the hauler permit to 

accommodate each load of waste collected in accordance with this chapter. The 

permitted hauler shall utilize a log for each load of solid waste and recyclable 

materials collected or otherwise found in the city by the permitted hauler for each 

permitted vehicle. Permitted haulers shall comply with the following requirements: 

1. Ensure that each delivery to a designated or authorized municipal 

solid waste facility or recycling facility of solid waste and recyclable materials 
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collected or otherwise found in the city is identified on the permitted hauler vehicle 

log; 

2. Ensure that all information required on the permitted hauler vehicle log 

is provided on the log;

3. Ensure that the permitted hauler vehicle log is maintained in the 

permitted vehicle identified on the log at all times until the end of the month 

indicated on the log; 

4. At the end of the month identified on the permitted hauler vehicle log, 

remove the log from the permitted vehicle and maintain each log at the permitted 

hauler's place of business for a period of twenty-four months; and 

5. Supply, upon request by the director, any requested permitted hauler 

vehicle log. 

(Ord. No. 17380, § 1, 8-24-2010; Ord. No. 17471, § 11, 12-21-2010) 

9.04.430 - Cart, container, and roll-off requirements. 

Permitted haulers shall provide collection of solid waste and recyclable 

materials with carts, containers, and roll-offs that are owned or leased by the 

permitted hauler and meet the following minimum requirements: 

A. Each cart, container, and roll-off shall be painted with or securely 

affixed with the owner's name and business address or telephone number on at 

least one side of each receptacle. Lettering shall be of sufficient size and of 

contrasting color to be easily visible at a distance of twenty feet; 

B. Each container and roll-off shall be painted, or securely affixed, with 

the tare weight on two opposite sides of the respective container and roll-off; and 

C. Each container and roll-off shall be cleaned regularly. 

(Ord. No. 17380, § 1, 8-24-2010) 

9.04.440 - Transporting waste. 

Each permitted hauler shall comply with the following requirements for 

transporting solid waste and recyclable materials within the city: 

A. Permitted haulers shall suitably enclose or cover solid waste and 

recyclable materials prior to transportation to a designated or authorized 

municipal solid waste facility or a recycling facility to prevent littering, spillage of 

materials or fluids, and/or infiltration of rainwater inside the solid waste or 

recyclable materials. Tarpaulins must be used to cover compactor box openings, 

roll-off tops, or other openings. Tarpaulins must be kept in good repair at all times. 

B. Permitted haulers shall immediately clean and remove any litter and 

spillage of materials or fluids upon the roads caused by the permitted hauler or 

the permitted hauler's permitted vehicles. Permitted hauler shall remit payment to 

city within thirty (30) calendar days, upon written notification by the city, for any 

and all costs incurred by the city related to any such removal of litter, spillage of 

materials or fluids, and/or infiltration of rainwater caused by the permitted hauler 

or the permitted hauler's permitted vehicles. This provision shall be in addition to 

any penalties authorized elsewhere by this chapter or any other provision of law. 

(Ord. No. 17380, § 1, 8-24-2010) 
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9.04.450 - Disposal of solid waste. 

Except as otherwise specifically provided in this chapter, permitted 

haulers who collect solid waste generated or otherwise found within the city shall 

deliver such solid waste, other than excluded waste, to a designated or authorized 

municipal solid waste facility. For excluded waste, permitted haulers shall dispose 

of such solid waste in accordance with federal, state and local laws. This section 

shall not be construed to prohibit the source separation of recyclable materials 

from solid waste prior to collection of such solid waste for disposal. 

(Ord. No. 17380, § 1, 8-24-2010) 

9.04.460 - Hauler records. 

Each permitted hauler shall maintain current customer records, including 

customer name, address, service level information, and routing records, including 

permitted vehicle number, collection day and daily routes. In addition, each 

permitted hauler shall keep such records, including scale house tickets, receipts, 

invoices, manifests, and other pertinent papers, in such form as the director may 

require and for a period no less than two consecutive calendar years. Such 

records shall include, but not be limited to, documents evidencing the permitted 

hauler collection of solid waste and recyclable materials provided within the city 

and the municipal solid waste facility and recycling facility where such solid waste 

and recyclable materials was delivered. The director may examine the books, 

papers, records, financial reports, equipment, and other facilities of any permitted 

hauler in order to verify compliance with this chapter. 

(Ord. No. 17380, § 1, 8-24-2010) 

9.04.470 - Violations.

A. Notice of correction. The city shall issue a written notice of correction 

to a driver of a permitted hauler who fails to meet the requirements of a haulers 

permit. 

1. The responsible party in receipt of a written notice of correction shall 

complete any and all necessary corrective actions to correct and remediate the 

documented violations within seven calendar days; and 

2. Upon completion of the necessary corrective actions, the responsible 

party shall provide a written or verbal description of the corrective action within 

seven calendar days to the city official identified on the written notice of 

correction, or for matters that cannot be reasonably corrected and remediated 

within seven calendar days, the responsible party shall provide a written 

statement indicating how compliance with the provisions set forth in this chapter 

will be achieved within seven calendar days to the city official identified on the 

written notice of correction. 

B. A written citation shall be issued by the appropriate city official, to a 

permitted hauler who violates any provision set forth in this Article VII, such as in 

the case of a responsible party who fails to correct and remediate the 

documented violation on written notice of correction within the seven-day period 

or other period allowed in this subchapter. 

C. Delinquent fees. If the holder of any hauler permit issued pursuant to 

this chapter becomes delinquent in the payment of fees, the director is authorized, 

upon ten calendar day's notification to the hauler, to refuse access to city disposal 
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facilities. The director may further, upon thirty calendar days notification, suspend 

such hauler permit, as provided in 9.04.480 

D. History of delinquency. If the holder of any hauler permit has a history 

of delinquency in payment of fees as evidenced by having been issued more than 

one notice from the director, such permitted hauler shall be required to establish 

an account with the department and shall pay the estimated monthly amount of 

such fees in advance each month. The estimated monthly amount shall be as 

established by the director. 

(Ord. No. 17380, § 1, 8-24-2010) 

9.04.480 - Suspension, revocation of hauler permit; appeals. 

A. Suspension of hauler permit. 

1. For any permitted hauler that has been named as a responsible party 

and been issued three written notices of correction by the city within a 

consecutive twelve-month span, the director may suspend the hauler permit for 

such hauler. 

2. A hauler that has had its hauler permit suspended is eligible to reapply for a hauler permit sixty days from the date of suspension. 

3. A hauler may appeal the suspension of its hauler permit in accordance 

with this subsection. 

B. Revocation of hauler permit. 

1. A hauler permit may be revoked for any of the following reasons: 

a. The hauler has had two prior suspensions in a consecutive twelvemonth span; 

b. The hauler interferes with an investigation of the director in the 

performance of official duties; 

c. A hauler operates under a suspended hauler's permit; 

d. After having received written notice from the city that a franchise 

agreement is required within thirty days of the issuance of the hauler's permit or 

the effective date of this ordinance and after said period of time, hauler has not 

entered into a franchise agreement with the city; 

e. Hauler's franchise agreement required by Chapter 9.04 of the City 

Code is revoked by the city. 

2. For any permitted hauler that has had its hauler permit revoked by the 

director, the hauler shall not be eligible to receive a hauler permit for a period of 

twelve months from the date of written notice of revocation from the director for 

that hauler. 

C. Hauler permit appeals. 

1. If the director denies an application for a hauler permit or suspends or 

revokes a hauler permit or denies the ability of a person to purchase construction 

or demolition manifests from the department, the director shall prepare a report 

within ten business days of taking such action, indicating the reasons for the 

denial, suspension or revocation. The director's decision is final unless, within ten 

calendar days from the date of receiving the director's notice of the action, the 

appealing party files with the city clerk a written appeal to the city manager 

specifying reasons for the appeal. Said appeal shall also include a written rebuttal 

to the director's report. 
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2. The city manager or his designee shall review the director's report and 

the appellant's rebuttal. The city manager or his designee shall make a ruling on 

the appeal within a reasonable period of time after the appeal has been filed.

3. The city manager or his designee shall sustain, reverse or modify the 

action of the director. The decision of the city manager is final. 

(Ord. No. 17380, § 1, 8-24-2010; Ord. No. 17471, § 12, 12-21-2010) 

9.04.490 - Ownership of solid waste and recyclable materials. 

Title to all solid waste and recyclable materials placed for collection shall 

be vested in the permitted hauler upon collection of a cart, container, or roll-off by 

the person discarding of such solid waste and recyclable materials at the 

collection location. For solid waste and recyclable materials that the designated or 

authorized municipal solid waste facility and recycling facility is prohibited by law 

or permit from processing or disposing, the responsibility for properly discarding of 

such solid waste and/or recyclable materials shall remain with the person 

generating such waste and only be transferred to the permitted hauler upon 

collection of such waste by permitted hauler. Scavenging by any person from any 

cart, container or roll-off placed for collection within the city is prohibited. 

(Ord. No. 17380, § 1, 8-24-2010) 

9.04.500 - Permitted hauler recycling rebate. 

A. Excluding the city, permitted haulers will be eligible for a recycling 

rebate for recyclable materials identified as commercial recyclable materials by 

article v and collected from commercial properties and mixed-use properties in the 

city provided that such permitted hauler meets the following requirements: 

1. Permitted hauler is in good standing with the city; 

2. Permitted hauler has not received more than two written notices of 

correction from the city during the prior twelve calendar months; 

3. Permitted hauler has entered into a written agreement with the city for 

the permitted hauler recycling rebate program; and 

4. Other requirements as established by the city. 

B. The permitted hauler recycling rebate shall be applied quarterly to the 

established tipping fees paid to the city for solid waste disposed by such permitted 

hauler at the designated or authorized municipal solid waste facility for the prior 

three calendar month period. The permitted hauler recycling rebate calculation 

shall be developed by the city manager or his designee. The permitted hauler 

recycling rebate amount shall be set by resolution of the city council. The 

permitted hauler recycling rebate shall not apply to construction or demolition 

material. 

(Ord. No. 17380, § 1, 8-24-2010; Ord. No. 17471, §§ 1, 13, 12-21-2010) 

9.04.510 - Emergency powers; right to assume collection. 

A. The city may assume responsibility for all or part of the collection of 

solid waste within the city should the city determine it to be in the best interest of 

the health and welfare of the citizens of the city. Such action shall be on a 

temporary basis within which time a hearing before the city council is held to 

determine whether to continue this emergency action. 
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B. Prior to any hearing described in Subsection A. of this section, a 

written notice to all affected permitted haulers setting forth the time, place, and 

purpose of such hearing shall first be sent via electronic mail and then a hard 

copy of said notice shall be mailed within a minimum of seventy-two (72) hours to 

the last known addresses of such permitted haulers. 

C. The proceeding shall be conducted informally with the procedures 

established by the city manager in consultation with the city attorney. All 

interested parties, including the city manager or his designee, shall be allowed to 

present any evidence, documents, or statements in support of their position. The 

city council shall then determine whether the action described in Subsection A. of 

this section should be made permanent or whether any other action by the city 

council is appropriate under the circumstances. 

(Ord. No. 17380, § 1, 8-24-2010) 

ARTICLE VIII.-Designated or Authorized Municipal Solid Waste Facilities

9.04.520 - Designated municipal solid waste facility. 

A. For purposes of this Article VIII, the term "designated municipal solid 

waste facility" shall mean any municipal solid waste facility designated by the city 

manager. Except as otherwise specifically provided in this chapter, any person 

who collects or transports solid waste generated and/or otherwise found in the city 

shall deliver such waste to and shall be required to comply with all posted rules at 

a designated municipal solid waste facility operated by the city. Any failure of any 

person to deliver such waste to a designated municipal solid waste facility or to 

adhere to posted rules at such facility shall be considered a violation of this 

chapter and is subject to enforcement in accordance with Article X of this chapter. 

This article shall not be construed to prohibit the source separation of recyclable 

materials from solid waste prior to collection of such solid waste. In addition, this 

article shall not be construed to apply to solid waste not permitted to be accepted 

at said designated municipal solid waste facility. 

B. In the case of a permitted hauler, the city shall through franchise 

regulate any conduct regulated by this chapter. Where such franchise is approved 

by ordinance, that ordinance shall supersede any terms or provisions that conflict 

with the regulations contained in this chapter. 

(Ord. No. 17380, § 1, 8-24-2010; Ord. No. 17604, § 3, 7-19-2011) 

ARTICLE IX - Fees and Payments Procedures

9.04.530 - Fees general. 

Fees for collection, disposal, processing, environmental services, and 

other fees as set forth in this chapter are established and required and paid as 

provided herein. 

A. Residential properties fees. 

1. Base rate. Each residential property unit for which service has been 

initiated pursuant to this chapter shall be charged the established monthly fee. 

2. Senior and disabled citizens discount. The monthly charge for 

residential property unit which is owned and occupied, or rented and occupied by 

a person sixty-five or more years of age or by a person who presents proof of 

disability in accordance with this section will be discounted by the stated 
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percentage or amount stated in the budget resolution or other duly adopted 

resolution of the city council. The fee discount shall only apply to the first cart. 

No fee discount shall be granted or remain in effect unless the following 

conditions are met: 

a. The person claiming such discount must be sixty-five or more years of 

age, or must present proof of disability when the discount is requested and must 

file a notarized application on a form provided by the department. 

b. A written request for such discount may be filed with the department at 

any time when the applicant reaches eligibility and will take effect at the first billing 

cycle which starts thirty calendar days thereafter, remaining in effect until eligibility 

lapses. Such request shall give the street address, dwelling unit number, if any, 

and the water utilities account number of the property being served, the name and 

addresses of the owner-occupant or renter-occupant, the day and year of his birth 

in the case of a person sixty-five or more years of age, and a substantiating 

document in the case of a disabled person. The request shall be signed by the 

person seeking the discount or someone authorized by him and having personal 

knowledge of the facts. 

c. Proof of age shall consist of one of the following: 

i. If the person seeking the discount presents a valid driver's license or 

state-issued identification card showing the day and year of birth; 

ii. If the person seeking the discount currently holds a Sun Metro Senior 

Citizen reduced fare card;

iii. If the request is signed by the director of a city senior citizen center or 

nutrition center or other agency approved by the department. 

iv. All other requests shall be verified by the signed and sworn affidavit of 

the person seeking the discount or someone authorized by him and having 

personal knowledge of the facts. 

d. Proof of disability shall consist of one of the following: 

i. Certification from the Social Security Administration that the applicant is 

the recipient of a social security or supplemental security income disability 

pension; 

ii. Certification from the proper administrative officer that the applicant is 

the recipient of a public disability pension and classified one hundred percent 

disabled; or 

iii. Certification from the Veterans Administration that the applicant is the 

recipient of the Veterans Administration disability payments and classified one 

hundred percent disabled. 

e. The person claiming a discount must be the same person who is billed 

by the water utilities for water service to the residence to which such discount 

applies. 

f. Approved discounts are not transferable to another person or address. 

g. No person shall be entitled to a discount for more than one residence 

at the same time and only for the residence the person occupies, nor shall any 

person be entitled to claim both a sixty-five years and over discount and a 

disabled discount at the same time. 

h. In all cases, the director shall have the right to investigate the 

information given on requests for discount, and to make reasonable requirements 

for supporting evidence. 
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i. The discount provided in this section shall not apply to charges for 

additional carts, special collections, collection of solid waste from commercial 

properties and mixed-use properties, or from any location of any type utilizing 

containers or roll-offs. 

j. Any change which results in loss of eligibility for a discount for a 

residence will be reported to the department within thirty calendar days, and full 

charges will be restored during the next billing cycle. 

k. Eligibility for the senior and disabled citizens' discount shall lapse at 

the end of each anniversary of determination of eligibility. 

l. The director shall have the authority to investigate and verify that 

applicants continue to be eligible for this discount. 

m. The discount shall in no way be considered as approval of side door 

collection under Section 9.04.100. Such approval must be separately requested 

pursuant to that provision, and if granted shall result in the termination of any 

discount provided under this section. 

n. Persons receiving side door collection under Section 9.04.100 are not 

eligible for the discount. 

3. Failure to comply with residential carts/containers requirements. In 

addition to any other actions or remedies the city may pursue, in the case of 

residential municipal solid waste accounts, the city shall charge the established 

fee to a person who fails to comply with the requirements regarding the carts or 

containers. 

B. Commercial properties and mixed-use properties fees. The 

established monthly fee for services provided pursuant to this chapter by the city 

from commercial properties and mixed-use properties shall be charged. 

D. Other fees. 

1. Each person or entity requesting or needing the delivery or relocation 

of a cart, container, or roll-off provided by the city, each person or entity who 

cancels cart, container, or roll-off service provided by the city, and each person or 

entity who requests special services from the city such as the collection and 

disposal of bulk waste, infectious waste, dead animals, or an extra collection shall 

be charged the established service charges and special collection fees. 

2. The service charges shall be imposed each time a cart, container, or 

roll-off is delivered, moved or relocated by the department or recovered by the 

department due to cancellation of service. 

3. The special collection service fees shall be imposed for extra 

collections, unscheduled collections, collections for bulk waste, collection of 

infectious waste, and collections of dead animals as defined in this chapter. 

4. The established cart, container, and/or roll-off replacement fee shall be 

charged for the replacement of cart, container, and/or roll-off that are lost, burned, 

damaged or destroyed by the customer and the customer requests replacement 

or the director determines that the cart, container, and/or roll-off is no longer 

serviceable by the department. 

E. Franchise fees. Commencing on a date as established by city council, 

haulers providing collection of solid waste generated and/or otherwise found 

within the city may be required to pay a franchise fee as approved by city council, 

provided however, no franchise fee may be imposed before April 28, 2014. 
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As provided in this chapter, any city official authorized to enforce the 

provisions of this chapter may upon written notice or request examine the books, 

papers, records, financial reports, equipment, and other facilities of any hauler to 

verify compliance with this article. 

F. Environmental services fee. The owner, agent or occupant of every 

residence, business, establishment, industrial, educational, institutional, religious 

or other premises shall be charged the established monthly user service fee. 

Such fee shall relate to the provision of environmental services by the city and is 

intended to defray city expense necessary to cleaning up illegally dumped waste, 

compliance with environmental laws, collecting and disposing of dead animals 

from public rights of way and equitably sharing costs for business and 

neighborhood area cleanups and graffiti removal, benefiting residents and 

businesses in the city. 

(Ord. No. 17380, § 1, 8-24-2010; Ord. No. 17471, § 1, 12-21-2010) 

9.04.540 - Permit fees. 

A. Hauler permit. The established annual fee for a hauler permit shall be 

charged for every permitted vehicle used by the permitted hauler. The fee shall be 

prorated for the number of months said hauler permit is issued on or after 

September 1, 2010 until the end date of August 31, 2011, and shall be charged 

for a twelve-month period each year for which it is issued on or after September 1, 

2011. 

B. Additional vehicle registration fee. The fee for either registering an 

additional or substituting a previously registered vehicle shall be one hundred 

percent of the annual fee for the vehicle to be added or substituted. 

C. Special waste disposal fees. The special disposal fee is established 

and shall be charged for the disposal of special waste. 

D. Container location on sidewalk or on public right-of-way. When 

permitted under this chapter, the annual established fee shall be paid by the 

container owner for each cart, container, and/or roll-off located on the public rightof-way. It shall be the container owner's responsibility when placing a cart, 

container, and/or roll-off on public right-of-way to pay this annual fee to the 

department. Failure to pay shall result in (1) having the cart, container, and/or rolloff removed from the public right-of-way; and/or (2) imposing a fee charged at the 

same amount as the fee to the generator or hauler providing such services. 

(Ord. No. 17380, § 1, 8-24-2010) 

9.04.550 - Disposal Fees. 

A. Landfill fees. Landfill fees are established and shall be charged by 

both type of material and vehicle type. 

B. Fees subject to fraction. All fees or rates established as landfill or 

disposal are subject to, "or any fraction thereof." 

C. Waste tires. Disposal fees for waste tires from residential users who 

have exceeded the eight tires per year limit or from commercial users are 

established and shall be charged. 

D. Surcharge for uncovered loads. In conjunction with the city's 

enforcement of this chapter and Texas Commission on Environmental Quality 

rules, the city is authorized to charge the established surcharge fee for vehicles 
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that are not provided with a tarpaulin, net, or other means to effectively secure the 

load in order to prevent the escape of any part of the load by blowing or spilling to 

the person or company hauling waste to the facility when the director observes or 

otherwise acquires credible information that the hauler has spilled waste materials 

along and within the right-of-way of the public access roads serving the facility 

within a two-mile distance from the facility entrance. 

E. Transfer fees. Fees for disposal at any city transfer station are 

established and shall be charged based on compacted or uncompacted cubic 

yard. 

(Ord. No. 17380, § 1, 8-24-2010) 

9.04.570 - Solid waste management fund. 

Each year, all fees collected for the environmental and solid waste 

management services provided by the city under this chapter shall be deposited 

into a solid waste management fund. Payment for the operations of the 

department attributable to its solid waste management services function shall be 

made from this fund. Fund balance reserves shall be established as directed by 

the city council and managed for these purposes by the city manager or his 

designee. The annual budget for the department shall show these reserves as a 

separate use of fund balance. Corresponding expenses will be incorporated into 

the annual operating budget. 

(Ord. No. 17380, § 1, 8-24-2010) 

ARTICLE X – Enforcement

9.04.600 - General authority. 

The city may initiate an action to enforce the provisions of this chapter, 

including legal proceedings to compel compliance. 

(Ord. No. 17380, § 1, 8-24-2010) 

9.04.610 - Authority to issue citations. 

The following city officials are authorized to enforce the provisions of this 

chapter and shall have the power to issue warnings and citations to any persons 

violating the provisions of this chapter: 

A. City manager or his designee; 

B. Code enforcement division; 

C. Police; and 

D. Fire chief or designees. 

The city officials designated above are authorized to conduct inspections 

of any property necessary, conduct audits of records and documents required to 

be utilized and maintained by this chapter, and to investigate instances of noncompliance with this chapter to enforce the provisions of this chapter. If the 

occupants in possession of any property refuses to allow the city officials 

permission to enter the property, at any reasonable time, those officials shall have 

recourse to every remedy provided by law to secure entry including obtaining the 

proper judicial warrants. 

(Ord. No. 17380, § 1, 8-24-2010) 
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9.04.630 - Other penalties. 

Any person violating any provision of this chapter shall be deemed guilty 

of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine up to two thousand dollars. If 

any such violations of this chapter are continuous, each day that the violation 

occurs shall constitute a separate offense. 

In addition to any penalties provided for in this chapter, this chapter is 

enforceable by injunction. 

(Ord. No. 17380, § 1, 8-24-2010) 

ARTICLE XI - Exclusive Franchise

9.04.640 - Exclusive franchise. 

The city reserves the right to enter into an exclusive franchise agreement 

for the collection of solid waste and/or recyclable materials within the city. 

(Ord. No. 17380, § 1, 8-24-2010)

ARTICLE XII - Exclusive Hauler

9.04.650 - Exclusive hauler. 

The city reserves the right to become the sole collection, processing, 

and/or disposal provider for any or all solid waste and recyclable materials 

generated within the city. 

(Ord. No. 17380, § 1, 8-24-2010) 

ARTICLE XIII - Litter and Illegal Dumping

9.04.660 - Applicability. 

This article shall apply to: 

A. Persons in the city; 

B. Owners of improved properties in the city, where the residential 

property is vacant; 

C. Occupants of improved properties in the city, where an owner is not 

an occupant; and 

D. Owners of improved properties by the city where an owner is also an 

occupant. 

(Ord. No. 17380, § 1, 8-24-2010) 

9.04.670 - Litter and illegal dumping prohibited. 

No person shall dump, throw, drop, discard or otherwise dispose of litter 

on any public or private property within the city. This prohibition shall not be 

construed to limit persons placing litter in public receptacles or in authorized 

private receptacles in such a manner as to prevent it from being carried or 

deposited by the elements upon public or private property. 

(Ord. No. 17380, § 1, 8-24-2010) 

ARTICLE XV - Prohibited Accumulation of Solid Waste, Recyclable 

Materials, or Other Waste

9.04.800 - Applicability. 

This article shall apply to: 

A. Persons in the city; 
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B. Owners of improved properties in the city, where the residential 

property is vacant; 

C. Occupants of improved properties in the city, where an owner is not 

an occupant; and 

D. Owners of improved properties in the city, where the owner is also an 

occupant. 

(Ord. No. 17380, § 1, 8-24-2010) 

9.04.810 - Responsibility for prohibiting accumulation of solid waste, 

recyclable materials, or other waste. 

It is unlawful for the owner, or any person having the right of possession 

of any property within the city to accumulate or to permit the accumulation of solid 

waste, recyclable materials, or other waste on such property or on the sidewalks, 

parkways, street gutters or alleys abutting such property. Any such accumulation 

is declared to be a public nuisance, the prompt abatement of which is deemed to 

be a public necessity. 

(Ord. No. 17380, § 1, 8-24-2010)

ARTICLE XVI - Unsecured Loads

9.04.820 - Applicability. 

This article shall apply to all persons in the city. 

(Ord. No. 17380, § 1, 8-24-2010) 

9.04.830 - Unsecured loads prohibited. 

No person shall transport material, including solid waste, recyclable 

materials, or other waste unless such material is completely enclosed, covered, 

and/or secured as to prevent the load or any part of the load from being carried or 

deposited by the elements upon public or private property. 

(Ord. No. 17380, § 1, 8-24-2010) 

ARTICLE XIX – Severability

9.04.950 - Severability. 

It is hereby declared to be the intention of the city council that the 

sections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses, and phrases of this ordinance are 

severable and if any section, paragraph, sentence, clause, or phrase shall be 

declared unconstitutional or otherwise invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, 

such unconstitutionality or invalidity shall not affect any of the remaining sections, 

paragraphs, sentences, clauses, or phrases herein. 

(Ord. No. 17380, § 1, 8-24-2010) 

9.04.961 - Types of permits. 

No person, business, institution or agency shall collect, remove, transport 

or dispose of any solid waste without obtaining one of the following permits from 

the director, with the exception of private homeowners when acting in accordance 

with Section 9.04.180 of this chapter. 

A. Solid waste operations permit. A solid waste operations permit entitles 

the holder to collect, remove and transport solid waste, other than liquid and semi-
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solid waste and sludge, generated by the permittee or those businesses, 

institutional or industrial operations using the services of the permittee. 

(Ord. No. 17380, § 1, 8-24-2010) 

9.04.962 - Application for permits. 

A. Solid waste operations permit. 

1. Applicants for solid waste operator permit shall furnish an application, 

accompanied by proof of prepayment of the permit fee, to the director at the 

department offices. 

2. All holders of valid permits as of the effective date of the ordinance 

codified in this chapter may continue to operate under such permits until the 

permits expire. 

3. Applicants for permits shall furnish the following information with their 

application: 

a. Name of the applicant and the name under which doing business; 

b. The types of solid waste to be collected, transported and disposed, 

categorized as: 

i. Putrescible materials (garbage) or mixed putrescible and rubbish, 

ii. Nonputrescible materials only, (i.e., rubbish, construction debris), 

iii. Vegetation (i.e., tree limbs, grass clippings, etc.), 

iv. Septic tank pumpings, sanitary sewer, catchbasin, grease, sand and 

grit trap waste, or

v. Other waste (specifying the character of each type waste); 

c. Whether waste is to be collected incidental to the applicant's business 

or institutional purpose or whether it is to be collected from other parties for a fee; 

d. The mailing and street address and telephone number of the 

applicant's business office and hours; 

e. Name and telephone number of applicant's emergency after-hours 

contact; 

f. The number and net carrying capacity (in tons) of each vehicle to be 

used for collection and transportation of solid waste and the location where such 

vehicles are stored when not in use. In any case where a vehicle is rated in cubic 

yards capacity rather than tons, three cubic yards shall be considered equal to 

one ton of capacity; 

i. A valid standard certificate of public liability and property damage 

insurance, executed by a company authorized to do business in the state and 

performable in the county, insuring the general public against loss or damage that 

may result to any person or property from the operation of the refuse collection 

service. Such insurance policy shall insure each vehicle and piece of equipment 

operated by the refuse collection service and shall have limits of not less than one 

hundred thousand dollars for injury or death to one person; not less than three 

hundred thousand dollars for injuries or death to two or more persons resulting 

from any one accident; and not less than one hundred thousand dollars for 

damage or destruction to property resulting from any one accident, 

ii. A statement from the insurance company that in the event the policy or 

policies are canceled, the insurer shall furnish to the city written notice of intention 

to cancel at least ten days before the liability of the insurer expires, 
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iii. A statement listing all claims, suits or other actions pending against 

him for personal injuries or property damage arising out of the operation of the 

vehicles and equipment the applicant proposes to use, together with the amount 

of such claim and the status thereof, 

iv. In lieu of the certificate of insurance required in this section, a firm 

desiring to self-insure shall submit a financial statement certified by a certified 

public accountant showing a net worth of not less than five hundred thousand 

dollars. 

g. Vehicle registration. 

(Ord. No. 17380, § 1, 8-24-2010) 

9.04.963 - Vehicle standards and markings. 

A. Vehicles used by permittees for collection and transportation of solid 

waste must have cargo beds fully enclosed or must be enclosed at the bottom 

and all sides, and equipped with a tarpaulin or other cover and method of 

fastening that will reasonably prevent spillage or wind transport of waste. 

B. Each vehicle of any size used by permittees for collection or 

transportation of solid waste must be inspected and the vehicle capacity 

established by the director or designee prior to being used for solid waste 

collection or transportation. The director may conduct random inspections to verify 

continued compliance. 

C. Each vehicle used by permittees for collection or transportation of 

solid waste must display the assigned number on both sides and rear of each 

vehicle in numbers and letters not less than three inches high. 

D. Vehicles used for collection and transportation of liquid and semi-solid 

waste and sludge must have completely watertight tanks or containers. Piping 

and valving systems shall not leak. 

E. No person, business or institution shall paint or identify vehicles or 

equipment in a manner which may lead an ordinarily observant person to confuse 

such equipment with equipment of the department. 

(Ord. No. 17380, § 1, 8-24-2010) 

9.04.964 - Term of permit. 

All permits, other than special disposal permits, shall be valid for twelve 

months from the date of issuance. There shall be no permits issued for a shorter 

term. 

(Ord. No. 17380, § 1, 8-24-2010) 

9.04.965 - Permit transferability. 

No permit issued under this chapter may be transferred. 

(Ord. No. 17380, § 1, 8-24-2010) 

9.04.966 - Violation of permit. 

A. Compliance with laws and regulations. Permit holders shall comply 

with local, state and federal laws regulating the collection, transportation and 

disposal of waste.
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B. Warning. The director shall issue a notice of violation to any permittee 

who violates any of the provisions of Article V of this chapter. The permittee shall 

correct any such violation within seven calendar days of receipt of such notice. 

C. Vehicles in violation. In any instance where the violation is due to a 

failure of a vehicle to meet the minimum standards prescribed in Section 9.04.963 

of this article, such vehicle shall no longer be used for collection or transportation 

of solid waste until such violations have been corrected and verified by 

reinspection of the vehicle. 

D. Suspension—Revocation. In any instance where a permittee fails to 

correct violations of which notice has been given by the director, or where there 

have been more than three violations recorded in a period of twelve months or 

where any violation constitutes a significant hazard to public health, the director 

shall give the permittee at least ten days written notice that on a specified date 

and at a specified time and location, the director will determine whether the permit 

should be suspended or revoked. The permittee shall have the right to appear 

and explain why the permit should not be suspended or revoked. The director's 

decision shall be final unless appealed as provided for in Section 9.04.967 of this 

article. 

(Ord. No. 17380, § 1, 8-24-2010) 

9.04.967 - Appeal from denial, suspension, revocation. 

A. A person who has a permit issued under this title, who has been 

served with a denial, suspension or revocation notice of said permit, may appeal 

the director's action to the city manager as provided herein. Within ten business 

days of taking such action, the director shall prepare a report indicating the 

reasons for the denial, suspension or revocation, and shall provide a copy to the 

person. The director's decision is final unless within ten calendar days from the 

date of receiving the director's report, the person files with the city clerk a written 

appeal to the city manager specifying reasons for the appeal. Said appeal shall 

also include a written rebuttal to the director's report. 

B. The city manager or his designated deputy city manager shall review 

the director's report and the appellant's rebuttal. The city manager or designee 

may allow the appellant to make an oral presentation or submit additional rebuttal. 

The city manager or designee shall make a ruling on the appeal within a 

reasonable period of time after the appeal has been filed. 

C. The city manager or designee shall sustain, reverse or modify the 

action of the director and shall notify the appellant of his decision in writing. The 

decision of the city manager or designee is final. 

(Ord. No. 17380, § 1, 8-24-2010)

2.3.2 City of Del Rio

2.3.2.1 CHAPTER 24 - Solid Waste

ARTICLE I. - In General

Sec. 24-1.- Definitions. 

For the purposes of this chapter: 
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Garbage shall mean table garbage, paper, rubbish, trash, refuse, 

prunings, glass, tin cans, grass clippings, ashes, leaves and other debris of like 

nature. Garbage does not include: concrete; asphalt; metal waste; waste or 

rubbish from building, renovating or remodeling; rubbish from buildings; materials 

removed from buildings or structures as a result of renovating or remodeling the 

same; household appliances such as dishwashers, ranges, ovens, trash 

compactors, microwaves, stoves, refrigerators, freezers, washing machines, 

dryers, water heaters, televisions, air conditioners, and similar appliances; and 

furniture such as sofas, couches, mattresses, box springs, beds, bed frames, 

dressers, tables, chests, bureaus, armoires, electronic equipment, and similar 

objects. There shall be no distinction between wet and dry garage. Dead animals 

shall not be included in the garbage. 

Landfill shall mean the area provided by the city in which garbage and 

other debris shall be accumulated or disposed of. 

(Ord. No. 2003-23, § 1, 8-12-03; Ord. No. 2005-07, § 1, 2-22-05, eff. 3-

15-05) 

Sec. 24-1.1.- Exemption to applicability of chapter. 

Notwithstanding any other provision contained in this chapter, the 

regulations contained in this chapter shall not be applicable to any land or territory 

located within the "Agriculture-Open District" created by Article III of Chapter 30 of 

this Code. (Ord. No. 85-47, § 2, 11-26-85) 

Sec. 24-2.- Collection limitation. 

Nothing in this chapter shall require the collection and disposition by the 

garbage collector of garbage items as heretofore defined which are of such a 

nature and size as to not allow for the collection and disposition thereof by the 

personnel, equipment and facilities of the garbage collector available from time to 

time for the collection and disposition of garbage; it being the responsibility of the 

person disposing of such items to arrange for the removal and disposition thereof. 

(Code 1962, § 8-5-2) 

Sec. 24-3.- Littering—Prohibited. 

(a) The offense of littering as defined and prohibited in this section is 

hereby declared to constitute a public nuisance. 

(b) The following terms, words, or phrases as used in this section are 

hereby defined as follows:

(1) Deposit. The term "deposit" shall mean to cast, throw, discharge, 

drop, place, or cause to be placed, dump, sweep, sift, accumulate, or allow to 

accumulate. 

(2) Property. The term "property" shall mean any private or public 

property located within the city and outside the corporate limits of the city for a 

distance of five thousand (5,000) feet. The term "property" shall include, but is not 

limited to, any real property, river, canal, public water, drain, sewer, or receiving 

basin. 
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(3) Public property. The term "public property" shall include, but is not 

limited to, any publicly owned property, property dedicated for the public's use, 

and property used by the public. 

(4) Litter. The term "litter" shall include, but is not limited to, garbage, 

offal, bottles, broken glass, ashes, paper, boxes, cans, tree or brush trimmings, 

dirt, rubbish, refuse, trash, junk lumber materials, or any other liquid or solid waste 

article or substance.

(Code 1962, § 8-5-13) 

Sec. 24-10.- Landfill site fees; disposal of garbage. 

(a) Definition. The term contractor shall mean any person or firm who, 

under contract, is responsible for the collection, hauling, and disposal of garbage 

at the city landfill site, as well as, the operation site, as well as, the operation and 

maintenance of such landfill site. 

(b) The city council hereby approves the following fees, rates, and 

charges heretofore set by the contractor in connection with the hauling and 

disposal of garbage and other refuse at the city landfill site: 

1. Local self-haulers: .....Amount: 

Contractors, commercial haulers, etc. 

All vehicles per ton or fractions thereof (Includes TNRCC fee) $24.83 

2. Industrial waste haulers from outside the city limits (Maquiladoras) per 

ton or fractions thereof (includes TNRCC fee) 50.00 

5. Tire: 

Passenger car tires 1.00 

Truck tires 4.00 

(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the contractor 

shall never be authorized to charge and collect a fee from any individual resident 

of the city who hauls and disposes of their own residential garbage or refuse, 

excluding tires. 

(Ord. No. 85-02, § 1, 1-22-85; Ord. No. 90-02, § 1, 1-9-90; Ord. No. 92-

02, § 1, 1-14-92; Ord. No. 94-39, § 1, 9-27-94; Ord. No. 96-18, § 1, 4-23-96; Ord. 

No. 97-59, § 1, 12-9-97; Ord. No. 2001-67, § 1, 11-13-01) 

ARTICLE II. – Containers

Sec. 24-21.- Prohibited use. 

No manure, animal droppings, human excretion or dead animals shall be 

placed in garbage cans, but shall be placed in separate refuse receptacles and 

disposed of by the owner at his own expense in accordance with the foregoing 

provisions of this chapter. 

(Code 1962, § 8-5-11) 

Sec. 24-22.- Tampering. 

Meddling with garbage receptacles or pilfering, scattering contents and 

junking in any alley or street within the corporate limits of the city is prohibited. 

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Sec. 24-23.- Required. 

Every owner, occupant, tenant or lessee using or occupying any building, 

house or structure within the corporate limits of the city, for residences, churches, 

schools, colleges, lodges, commercial businesses or other purposes shall provide 

and maintain garbage cans or receptacles in sufficient number and size, as 

specified in this article, to hold the garbage that will normally accumulate on the 

premises. 

(Code 1962, § 8-5-4) 

Sec. 24-24.- Specifications.

Every owner, occupant, tenant or lessee shall provide a container or 

containers for garbage and rubbish of not less than twenty- nor more than thirtytwo-gallon capacity, constructed of metal, plastic or rubber with a tight-fitting lid of 

the same material. No container with its contents shall exceed 75 pounds. 

(Code 1962, §§ 8-5-5, 8-5-9) 

Sec. 24-25.- Location. 

In residential areas, receptacles as required in this article shall be placed 

inside of the property line at the edge of the alley where there is no alley fence, 

and where there is an alley fence the receptacle or receptacles must be placed 

against the outside of the fence. Where there is no alley, the receptacle or 

receptacles must be placed in front of said property between the sidewalk and 

curb or at a place most accessible to the collector. The garbage collector shall 

have the right to refuse to pick up garbage on any property where dogs are loose 

in the yard. 

(Code 1962, § 8-5-8) 

Sec. 24-26.- Condemnation. 

Garbage containers that have deteriorated to the extent of having jagged 

or sharp edges capable of causing injury to the garbage collectors or others 

whose duty it is to handle the containers, or to such an extent that the lids will not 

fit tightly or securely, will be condemned by the city, acting through the sanitarian 

of the health department. 

(Code 1962, § 8-5-6) 

ARTICLE III. - Garbage Collection Services

Sec. 24-40.- "Residence" defined. 

The term "residence" shall mean a single-family unit or other structure 

designed and used primarily for residential purposes. The term "residence" shall 

include a family living unit that is a part of a larger structure. Provided, however, 

the term "residence" shall not include a structure that contains three (3) or more 

family living units. 

(Ord. No. 83-40, § 1, 8-9-83) 

Sec. 24-41.- Garbage fee imposed. 

The occupant or user of each residence in the city shall be required to 

pay monthly the fee or rate specified in section 24-42 for the collection, hauling, 

and disposal of garbage. 

(Ord. No. 83-40, § 1, 8-9-83) 
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Sec. 24-42.- Rates. 

The city manager is hereby authorized and directed to charge and collect 

from each occupant of a residential unit in the city the sum of twelve dollars and 

fifty cents ($12.50) per month for the collection, hauling, and disposing of 

garbage. 

(Ord. No. 83-40, § 1, 8-9-83; Ord. No. 85-19, § 1, 7-19-85; Ord. No. 86-

46B, § 1, 10-28-86; Ord. No. 89-020, § 1, 7-25-89; Ord. No. 91-21, § 1, 8-13-91; 

Ord. No. 92-03, § 1, 1-14-92; Ord. No. 93-27, § 1, 8-10-93; Ord. No. 94-32, § 1, 8-

23-94; Ord. No. 97-30, § 1, 7-8-97; Ord. No. 2001-03, § 3, 2-27-01) 

Sec. 24-42.1.- Outside city limits. 

The charge for the collection, hauling and disposal of garbage to users 

outside the city limit who use the city garbage collection system shall be one and 

one-fifth (1 1/5) times the rate charged to users inside the city limits. 

(Ord. No. 92-05, 1-28-92) 

Sec. 24-42.2.- Franchise fee.

A customer shall be charged a fee equal to four (4) per cent of the 

monthly bill charged to the customer for the collection, hauling and disposal of 

garbage. 

(Ord. No. 95-45, § 2, 10-10-95) 

Sec. 24-43.- Collection of charges; statement. 

The amount specified in section 24-42 shall be included in the bill that is 

submitted monthly to the utility customers of the city. The garbage fee or rate shall 

be set out separately from all other utility charges in said utility bill. 

(Ord. No. 83-40, § 1, 8-9-83) 

Sec. 24-44.- Due date. 

The garbage fees specified herein shall be due and payable at the same 

time that the other utility charges are due and payable to the city. 

(Ord. No. 83-40, § 1, 8-9-83) 

Sec. 24-45.- Rules. 

All of the rules, ordinances, and code provisions concerning the 

collection of utility charges shall be applicable to the rates for the collection, 

hauling and disposal of garbage. 

(Ord. No. 83-40, § 1, 8-9-83)

2.3.3 City of Eagle Pass

2.3.3.1 CHAPTER 14 - Municipal Solid Waste [26] 

Sec. 14-1. - Short title. 

This chapter shall be known as the "Municipal Solid Waste Ordinance of 

the City of Eagle Pass, Texas." 

(Ord. No. 2012-06, § 1, 3-6-2012) 
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Sec. 14-2. - Purpose and intent. 

The purposes of this chapter include, but are not necessarily limited to, 

the following: 

A. To protect the health, safety, and general welfare of the people; 

B. To provide environmentally sound, cost-efficient solid waste 

management; 

C. To provide for regulations to ensure the safe and proper handling of 

solid waste generated, stored, hauled, collected, and/or disposed of within the 

collection service area; 

D. To develop data to ensure sufficient disposal capacity and/or recycling 

programs for solid waste and recyclable materials generated, stored, collected, 

disposed, processed, and otherwise found within the collection service area; 

E. To deter illegal dumping; 

F. To facilitate conservation of vital natural resources; 

G. To protect against risk that current municipal solid waste facilities 

become unable to accept municipal solid waste generated within the city; 

H. To encourage and enforce recycling programs, including source 

separation at point of generation; 

I. To provide a convenient and effective means of financing the city's 

solid waste services. 

J. To designate the public works director and/or his designee as the 

director of the city's solid waste management division; and 

K. To designate the city's type IV landfill site, collections, hauling and 

disposal, recycling operations and the municipal solid waste program as the 

Municipal Solid Waste Management Division of the City of Eagle Pass. 

(Ord. No. 2012-06, § 1, 3-6-2012)

Sec. 14-3. - Applicability. 

This chapter shall apply to: 

A. Any person, owner and/or occupant of real property in the city or in the 

collection service area, which may include all or some parts of Maverick County 

pursuant to an interlocal agreement; 

B. Self-transporters of municipal solid waste and recyclable materials 

generated at commercial and residential properties in the city or its ETJ; and 

C. Haulers of municipal solid waste generated at commercial and 

residential properties in the city or its ETJ. 

(Ord. No. 2012-06, § 1, 3-6-2012) 

Sec. 14-4. - Definitions. 

As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings 

shown: 

“Authorized municipal solid waste facility” shall mean any designated or 

authorized municipal solid waste facility designated by the city manager in the 

case of a designated municipal solid waste facility, or by the Texas Commission 

on Environmental Quality in the case of an authorized municipal solid waste 

facility, for processing, storing, or disposing of municipal solid waste, including 

construction or demolition waste. This includes City of Eagle Pass Type IV AE, 

Landfill Permit 1918 located on 123 State Highway 131 in Maverick County, 
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Texas, and the Maverick County Solid Waste Authority Type I Landfill Permit 

2316 located at 16179 Farm to Market Road 1021, El Indio, Texas 78860 (County 

Landfill), and the City of Eagle Pass Recycling Center located at 1180 Eidson 

Road, Eagle Pass, Texas. 

“Bulky” waste shall include only municipal solid waste in the forms of 

irregularly sized items that do not readily fit into refuse containers, which include 

but are not limited to, large appliances (e.g., refrigerators, water heaters, washers, 

and dryers), toilets and furniture, also small and medium-sized appliances, and 

other domestic waste and discards which are commonly regarded as large nonputrescible municipal solid waste items. Bulky waste does not include household 

hazardous waste, hazardous or special waste, construction and demolition waste, 

vehicle parts, commercial tires, brush, electronics, or products containing glass 

which may break during collection. 

“Business customer” shall mean a person that produces business 

municipal waste that the city has agreed to collect. 

“Business services” shall mean collection of business municipal waste 

(brush, bulky and special bagged leaf collection not included) from business 

customers, provided by the city. Refuse and recycling collection service at such 

location must be feasible and within existing collection routes. 

”Business municipal waste or commercial refuse” shall mean garbage 

and recycling municipal solid waste similar, in both content and volume, to that 

generated at a business or commercial establishment. 

”Cart or container” shall mean any watertight plastic receptacle approved 

by the department for the purpose of collection and containing municipal solid 

waste or program recyclable materials that is generally equipped with wheels and 

an attached tight-fitting lid designed or intended to be mechanically or manually 

dumped into a garbage collection truck. 

“Cart dumper” shall mean a mechanical device used in semi-automated 

and fully-automated collection to lift and empty carts, also called flippers and 

tippers. 

”Central Business District” (CBD) shall mean all streets and portions of 

street with the area bounded as follows: Beginning at the intersection of Ryan 

Street and Garrison Street; thence along Ryan Street to Ford Street; thence along 

Ford Street to the Union Pacific Railroad Tracks; thence along the Union Pacific 

Railroad Tracks to Garrison Street; thence along Garrison Street to the Point of 

Beginning. 

”City” shall mean the City of Eagle Pass, Texas. 

”Collection” shall mean the act of removing accumulated matter, 

garbage, solid waste or recyclables from the point of collection and transporting it 

to a solid waste management facility; collection may occur at centralized points 

where generators deliver their solid waste. 

”Collection assistance service” shall mean a collection service provided 

to a customer residence wherein there is no able-bodied individual capable of 

setting out refuse or recyclables at the public right-of-way. The director shall 

approve of or discontinue this service in writing. 

”Collection frequency” shall mean the number of times per week that 

collection service is provided. 
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”Collection service area” shall mean the City of Eagle Pass, Texas. The 

city may also provide service within the ETJ of the city or in Maverick County, 

Texas pursuant to an interlocal agreement with Maverick County, Texas. 

”Collection/service stop” shall mean a unique address or location that is a 

point of collection and requires collection services, i.e., a geographical point within 

a service area that requires the collection vehicle to stop and collect solid waste 

and/or recyclables, or other materials. 

”Collection system” shall mean the collection and transportation of 

matter, garbage, solid waste or recycling in a specially designed truck, some of 

which may have an affixed mechanical arm assembly. Service may be provided in 

the form of either automated (one-person crew) or semi-automated method 

(multiple-person crew) and these systems may utilize specially designed 

containers. 

”Co-collection/dual collection” shall mean a simultaneous collection of 

two (2) solid waste, e.g., residential solid waste and residential recyclables; 

residential solid waste and yard waste; residential recyclables and yard waste; or 

two (2) recyclables. 

”Commercial property” shall mean all property other than a residential 

property; this includes vacant premises. 

”Commercial” refuse shall include any solid waste generated as a byproduct of any commercial operation, but shall not include swills, slops, toxic or 

corrosive materials, manure, or any other material found harmful to personnel or 

equipment as determined by the director or his designee. Commercial refuse shall 

also include MSW that was not generated at the customers EPWWS account 

address and non-residential MSW that may be collected from businesses such as 

law offices, community centers and pools or vacant premises. 

”Commercial establishment or business customer” shall mean any 

structure or premises other than residential structures or premises and shall 

include the following: stores (including second-hand stores), flea markets, 

restaurants, gas stations, apartments, malls, oil and gas well locations, bars, 

theatres, and any others conducting business. 

”Compactor” shall mean a watertight receptacle, regardless of its size, 

which has a compaction mechanism, whether stationary or mobile, equipped with 

closeable doors intended to be loaded onto a vehicle.

”Contaminated pile” shall include (i) any pile of items or matter or 

materials containing material not provided for (or specifically prohibited) in its 

respective definition; and/or (ii) piles in which the contaminating materials are 

commingled with, or placed on top of, the pile, or if such items are placed so close 

to the pile or in such large amounts that the items cannot reasonably be removed 

from the pile. 

”Current utility bill” shall mean a bill issued by the EPWWS that includes 

a charge for collection, which is not more than sixty (60) days old. 

”Debris” shall mean large waste materials, including but not limited to 

ashes, dirt, automobile frames, tires, or other bulky and heavy materials. 

”Department” shall mean the Solid Waste Management Division of the 

City of Eagle Pass or its successor which is part of public works. 

”Designated or authorized municipal solid waste facility” shall mean any 

municipal solid waste facility designated by the city manager in the case of a 
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designated municipal solid waste facility, or by the Texas Commission on 

Environmental Quality in the case of an authorized municipal solid waste facility, 

for processing, storing, or disposing of municipal solid waste, including 

construction or demolition waste. This includes City of Eagle Pass Type IV AE, 

Landfill Permit 1918 located on 123 State Highway 131 in Maverick County, the 

Eagle Pass Recycling Center located at 1180 Eidson Road, Eagle Pass, Texas, 

and the Maverick County Solid Waste Authority Type I Landfill Permit 2316 

located at 16179 Farm to Market Road 1021, El Indio, Texas 78860 (County 

Landfill). 

”Detachable containers” shall mean waste containers such as carts, 

dumpsters and roll-off containers. 

”Director” shall mean the director of public works or his successor or 

predecessor. The director may designate a fully authorized representative to act 

on his behalf or the department's behalf.

”Disposal” shall mean the discharge, deposit, dumping, spilling, leaking, 

or placing of any matter, solid or liquid waste (whether containerized or noncontainerized) into, under, or on any land or body of water. 

”Drop-off event” shall mean an event sponsored by the city allowing 

eligible users to drop-off MSW materials for disposal or recycling. 

”Drop-off centers” shall mean collection sites where solid waste, 

recyclables, or other materials are taken by generators and deposited into 

designated containers. 

”Dumpster” shall mean a container, which holds more than one (1) cubic 

yard, used to store solid waste until it is collected for disposal. The term also 

includes roll-on/roll-off containers that are used to transport solid waste on a 

vehicle chassis. 

”Established fee” shall mean the fee that is authorized in this chapter, 

which is set in the amount identified in the adopted budget resolution for the 

current fiscal year or by other duly adopted action of the city council. 

”Enclosure” shall mean a man-made structure built for the specific 

purposes of shielding a refuse container. These enclosures may be built so that 

the refuse collection vehicles have access to the container. If enclosures are built 

with doors, these shall be opened on the day of collection. Doors shall be made 

with anchor devices that will keep the doors from inadvertently closing on the 

collection vehicles. Enclosures shall be at least thirteen (13) feet wide and ten 

(10) feet deep for ease of collection. Any enclosure that is locked on the day of 

collection will not be collected. If a request is made for collection, after the 

regularly scheduled collection, the request will be considered a request for extra 

pick up subject to an additional fee. 

”EPA” shall mean the United States Environmental Protection Agency. 

”EPWWS” shall mean the City of Eagle Pass Water Works System. 

EPWWS is the billing agent for solid waste fees. EPWWS water meters may 

serve as the initial basis for residential, business and/or commercial service 

eligibility. 

”ETJ” shall mean the extra-territorial jurisdiction, as defined or described 

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”Excluded waste” shall mean solid waste not accepted by any designated 

or authorized municipal solid waste facility, as posted, at such designated or 

authorized municipal solid waste facility. 

”Fully-automated collection” shall mean a method of collecting solid 

waste where the generator places the storage container or cart at the point of 

collection and collection is done without the operator leaving the collection 

vehicle. The collection vehicle is equipped with special mechanical devices that 

are extended to grasp, lift, empty and then replace the storage containers back to 

the point of collection. Normally, the point of collection for fully-automated 

collection is curbside or alley. 

”Garbage”. See "Refuse." 

”Generator” shall mean the person or entity whose name appears on the 

EPWWS billing system or places solid waste or recyclables in containers for 

collection.

“Hauler” shall mean person other than a self-transporter who provides 

collection of construction and demolition materials within the city and its ETJ. 

”Hauler permit” shall mean the authorization of a hauler by the 

department for the privilege to provide collection of construction and demolition 

and recyclable materials within the city and its ETJ and/or delivery of construction 

and demolition and recyclable materials to a designated or authorized municipal 

solid waste facility during the term of such permit and subject to all the terms and 

conditions imposed by this chapter and other laws. 

”Hazardous waste” shall mean any liquid or solid waste identified or 

listed as a hazardous waste by the administrator of the EPA pursuant to the 

federal Solid Waste Disposal Act, as amended by the Resource Conservation and 

Recovery Act of 1976. 

”Illegal dumping” shall mean any offenses defined by this chapter or 

Texas Litter Abatement Act in Chapter 365 of the Texas Health and Safety Code. 

”Industrial solid waste” shall mean waste determined to be of industrial 

origin and classified by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality as Class 

I, Class II, or Class III. 

”Legal disposal” shall mean the deposit of any solid waste at a registered 

or authorized municipal solid waste facility.

”Lot” shall have its ordinary meaning but it shall also include, in addition 

to the land within its boundaries, all land adjacent to and extending beyond the 

property line to the curb line of adjacent streets, and where no curb exists, to the 

existing street surface. The word lot shall also include all land lying between the 

property line of any lot and the center of adjacent alleys and/or easements. 

”Manual collection system” shall mean the collection and transportation 

of matter, MSW, garbage or recyclables by means of a system that requires a 

person to manually lift and load the material into the collection vehicle. 

County or Maverick County shall mean the County of Maverick, Texas. 

”MCSWA” shall mean the Maverick County Solid Waste Authority. 

Mixed-use property shall mean an improved property containing both 

residential properties and commercial properties, where the municipal solid waste 

generated at such improved property cannot be readily separated by source of 

generation. 
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”Municipal solid waste (MSW) ” shall mean solid waste resulting from or 

incidental to municipal, business, hospital, community, commercial, institutional, 

or recreational activities, and includes garbage, rubbish, recyclable materials, 

ashes, street cleanings, dead animals, abandoned automobiles, and other solid 

waste other than industrial solid waste. 

”Municipal solid waste facility” shall mean all contiguous land, structures, 

other appurtenances, and improvements on the land used for processing, storing, 

or disposing of solid waste. The facility must be licensed and may consist of 

several processing, storage, or disposal units. 

”Occupant” shall mean any person occupying or having possession of 

premises or any portion thereof. 

”Owner” shall mean any person who, alone or with others, has title or an 

interest in premises with or without accompanying actual possession thereof, and 

including any person who as agent, or as executor, administrator, trustee or 

guardian of an estate, has charge, care or control of any premises. 

”Permitted hauler” shall mean a hauler holding a valid hauler's permit for 

the collection or disposal of construction and demolition and recyclables materials 

at an authorized facility. 

”Permitted vehicle” shall mean a vehicle or trailer used by a permitted 

hauler within the city for the purpose of collecting and disposing of construction 

and demolition and/or recyclable materials.

”Permitted hauler vehicle log” shall mean a form provided by the 

department to record deliveries of solid waste regulated by this chapter by 

permitted haulers to a designated or authorized municipal solid waste facility, in 

substantially the same form attached as Exhibit A. 

”Person” shall mean an individual, entity, corporation (including a 

government corporation) organization, governmental subdivision or agency, 

federal agency, state, political subdivision of a state, interstate agency or body, 

business or business trust, partnership, association, firm, company, joint stock 

company, commission, or any other legal entity. 

”Point of collection” shall be a convenient location at or in the right-of-way 

accessible to collection trucks or equipment from a passable roadway adjacent to 

each premises, which is often curbside. The point of collection for brush and bulky 

waste is at the curb or edge of curb. 

”Private franchised hauler” shall mean a person that has a nonexclusive 

right and privilege to collect, convey, or transport solid waste. 

”Prohibited waste” shall mean any waste prohibited from landfill disposal 

by the EPA, the city, TCEQ, or landfill-operating permit. Prohibited waste also 

include waste that may be injurious to collectors or may cause damage to 

collection vehicles. 

”Public trash container” shall mean and include all approved waste 

containers or containers designed for public use and placed on the streets and 

sidewalks by the city or by anyone else under the direction of the city. 

”Recyclable materials” shall mean those solid waste that are separated 

for recycling or reuse such as newspaper, mixed office paper, corrugated 

cardboard, craft paper, container glass, aluminum and tin cans, magazines, steel 

aerosol cans, and plastic bottles and containers. 
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”Recycling” shall mean the collection, separation, recovery and sale or 

reuse of metals, glass, paper, plastics, cardboard, and other materials which 

would otherwise be disposed or processed as municipal solid waste. 

”Recycling facility” shall mean a facility that either has the required 

authorization from Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, or equivalent 

state agency, for processing of recyclable materials and is in compliance with 

local, state, and federal laws. The Eagle Pass Recycling Facility is located at 

1180 Eidson Road, Eagle Pass, Texas. 

”Refuse” shall mean garbage and/or municipal solid waste generated at 

a residential or commercial property. Refuse does not include recycling 

commodities intended to be placed in recycling containers, industrial waste, 

hazardous waste, or any other prohibited waste. 

”Residential customer” shall mean a person living in a residential 

dwelling with two (2) units or less that produces refuse that the city collects. 

Residential property shall mean all improved property, which is used, or 

is capable to be used as a residence, a single-family dwelling, duplex, or mobile 

home property, and does not include improved property used primarily as a 

commercial property, mixed-use property, or multifamily dwellings.

”Retail or service establishment” shall mean a business operation located 

on premises that has as its primary purpose the selling of goods, merchandise 

and/or providing a services to members of the public from a fixed location, such 

as a shop, store or building complex. Examples of retail or service establishments 

include, but are not limited to restaurants and bars, gas stations, convenience 

stores, shopping centers, and second hand stores, flea markets, etc. 

”Route” shall mean a round of stops to collect solid waste or a path 

regularly visited by a collection vehicle. 

”Rubbish” shall mean non-putrescible solid waste, excluding ashes, 

consisting of both combustible and noncombustible waste materials; combustible 

rubbish includes paper, rags, cartons, wood, excelsior, furniture, rubber, plastics, 

yard trimmings, leaves, and similar materials, unless placed on property pursuant 

to and in compliance with other ordinances or regulations of the city; 

noncombustible rubbish includes glass, crockery, tin cans, aluminum cans, metal 

furniture, and like materials which will not burn. 

”Scavenging” shall mean an unauthorized partial or total removal of 

contents of a cart or container or recycling containers or any other item set out by 

a customer with the intent of collection by the city. 

”Self-transporter” means the following: 

a. Generator, who directly, without use of a hauler, transports solid waste 

generated by the generator to a municipal solid waste facility or recyclable 

materials generated by the generator to a recycling facility, utilizing the following 

methods of transport: [1] a factory-unmodified Class 1, 2, or 3 truck, based on US 

DOT Federal Highway Administration Vehicle Inventory and Use Survey 

standards; or [2] a vehicle as described in [1] above, with an attached single-axle 

trailer. 

b. A person conducting services on behalf of a generator, including, but 

not limited to building contractors, home repairmen/handymen, landscapers, or 

roofers, at that generator's premises, may be considered a self-transporter of 

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Semi-automated collection shall mean a method of collecting solid waste 

where the generator places the storage container at the point of collection and the 

collection is done by a collection vehicle which requires the operator or collector 

to leave the collection vehicle and manually connect the container(s) to a lifting 

device (flipper or tipper) fastened to the mainframe or hopper of the collection 

vehicle. Normally the point of collection for semi-automated collection is curbside 

or alley. 

Side door shall mean a collection/service stop location for a municipal 

solid waste and/or program recyclable materials cart other than curbside. Side 

door can be at the front, side or rear of a residential property for collection of 

municipal solid waste and program recyclable materials. The department shall 

designate the location for side door collection of municipal solid waste. 

”Solid waste” shall mean any refuse, rubbish, soil or construction 

materials, white goods, recyclable materials, sludge from a waste water treatment 

plant, water supply treatment plant or air pollution control facility, and other 

discarded material, including solid, liquid, semi-solid, or contained gaseous 

material resulting from municipal, commercial, and agricultural operations, and 

from community and institutional activities (changes in state and federal 

regulations may change these definitions) but does not include: 

1. Solid or dissolved material in domestic sewage or solid or dissolved 

materials in irrigation return flows or industrial discharges subject to regulation. 

2. Soil, dirt, rock, sand, and other natural or manmade inert solid 

materials used to fill land if the object of the fill is to make the land suitable for the 

construction of surface improvements. 

3. Waste materials that result from activities associated with the 

exploration, development, or production of oil or gas and are subject to control by 

the Railroad Commission of Texas.

4. Special waste as defined by this chapter. 

5. Hazardous waste. 

Special waste shall mean any liquid, semi-liquid, solid waste or 

combination of solid waste that because of its quantity, concentration, physical or 

chemical characteristics or biological properties, require special handling and 

disposal to protect the human health or the environment and as further defined in 

3 TAC 330 Municipal Solid Waste Regulations. Special waste include, but are not 

limited to: 

11. Tires. 

Special waste may need pretreatment before it is disposed of. 

”Storm damage” shall primarily refer to organic materials generated as a 

result of forces of nature that may end up in the city's storm drain, including but 

not limited building materials, roofing materials, and other personal property or 

refuse. 

”TCEQ” shall mean Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and its 

successor and predecessor agencies.

”TDSHS” shall mean Texas Department of State Health Services and its 

successor and predecessor agencies. 

”Transfer station” shall mean a fixed facility used for transferring solid 

waste from collection vehicles to long-haul vehicles. 
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”TxDOT” shall mean the Texas Department of Transportation and its 

successor and predecessor agencies. 

”Vector” shall mean an agent such as an insect, snake, rodent, bird or 

animal capable of mechanically or biologically transferring a pathogen from one 

(1) organism to another. 

”Vehicle” shall mean any device used to transport matter or solid waste

and include, but is not limited to cars, pickups, vans, dumps trucks, trailers, roll-off 

containers, tractor trailers, rear and side loading packer trucks.

(Ord. No. 2012-06, § 1, 3-6-2012) 

Sec. 14-5. - Garbage and rubbish—Procedures for residential property 

refuse collection. 

Any owner, occupant or person in possession or control of any 

residential property shall place the containers for collection at such locations as 

are required by this chapter or directed by the director, which is generally a 

location easily accessible for the collection vehicle. 

Any container not easily accessible to the collection vehicle will not be 

emptied until the next regularly scheduled collection following the proper 

placement. If the owner requests that the container be emptied before the next 

regularly scheduled collection, an extra pick up collection fee of fifteen dollars 

($15.00) in the city and twenty-five dollars ($25.00) outside the city will apply and 

will be added to the monthly bill. 

1. Residential containers. Residents serviced by the city's collection 

system shall use the city provided and owned reusable wheeled containers unless 

the director approves, in writing, the use of a manual collection system for a 

premise. 

All materials placed out for collection must be within the container or it 

will not be collected. 

2. MSW placement. Municipal solid waste shall be placed in carts in a 

secured, odor and vector-tight plastic bags. 

3. MSW storage. Municipal solid waste shall not be accumulated or 

stored outside of carts and/or containers. The cart and/or container lids must 

remain closed at all times when not adding municipal solid waste to carts or 

containers. The department is authorized to require resolution of overflowing carts 

and/or containers within twenty-four (24) hours of written notice from the city. 

4. Disposable receptacles for leaves only. Disposable receptacles may 

be of the following types: 

A. Plastic bags. Plastic bags shall have a minimum film thickness of one 

and five-tenths (1.5) mils. When placed for collection they shall be securely tied 

with wire, twine, tape, or ends fashioned into a knot. Broken bottles or other sharp 

items are not to be placed into these containers. Plastic bags shall be used for 

collection of leaves and yard waste only. In the Central Business District, plastic 

bags shall not be used as containers for any commercial refuse collection. 

B. Paper bags. Paper bags shall be of two-ply kraft and have a wet 

strength of forty (40) pounds. When placed for collection they shall be securely 

tied with wire, twine or tape. These containers must at all times be able to 

maintain their structural integrity when lifted. Paper bags shall be used for 
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collection of leaves and yard waste only. In the Central Business District, paper 

bags shall not be used as containers for any commercial refuse collection. 

5. Mechanized (automated) collection containers. These receptacles will 

be issued by the city to residents living within areas serviced by the city's 

mechanized garbage collection system. Use of these containers within these 

designated areas is mandatory. 

6. Deposit into containers. Every person owning, managing, operating, 

leasing or renting any residential property shall place the daily accumulations of 

garbage and rubbish in the mechanized container or containers and to eliminate 

as much as possible all water and liquid. Every person shall place garbage which 

is subject to decomposition in mechanized (automated) collection containers and 

to securely wrap garbage in paper or other suitable material before placing the 

same in such containers. Animal parts that may putrefy (such as fish heads, 

entrails, or animal carcasses) must be kept cool and not placed in a refuse 

container until the night before the scheduled collection date. 

7. Weight limitations. The owner, tenant or occupant of any residential 

property shall ensure that the total weight of any container and contents does not 

exceed one hundred twenty-five (125) pounds for a forty (40) gallon or smaller 

container, two hundred (200) pounds for a sixty-four (64) gallon container, three 

hundred thirty-five (335) pounds for a ninety-six (96) gallon container or the 

maximum weight rating imprinted on the container, whichever is greater. 

8. Number of receptacles. 

A. Manual garbage collection system routes. The owner, manager, 

tenant, or occupant of any residential property utilizing manual collection system 

shall provide a sufficient number of receptacles to contain the solid waste 

produced at such dwelling, building, or premises from one (1) pickup time to the 

next pickup time. Manual garbage collection must be approved, in writing, by the 

director or his designee. 

B. Mechanized (automated) garbage collection routes. 

i. Types of approved containers. Containers to be used for the pickup of 

garbage and rubbish shall be ninety-six (96), sixty-four (64), forty (40) or thirty-five 

(35) gallon, two-wheeled refuse-collection carts provided and owned exclusively 

by the city. Each container will bear a unique serial number that will be assigned 

to each dwelling or business unit. All containers shall remain the property of the 

city and shall not be removed from the property on which the dwelling or business 

unit is located without the written consent of the director of solid waste. 

ii. Disposal in refuse-collection carts required for routes with automated 

collection equipment. It is unlawful to dispose of any garbage or rubbish material 

anywhere in the city except through placement of such material in the approved 

cart placed for collection as herein prescribed. City will not collect any garbage or 

rubbish material which is not placed in an approved container as provided above. 

10. Replacement of city refuse-collection carts. Each customer shall be 

responsible for the safekeeping and maintenance of each cart issued to the 

customer for their premises. If a cart is damaged (other than by city collectors), 

stolen or misplaced, the customer shall pay the city the cost to repair or replace 

said cart. 

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Sec. 14-6. - Residential brush/bulky waste collection procedures. 

The city may collect and dispose of brush and bulky waste from 

residential properties only. The collection of these items may be scheduled on a 

three (3) times per year basis, as published from time to time by the department, 

located at 1100 Eidson Road, Eagle Pass, Texas, and as periodically revised by 

such department based on operational changes. During city-sponsored clean up 

campaigns, collection trucks will only pass by each residence once per campaign. 

An out-of-schedule request for collection of these materials or waste shall be 

charged at the rate of nine dollars and seventy-five cents ($9.75) per cubic yard 

but such charge shall not be less than fifty dollars ($50.00) per collection. 

Property owners may dispose of their construction and demolition materials, 

brush and yard waste and bulky items at the City of Eagle Pass Type IV AE 

Permit 1918 landfill site located on 123 State Highway 131. There shall be no 

charge for city residents that take trash to the type IV landfill site provided they 

present a Texas Driver's License or State of Texas-issued identification form that 

shows the same address as the EPWWS bill showing payment of garbage fees. 

Persons residing outside the corporate city limits may also use the city 

type IV AE landfill located on 123 State Highway 131 to dispose of type IV waste 

only, and will be charged twenty-four dollars ($24.00) per ton or eight dollars 

($8.00) per cubic yard or any fee designated by the city council. 

City and county residents may also dispose of all type I municipal solid 

waste at the Maverick County Solid Waste Authority Landfill Permit 2316 Solid 

Waste site located at 16179 Farm to Market Road 1021, El Indio, Texas, 78860. 

B. The person making the request shall place these items at the curb in a 

segregated manner. The person making the out-of-cycle brush cuttings and bulky 

waste items collection request shall ensure that the items are not placed on or 

near curbs in violation of this chapter. 

C. The person desiring bulky waste collection shall place all large white 

goods, furniture, mattresses and cabinets separate from all other items placed for 

removal by city trucks. These items have no size or weight limitation, but are 

limited to residential items only. 

D. No items designed for commercial use will be collected. 

E. The person desiring bulky waste collections shall remove the door or 

lids of all refrigerators, freezers and similar air-tight appliances for safety. Doors or 

lids shall be placed alongside said appliances. 

F. No bulky waste collection in alleys. It shall be unlawful for any person 

to place bulky waste in alleys. 

G. The property owner or occupant shall be primarily responsible to the 

city for reimbursement of any and all remediation expenses incurred by the city as 

a result of damage to personal or real property that may occur during any brush or 

bulky waste collection action (whether regular, specially scheduled, or ordered for 

purposes of protecting the public health, safety, or welfare) caused by waste 

materials obscuring the property or impeding the city's ability to address the waste 

matter. Damages to property may include damage to meters, sprinkler systems, 

plumbing appurtenances, fencing, mailboxes, automobiles, or any other item of 

personal or real property. Costs may be undertaken, at the discretion of the city, 

to repair or replace items in order to preserve public health or safety. Tenants and 

other persons shall be secondarily responsible for reimbursement to the city. The 
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same priority for reimbursement responsibility shall apply to direct fees and 

payment of administrative costs for extraordinary solid waste services. 

(Ord. No. 2012-06, § 1, 3-6-2012) 

Sec. 14-9. - General prohibitions and enforcement. 

1. Violation; penalty. It shall be unlawful for a person to intentionally, 

knowingly, or recklessly do or perform any act prohibited hereby, and it is an 

offense for a person to fail to do or perform any act required hereby. Each day's 

violation hereof shall constitute a separate offense. The person, firm or 

corporation violating any provisions of this chapter shall be fined not less than one 

hundred dollars ($100.00) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) for each 

offense, and a separate offense shall be deemed committed on each day during 

which the violation occurs or continues to occur. Any person, firm, corporation or 

agent or employees thereof who knowingly, intentionally or recklessly violates any 

of the provisions of burning of solid waste shall be fined an amount not less than 

one hundred dollars ($100.00) and not more than two thousand dollars 

($2,000.00). However, in the event a defendant has once previously been 

convicted under this chapter, the defendant shall be fined an amount nor less 

than two hundred dollars ($200.00) and shall be fined an amount nor less than 

three hundred dollars ($300.00) for a third conviction and for each conviction 

thereafter. Should the court impose or charge a person with a violation in which 

the fine may be in excess of five hundred dollars ($500.00), the finder of fact must 

find that the offense was committed knowingly, intentionally, or recklessly. In 

addition to the foregoing, the city is authorized to seek injunctive relief and/or a 

civil penalty of up to one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) per day, per violation to 

compel and encourage compliance with the provisions of this chapter. 

2. Unfranchised residential and/or commercial collection prohibited. It 

shall be unlawful for a person to provide or attempt to provide garbage collections 

service within the city without first obtaining from the city or its ETJ a franchise to 

conduct such business on public streets. 

3. Tampering with and defacing receptacles. 

A. It shall be unlawful for any person to remove, displace, injure, deface, 

destroy, uncover, or in any manner remove, withdraw or disturb any part or 

portion of the contents thereof. 

B. It shall be unlawful for any person to tamper with, injure or deface any 

automated/mechanized and/or other containers or public trash receptacle for solid 

waste in the city. 

4. Placement of public trash receptacles. It shall be unlawful for a person 

to place public trash receptacles other than mechanized containers upon the 

streets, plazas, parks and other public property of the city for the reception of 

such trash without the consent of the city given by the solid waste director of solid 

waste. 

5. Scavenge or salvage. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, 

corporation or entity except a duly authorized agent or employee of the city to 

scavenge or salvage the solid waste or recyclables once they are placed for 

collections. 

6. Collection of garbage, trash or recyclables by any person, business, 

corporation or entity other than the city is prohibited. No person, firm, corporation 
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or entity without a permit, except a duly authorized agent or employee of the city, 

shall collect garbage, trash or recyclables, including but not limited to cardboard 

of any other person or entity, or convey or transport such garbage, trash, or 

recyclable on the streets, alleys and public thoroughfares of the city, or dispose of 

such garbage or trash. 

7. No city employee shall collect refuse located within private property 

unless as provided below. The collection of refuse shall be made from the public 

way; and the owner, occupant, tenant or lessee of the premises, whether 

residential or commercial, may place the receptacles for refuse at the driveway 

entrance or on the parkway near the public way. Refuse containers shall not be 

placed in the middle of the street for collection. It will be the responsibility of the 

owner, occupant, tenant or lessee of the premises to place containers in the 

appropriate curbside location for pick up as designated by the director of solid 

waste. 

8. Collection assistance service shall be provided, at the discretion of the 

director of solid waste, when requested by a residential customer wherein there is 

no able-bodied individual capable of setting out refuse or recyclables at the public 

right-of-way. In the event city employees are required to enter onto private 

property for pick up, the property owner must provide prior written consent to the 

city using the form designated by the director. 

9. Placement. It shall be unlawful for the owner of a vehicle to park a 

vehicle within five (5) feet of a recycling or refuse container on collection day. 

10. Cul-de-sac. It shall be an offense to park a vehicle head-in in a culde-sac so as to impede refuse or recycling collection on collection day. 

11. Non-compliant loads. 

A. Loads placed for collection which do not meet requirements as set out 

by this chapter will not be serviced by the city and will be the responsibility of the 

owner, manager, tenant or occupant of any dwelling, building or premises to 

correct the situation immediately. 

B. Origin of waste. It shall be unlawful for any person to place brush and 

or bulky waste that did not originate at the residence from which it is being 

collected curbside for collection. Furthermore, all materials placed out for 

collection, and any additional waste which might accumulate on or contiguous 

with said piles, are considered the responsibility of the owner, manager, tenant or 

occupant of any dwelling, building, or premises in front of which the materials are 

placed. 

C. It shall be unlawful for any person to place for collection by the city 

any earth, rock, gravel, construction materials or assembled pallets. 

D. It shall be unlawful for any person to place broken glass, ashes, or 

manure in any receptacle without first wrapping same securely in paper or other 

combustible material. 

E. No large metal machinery or automotive parts will be collected. 

F. It shall be unlawful for any person to place for collection by the city any 

liquids in containers. 

G. It shall be unlawful for any person or entity to place hazardous or 

medical waste for collection. 
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H. It shall be unlawful for any person to place syringes from home health 

care in any refuse container without first securely enclosing them in a sealed 

canister or bottle. Syringes shall not be placed in recycling containers. 

I. It shall be unlawful for any person to place in a recycling container for 

collection by the city any item other than those on the listing of acceptable 

recycling materials.

J. Loose and scattered waste will not be collected and the owner may be 

issued a citation for littering. 

K. Tires may not be set out for collection. If any tires are set out for 

collection, in addition to any fine that may be assessed for a violation of this 

section, the director may assess a surcharge of five dollars ($5.00) per tire for 

each tire set out for collection that is picked up, which will be applied to the 

customer's water bill. A citation may be issued for violation for failure to comply. 

L. It shall be unlawful for any person to place waste or other materials in 

a residential, commercial, institutional, or industrial container, which was not 

generated from the same location. If the source of such waste or materials is 

located or identified, a citation may be issued to the person or persons placing 

such items in the container. In any situation in which hazardous waste or other 

prohibited materials are found in such containers, any person in charge of the 

premises shall be responsible for allowing such materials to be placed in the 

container. 

M. It shall be unlawful for any person to place at or near curbside on 

sidewalks, easements or alleys, or on their property or to allow to remain at 

curbside, sidewalks, alleys or easements any waste, including out of schedule 

waste, brush or construction and demolition materials regardless of character, for 

collection, or intended for collection, or to so place or allow any such waste to rest 

or remain at or near curbside, on sidewalks, alleys or easements for purposes of 

temporary storage, regardless of disposal intent, which material rests or remains 

at or near curbside, on sidewalks, alleys or easements in excess of any fortyeight-hour period, inclusive of weekends and holidays. It shall be an affirmative 

defense to a violation of this prohibition that the responsible person placed the 

material at or near curbside or sidewalks or allowed the material to rest or remain 

there in response to official written notice from the city that instructed such waste 

placement in comportment with a designated or specially scheduled city collection 

event, for example: the city's brush and bulky item collection program. Such 

written notice will designate the specific period during which materials may be 

placed for collections during the official clean up campaign. 

N. It shall be unlawful for any person living outside the city limits to bring 

MSW or garbage into the city for collection. 

12. Vehicles transporting refuse to be covered. Any authorized vehicle 

used to transport municipal solid waste in any of the public ways within the 

corporate limits of the city shall be fitted with a good substantial cover thereon. 

The covering shall be of wood, metal or canvas and shall be so closely fitted as to 

prevent the escape or flying about of any of the refuse. All vehicles entering a 

disposal, recycling, deposit, or waste management facility, whether the facility is 

city or privately owned, shall have sufficient load restraints to prevent loss or 

spillage of load due to wind or motion of the vehicle on the road. Any vehicle 
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driver who does not comply, will be required to pay an uncovered or inadequately 

secured load penalty of fifteen dollars ($15.00) per load at the gate. 

13. The director has authority and discretion to direct collection and 

disposal of otherwise impermissible waste left at or near curbside in violation of 

this chapter, when in his respective judgment, the public health, safety or welfare 

requires removal and legal disposal of such waste, and in such case the 

responsible party, deemed to be the owner of the property benefited or person in 

control of the premises, shall pay the city its reasonable costs for loading, 

transport, and due disposal of the material, plus an administrative fee of ten (10) 

percent which administrative fee is here deemed reasonable and necessary due 

to the small and irregular volumes of individual waste to be addressed by this 

provision for benefit of the health, safety, and welfare, and for which volumes 

economies of scale and schedule will not be possible. (This fee is separate and 

independent of any other fees recited in this chapter). Any such costs may include 

testing and/or analysis of material necessary to its safe and legal disposal. Even if 

such tests show a benign character capable of disposal as municipal solid waste 

or household hazardous waste, the benefited property owner or responsible 

person shall be responsible for such charges, when in the opinion of any of the 

directors referenced above, such testing was necessary to verify worker safety or 

legal options for disposal or any other health or safety concern of the city official. 

Costs for such extraordinary city services may and shall attach as a lien to the 

benefited property when perfected according to law under such conditions as 

state law may allow, under authority of the Texas Health and Safety Code. 

14. Unlawful damage to city refuse-collection carts and containers. 

Except as authorized by the city council, it shall be unlawful for any person, firm or 

corporation to remove from a residential or a commercial property at which it is 

located or to damage any city refuse-collection cart and/or container. The 

customer shall be liable for any damage to containers located on the customer's 

premises except for damage caused by the collector. 

15. It is the affirmative duty of any person responsible for solid waste to 

ensure and perform legal disposal of solid waste. Persons responsible for solid 

waste are property owners, tenants/occupants, or generators. Persons alleged to 

be in violation of this chapter must present to the judge or trier of fact a true and 

credible receipt from a duly licensed and regulated landfill or disposal facility to 

demonstrate the waste in question has been legally and properly disposed 

according to its character (type of material). 

16. No bulky waste collection in alleys. It shall be unlawful for any person 

to place bulky waste in alleys. 

17. Refusing material for disposal, deposit, or recycling. The director or 

the director's authorized representative, shall have the right to refuse acceptance 

of any material for disposal or deposit for recycling at any city-owned facility 

when, in his/her opinion, such material poses by its nature a threat to the health 

and safety of any employee, may result in pollution of the environment, pose a 

detriment to the site, or violate state operation permits as a result of its disposal or 

deposit in facility or site area. This discretionary authority pertains to any city 

operated facility, including, but not limited to, public works recycling facility, the 

city's type IV landfill site(s), and any other fixed or temporary sites used by the city 

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18. It shall be unlawful for the owner, manager, tenant or occupant of any 

premises or building within the city, or the agent or employee of any such person 

to place, allow or suffer to remain after it has been emptied by the garbage 

collector, any container for solid waste, rubbish, or trash in, on, or about any 

street, plaza, park, sidewalk, or other public place, except in an alley in the rear of 

such premises.

19. Burning of solid waste. It shall be unlawful for any owner, manager, 

tenant, and or occupant of any dwelling unit, building, and/or premises to burn 

solid waste on any premise within the city or its ETJ, unless approval has been 

granted by the Texas Air Control Board and/or TCEQ and the fire department, 

and any other local, state or federal agency whose approval is required. 

20. Objectionable or unsightly matter and dumping declared public 

nuisances. 

A. It shall be unlawful and declared a nuisance for any person owning, 

claiming, occupying, or having supervision or control of any real property, 

occupied or unoccupied, within the corporate limits of the city or its extraterritorial 

jurisdiction to permit or allow any refuse, rubbish, trash, debris, filth, carrion, junk, 

garbage, impure or unwholesome matter of any kind, or other objectionable or 

unsightly matter of whatever kind to remain upon any such real property, or within 

any public easement on or across such real property, or upon any adjacent public 

street or alley right-of-way between the property line of such real property and 

where the paved surface of the street or alley begins, or that is visible from 

another's property. 

B. It shall be unlawful and declared a nuisance for any person, entity, or 

an agent or employee for a person or entity to cast, throw, drop, place, sweep, 

deposit, accumulate, or spill refuse, rubbish, trash, debris, filth, carrion, junk, 

garbage, impure or unwholesome matter of any kind, or other objectionable or 

unsightly matter of whatever kind in or upon any street, sidewalk, park, canal, 

stream, drain, sewer receiving basin, or any other public or private property within 

the city or its extraterritorial jurisdiction, except as provided in this chapter. 

21. False information. It shall be unlawful for a person to provide false 

information on a document required under this chapter, including all applications, 

permits, or request for exceptions or discounts. 

22. Distribution of handbills and other materials.

A. Applicability. This section shall apply to all persons in the city. 

B. Handbills in public places. No person shall throw, post, or deposit any 

handbill within the city. Nor shall any person hand out or distribute or sell any 

handbill in any public place in the city. Provided, however, a person on any 

sidewalk, street or other public place within the city may hand out or distribute, 

without charge to the receiver thereof, any handbill to person willing to accept it. 

C. Placing handbills in or upon vehicles. No person shall throw, post, 

deposit, hand out or distribute any handbills in or upon any vehicle. Provided, 

however, a person may hand out or distribute, without charge to the receiver 

thereof, a noncommercial handbill to any occupant of a vehicle who is willing to

accept it. 

D. Depositing handbills on properties. No person shall throw or deposit 

any handbill in or upon any property except by handing such handbill directly to 

the owner, occupant or other person then present in or upon such property. In 
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case properties which handbills are prohibited in accordance with this section, 

such person, unless requested by anyone upon such property not to do so, may 

place or deposit any such handbill in or upon such inhabited property, if such 

handbill is so placed or deposited as to secure or prevent such handbill from 

being blown or drifted about such property or sidewalks, streets or other public 

places and except that mailboxes may not be so used. 

E. Handbills prohibited. No person shall throw, post, deposit, hand out or 

distribute any handbill upon or to any private property, if requested by any one 

thereon not to do so, or if there is placed on said property in a conspicuous 

position near the entrance thereof a sign bearing the words: "No Trespassing," 

"No Peddlers or Agents," "No Advertisement" or any similar notice, indicating in 

any manner that the occupants of said property do not desire to have their right of 

privacy disturbed, or to have any such handbills left upon such property. 

23. General authority. The city may initiate a civil and/or criminal action to 

enforce any of the provisions of this chapter, including legal proceedings to 

compel compliance. 

24. Authority to issue citations. The following city personnel are 

authorized to enforce the provisions of this chapter and shall have the power to 

issue notices, warnings, or citations to any persons violating the provisions of this 

chapter: 

1. City manager or his designee; 

2. Code enforcement officers; 

3. Police officers; 

4. Fire marshal or designees; 

5. Planning director or designees; 

6. Municipal solid waste management division director or his 

designee; 

7. Public works director or his designee; 

8. All city personnel duly authorized by statute, to issue citations for 

class C criminal misdemeanors, may assist the city in enforcement of this 

chapter; and 

9. The aforementioned personnel or any private individual may 

make accompanying affidavits to support prosecution as part of the city's 

ongoing efforts to regulate and manage waste for the benefit of the public 

health, safety, and welfare, in coordination with the office of the city 

attorney, the municipal courts, the police department, the Texas 

Commission on Environmental Quality, and any agencies with jurisdictional 

interests in solid waste regulation and management.

25. The city personnel designated above are authorized to conduct 

inspections of any property necessary, conduct audits of records and documents 

required to be utilized and maintained by this chapter, and to investigate 

instances of non-compliance with this chapter to enforce the provisions of this 

chapter. If the persons, occupants or owner in possession of any premises 

refuses to allow the city officials permission to enter the property, at any 

reasonable time, those officials shall have recourse to every remedy provided by 

law to secure entry including obtaining the proper judicial warrants. 

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Sec. 14-10. - Schedule of rates/fees. 

1. Service fee for residential properties and multifamily dwellings shall be 

as follows: 

A. City residents within corporate limits. 

i. A monthly garbage collection fee (service fee) of thirteen dollars and 

fifty cents ($13.50) will be charged to individual residences inside the city limits. 

This service fee will apply to each and every residential unit, regardless of the 

type of residential structure. In the case of multifamily structures, each residential 

unit therein will be charged the residential garbage collection fee of thirteen 

dollars and fifty cents ($13.50). If a customer requires more than one (1) refuse 

collection cart, an additional cart may be requested for a fee of thirteen dollars 

and fifty cents ($13.50) per month. 

ii. If a person having care, custody and control of a container requests an 

additional collection out of the regularly scheduled collection for any reason, 

including failure to place the container out for collection on a regularly scheduled 

collection, there will be an extra charge of fifteen dollars ($15.00) added to the 

monthly bill. 

iii. At the option of the City Council of the City of Eagle Pass, prior to the 

beginning of any given fiscal year, each residential premises, as defined above, 

which is owned and occupied by a person or persons sixty-five (65) years of age 

or older and or by a disabled veteran, as such person or persons appear on the 

tax roll of the city for each respective fiscal year, may be given such discount from 

the monthly collection fee for garbage and rubbish as is specified in such 

ordinance or resolution. In this event, the Maverick County Appraisal District shall 

prepare a list of such residential premises which are qualified for said discount at 

the beginning of such given fiscal year, and shall deliver such list to EPWWS and 

the department. This discount is intended to assist qualified persons due to their 

age and/or disability, therefore, such discount shall become null and void at the 

time said qualified persons cease to own and occupy such residential premises. 

iv. Senior citizens and disabled veteran's discount within the city limits. 

The monthly charge for residential refuse service to any dwelling unit or 

manufactured home which is owned and occupied, or rented and occupied by an 

individual sixty-five (65) or more years of age or by a disabled veteran who 

presents proof of disability in accordance with this section will be discounted as 

specified in such ordinance or resolution. The discount shall only apply to the first 

container. No fee discount shall be applied to additional containers. No fee 

discount shall be granted or remain in effect unless the following conditions are 

met: 

(a) The individual claiming such discount must be sixty-five (65) or more 

years of age, or must present proof of disability when the discount is requested 

and must file a notarized application on a form provided by the director with the 

department. 

(b) A written request for such discount may be filed with the director at 

any time when the applicant reaches eligibility and will take effect at the first billing 

cycle which starts thirty (30) days thereafter, remaining in effect until eligibility 

lapses. Such request shall give the street address, dwelling unit number, if any, 

and the water utilities account number of the property being served, the name and 

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in the case of a person sixty-five (65) or more years of age, and a substantiating 

document in the case of a disabled person. The request shall be signed by the 

person seeking the discount or someone authorized by him and having personal 

knowledge of the facts. 

(c) The person claiming such discount shall place the container as 

required by this chapter. 

v. Proof of age shall consist of one (1) of the following: 

(a) Person seeking the discount presents a valid Texas driver's license or 

State of Texas-issued identification card showing the day and year of birth; 

document submitted must show the same address as the address for which the 

collection fee for garbage and refuse exemption is being applied. 

(b) Applicant must submit a copy of their vehicle registration receipt with 

their application and the address must show the same address as the address for 

which the collection fee for garbage and refuse exemption is being applied. Those 

who do not own a vehicle will be required to submit a notarized affidavit certifying 

that that fact and provide a copy of a current bill received from EPWWS or a utility 

company. The address on the utility bill must be the same as the address on the 

application for the collection fee for garbage and refuse exemption. 

(c) For those seeking the collection fee for garbage and refuse 

exemption status on a manufactured home, the applicant must also provide 

documentation as noted below. 

•Statement of ownership and location issued by the Texas Department of 

Housing and Community Affairs; 

•A copy of the purchase contract or payment receipt that the applicant is 

the purchaser of the manufactured home, or: 

•A sworn affidavit that: 

a. The applicant is the owner of the manufactured home. 

b. The seller of the manufactured home did not provide the applicant with 

a purchase contract, and 

c. The applicant could not locate the seller after making a good faith 

effort. 

vi. Proof of disability shall consist of one (1) of the following: 

(a) Certification from the social security administration that the applicant 

is the recipient of a social security or supplemental security income disability 

pension; 

(b) Certification from the proper administrative officer that the applicant is 

the recipient of a public disability pension and classified one hundred (100) 

percent disabled; or 

(c) Certification from the Veterans Administration that the applicant is the 

recipient of the Veterans Administration disability payments and classified one 

hundred (100) percent disabled. 

(d) The individual claiming a discount must be the same individual who 

pays or is billed by the water utilities for water service to the residence to which 

such discount applies. 

(e) When a person to whom a discount is granted ceases to occupy the 

applicable residence, the discount shall be withdrawn as of the month 

immediately following such cessation of occupancy. 

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(g) No person shall be entitled to a discount for more than one (1) 

residence at the same time, nor shall any person be entitled to claim both sixtyfive (65) years and over discount and a disabled discount at the same time. 

(h) In all cases, the director shall have the right to investigate the 

information given on requests for discount, and to make reasonable requirements 

for supporting evidence. 

(i) The discount provided in this section shall not apply to charges for 

special collections, collection of solid waste from institutional or commercial 

establishments, or from any location of any type utilizing roll-off, waste wheelers 

or containers holding more than ninety-six (96) gallons. 

(j) Any change which results in loss of eligibility for reduced charges for a 

residence shall be reported to the director within thirty (30) days, and full charges 

will be restored during the next billing cycle. 

(k) Eligibility for the senior and disabled citizens' discount shall lapse on 

the death of the applicant, or recovery from the claimed disability. 

(l) The director shall have the authority to investigate and verify, from 

time to time, either by personal contact by a department official or by mail out 

verification, that applicants continue to be eligible for this discount. 

B. County residents (outside corporate city limits). This section applies if 

there is an interlocal agreement with the county to provide collection service. 

Alternatively, county residents and the city may agree to the terms provide 

collection service. 

i. A monthly garbage collection fee (service fee) of sixteen dollars and 

fifty cents ($16.50) per month shall be charged to individual residences outside 

city limits but within the County of Maverick. This service fee will apply to each 

and every residential unit, regardless of the type of residential structure. If a 

customer requires more than one (1) refuse collection cart, an additional cart may 

be requested for a fee of sixteen dollars and fifty cents ($16.50) per month. In the 

case of multifamily structures, each residential unit therein will be charged the 

residential garbage collection fee of sixteen dollars and fifty cents ($16.50) per 

month. 

Single family residences on premises not abutting public roadways, and 

to which access is possible only across private property, and premises abutting 

public roadways but on which the dwelling is so remote from such roadway as to 

make city collection of garbage impracticable, may be exempted from such 

collection service and charges. For such exemption to be granted, written 

application must be submitted to and approved by the solid director or his 

representative in writing. 

ii. If a person having care, custody and control of a container requests an 

additional collection out of the regularly scheduled collection for any reason, 

including failure to place the container out for collection on a regularly scheduled 

collection, there will be an extra charge of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) which will 

be added to the monthly bill. 

iii. Senior citizens and disabled veteran's discount within the county. The 

monthly charge for residential refuse service to any dwelling unit or manufactured 

home which is owned and occupied, or rented and occupied by a an individual 

sixty-five (65) or more years of age or by a veteran shall be fourteen dollars and 

fifty cents ($14.50) per month No fee discount shall be applied to additional 
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containers. No fee discount shall be granted or remain in effect unless the 

following conditions are met: 

(a) The individual claiming such discount must be sixty-five (65) or more 

years of age, or must present proof of disability when the discount is requested 

and must file a notarized application on a form provided by the director with the 

department. 

(b) A written request for such discount may be filed with the director at 

any time when the applicant reaches eligibility and will take effect at the first billing 

cycle which starts thirty (30) days thereafter, remaining in effect until eligibility 

lapses. Such request shall give the street address, dwelling unit number, if any, 

and the water utilities account number of the property being served, the name and 

addresses of the owner-occupant or renter-occupant, the day and year of his 

birth, and a substantiating document in the case of a disabled person. The 

request shall be signed by the individual seeking the discount or someone 

authorized by him and having personal knowledge of the facts. 

iv. Proof of age shall consist of one (1) of the following: 

(a) Person seeking the discount presents a valid Texas driver's license or 

State of Texas-issued identification card showing the day and year of birth; 

document submitted must show the same address as the address for which the 

collection fee for garbage and refuse exemption is being applied. 

(b) Applicant must submit a copy of their vehicle registration receipt with 

their application and the address must show the same address as the address for 

which the collection fee for garbage and refuse exemption is being applied. Those 

who do not own a vehicle will be required to submit a notarized affidavit certifying 

that that fact and provide a copy of a current bill received from a EPWWS or a 

utility company. The address on the utility bill must be the same as the address on 

the application for the collection fee for garbage and refuse exemption. 

(c) For those seeking the collection fee for garbage and refuse 

exemption status on a manufactured home, the applicant must also provide 

documentation as noted below. 

• Statement of ownership and location issued by the Texas 

Department of Housing and Community Affairs; 

• A copy of the purchase contract or payment receipt that the applicant 

is the purchaser of the manufactured home, or: 

• A sworn affidavit that: 

a. The applicant is the owner of the manufactured home. 

b. The seller of the manufactured home did not provide the applicant with 

a purchase contract, and 

c. The applicant could not locate the seller after making a good faith 

effort. 

v. Proof of disability shall consist of one (1) of the following: 

(a) Certification from the social security administration that the applicant 

is the recipient of a social security or supplemental security income disability 

pension; 

(b) Certification from the proper administrative officer that the applicant 

is the recipient of a public disability pension and classified one hundred (100) 

percent disabled; or 
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(c) Certification from the Veterans Administration that the applicant is 

the recipient of the Veterans Administration disability payments and classified one 

hundred (100) percent disabled. 

vi. The individual claiming a discount must be the same individual who 

pays or is billed by the water utilities for water service to the residence to which 

such discount applies. 

vii. When an individual to whom a discount is granted ceases to occupy 

the applicable residence, the discount shall be withdrawn as of the month 

immediately following such cessation of occupancy. 

viii. Approved discounts are not transferable to another individual or 

address. 

ix. No individual shall be entitled to a discount for more than one (1) 

residence at the same time, nor shall any individual be entitled to claim both sixtyfive (65) years and over discount and a disabled discount at the same time. 

x. In all cases, the director shall have the right to investigate the 

information given on requests for discount, and to make reasonable requirements 

for supporting evidence. 

xi. The discount provided in this section shall not apply to charges for 

special collections, collection of solid waste from institutional or commercial 

establishments, or from any location of any type utilizing roll-off, waste wheelers 

or containers holding more than ninety-six (96) gallons. 

xii. Any change which results in loss of eligibility for reduced charges for 

a residence will be reported to the director within thirty (30) days, and full charges 

will be restored during the next billing cycle. 

xiii. The director shall have the authority to investigate and verify, from 

time to time, either by personal contact by a department official or by mail out 

verification, that applicants continue to be eligible for this discount. 

3. Special service fee. 

A. For special events requiring garbage pickup outside of the normal 

working criteria, there will be a fee of ninety dollars ($90.00) per hour based on 

actual time worked. This fee excludes all city-sponsored events. This will include 

all non-profit organizations. 

B. When a request is made to search the contents of a city refuse truck 

for personal items, the requestor shall be charged ninety dollars ($90.00) per hour 

and said fee will not be prorated, but instead rounded up to the nearest hour. 

Searching for personal items is prohibited if the contents have been deposited in 

the working face of the landfill. 

C. Hauler permit: One hundred fifty dollars ($150.00) per year paid at 

time of application. 

D. Additional vehicle registration fee: Twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per 

vehicle per year and paid at time of application. 

E. Container location on sidewalk or on public right-of-way: Annual fee of 

fifty dollars ($50.00) per container. Must first receive written approval from director 

and subject to city council approval. 

F. Special waste disposal fee: Actual cost plus twenty-five (25) percent 

administrative fee. 

4. Type IV landfill regulations and fees. All household and commercial, 

rubbish, refuse, trash, yard waste, construction demolition debris, and non-
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putrescible waste which may be disposed of at a type IV landfill site by any 

person shall not be improperly disposed of at any place within the city limits 

thereof except at such sites as may be designated by the director. Persons 

desiring to dispose of such solid waste at the type IV landfill shall pay the 

following fees for each vehicle load entering the landfill: 

A. Noncommercial vehicles. 

i. Cars, pickups and trailers used by city residents to transport type IV 

landfill waste or construction demolition waste from the resident's home shall be 

not be charged a fee. upon showing a valid Texas driver's license or identification 

and a current utility bill showing the same city residence address. 

ii. Cars, pickups and trailers used by non-city residents or residents who 

cannot show proof of residency as required by this section, transporting type IV 

landfill waste or construction demolition waste from the resident's home: 

Per ton .....$24.00 

Per cubic yard .....$8.00 

B. Commercial vehicles. 

i. Commercial vehicles including pickups, trailers, and compacted 

vehicles used by private businesses and commercial haulers transporting type IV 

waste generated from within Maverick County: 

Per ton .....$24.00 

Per cubic yard .....$8.00 

ii. Commercial vehicles including pickups, trailers, and compacted 

vehicles used by private businesses and commercial haulers transporting type IV 

landfill waste generated from outside Maverick County: 

Per ton .....$50.00 

Per cubic yard .....$16.67 

iii. Commercial vehicles including pickups, trailers, and compacted 

vehicles used by private businesses and commercial haulers transporting 

merchandise required to be destroyed as required by the Texas Commission on 

Environmental Quality: 

Per ton .....$50.00 

Per cubic yard .....$16.67 

iv. Commercial vehicles transporting type IV landfill waste for a 

residential customer, when accompanied by the residential customer. The 

residential customer must be the driver or a passenger in the commercial vehicle 

or arrive in a separate vehicle at the landfill with the residential customer's waste 

and must show proof of residency within the city, as required by this section. 

Up to and including one (1) ton or three (3) cubic yards, flat fee .....$2.00 

Subsequent weight over one (1) ton or over three (3) cubic yards: 

Per ton .....$24.00 

Per cubic yard .....$8.00 

v. County of Maverick. The County of Maverick shall pay the city for use 

of the type IV landfill, pursuant to settlement agreement between the City of Eagle 

Pass and the County of Maverick dated April 14, 2008, or any subsequent 

adopted agreement or amendment. 

vi. City vehicles except sanitation department must pay a fee of $1.25/ton 

or $0.42/cubic yard or the current state solid waste fee. 

5. Tires delivered to the Eagle Pass Recycling Center. 
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A. Passenger tires (up to nineteen-and-one-half-inch rim diameter), per 

tire .....$2.00 

B. Truck tires (nineteen-and-six-tenths to twenty-four-and-one-half-inch 

rim diameter), per tire .....$10.00 

C. Special size tires (greater than twenty-four-and-one-half-inch rim 

diameter), per ton .....$100.00 

6. Payments at city landfill are required at time of disposal. 

(Ord. No. 2012-06, § 1, 3-6-2012)

Sec. 14-11. - Billing and collection. 

EPWWS is hereby authorized to serve as the entity to collect the monthly 

garbage and refuse service collection fees provided for herein. Such services will 

be billed monthly with the water and sewer service charge of EPWWS. In 

instances where several residential or commercial premises, or a combination 

thereof, exist within one (1) structure or within one (1) property, each premise 

shall be billed at the appropriate individual rate. 

Each residential and commercial property (including for-profit, non-profit, 

institutional and governmental organizations) which receives water service from 

EPWWS shall be charged the applicable rate for garbage services to such 

premises. However, if a premise does not receive monthly collection service, the 

director may exempt the following persons from the monthly garbage collection 

fee: (1) property owners that only have a sprinkler system or a livestock meter on 

their lot or parcel; (2) property owners of vacant and unoccupied land; and (3) 

property owners that are migrant farm workers (a migrant farm worker is a person 

who is engaged in farm or agricultural work away from his property for a period of 

ninety (90) consecutive days) while they are engaged in farm or agricultural work 

away from their permanent residences. To qualify and receive an exemption: (1) a 

property owner must not receive monthly collection service during the period of 

exemption; (2) a property owner must make a written request for an exemption on 

the city's forms, a sample of which is attached as an exhibit to this chapter; and 

(3) the director must confirm that basis for the exemption and approve the 

exemption in writing on the city's forms, a sample of which is attached as an 

exhibit to this chapter. 

Failure to pay for anyone of the above services within the prescribed 

period of time shall be subject to discontinuation of all such services to the 

delinquent commercial or residential property as the case may be. No rate 

adjustment will be made for temporary nonuse of service unless the water meter 

is disconnected and the waste container picked up by the city. 

(Ord. No. 2012-06, § 1, 3-6-2012) 

Sec. 14-12. - Exclusive franchise. 

The city is the exclusive collector of solid waste within the city but 

reserves the right to enter into an exclusive franchise agreement for the collection 

of solid waste, construction and demolition waste and/or recyclable materials 

within the city. 

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Sec. 14-13. - Exclusive hauler. 

The city reserves the right to become the sole collection, processing, 

hauler and/or disposal provider for any or all solid waste and recyclable materials 

generated within the city. 

(Ord. No. 2012-06, § 1, 3-6-2012) 

Sec. 14-14. - Franchise required for collector other than the city. 

No person or entity, except a duly authorized agent or employee of the 

city, shall collect municipal, recyclables or industrial solid waste of any other 

person or entity, or convey or transport same on the streets, alleys, and public 

thoroughfares of the city, or dispose of same for a fee unless and until such 

person or entity has first obtained a franchise from the city to collect, transport 

and/or dispose of same. The City of Eagle Pass reserves the right to deny any 

and all requests for a franchise that may affect the solid waste collections. 

(Ord. No. 2012-06, § 1, 3-6-2012)

Sec. 14-15. - Certificate of occupancy. 

A certificate of occupancy shall not be issued for any premises within the 

city limits unless the applicant has demonstrated that the premises provides an 

individual water meter and individual solid waste disposal services for each 

residential or commercial unit on said premises. 

(Ord. No. 2012-06, § 1, 3-6-2012) 

Sec. 14-16. - Severability. 

In the event that any one (1) or more of the provisions, clauses or words 

of this chapter or the application thereof to any situation or circumstance shall for 

a reason be held to be invalid or unconstitutional, such invalidity or 

unconstitutionality shall not affect any other provisions, clauses or this chapter of 

the application thereof to any other situations or circumstances and it is intended 

this chapter shall be severable and that it shall be construed and applied as if 

such invalidity or unconstitutional clause, section, provision or word had not been 

included herein. 

(Ord. No. 2012-06, § 1, 3-6-2012) 

2.3.4 City of Laredo

2.3.4.1 ARTICLE IV. - Tire Business Registration Program

Sec. 15-59. - Definitions. 

As used in this article, the following words shall have the meaning herein 

ascribed to them: 

“Health director” shall mean the person designated as being director of 

the health department of the City of Laredo or authorized representative(s) who 

are empowered to enforce the provisions of this article. 

“Mobile tire repair road service unit” shall mean and include any 

motorized vehicle occupied, used or maintained for the purpose of providing tire 

repair road services that includes selling, offering or exposing for sale, keeping 
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with the intention to sell, generating, transporting, repairing, processing, storing, 

utilizing, and disposing of any and all types of tires. 

“Scrap tire” shall mean a whole tire that can no longer be used for its 

original intended purpose. A whole used tire that can be used for its original 

intended purpose is not a scrap tire. 

“Tire business” shall mean and include any place or establishment 

occupied, used or maintained for the purpose of offering or exposing for sale (for 

either retail or wholesale), keeping with the intention to sell, generating, 

transporting, repairing, processing, storing, utilizing, and disposing of any and all 

types of tires. 

“Tire business” operator(s) shall mean the individual(s) having 

supervisory or management responsibilities, as well as any other person working 

in a tire shop or a mobile tire repair road service units who may be the person in 

charge at any given time. 

“Tire recycling facility” shall mean a state registered facility that 

processes, conducts energy recovery or recycles scrap tires. 

“Tires” shall mean all motorcycle, automobile, truck, trailer, tractor or 

other vehicle tires. 

(Ord. No. 2000-O-021, § 1, 1-24-00) 

Sec. 15-60. - Tire business registration program. 

The city, by and through the health director, will institute a tire business 

registration program including mobile tire repair road service units located within 

the city limits. The health department will establish and conduct regular 

inspections and annual registration of all tire businesses and mobile tire repair 

road service units located within the city limits. The tire business registration 

program shall be consistent with requirements established in Chapter 15, Health 

and Sanitation, Article V, Dengue Fever Prevention, and all applicable city 

ordinances. 

The police department is hereby authorized to stop and investigate all 

persons subject to the regulation requirements of this article in order to verify 

compliance with this article. 

(Ord. No. 2000-O-021, § 1, 1-24-00) 

Sec. 15-61. - Tire business and mobile tire repair road service units 

application. 

Every person, firm, or corporation desiring to establish, maintain or 

operate a tire business or a mobile tire repair road service unit in the City of 

Laredo shall make written application for registration thereof. The application shall 

be made on a form obtained from the City of Laredo Health Department. The 

following must be provided to the health director: 

(1) The name, mailing address, county, telephone and facsimile numbers 

of the applicant; and 

(2) The name, mailing address, county, and telephone number of the 

property owner where the tire business is located; and 

(3) The physical address where the tire business is located; and 

(4) The approximate number of tires that will be stored on site; and 
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(5) The existing zoning of the site and certified compliance with zoning 

laws by the City of Laredo zoning enforcement supervisor or designated 

representative; and 

(6) Compliance with building codes and all applicable health and safety 

ordinances; and 

(7) The tax identification number or tax payer identification number; and 

(8) Mobile tire repair road service units shall provide and demonstrate 

proof of vehicle license, current vehicle inspection sticker, current liability 

insurance and driver's license; and 

(9) The required annual registration fee. 

(Ord. No. 2000-O-021, § 1, 1-24-00)

Sec. 15-62. - Terms of registration. 

The health director or his authorized representative shall issue a permit 

to a tire business and/or mobile tire shop road repair unit to any person who 

submits the required and completed application, pays to the city the fee as 

required in this article, and demonstrates compliance with this article and Chapter 

15, Health and Sanitation, Article V, Dengue Fever Prevention, and all applicable 

city ordinances. Every person registered in accordance with the provisions of this 

article shall immediately post such registration(s) and inspection report(s) or 

cause same to be posted in a conspicuous place within the premises where such 

tire shop and or mobile tire business road repair unit is thereby authorized to be 

established, maintained or operated. 

(Ord. No. 2000-O-021, § 1, 1-24-00) 

Sec. 15-63. - Denial of permit or renewal; suspension or revocation of 

permit. 

The health director may refuse to issue or renew a tire business and/or a 

mobile tire repair road service units permit(s) or may suspend or revoke such 

permit(s) if: 

(1) The applicant or permit holder refuses to permit entry into the tire 

business by the health director or his authorized representative or otherwise 

willfully obstructs the inspection of the tire business and or mobile tire repair road 

service unit; or 

(2) There are repeated or a serious violation(s) of any city ordinance by 

the tire business and or mobile tire repair road service units; or 

(3) The tire business and or mobile tire repair road service units fails to 

comply with any provisions of the Article, or Chapter 15, Health and Sanitation, 

Article V, Dengue Fever Prevention and or any applicable city ordinance. 

(Ord. No. 2000-O-021, § 1, 1-24-00) 

Sec. 15-64. - Fees. 

(a) All tire business and/or mobile tire repair road service units 

registration fees are due annually by June 1 of each calendar year at the City of 

Laredo Health Department; the annual registration fee shall be determined by the 

number of persons employed in connection with such tire business and/or mobile 

tire repair road service unit, including the applicant for such registration, and shall 

be paid in advance of the issuance of such registration as follows: 
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(1) One (1) to five (5) persons .....$ 35.00 

(2) Six (6) to ten (10) persons .....70.00 

(3) Eleven (11) or more persons .....140.00 

(4) Mobile tire repair road service unit, per mobile unit .....100.00 

(b) A current valid tire business registration or a mobile tire repair road 

service unit registration may be replaced by the health director or his authorized 

representative(s) for a fee of ten dollars ($10.00). 

(Ord. No. 2000-O-021, § 1, 1-24-00) 

Sec. 15-65. - Disposal of tires. 

Tires shall be disposed of in the following manner: 

(1) Individuals, tire businesses and mobile tire repair road service units 

may dispose of tires at the city landfill at a fee established by city ordinance, 

provided that the city landfill accepts the tires 

and/or signs a transmittal manifest. All landfill fees will be payable to the 

City of Laredo upon entrance to the city landfill; or 

(2) Tires may be disposed of by delivery and manifesting of tires through 

a registered tire transporter to a registered tire recycling facility or a tire disposal 

facility regulated and licensed by the state for the disposal and/or processing of 

tires, provided said transporter signs transmittal manifest and authorized disposal 

facility accepts the tires and signs the transmittal manifest. 

(Ord. No. 2000-O-021, § 1, 1-24-00) 

Sec. 15-66. - Penalty for violation. 

Any person who violates a provision of this article and/or Chapter 15, 

Health and Sanitation, Article V, Dengue Fever Prevention, or any applicable city 

ordinance, shall upon conviction by the municipal court of the city be subject to a 

minimum fine of five hundred dollars ($500.00) or a fine not to exceed two 

thousand dollars ($2,000.00) for each offense, and each day of violation of said 

article shall constitute a separate offense. 

(Ord. No. 2000-O-021, § 1, 1-24-00) 

Sec. 15-67. - Injunctive relief. 

In addition to and cumulative of all other penalties, the health director 

shall have the right to seek injunctive relief for any violation(s) of this article. 

(Ord. No. 2000-O-021, § 1, 1-24-00) 

Sec. 15-68. - Severability. 

If any provision, section, sentence, clause or phrase of this article or the 

application of same to any person or set of circumstances is for any reason held 

to be unconstitutional, void or invalid (or for any reason unenforceable), the 

validity of the remaining portion of this article, or its application to other persons or 

sets of circumstances, shall not be affected thereby, and it being the intent of the 

City Council of the City of Laredo in adopting and approving this article, that no 

portion hereof or provisions or regulations contained herein, shall become 

inoperative or fail by reason of any unconstitutionality or invalidity of any other 

portion of this ordinance. 

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2.3.4.2 ARTICLE V. - Dengue Fever Prevention [45] 

Sec. 15-75. - Definitions. 

(a) Short title. This article shall be known as "The Dengue Fever 

Prevention Ordinance of the City of Laredo."

(b) Premises. The term "premises" as used in this article shall mean 

business houses, boardinghouses, offices, theaters, hotels, restaurants, cafes, 

tourist camps, apartment houses, schools, private residences and the ground or 

grounds pertaining to the same, vacant lots and any other places within the city 

where tires and other containers, whether one (1) or more, are stored or left lying 

around or allowed to accumulate. 

(c) Tires. The term "tires" shall mean all motorcycle, automobile, truck, 

trailer, tractor or other vehicle tires, whether one (1) or more, stored or left lying 

around or allowed to accumulate. 

(d) Container. The term "container" shall mean tin cans, bottles (whole or 

broken), tin boxes, tanks, barrels, troughs, tubs, buckets, defective flush toilet 

tanks and all such similar containers where water collects and remains stagnant. 

(Ord. of 4-21-81, art. I) 

Sec. 15-76. - Accumulation of tires and other containers; inspection of 

premises. 

(a) Sufficient storage required. It shall be the duty of every person 

owning, managing, operating, leasing or renting any premises where new, used or 

old tires and other containers whether one (1) or more, are stored or allowed to 

accumulate or allowed to lie around to provide and maintain in good order at all 

times on any such premises an enclosed structure of sufficient capacity to 

accommodate within and to keep away from rain, irrigation or any other source of 

water, any tire or tires and other containers located on such premises. Such 

enclosed structure or structures shall be kept clean and free from the 

accumulation of any material or substance which may or might attract flies, 

rodents or other insects or pests. 

(b) Inspections, investigations authorized. It shall be the duty of the city 

health officer and his authorized agent or representative, police officers, 

ordinance enforcement officers and anyone designated by the mayor, and they 

are hereby directed, to make any and all necessary inspections and investigations 

of any and all premises to see that the terms of this article are complied with. 

(c) Enforcement of penal provisions. The penal provision of this article 

shall be enforced by the city health officer or his authorized agent or 

representative, and by all police officers of the city and by the ordinance 

enforcement officers of the city. 

(Ord. of 4-21-81, art. II) 

Sec. 15-77. - Penalty. 

Any person violating any provision of this article or failing to comply with 

any requirement of this article will be guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to a fine 

of not to exceed two hundred dollars ($200.00) upon conviction. Each day during 

or upon which such person shall violate or continue violation of any provision of 

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distinct and separate offense. The violation of any provision of this article or the 

failure to comply with any requirement of this article shall each constitute a distinct 

and separate offense. 

(Ord. of 4-21-81, art. III, § 1)

2.3.5 City of McAllen

2.3.5.1 CHAPTER 90 - Solid Waste

ARTICLE I. - In General

Sec. 90-1. - Definitions. 

The following words and phrases, when used in this chapter, shall have 

the meanings ascribed to them in this section as follows; provided, that, to the 

extent that such definitions do not conflict with the defined or intended definitions 

in this chapter, the defined terms as provided for in the city zoning ordinance shall 

be used for the purposes of this chapter: 

“Approved container” means any dumpster or roll-off container being 

provided by the city or a permittee. Open-top roll-offs shall not be a substitute for 

bins or dumpsters unless approved by public works director or designee. 

“Citizens' collection station” means a facility established by the city for 

the convenience and exclusive use of city residents, but not commercial or 

industrial users or customers of private collection vehicles, and which may consist 

of one or more approved containers. 

“Composting” means a controlled process of degrading organic matter by 

microorganisms. 

Cubic yard means a unit of garbage or trash having a measurement of 

one yard (three linear feet) in width, one yard (three linear feet) in depth, and 

occupying one cubic yard of space, regardless of density or degree of compaction 

of such garbage or trash in place. 

“Customer” means any owner, occupant, tenant, itinerant vender 

licensee, or person otherwise in possession or control of any premises in the city, 

or their agents, on which any material regulated by this chapter, including 

garbage, trash, brush, and recyclables exist or are accumulated or from which 

such is removed or required to be removed pursuant to the terms of this chapter. 

“Disposal fee” means the price charged for the disposal of waste at a 

landfill, incinerator or recycling facility; usually expressed in dollars per ton. 

“Dumpster” means a commercial type container provided by the city for 

the deposit of garbage, trash, and/or recyclables. 

“Dumpster removal” means the removal from the premises of the 

dumpster. 

Garbage or trash means, interchangeably, anything discarded; any 

accumulation of waste that results from the use, preparation, processing, 

consumption, handling, packing, canning, storage, transportation, decay or 

decomposition of animal, vegetable, or other matter, or any refuse or rubbish, but 

does not include "recyclables," "bulky waste," "hazardous waste," "household 

hazardous waste," "construction debris," dead animals, stable matter or "brush." 

“Hazardous waste” means any waste or combination of waste of a solid, 

liquid, contained gaseous, or semisolid form, which is identified by the 
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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) or any state agency as hazardous, and 

which exceed the threshold limits set forth by any such regulatory agency, or 

which because of its quantity, concentration or physical, chemical or infectious 

characteristics, may (i) cause or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality 

or an increase in serious irreversible or incapacitating reversible illness; or (ii) 

pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or the environment 

when improperly treated, stored, transported, disposed of, or otherwise managed. 

Such waste include, but are not limited to, those which are toxic, corrosive, 

flammable, irritants, strong sensitizes, or which generate pressure through 

decomposition, heat or other means ; or any chemical, compound, mixture, 

substance or article which is designated by the EPA or the Texas Commission on 

Environmental Quality (TCEQ) as "hazardous." 

“Household hazardous waste” means discarded products normally used 

at residences that are discarded in municipal solid waste and that contain 

substances already regulated under the Resource Conservation and Recovery 

Act of 1976 as an industrial hazardous waste. 

“Land clearing” means the removal of trees, vegetation, soil or debris 

typically in the preparation of a tract of land for construction of structures or 

infrastructure. 

“Service” means the picking up and removal of garbage or trash and 

recyclables, regardless of density of compaction in place.

“Unit” means each individual customer responsible for the payment of 

any fees or charges for any service rendered under this chapter. 

“Waste” means any substance or object whose producer or the person in 

possession of which discards, or intends to or is required to discard. 

(Code 1966, § 16-1; Ord. No. 1996-57, § I, 8-26-96; Ord. No. 1997-96, § 

I, 10-13-97; Ord. No. 2008-41, § I, 5-27-08) 

Sec. 90-2. - Purpose of chapter. 

The purpose of this chapter is to provide and establish a method or 

system of collecting and disposing of garbage or trash, recyclables, brush, and all 

waste originating in the city, to provide and establish reasonable rules and 

regulations pertaining thereto, and to establish reasonable, fair, uniform and 

equitable charges for the services of the city in collecting and removing garbage 

or trash, recyclables and brush all in order to protect the health and welfare of the 

citizens of the city and the general public. 

(Code 1966; Ord. No. 1996-57, § II, 8-26-96; Ord. No. 2008-41, § I, 5-27-

08) 

Sec. 90-3. - Penalty for violation of chapter. 

Any person violating or found not complying with the provisions of this 

chapter shall be fined as provided in section 1-14. 

(Code 1966, § 16-13; Ord. No. 2008-41, § I, 5-27-08; Ord. No. 2008-41, 

§ I, 5-27-08) 

ARTICLE II. - Collection 

DIVISION 1. – Generally

Sec. 90-26. - Duty of city to collect and remove. 
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(a) Residential collection and removal of recyclables, garbage or trash 

shall be made two times each week, once for garbage or trash, once for 

recyclables, to be scheduled as determined by the public works director. 

(b) Garbage or trash in dumpsters shall be collected according to a 

schedule or on an as-needed basis as determined by the public works director. In 

no event shall collection be scheduled less than twice per week. Provided, 

however, a commercial account may utilize a trash compactor upon the approval 

of the public works director, in which case the approval shall also specify the 

required weekly pickups which in any case shall not be less than one. 

(Code 1966, § 16-8; Ord. No. 1994-37, § I, 6-13-94; Ord. No. 1996-57, § 

III, 8-26-96; Ord. No. 2008-41, § I, 5-27-08) 

Sec. 90-27. - Certain persons to provide own facilities for removal of 

trees, etc. 

It shall be the responsibility of all tree surgery operators, commercial tree 

pruning and/or nursery persons or public utilities to provide their own equipment 

and personnel for removal and disposal of all accumulations created by their work 

and actions to an approved composting facility. Further, it shall be the 

responsibility of the premises owner to remove and dispose to an approved 

disposal composting facility all trees, limbs, trunks and stumps, and similar 

accumulations where it is not possible to reduce same to an acceptable size and 

length for city or permittee pick up as required by this chapter. 

(Code 1966, § 16-9; Ord. No. 1996-57, § IV, 8-26-96; Ord. No. 2008-41, 

§ I, 5-27-08) 

Sec. 90-28. - Removal of brush, soil, and trash resulting from land 

clearing or yard levelling operations. 

Brush, soil, and trash resulting from land clearing, yard leveling or similar 

operations shall be removed by the party responsible for such operations, and at 

his own expense. 

(Code 1966, § 16-10; Ord. No. 2008-41, § I, 5-27-08) 

Sec. 90-29. - Removal of waste, debris, and materials after construction 

or general cleanup operations. 

No debris or other materials, including, rocks, bricks, waste building 

materials, scraps, and no trash resulting from construction, remodeling, repair or 

demolition operations or resulting from general cleanup of property, and no bulky 

waste will be removed by the city. 

Such materials shall be promptly deposited in a roll-off container by the 

customer and properly disposed of, unless public works director or designee 

determines that the use of a roll-off container is not necessary. Bulky waste shall 

be promptly collected and disposed of by customer at an approved landfill or 

recycling facility. 

(Code 1966, § 16-11; Ord. No. 1996-57, § V, 8-26-96; Ord. No. 2008-41, 

§ I, 5-27-08) 

Sec. 90-30. - Removal of automobile bodies, bulky waste, industrial 

waste, etc. 
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Discarded automobile bodies or parts thereof, all bulky waste, and all 

industrial waste resulting from manufacturing operations, canning plants, packing 

plants, fruit and/or vegetable sheds, cotton gins, slaughterhouses for animals or 

poultry, or fish houses must be properly disposed of by the customer. Disposal of 

the items referred to in this section shall be conducted under, and in compliance 

with, all applicable state and federal regulations relating to disposal of such items, 

and all applicable city ordinances, including those regulating the use of city or 

state rights-of-way, and motor vehicle regulations. 

(Code 1966, § 16-12; Ord. No. 2008-41, § I, 5-27-08)

DIVISION 2. – Containers

Sec. 90-41. - Containers required ; proper use of same. 

(a) It shall be the duty of every residential customer to use and maintain 

in good order and repair, any bin or container provided by the city for the deposit 

of waste for collection by the city or for other proper disposal as provided in this 

chapter. 

(b) In business, commercial, industrial, or multi-family premises, 

dumpsters are required and provided by the city and, unless otherwise authorized 

by the public works director or designee, it shall be unlawful to use any other 

container for garbage or trash or recyclable disposal. Where a customer deems it 

necessary to use a roll-off container in the management of garbage, trash or 

recyclables, said service shall be provided exclusively by the city. It shall be the 

duty of all persons using dumpsters to place waste therein compactly. All boxes 

and cartons must be broken down. All boxes and cartons shall be placed in a 

recycling dumpster, if available. The space in such dumpsters must be efficiently 

used. All doors must be closed and properly latched after any waste is placed 

therein. Such dumpsters shall be used exclusively for garbage, trash, or 

recyclables, as applicable. All garbage, including wet slop shall be placed in 

plastic bags designed specifically for garbage disposal, a minimum five mil. in 

thickness. The plastic bags shall be of sufficient strength to resist tearing under 

normal handling and shall be tied or fastened when placed for collection. 

(c) No person utilizing any bin as specified in subsection (a) or dumpster 

as specified in subsection (b) shall place any waste in any of such containers, 

unless it may be placed therein without spillage or overflow from such containers, 

nor shall any waste be placed along the side of, or otherwise on the top of, any 

such container when such container is properly closed. In any commercial 

establishment or multi-family units being served by a dumpster, the customer 

shall also be responsible for complying with the provisions of this subsection. 

(d) No person utilizing a recycling container shall place materials therein 

other than those recyclable materials listed in the following table. 

Recyclable Materials

PAPER 

Newspaper Catalogs 

Magazines Cardboard Materials 

Cardboard Cereal Boxes Office Paper 

PLASTICS (Coded 1 & 2) 
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Soda Bottles Milk & Water Jugs 

Detergent/Cleaning Bottles Plastic Bottles & Jugs 

CANS 

Aluminum & Tin Aerosol Cans 

Food and Beverage Cans 

This table may be periodically amended by the public works director or 

designee, and a current table shall be on file in the office of the public works 

director. 

(e) No person shall transport waste to another location except for 

purposes of: 

(1) Approved recycling, 

(2) Sale, or 

(3) Other permitted disposal. 

(f) Only a duly authorize agent or employee of the city may remove or 

relocate a dumpster or roll-off container from its city-approved location. 

(Code 1966, § 16-4; Ord. No. 1996-57, § VI, 8-26-96; Ord. No. 1997-96, 

§ II, 10-13-97; Ord. No. 2008-41, § I, 5-27-08) 

ARTICLE III. - Charges and Billing

DIVISION 1. – Generally

Sec. 90-66. - Levy and assessment. 

(a) The charges fixed in this article for the collection, removal and 

disposal of brush, garbage or trash, and recyclables by the city shall be levied and 

assessed by the city against each customer. Since the prompt and proper 

removal of all brush, garbage or trash, and recyclables is essential to the 

preservation of the health, safety and general welfare of the citizens and people of 

the city, and protection against fire hazards, it is deemed necessary that such 

charges be assessed, levied and collected as provided for in this article. 

(b) Each customer shall enter into a sanitation solid waste collection 

agreement with the city or a city-approved agent as described in section 90-121. 

Each unit shall be charged separately and billed to the person responsible for the 

sanitation billing. 

(c) An exemption from payment of trash or garbage charges established 

by this chapter may be granted by the public works director only to the extent that 

no other city collection services are provided. 

(Code 1966, § 16-23; Ord. No. 1996-57, § IX, 8-26-96; Ord. No. 2007-26, 

§ 1, 3-26-07; Ord. No. 2008-41, § I, 5-27-08)

DIVISION 2. – Rates

Sec. 90-75. - Citizen collection station. 

The public works director shall make available a disposal drop-off site 

only for residential customers to dispose of waste. The fee for this service, 

available to McAllen residents, shall be $21.82 per ton. Brush will be accepted at 

the city compost facility and recycling center from commercial or for-profit 

establishments that primarily engage in providing landscape care and 
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maintenance services and/or install or remove trees, shrubs, plants, lawns or 

gardens. A disposal fee of $1.00 per cubic yard and $2.00 per cubic yard will be 

assessed for this service at the compost facility and recycling center, respectively. 

(Ord. No. 2008-41 § 1, 5-17-2008; Ord. No. 2008-41, § I, 5-27-08) 

Sec. 90-80. - Rates for, commercial and other properties not described in 

sections 90-75 through 90-79. 

(a) Rate for commercial trash compactor service. 

For new businesses or for businesses changing operations using an 

approved commercial trash compactor, the monthly rate shall be based on a 

calculation as follows: 

Commercial trash compactors larger than 6 cubic yards shall be serviced 

with a roll-off truck; those serviced by the city shall be assessed the hauling and 

landfill disposal fees as per section 90-84. 

(b) The rate or charge for dumpsters. For all business, commercial or 

other non-residential establishments or uses where a dumpster is used, the 

monthly basic rate or charge for garbage or trash removed shall be as follows:

(1) Temporary bin charge—At customer's request an eight-yard bin may 

be temporarily placed for a daily fee of $52.50. 
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(2) When more than one customer shares any container, unless 

otherwise agreed to in writing by each affected customer, each customer shall be 

charged an equal pro rata share of the total charge. Where the waste volume

generated is not reasonably expected to exceed the volume capacity of the 

dumpster, a maximum of four customers may share a single container, unless 

otherwise determined by the public works director or designee. 

Unless otherwise approved by the public works director, restaurants and 

other food establishments shall not be allowed to share a dumpster. 

(3) In properties where the use of a dumpster is required and the 

placement of said dumpster is not feasible, as determined by the public works 

director or designee, sanitation service can be provided through the use of bins. 

The minimum monthly collection rate shall be $36.69 for two bins. 

(c) Rate for non-scheduled collection. In those places where no approved 

container is located and a non-scheduled pick up is requested by the customer for 

waste, including uncontained brush or garbage or trash, there is hereby 

established for removing such brush and garbage or trash a flat rate of $4.78 per 

minute for the time that is required to remove such brush and for the use of the 

necessary and required equipment for such removal. In determining such charge, 

the city has taken into consideration labor costs, including fringe benefits, cost of 

trucks or other equipment, cost of fuel, insurance, depreciation, distance traveled, 

bookkeeping and time records, and other similar related costs. 

(d) In addition to the monthly charge and other charges as provided for in 

this section, there shall be charged to the individual accounts provided for in this 

section the amount of $3.40 for every two cubic yard solid waste collection 

volume available for the premises, for the purpose of funding the operation of the 

city's recycling program, as mandated by state law. Such charge shall be 

reviewed by the board of commissioners, from time to time, considering the cost 

of the city's mandatory recycling program and the revenues it generates. 

(Code 1966, § 16-46; Ord. No. 1994-37, § II, 6-13-94; Ord. No. 1996-57, 

§ XV, 8-26-96; Ord. No. 1997-96, § VII, 10-13-97; Ord. No. 1998-91, § 4, 9-28-98; 

Ord. No. 1999-86, § 1, 10-11-99; Ord. No. 2006-103, § 8, 10-9-06; Ord. No. 2008-

41, § I, 5-27-08; Ord. No. 2009-05, § I, 2-2-09; Ord. No. 2012-14, § I, 2-27-12) 

Sec. 90-83. - Property where no garbage or trash collects. 

On those commercial, industrial or multi-family properties where no 

garbage or trash collects in connection with its operation and /or maintenance, or 

where no service is required or necessary, there shall be a minimum service 

charge of $11.32 per month which shall be considered as the fair and reasonable 

cost to the city to keep its records on such properties, and to make necessary 

inspections thereof to see if the service is required or necessary, and as payment 

of the cost of such record keeping, inspection, and personnel costs. 

(Code 1966, § 16-49; Ord. No. 1996-57, § XVII, 8-26-96; Ord. No. 1997-

96, § VIII, 10-13-97; Ord. No. 1998-91, § 5, 9-28-98; Ord. No. 2006-103, § 8, 10-

9-06; Ord. No. 2008-41, § I, 5-27-08) 

Sec. 90-84. - Rates for commercial trash, roll-off pick ups, and disposal 

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On all commercial business, construction projects, and other properties 

where a roll-off system is required, or a compactor is serviced, the basic rates and 

fees charged shall be as follows:

(Ord. No. 1996-57, § XIX, 8-26-96; Ord. No. 1997-96, § IX, 10-13-97; 

Ord. No. 1998-91, § 6, 9-28-98; Ord. No. 2006-103, § 8, 10-9-06; Ord. No. 2008-

41, § I, 5-27-08) 

DIVISION 3. - Billing Procedure

Sec. 90-96. - Billing; when due and payable; collection. 

(a) In order for the city to effect the collection of charges levied and 

assessed under this article from the persons who owe the same, and in order to 

avoid duplication of expense and effort, such charges shall be billed each month 

as a separate item on the water bill of all persons who receive water bills from the 

public utilities department of the city or a third party water supply utility with which 

the city has entered into a contractual agreement to collect charges on behalf of 

the city. Such charges shall be due and payable at the same time and place and 

in the same manner as such water bill, and contemporaneously therewith. If a 

person receives brush and garbage or trash, and if applicable, recyclable, 

collection service but has no water meter, or where the city has been unable to 

establish a contractual agreement with an appropriate third party water supply 

utility, the charge for the brush and garbage or trash collection service shall be 

billed each month through regular United States mail channels, addressed to such 

person's address, and shall be due and payable by such person to the city within 

ten days of the bill date. 

(b) The public utilities department or where applicable, the third party 

water utility is hereby authorized to collect all applicable brush, garbage or trash, 

and recyclables collection charges for the city, and shall account to the city for 

such collections, and the sum so collected shall be paid into the sanitation fund of 

the city. 

The city shall pay the public utilities department or where applicable the 

appropriate third party water supply utility a reasonable sum for its services in 

billing, collecting and keeping records of such brush, garbage or trash, and 

recycling charges. 

(Code 1966, § 16-24; Ord. No. 1996-57, § XX, 8-26-96; Ord. No. 2007-

26, § 2, 3-26-07; Ord. No. 2008-41, § I, 5-27-08)

Sec. 90-97. - Payment of bills. 

(a) All garbage or trash, brush and recyclables collection bills under any 

schedule contained in this chapter shall be due and payable and shall become 

delinquent if not paid by the day from the due date of such bill. The city manager 

or his authorized representative is hereby authorized to discontinue brush, 
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garbage or trash, and recyclables collection and water service for any delinquent 

account according to the procedure as set out in section 106-221 

(b) The security deposit, as set out in section 106-84, shall be applicable 

for all new accounts receiving brush, garbage or trash, or recyclables collection 

services from the city. Such security deposit shall be applied in accordance with 

the provisions of section 106-84 relating to amounts due for water, sewer, and 

garbage or trash service. 

(Code 1966, § 16-25; Ord. No. 1994-57, § II, 8-22-94; Ord. No. 1996-57, 

§ XXI, 8-26-96; Ord. No. 2006-83, § 1, 8-14-06; Ord. No. 2008-41, § I, 5-27-08) 

Sec. 90-98. - Roll-off services—Billing and payment of bills. 

(a) Public Works shall collect the fees for all roll-off services rendered by 

city. Invoices for roll-off services shall be due and payable and shall become 

delinquent if not paid by the 15th day after the invoice date. 

(b) When invoices become delinquent the public works director or 

designee shall discontinue roll-off service relating to such delinquent account(s) 

and assess a late payment fee of $35.00 per invoice to said account. 

(c) Whenever a roll-off container is removed following discontinuance of 

service due to non-payment, a $50.00 container removal fee shall be assessed in 

addition to any other service charges assessed under this chapter. 

(d) A security deposit shall be required for all roll-off service customers in 

the amount of $250.00 for non-commercial use and $500.00 for commercial / 

contractor use. This deposit shall be required for all new accounts as provided for 

in this section, save and except for any existing customer who shall transfer an 

account from one location to another or who shall request additional account(s) to 

be established under such customer's name. The deposit shall be applied to any 

final balance due; any credit balance shall be refunded to the account holder 

within ten (10) working days. 

(e) Whenever a payment is not honored by a bank or financial institution 

for any reason, an additional $20.00 processing fee shall be added to such 

account. 

(f) A container inactivity charge of $155.00 shall be assessed to each 

customer account for every thirty (30) calendar day period during which no 

container activity is registered. 

(Ord. No. 2008-41 § I, 5-27-08) 

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Sec. 90-121. - City to provide garbage, brush and recyclable collection 

services; exceptions; license required. 

(a) Only the duly authorized agents or employees of the city shall provide 

garbage or trash, brush or recyclable collection service, and roll off container 

service to residential or commercial or industrial customers within the city. 

(b) Except as may otherwise be specifically provided herein, no one may 

provide hauling services, including roll-off services, without a private hauler's 

permit issued by the public works director. 

(c) The provisions of this article relating to license requirements shall not 

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provided relating to yard cleanups or minor remodeling projects, where such 

service is provided on an interim basis. 

(Code 1966, § 16-63; Ord. No. 1996-57, § XXII, 8-26-96; Ord. No. 2002-

81, § 1, 12-9-02; Ord. No. 2008-41, § I, 5-27-08) 

Sec. 90-122. - Application generally; limitations and conditions; permit 

fee; nontransferability of permit; posting of permit sticker on vehicles; appeal of 

denial of permit. 

(a) Any person seeking to provide hauling services, including roll-off 

services within the city must file an application for a private hauler's permit with 

the public works director. Such permits may be issued only for the collection, 

removal and disposal of construction debris and/or land clearing waste. The 

public works director or designee shall make or cause to be made an investigation 

as may be necessary in order to determine whether or not the applicant meets the 

requirements. The applicant shall file an application providing such information as 

may be required by the public works director, including the following: 

(1) Name and address of the applicant. 

(2) The trade name of the applicant. 

(3) The number of vehicles the applicant will operate within the city. 

(4) The class, size and design of the vehicles which the applicant will 

operate.

(5) The nature and character of the services the applicant proposes to 

render in the city. 

(6) The experience that the applicant has in rendering the services cited 

in subsection (a)(5) (for informational purposes only and not related to 

determination of issuance). 

(7) Submit a schedule of rates that the applicant will be charging his 

customers (for informational purposes only and not related to determination of 

issuance). 

(b) As a condition for the issuance of a private hauler's permit under this 

article the applicant shall file: 

(1) A certificate of general liability insurance showing coverage in the 

amount of $1,000,000.00 for personal injury and $100,000.00 for property 

damage for each vehicle to be operated in the city and showing the city as one of 

the insured thereunder. Proof of workers' compensation insurance shall also be 

provided. 

(2) A hold harmless indemnity agreement in which the applicant agrees 

to hold harmless the city from any liability for damages which may occur as a 

result of the applicant's operation in the city and indemnify the city for liability or 

damages created as a result of the applicant's operation in the city. 

(3) A copy of any license agreement, lease, deed or title of ownership 

and Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) approval identifying the 

landfill site for which the garbage or trash collected in the city will be finally 

deposited. Such evidence of right to use any landfill site will be for a period of at 

least one year from the date of the granting of the private hauler's permit by the 

city. 

(4) An agreement from the applicant to the city stating that the applicant 

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routes to be traveled within the city, and any additional vehicles to be used within 

the city during the period of the private hauler's permit. 

(5) An agreement from the applicant to pay to the city a sum equal to five 

percent of any and all customer-assessed fees and charges derived from the 

operation of the permitted collection service by such applicant, such payments to 

be made quarterly no later than by the fifteenth day of the month following the end 

of each quarter. On the first day after the date in which such payment shall be due 

and payable, there is hereby added to such payment a penalty equal to five 

percent of the amount of such payment. If any such payment remains delinquent 

for 30 days after such due date, there is hereby added to such payment an 

additional penalty of ten percent of the amount of such payment. If any such 

payment remains delinquent for a period of 60 days after such due date, then in 

addition to such payment and penalty, there is hereby imposed an interest 

payment on the amount of such delinquent tax equal to ten percent per annum 

until the amount of such payment or any remaining portion thereof is finally paid in 

full. In addition to the amount of any payment, penalties and interest owed as 

provided herein, a private hauler who fails to timely make payment is liable to the 

municipality for the municipality's reasonable attorney's fees in collecting the 

same. A statement of fees and charges assessed by the applicant for the 

applicable period, in such preformatted forms as may be provided by the public 

works director, shall be filed in hard copy and in digital format on a monthly basis. 

(6) An agreement from the applicant to the city stating the applicant will 

terminate service to any residential customer after annexation by the city and 

upon its existing service contract termination or one year from annexation date, 

whichever comes first. No new contracts or renewals for residential service will be 

allowed in annexed areas. Applicants shall provide for such termination 

contingency in all residential contracts in the extra territorial jurisdiction of the city. 

(7) An agreement to allow the director of finance, or designee, during 

reasonable business hours, access to the books and records of any applicant, 

permittee or other person subject to this article, as shall be necessary to ascertain 

the accuracy of any report filed as required by this article, to determine whether 

any calculation of the amount due under any provision of this article needs 

correction, or to determine whether a report should have been filed and the 

amount, if any, of fees due. 

Failure to meet any of the obligations as set out in this section for the 

granting of the private hauler's permit or any of the requirements or restrictions in 

section 90-123 shall constitute grounds for denial or revocation of a permit by the 

public works director. The city attorney may enter an appropriate pleading in a 

court of competent jurisdiction to prevent and enjoin the private hauler's permit 

holder or any person engaging in such activities without any required permit from 

operating any waste collection service within the city. 

(c) When all conditions set out in this section have been met, the public 

works director shall issue an annual private hauler's permit which will cover the 

period January 1 through December 31 of each year. The fee for this annual 

private hauler's permit shall be $220.50. The permits granted under this section 

shall be renewable from year to year upon filing of a new permit application, which 

shall be filed for existing permits on or before December 1 of the current year for 

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shall be assigned or transferred in any manner without the expressed written 

approval of the public works director. 

(d) In addition to the private hauler's permit, a permittee must apply for 

and receive a vehicle permit for each vehicle operated in the collection of waste. 

The public works director for the city is hereby authorized to issue a permit sticker 

or other indicia which must be attached to each vehicle used for the purposes of 

this article by any private hauler's permit holder as required by the public works 

director. No vehicle may be employed in the permittee's operations within the city 

unless the vehicle permit is so posted. 

(e) If the public works director shall refuse to issue a private hauler's 

permit to any applicant, the action of the public works director shall be final unless 

the applicant shall, within ten days after such refusal to issue such a permit, file a 

written appeal with the city secretary addressed to the city manager requesting 

review. Should the city manager concur in the decision of the public works 

director, that decision shall be final, unless the applicant shall, within ten days 

after such concurrence, file a written appeal with the city secretary addressed to 

the board of commissioners requesting review of the decision of the public works 

director and the city manager. Such applicant shall have the right to present 

evidence of why a permit should be granted. The appeal procedure for revocation 

of a permit shall be the same as stated in this section for refusal to grant a permit. 

The authority conducting any such hearing shall give written notice of the decision 

on the appeal within ten days from the closing of such hearing, and the hearings 

provided for in this section shall be conducted so as to allow necessary due 

process application to the applicant or permit holder, as applicable. 

(Code 1966, § 16-64; Ord. No. 1996-57, § XXIII, 8-26-96; Ord. No. 1997-

96, § XII, 10-13-97; Ord. No. 2006-103, § 8, 10-9-06; Ord. No. 2008-41, § I, 5-27-

08) 

Sec. 90-123. - Equipment requirements and restrictions for permittees. 

(a) All vehicles used by any permittee within the city shall meet the 

minimum specifications relating to safety and health as promulgated and 

established by any applicable state law or regulation. 

(b) It shall be the obligation of the permittee to see that all containers 

used for its collection service meet all the specifications and requirements for 

such containers under applicable state laws and regulations. 

(c) Anyone's use of city rights-of-way to place any container is hereby 

expressly prohibited. 

(d) Should any customer of a permittee cancel or have service canceled, 

it shall be the responsibility of the permittee to remove its container and any 

accumulation of garbage, trash or brush at the location as a final collection. The 

permittee shall notify the city in writing of the date of termination and the date of 

the abovementioned final collection. 

(Code 1966, § 16-65; Ord. No. 2008-41, § I, 5-27-08) 

Sec. 90-124. - Duties, authority of director of finance. 

The director of finance may adopt and amend procedures, rules and 

regulations as are reasonably necessary to effectively collect the fee levied in this 

article, and shall, upon request of any permittee hereunder, furnish a copy of such 
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procedures, rules and regulations for the guidance of such person and facilitate 

the collection of such fee as such collection is required in this article. 

(Ord. No. 1996-57, § XXIV, 8-26-96; Ord. No. 2008-41, § I, 5-27-08) 

ARTICLE V. - Miscellaneous

Sec. 90-146. - Authorized disposal of waste. 

(a) It shall be unlawful for any person hauling, conveying or transporting 

waste upon the streets, alleys or public thoroughfares of the city to unload or 

dump such waste at or upon any public or private property within the city other 

than at a citizen collection station, a facility licensed under Ord. Sec. 86-66, or at 

any other approved facility or state-approved public landfill. 

(b) It shall be unlawful for any owner or occupant of property within the 

city to permit the unloading or dumping of brush, garbage or trash or recyclables 

at or upon any property owned or occupied by that person. Notwithstanding such 

prohibition, this section does not apply to the hauling, conveying, transporting, 

unloading or dumping of earth or inert materials, otherwise not prohibited by law, 

including but not limited to concrete materials for landfill and leveling purposes. 

(Ord. No. 2008-41, § I, 5-27-08) 

Sec. 90-147. - Anti-scavenging. 

No person except for the duly authorized agents or employees of the city, 

or a person with the customer's consent, shall remove any garbage or trash, 

recyclable materials, or other waste from an approved container. 

(Ord. No. 2008-41 § I, 5-27-08) 

Sec. 90-148. - Penalty for violation of chapter. 

(a) Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this chapter or 

shall fail to comply with any of the requirements of this chapter shall, upon 

conviction thereof, be punished as prescribed in section 1-14 

(b) In the event of a violation of this chapter, the city may, in addition to 

other remedies, institute any appropriate action or proceedings to prevent such 

violation, including the right to restrain, enjoin, correct or abate such violation in 

any court of competent jurisdiction, in accordance with the laws of the state. 

(Ord. No. 2008-41 § I, 5-27-08)

2.3.6 City of Pharr

2.3.6.1 ORDINANCE NO. O-2010-33

TIRE BUSINESS AND TIRE HAULER REGISTRATION

Sec 26-186 Purpose and Intent It is declared to be the purpose and 

intent of the City to protect the public health safety and welfare of its citizens 

prevent the spread of disease and creation of nuisances and to protect and 

enhance the quality of its environment. The purpose of this Article is to institute 

and maintain a comprehensive citywide program for tire disposal which will assure 

that the storage transportation collection processing and disposal of tires does not 
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adversely affect the health safety and wellbeing of the public and does not 

degrade the quality of the environment.

Sec. 26-187 Definitions. As used in this Article the following words and 

phrases shall have the meaning ascribed to them herein

A. “Dump” shall mean to throw discard place deposit discharge bury or 

dispose of.

B. “Health” Director shall mean the person designated as being Director 

of Health Department of City of Pharr or Authorized representative who are 

empowered to enforce the provisions of this article

C. “Manifest” shall mean a form or document used for identifying the 

quantity and the origin routing and destination of tires during transportation from 

the point of generation through any intermediate points to an end user processor

or disposer.

D. “Mobile” Tire Repair Road Service Unit shall mean and include any 

motorized vehicle occupied used or maintained for the purpose of providing tire 

repair road services that include selling offering or exposing for sale keeping with 

the intention to sell generating repairing processing storing utilizing and disposing 

of any and all types of tires.

E. “Person” shall mean any and all persons natural or artificial including 

any individual firm or association.

F. “Tire” shall mean a continuous solid or pneumatic rubber covering 

encircling the wheel of a bicycle motorcycle automobile truck trailer tractor or 

other vehicle.

H. “Tire” Recycling Facility shall mean any facility mandated and licensed 

which recycles or properly disposes tires.

I. “Scrap/Used/Waste” tire shall mean a tire that is no longer suitable for 

its original intended purpose because of wear damage or defect Waste tire also 

includes any tire that is destined for a tire disposer or reprocessor (i.e. recapper).

J. “Waste tire hauler” shall mean any person or company engage in the 

business of picking up or transporting waste tires for the purpose of removal to a 

tire recycling facility waste tire disposer processor end user or disposal facility.

K. “Waste tire disposer” shall mean any person or company who is 

approved to receive waste tires from waste tire generators or waste tire haulers 

for the purpose of waste tire processing shredding or otherwise facilitating 

recycling or resource recovery techniques for waste tires.

L. Waste tire generator shall mean any person or entity that generates 

waste tires Generators may include but are not limited to retail tire dealers

retreaders tire shops waste tire disposers not approved by TCEQ EPA automotive 

dealers maintenance shops garages service stations any tire business.

Sec. 26-188 Residential Property Owners or renters of property within 

the City of Pharr’s city limit and its J.T.E. may not cause or let cause suffer the 

accumulation of scrap waste tires within their private property or right-of-way City 

of Pharr will not pick up used or waste tires from private property or right-of-way.

A. Accumulation. No Residential zoned property will be allowed to store 

more than five 5 Scrap waste tires on or around property which they own or 

occupy In case of a tire dump the property owner contractor developer builder or 
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other person responsible for the property shall cause the property to be cleaned 

and to come into full compliance with this ordinance City of Pharr shall not be

responsible for any cost of cleanup or remediation.

B. Right-of-way. Scrap used tires are not to be placed on street Right-ofway Residential properties that cause or let cause the accumulation of used tires 

on street right-of-way shall be solely responsible for the pickup and delivery of 

such used tires to a tire recycling facility at their own cost.

C. Enforcement. The City of Pharr Code Enforcement Division Police 

Department and Public Works Department shall be responsible for enforcement of 

ordinance.

D. Disposal of tires Residents can dispose of four 4 rimless tires a month 

at City’s recycle center free of charge Any tire thereafter can be disposed of for a

fee of150 each.

E. Violation and Penalties Any resident violating or failing to comply with 

any provision of this ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor subject to a civil

penalty of $100.00 up to $1000.00 for each offence as determined by the City’s

Municipal Court Each day of continued violation’s shall constitute a separate

offence The expenses incurred by the City of Pharr for cleanup enforcement of

violations and penalties shall be chargeable to the violator including but not

limited to court costs filing fees special investigations mutual aid assistance from 

other agencies and other costs necessary for the reasonable enforcement of this 

ordinance Remedies will be as follows: 

1. In the event that any person violates any provision of this 

ordinance the City or other appropriate authority may in addition to other 

remedies institute an action for injunction cleanup or stop work orders 

mandamus irreversible damage fines lien on property or other appropriate 

action or proceeding to prevent such unlawful acts or to correct or abate any 

such violation. In addition the City may immediately revoke or suspend any 

and all business issued permit until such time that compliance is met or until 

the ruling of a Court of competent jurisdiction is obtained at which time 

respective permits may be reissued and

2. Upon finding evidence of violation a Notice of Violation may be 

issued at the discretion of the enforcing officer’s in lieu of a citation In the 

absence of corrective action or in the event that a second violation occurs 

the evidence constituting the Notice of Violation may be submitted as 

evidence for consideration as a first offense before a Court with competent 

jurisdiction, and

3. If a person is found guilty of a violation of the provisions of this 

ordinance the Court and/or the City Commission may cause written notice 

to be given or incorporate into the Court Order to the violator instructing that 

person to properly address any provision still remaining in violation of this 

ordinance for which said violator is convicted

Sec. 26-189 Tire Business Permits All tire businesses located within the 

City limits and its E.T.J., engaging in the resale of tires or the generation of waste 

tires shall be issued a permit annually by the City of Pharr Public Works 

Department for a non refundable fee of thirty-five ($35.00) dollars Tire businesses 

with multiple locations must purchase a permit for each location Tire businesses 
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that have their own trucks utilized to transport waste tires will receive one (1)

decal included with the permit fee A separate decal must be purchased by such 

business for any additional truck utilized by the tire business to transport waste 

tires at a cost of twenty ($20.00) dollars per decal If such business has a Mobile 

Tire Repair road service unit the permit/decal will be one hundred dollars 

($100.00) for each unit in service The City’s Code enforcement department will 

conduct random inspections of such tire business for the sake of monitoring 

compliance with the foregoing requirement.

A. Application. Every person firm or corporation obligated to comply with 

the permit requirement set forth herein shall make written application to the City 

The application shall be made on a form obtained from the City of Pharr Public 

Works Department setting forth among other things the following: 

1. Name physical address telephone and facsimile number if 

applicable of the applicant.

2. Tax identification number or tax payer identification number.

3. Proof of current county business license issued to the applicant 

at the proposed business address.

4. Conditional Use Permit issued by Planning and Zoning 

Department.

5. Name mailing address telephone and facsimile number of the 

owner of the tire business (if different from #1 above).

6. Estimated number of tires that will be stored on site.

7. The current physical address of the site.

8. A statement setting forth and describing the available space for 

properly accommodating and protecting all tires site plan showing storage 

area and buildings.

9. Proof of insurance required as per Texas Financial 

Responsibility laws.

10. Such other and further information as the Public Works 

Department may require.

B. Annual Fees.

1. All permit and decal fees are due annually by October 1 of each 

calendar year at the City of Pharr’s Public Works Department office. These 

annual fees shall be paid in advance of the issuance of such permit and 

decal and shall be prorated as necessary

2. A current valid permit or decal may be replaced by the Public 

Works Department for a fee of twenty ($20.00) dollars

C. Issuance. The Public Works Department shall issue a permit and 

decal to a tire business which submits the required and completed application 

pays to the City the fee as required in this Article and has demonstrated 

compliance with this Article and all applicable city ordinances Each tire business 

registered in accordance with the provisions of this Article shall immediately post 

such permit and decal in a prominent manner or cause such permit to be posted 

in conspicuous place within the premises where such tire business in thereby

authorized to be established maintained or operated The decal shall be

conspicuously displayed on each vehicle owned by such tire business that is

utilized to transport used or waste tires. Any permit or decal issued hereunder

shall not be sold assigned mortgaged or otherwise transferred by doing so permit 
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and decal shall be revoked and will be considered null and void and person or 

company will not be allowed to apply for reissue of permit till after a term of one 

(1) year from date of citation Permit and decal shall expire upon termination of the 

existence of the tire business or revocation of such business’s permit.

D. Effective Period. The permit shall be effective beginning on October 

first until the next ensuing thirtieth day of September on and after which date it 

shall be null and void.

Sec. 26-190 Tire Hauler Permit All tire haulers not affiliated with a tire 

business that is property permitted as required herein transporting used or waste 

tires within the City limits shall be issued a permit and decal annually by the City 

of Pharr Public Works Department for a non refundable fee of Twenty-five

($25.00) dollars Tire haulers with multiple locations must purchase a permit for 

each location Tire haulers will receive one 1 decal included with the permit fee A 

separate decal must be purchased by such hauler for any additional vehicles 

utilized by the hauler to transport waste tires at a cost of $15.00 per decal/vehicle

A. Application. Every person firm or corporation obligated to comply with 

the permit and decal requirements set forth herein shall make written application 

to the City The application shall be made on a form obtained from the City of

Pharr Public Works Department setting forth among other things the following:

1. Name physical address telephone and facsimile number for the 

applicant.

2. Tax identification number or tax payer identification number if 

applicable.

 3. Proof of current State County City License.

4. Proof of insurance required in accordance with the State of Texas 

Financial responsibility laws.

5. Such other and further information as the Public Works 

Department may require

B. Annual Fees

1. All permit and decal fees are due annually by October 1 of each 

calendar year at the City of Pharr’s Public Works Department These annual 

fees shall be paid in advance of the issuance of such permit such fee shall 

be prorated as necessary.

2. A current valid permit or decal may be replaced by the Public 

Works Department for a fee of fifteen ($15.00) dollars

C. Issuance. The Public Works Department shall issue a permit and 

decal to a tire hauler who submits the required and completed application pays to 

the City the fee as required in this Article and has demonstrated compliance with 

this Article and all applicable city ordinances Each waste tire hauler registered in

accordance with the provisions of this Article shall conspicuously post and

maintain such decal in his/her vehicle which is used for transporting tires at all

times Any permit or decal issued hereunder shall not be sold assigned mortgaged 

or otherwise transferred by doing so permit and decal shall be revoked and will be 

considered null and void and person or company will not be allowed to apply for 

reissue of permit till after a term of one (1) year from date of citation The permit or 

decal issued shall expire upon termination of the tire hauler’s business or 

revocation of such hauler’s permit.
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D. Effective Period The permit shall be effective beginning on October 1 

until the next ensuing thirtieth day of September on and after which date it shall 

be null and void

E. Permit Exemptions The following entities are exempt from the tire 

hauler permit requirements

1. A tire hauler who is regulated or licensed by and is currently in 

compliance with state or federal agencies such as the DOT or

2. A private entity transporting the individual’s own waste tires to an 

approved disposal or tire recycling facility

Sec. 26-191 Denial of Permit or renewal; suspension or revocation of 

permit. In addition to the penalties set forth in Sec 26201 the Public Works 

Department may refuse to issue or renew a tire business or tire hauler permit or 

may suspend or revoke such permit or decal if:

1. The applicant or permit holder refuses to allow entry into the tire 

business by the authorized representative’s of the City or otherwise willfully 

obstructs the inspection of the tire business or;

2. There are repeated or a serious violation’s occurs of any City 

Ordinance by the tire business or tire hauler or;

3. The tire business or tire hauler fails to comply with any 

provisions of this Article and/or any other applicable city ordinance’s or;

4. The tire business or tire hauler fails to comply with any 

applicable state or federal law rule or regulation or;

5. The tire business knowingly authorizes a tire hauler who is not 

property permitted as required in Section 26190 to transport tires on behalf 

of such business.

Sec. 26-192 Destruction of Tires Any tire that is no longer suitable for its 

original intended purpose or deemed unfit for resale by a tire business shall be 

rendered unusable and shall be properly disposed of at an authorized tire 

disposal or recycling facility Each tire business shall have six 6 months from the 

effective date of this ordinance to comply with this provision Failure to comply with 

this requirement shall be grounds for revocation of the permit holder’s permit in 

accordance with Section 26-191.

Sec 26-193 Storage of Tires Tire Business shall properly store tires at 

each facility in accordance with local state and federal law To eliminate potential 

nuisances of litter insect breeding fire hazards and other health and safety risks 

each tire business shall at all times during storage:

1. Store tires in covered or enclosed areas or under an 

impermeable cover in accordance with applicable health and safety laws 

included but not limited to the City’s fire code or Property Maintenance 

Code to prevent the accumulation of water

2. Secure tires at each facility to prevent easy access or theft Lock 

chain or store inside a building or other securable structure

3. Accumulate tires in piles in accordance with the City’s fire 

prevention code
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4. Isolate tires from other stored materials that may create 

hazardous products if there is a fire including but not limited to paints fuels 

electricity lead acid batteries fuel tanks solvent barrels and pesticide 

container’s and such

5. Store no more than 10 per 250 square feet out side storage

Sec. 26-194 Disposal of Tires

(a) It shall be unlawful for any person or tire business to cause suffer or

allow the dumping of tires at any place in the City of Pharr including without 

limitation in or on any public highway road street alley or thoroughfare including 

any portion of the right of way thereof any public or private property in the City or 

any waters in the City

(b) It shall be unlawful for any person in a residential zone to accumulate

more than five 5 scrap tires on or around property which they own or occupy

(c) A retail tire dealer may hold up to 250 scrap tires in storage

(d) It shall be unlawful for any person or tire business to cause, suffer or

allow the disposal of whole tires in a landfill

(e) Tires shall be properly disposed of in accordance with Section 26-195

by the delivery and manifesting of tires to an authorized tire disposal or tire 

recycling facility designated by the City Tire Businesses contracting with a tire 

hauler’s for the proper disposal of tires generated by such business shall require 

such hauler’s utilize a transmittal manifest documenting the pickup and delivery of 

the tires to an authorized tire disposal or tire recycling facility.

Sec. 26-195 Disposal Records/Transmittal Manifest

A. Tire Businesses shall keep disposal records in the form of a 

transmittal manifest as prescribed by the City at each business location for a

minimum of three (3) years and make such records readily available upon request 

at reasonable hours for inspection by representatives of the City The manifest 

must be maintained and signed off in triplicate and clearly state the following 

information:

1. Name address telephone number permit number and authorized

signature for the tire hauler and

2. Name address telephone number and authorized signature of

the tire business who is contracting for the removal of the tires along with 

the permit number for such business and

3. Date of removal/transport and the number of tires being

transported and

4. Name address and telephone number of the location where the

tires are to be delivered and

5. Upon delivery the name and signature of the person accepting 

the tires including the date of acceptance

B. The manifest required by this section shall at all times accompany

tires while in transit Any tire business directly delivering waste or used tires 

generated at its business location to a tire disposal or tire recycling facility must 

also utilize the transmittal manifest and make such manifest available for 

production or inspection by representatives of the City upon request The original 
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manifest shall be maintained by the tire business evidencing all information and 

signatures required herein notwithstanding the use of a tire hauler or direct 

delivery by the tire business A tire hauler contracted to deliver tires to a recycling

facility or disposal facility must maintain a duplicate copy of the manifest reflecting 

the delivery of such tires for proper disposal. The tire recycling or tire disposal 

facility shall sign the manifest upon acceptance of the tires and also maintain a 

copy of the manifest for the facility’s records

Sec 26-200 Administration/Enforcement

A. Administration and Enforcement of this Article shall be the 

responsibility of the Code Enforcement/Public Works Department/Police 

Department/Community Planning and Development Department/Health Director.

The City by and through its authorized representatives is hereby authorized to 

enter any property regulated by this ordinance at reasonable or necessary times 

in order to properly inspect for violations

B. The Public Works Department/Code Enforcement is hereby 

authorized to promulgate all such rules and regulations considered necessary and

proper to effectuate the implementation and enforcement of this Ordinance.

C. The Police Department is hereby authorized to stop and investigate 

any and all trucks trailers or persons engaged in scrap tire selling hauling moving 

transporting or delivering and subject to the regulation requirements of this 

ordinance in order to verify compliance with this ordinance

D. Should a violation or attempted violation of this ordinance occur the 

City Attorney and other city personnel may take any action to enforce this

ordinance to prevent and summarily abate the action remove or seize any goods 

and other objects used to violate this ordinance. These actions may also include 

but not be limited to allowing for municipal resources and personnel to abate any 

premises or property closure remove any person or thing court action suspend 

cancel or void any license or permit issued by the City of Pharr and any and all 

other relief as may be necessary.

Sec. 26-201 Violations and Penalties In addition to the penalties set forth 

in Sec 26-191 any tire business or tire hauler violating or failing to comply with 

any provision of this ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor subject to a civil 

penalty of $50.00/$500.00 up to $1000.00/$2000.00 for each offence as 

determined by the City’s Municipal Court Each day of continued violation’s shall 

constitute a separate offence

(a) The improper storage of one or more tires shall constitute a separate 

offense per tire and be punishable by a fine of fifty050dollars for each improperly 

stored tire on the location of the tire business. Each day of continued violation of 

this subsection constitutes a separate offence

(b) The transport of one or more tires without the required permit and 

decal shall constitute a separate offense per tire and be punishable by a fine of 

fifty ($50.00) dollars for each tire being transported in violation of this Article. Each 

day of continued violation of this subsection constitutes a separate offense.

(c) The improper dumping of a tire shall constitute a separate offense per 

tire and be punishable by a fine of one hundred ($100.00) dollars for each tire 
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found improperly dumped that is related back to a specific tire business. Each day

of continued violation of this subsection constitutes a separate offense. 

(d) Any violation of this Ordinance shall be subject to both civil and 

criminal penalties A criminal conviction shall be a Class C misdemeanor. A 

violator shall also be subject to the maximum penalties allowed by law for failing 

to appear in Court when charged with an offense as described herein. If conduct 

constituting an offense under this ordinance also constitutes an offense under 

another law the person may be prosecuted under all applicable laws.

Sec. 26-202 Injunctive Relief. In addition to, and cumulative of, all other 

penalties herein provided, the City of Pharr shall have the right to seek injunctive 

relief for any violation(s) of this Article.

2.3.7 City of Brownsville

2.3.7.1 CHAPTER 82 - Solid Waste

ARTICLE I. - In General

Sec. 82-1. - Definitions. 

The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this chapter, shall 

have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context 

clearly indicates a different meaning: 

“Alley” means any public way, generally of less width than a street, used 

for public utility purposes and right-of-way and as an alternate secondary or 

emergency route for vehicle and pedestrian traffic, generally situated at the rear of 

or alongside a tier of lots. 

“Building code” means the Standard Building Code adopted in section 

18-116. 

“Commercial establishment” means any structure intended or used for 

the purpose of conducting a commercial business enterprise. 

“Container” means a receptacle for the deposit of solid waste. 

“Director of public works” means the head of the city public works 

department or anyone authorized to act for him. 

“Garbage” means solid waste consisting of putrescible animal and 

vegetable waste materials resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking and 

consumption of food, including waste materials from markets, storage facilities, 

handling and sale of produce and other food products. 

“Manager” means the person in charge of real estate used for 

apartment, institutional or commercial purposes. 

“Manual collection” means the service rendered in collecting municipal 

solid waste from containers, which containers can be handled in part by persons 

picking up containers, as distinguished from picking up containers by mechanical 

means and which containers are too large for handling by manual means. 

“Municipal solid waste” means solid waste resulting from or incidental to 

municipal, community, trade, business, and recreational activities, including 

garbage, rubbish or trash, ashes, street cleanings, dead animals, and all other 

solid waste other than industrial solid waste. 

“Owner” means the record title holder of real property. 
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“Property line” means a peripheral boundary of real estate. 

“Public utility easement” means a right-of-way used or dedicated to be 

used by any public utility, including but not limited to services such as electricity, 

telephone, gas, solid waste collection, water, sewer and drainage. 

“Public way” means any street, alley, easement or other right-of-way. 

“Rubbish and trash” mean nonputrescible solid waste, consisting of both 

combustible and noncombustible waste materials; combustible rubbish or trash 

includes paper, rags, cartons, wood, excelsior, furniture, rubber, plastics, yard 

trimmings, leaves and similar materials; noncombustible rubbish or trash includes 

glass, crockery, tin cans, aluminum cans, metal furniture and like materials which 

will not burn at ordinary incinerator temperatures (1,600 degrees Fahrenheit to 

1,800 degrees Fahrenheit). 

“Sanitary landfill” means a method of disposing of municipal solid waste 

on land without creating a nuisance or hazard to public health or safety, by 

utilizing the principles of engineering to confine the solid waste to the smallest 

practical area, to reduce it to the smallest practical volume and to cover it with a 

layer of earth at appropriate periodic intervals.

“Sanitary service” means service provided by a sanitary service contract 

with the city. 

“Special service” means any service provided above and beyond the 

normal services provided for in the rate schedule, to include but not be limited to 

the following: 

(1) Carrying from the rear of a residence where an alley is not available; 

and 

(2) Carryout service from business establishments not fronting on an 

alley. 

“Street” means any public thoroughfare for the passage of vehicle and 

pedestrian traffic. 

“Vehicle” means any wheeled conveyance. 

(Code 1971, § 15-2) 

Sec. 82-2. - Penalty; citation for violation. 

(a) Any person who shall violate any of the sections of this chapter or 

who shall fail to comply with this chapter or with any of the requirements of this 

chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be liable to a 

fine as provided in section 1-13 for each offense; provided, however, that such 

fine shall not exceed the maximum fine allowed by both the state and the Charter 

for each offense. 

(b) The police department, the public health director and the director of 

public works are authorized to issue citations to any person for violations of this

chapter. The citation issued shall state the alleged violation, the date of the 

violation, and the section of this Code violated. 

(Code 1971, § 15-12) 

Sec. 82-3. - Containers for materials. 

The containers for solid waste collection shall be as required in the city 

sanitary service contracts. 

(Code 1971, § 15-3) 
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Sec. 82-4. - Collection by sanitation service from residences and 

duplexes. 

(a) Generally. It shall be the duty of every occupant of any residence or 

duplex to provide a sufficient number of solid waste containers, at the place 

designated by the director of public works for collection of municipal solid waste 

from the particular premises, to provide adequate capacity for the solid waste 

placed out for collection without overloading the capacity of the containers 

provided therefor in accordance with the following: 

(1) All containers shall conform to the requirements as provided in 

section 82-3 

(2) All collection of solid waste materials from residences or duplexes 

shall be by the sanitation service contracts, and such service shall not be 

performed through any other person. 

(3) Garbage and refuse collection personnel will not be allowed to enter

dwelling units nor will they be allowed to go through fence gates into yards for the 

collection of refuse nor shall they accept any money for their services from 

persons served. 

(b) Placement of containers for alley refuse collection service. Containers 

for alley refuse collection service shall be placed as follows:

(1) In accordance with subsection (a)(3) of this section, it shall be the 

duty of each homeowner, occupant, tenant or lessee to place the refuse 

containers at the property line where they will be easily accessible to sanitation 

collectors. When the yard is fenced, the containers must be placed outside the 

fence for collection. 

(2) It shall be the duty of the homeowner, occupant, tenant or lessee to 

keep the alley abutting his property clean of spilled garbage and/or rubbish, 

weeds, etc. 

(c) Placement of containers for collection where no alley exists. Where a 

residence or duplex is not served by an alley, public utility easement or other 

public way in the rear or alongside thereof, all containers shall be placed just 

behind the curbline of the street abutting such property, but shall not be placed in 

the street or on the sidewalk or in any manner placed where the containers will 

interfere with vehicular or pedestrian traffic. 

(d) Placement of containers for backdoor collection service. Garbage 

containers shall be placed at the location and under such conditions approved by 

the director of public works for backdoor collection by the sanitation service. 

(e) Placement of rubbish or trash or brush for collection. Rubbish or trash 

or brush shall normally be collected from the alley where one exists and from the 

street when no alley exists in accordance with the following: 

(1) Where rubbish or trash or brush is collected from the alley, public 

utility easement or public way and not from the street, all rubbish, trash or brush 

shall be placed at the property line, but shall not be placed inside the alley, 

easement or public way in such a manner as to obstruct or interfere with vehicular 

or pedestrian traffic. 

(2) Where rubbish or trash or brush is collected from the street, it shall be 

placed just behind the curbline of the street abutting the premises, but shall not be 

placed in the street or on the sidewalk in such a manner as to obstruct or interfere 

with vehicular or pedestrian traffic. 
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(3) Where the quantity of brush set out for collection is excessive, the 

superintendent of sanitation shall determine the amount of brush to be collected 

at any one time, the day of its collection and any other matters pertaining to brush 

collection in order not to disrupt normal service to other premises. 

(4) Rubbish or trash consisting of small, loose items shall be placed in an 

approved container as specified pursuant to section 82-3 

(Code 1971, § 15-4) 

Sec. 82-7. - Materials not handled by sanitation service. 

(a) Generally. The scope of the service rendered by the sanitation 

service in the collection and removal of solid waste materials is intended, in 

general, to serve the needs of dwelling units and their directly related activities, 

operating businesses, and commercial establishments, except as exempted from 

this chapter. It is considered to be beyond the scope of such service to collect or 

remove solid waste materials generated by clearing, construction, demolition and 

other such solid waste materials resulting from an activity beyond the scope 

described in this subsection. 

(b) Materials. Rock, scrap building materials or other trash resulting from 

construction, remodeling or destruction by fire, the elements, acts of God, or other 

causes resulting from a general cleanup of vacant or improved property or trees, 

brush and/or debris cleared from property, in preparation for construction or 

occupancy, shall not be collected and removed as a regular service, but these 

materials must be removed at the expense of the owner or developer. 

(Code 1971, § 15-7) 

Sec. 82-8. - Processing and disposal of materials. 

(a) General regulations. All garbage and rubbish or trash or other solid 

waste materials must be processed and/or disposed of at a location and in a 

manner approved by the director of public works. All landfill operations including 

disposal procedures and determination of acceptable users are the responsibility 

of the director of public works. Requirements for the use of the landfill and 

disposal sites are as follow: 

(1) The city sanitary landfill will be open to the general public and to 

private commercial haulers from the hours of 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday 

through Saturday. An individual bringing garbage or trash or rubbish to the 

sanitary landfill must present a valid driver's license as proof of residency or a 

valid commercial hauling permit. 

(2) It shall be unlawful to deposit live ashes or other similar materials 

capable of creating fires or fire hazards in the sanitary landfill. Smoking by any 

individual at the sanitary landfill is prohibited. 

(3) Any person entering upon a city-operated disposal site for any 

purpose shall be conclusively presumed to know and appreciate the hazards and 

the extent of the damage which accompanies the accumulation of scrap wood, 

glass, nails, trash, brush, waste and garbage in every description and the use of 

trucks, vehicles and heavy machinery to move, remove, bury and dispose of such. 

Every person entering upon any such site shall be conclusively presumed to have 

assumed the risk of injury connected with or resulting from such hazards and 

danger. By his actions in entering upon such site and for and in consideration of 
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the permission granted by the city to enter upon such site, every person shall 

covenant and shall be deemed to have covenanted not to sue and to indemnify 

and save harmless and defend the city, its agents, officers and employees from 

and against any and all claims of any nature whatsoever for injury or damage to 

person or property, whether real or asserted, arising out of or resulting from the 

entry by such person upon the sanitary landfill. 

(b) Processing and disposal facilities and sites. Requirements for solid 

waste processing and disposal facilities and sites are as follow: 

(1) It shall be unlawful for any person to take, remove or carry away from 

any processing or disposal facility operated by the city any garbage, rubbish, 

trash or other solid waste material, article, thing or object situated thereon, 

whether or not such has monetary value, without prior written permission and 

approval of the director of public works. In prosecutions for this offense, it shall 

not be necessary to describe the thing taken, removed or carried away other than 

as generally described or as "article," "thing," or "item," and it shall not be 

necessary to allege that the thing had value. 

(2) The director of public works shall have the authority to designate 

which processing and/or disposal sites are to be opened to the public and which 

are to be restricted to municipal vehicles, only, provided that no processing or 

disposal facility within the city will be opened to solid waste materials originating 

outside the city limits without prior written permission and approval of the director 

of public works. 

(Code 1971, § 15-9) 

ARTICLE II. - Rates And Charges

Sec. 82-36. - Charges for sanitation service. 

(a) Method of charging and billing for sanitation service. The method of 

charging and billing for sanitation service is as follows: 

(1) All solid waste collection and disposal charges and fees shall be 

billed through the accounting and billing mechanics of the public utilities board in 

a manner which will show each customer's fees and charges separately from the 

utilities bill. The charges and fees established and authorized shall be billed to the 

person in whose name the utilities service connection is taken where the 

premises are served with electricity, water and/or sewer and shall be billed to the 

person in control of the premises at other locations. If this fact cannot be 

ascertained, the bill shall be directed to the record owner of such premises. The 

person who is so billed and to whom the services are made available shall be 

indebted to the city for services and shall be obligated to make payment therefor 

as provided in this section. 

(2) In addition to all other legal remedies available for the collection of a 

debt, the following actions and remedies are authorized for delinquent payment of 

the charges authorized: 

a. The sanitation service may refuse to pick up and dispose of the 

garbage at the delinquent location. 

b. The utilities, if any, serving the delinquent premises in question may 

be terminated. 

c. A penalty of ten percent of the total net bill shall be charged if payment 

is received after the due date as specified in the public utilities board billing. 
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(b) Basis for establishing charges. Establishment of service charges will 

be based upon the current use of the property rather than being based upon the 

zoning. 

(c) Proration of charges; initial and final billing. There shall be no 

proration of service charges for a portion of a billing period. The initial billing shall 

be made concurrent with the initial water billing. No final billing for sanitation 

charges for less than a full billing period shall be rendered. 

(d) Schedule of service charges. 

(1) A collection service charge is hereby established for all single-family 

residences, duplexes, triplexes, quadplexes, and mobile homes as follows: 

a. Alley or curb collection service: $17.86 per dwelling unit per month.

For two containers: $22.91 per dwelling unit per month. 

b. Any resident requiring special service (walk-in service) shall be 

charged $25.16. 

c. Where detachable containers are employed, the normal commercial 

rate will apply. 

(2) A collection service charge will be made for all apartment owners, 

apartments, condominiums, and recreational vehicle parks which receive 

collection service from the sanitation service as follows: 

a. Alley or curb collection service for municipal solid waste shall be as 

follows:

b. Any resident requiring special service (walk-in service) shall be 

charged $14.00. 

c. Where detachable containers are employed, the normal commercial 

rate will apply. 

(3) Miscellaneous collection service charges will be as follows: 

a. Public housing will be charged as follows: 

1. A flat rate as established on commercial collection fee schedule for hirise apartments.

2. $17.46 per unit per month for all other units. 

b. Churches, clinics, hospitals, public buildings and schools will be 

charged as commercial locations. 

c. Unscheduled and/or extraordinary service such as collection of old 

tires, unusually large amounts of brush, etc., will be charged at cost. 

d. Any account, business or residential, requiring special service shall be 

charged at the rate of 11⁄2 times the normal rate. 

(4) Sanitation service charge credits will be granted for vacant or 

unoccupied dwelling units in apartment or condominium complexes which contain 

three or more dwelling units upon receipt from the applicant of proof of such 

vacancy, but such credits shall be limited to only those units which are 

continuously vacant or unoccupied for 30 days or more. 
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(5) Backdoor or drive-in service for certain handicapped persons meeting 

uniform requirements specified by the director of public works will be provided at 

the rate for alley or curb collection service. 

(6) Any applicant for such credit under subsection (d)(4) of this section or 

for such reduced rate under subsection (d)(5) of this section who intentionally 

makes any misrepresentation in any written statement required by such uniform 

requirements shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be 

subject to a fine as provided in section 1-13 

(Code 1971, § 15-8; Ord. No. 856-I, § 1, 9-11-1990; Ord. No. 92-856-K, § 

1, 4-7-1992; Ord. No. 92-856-N, § 1, 4-21-1992; Ord. No. 92-856-P, § 1, 9-30-

1992; Ord. No. 93-856-Q, § 1, 4-6-1993; Ord. No. 94-856-T, § 1, 2-1-1994; Ord. 

No. 94-856-V, § 1, 10-25-1994; Ord. No. 95-856-W, § 1, 3-28-1995; Ord. No. 96-

856-X, § 1, 3-29-1996; Ord. No. 97-856-Y, § 1, 4-1-1997; Ord. No. 99-856-BB, § 

1, 6-8-1999; Ord. No. 2000-856-CC, § 1, 4-4-2000; Ord. No. 2001-856-FF, § 1, 3-

6-2001; Ord. No. 2001-856-HH, § 1, 10-3-2001; Ord. No. 2002-856-II, § 1, 10-1-

2002; Ord. No. 2004-856-JJ, § 1, 4-17-2004; Ord. No. 2006-856-MM, § 1, 3-21-

2006; Ord. No. 2007-856-LL, § 1, 3-20-2007) 

Sec. 82-37. - Method of charging and billing for disposal of solid waste 

materials. 

The following charges are established for disposing of municipal solid 

waste at city disposal sites: 

(1) City residents or inside city limits: 

1—300 lbs. $ 9.00 

301—1000 lbs. 15.00 

1001—1900 lbs. 21.00 

2000 lbs and over (tonnage) 30.00 

(2) Outside city limits: 

1—300 lbs. 16.00 

301—1000 lbs. 25.00 

1001—1900 lbs. 33.00 

1 ton to 19,999 tons 42.00 

20,000 tons and over 25.00

Any entity disposing of 20,000 tons or more of solid waste collected from 

city residents or inside the city limits shall pay $25.00 a ton for disposing of solid 

waste from outside the city limits, regardless of the quantity of such waste 

disposed. 

(3) Special waste: 

Where Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission authorization 

is required for acceptance of any non-hazardous Class I industrial waste or waste 

requiring special handling or manifest; $54.00 per ton and a minimum charge of 

$54.00 per trip. 

(4) Tires, per ton 200.00 

(5) Inside city (clean brush), per ton 15.00 

(6) Sale of compost, per ton 45.00 

(7) Sale of mulch, per ton 25.00 

(8) Sale of recyclable tires for recapping, per ton 15.00 

(9) Sale of pallets, per ton 15.00 
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(10) Sale of steel, per ton 15.00 

(Code 1971, § 15-10; Ord. No. 856-I, § 2, 9-11-1990; Ord. No. 856-J, § 

1, 12-4-1990; Ord. No. 92-856-L, § 1, 4-7-1992; Ord. No. 92-856-O, § 1, 9-29-

1992; Ord. No. 93-856-R, § 1, 8-31-1993; Ord. No. 94-856-S, § 1, 2-1-1994; Ord. 

No. 94-856-U, § 1, 10-25-1994; Ord. No. 97-856-Z, § 1, 3-25-1997; Ord. No. 

2001-856-GG, § 1, 9-25-2001; Ord. No. 2002-856-II, § 1, 10-1-2002; Ord. No. 

2005-856-KK, § 1, 4-19-2005; Ord. No. 2008-856-NN, 5-20-2008) 

Sec. 82-38. - Service charges for maintenance of city easements and 

rights-of-way. 

(a) Definition. Maintenance of city easements and rights-of-way shall be 

defined to mean the sweeping of city streets and other beautification and 

maintenance services, but not including garbage collection. 

(b) Charges. Charges shall be as follow: 

(1) A service charge of $4.50 per month is established for all singlefamily residences, duplexes, and mobile homes, apartments, and condominiums. 

(2) A service charge of $10.00 per month is established for all mobile 

home parks, mobile home subdivisions, recreational vehicle parks, and all 

commercial establishments in the city. 

(3) A service charge of $30.00 per month is established for all industrial 

establishments in the city. 

(4) These service charges shall be billed per public utilities board 

account if one exists; if no public utilities board account exists, they shall be billed 

separately. 

(Code 1971, § 15-11; Ord. No. 97-856-AA, § 1, 9-16-1999; Ord. No. 

2000-856-EE, § 1, 10-9-2000) 

Sec. 82-39. - Service charges for funding of federal unfunded 

environmental compliance mandates. 

(a) Definition. Federal unfunded environmental compliance mandates 

shall include federal subtitle D landfill compliance costs, National Pollutant 

Discharge Elimination System costs, and any further environmental compliance 

costs imposed by the federal government.

(b) Charges. Charges shall be as follow: 

(1) A service charge of $2.50 per month is established for all singlefamily residences, duplexes, mobile homes, apartments, and condominiums. 

(2) A service charge of $10.00 per month is established for all mobile 

home parks, mobile home subdivisions, recreational vehicle parks, and all 

commercial establishments in the city. 

(3) A service charge of $30.00 per month is established for all industrial 

establishments in the city. 

(4) These service charges shall be billed through the respective public 

utilities board account if one exists; if no public utilities board account exists, the 

charges shall be billed separately. 

(Ord. No. 96-1309, § 1, 9-17-1996; Ord. No. 99-1309-A, § 1, 9-16-1997; 

Ord. No. 99-1309-B, § 1, 10-5-1999; Ord. No. 2000-1309-C, § 1, 10-9-2000) 
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ARTICLE III. - Disposal Siting 

Sec. 82-56. - Definitions.

The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this chapter, shall 

have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context 

clearly indicates a different meaning; 

“Disposal” means the discharging, depositing, injecting, dumping, 

spilling, leaking, or placing of solid waste unto any land or water. 

“Solid waste” means solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous waste 

resulting from or incidental to municipal, community, commercial, industrial, 

institutional, agricultural, mining, or recreational activities, including sludge, 

garbage, rubbish, refuse, ashes, street cleanings, dead animals, abandoned 

automobiles, and other discarded material. The term does not include either solid 

or dissolved material in domestic sewage, or solid or dissolved material in 

irrigation return flows, or industrial discharges subject to regulation by permit 

issued under V.T.C.A., Water Code Chapter 26, or soil, dirt, rock, sand, and other 

natural or man-made inert solid materials used to fill land if the object of the fill is 

to make the land suitable for the construction of surface improvements. 

(Ord. No. 2005-1434, 6-10-2005)

Sec. 82-57. - Applicability. 

This chapter does not apply to: 

(1) Areas for which an application for a permit or other authorization 

under V.T.C.A., Health and Safety Code Chapter 361 has been filed with and 

declared administratively complete by the Texas Natural Resource Conservation 

Commission or its successor agency; 

(2) Areas for which a permit or other authorization under V.T.C.A. Health 

and Safety Code Chapter 361 has been issued by the Texas Commission on 

Environmental Quality or any of its predecessor or successor agencies; or 

(3) Areas to which V.T.C.A., Health and Safety Code § 361.090 applies. 

(Ord. No. 2005-1434, 6-10-2005) 

Sec. 82-58. - Disposal of solid waste allowed. 

The disposal of solid waste is allowed within the following location(s): 

Being 274.94 acre tract of land, out of the Brownsville Navigation District 

2,800 acre tract of land, conveyed to the Brownsville Navigation District recorded 

in Volume 297, page 55 to 57 of the Deed Records of Cameron County, Texas, 

including all of a 257.63 acre tract of land out of Share 32 Espiritu Santo Grant, 

Cameron County, Texas, including all of the City of Brownsville Municipal Landfill 

Permit No. 1273 tract containing 257.73 acres as described by Edmundo R. 

Gonzalez Jr., on the fourteenth day of March 1995, and the West line being the 

East line of Share 31, Espritu Santo Grant, the South line being the North line of 

Wentz Subdivision as recorded in Volume 5, page 44, the East line being the East 

line of Share 32, and the North being the South Line an 80 acre tract and a 70 

acre tract of land leased to the City of Brownsville Public Utilities Board as per 

monuments found on the ground and said 274.94 acre tract of land being more 

fully described as follows: 

Beginning at a point of intersection of the projection of the South line of 

said 80 and 70 acre tract with the East line of El Jardin Subdivision, being the 
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Common line between Share 31 and Share 32, of the Espiritu Santo Grant, 

Cameron County, Texas, for the Northwest Corner and Point of beginning of the 

tract herein described; 

Thence South 00 Degrees 01 Minutes 00 Seconds East, with and along 

the Common line between Share 31 and Share 32, Espiritu Santo Grant, for a 

distance of 2,331.61 feet to a point for the Northwest corner of a certain 289.65 

acre tract sold by Browne Land & Cattle Company to C.C. Wentz for the 

Southwest corner of a said 2,800 acre tract of land conveyed to the Brownsville 

Navigation District recorded in Volume 297, Page 55 to 57 of the Deed Records of 

Cameron County, Texas; 

Thence South 90 Degrees 00 Minutes 00 Seconds East, with an along 

the North line of said C.C. Wentz Tract for a distance of 5,155.00 feet to a point of 

intersection with the East Boundary of Share 32, for the Southeast corner of said 

2,800 acre tract, and the Southeast corner of the tract herein described; 

Thence North 00 Degrees 39 Minutes 00 Seconds West for a distance of 

2,326.74 feet to a point of intersection the Easterly projection of the South line of 

said 80 acre tract and the 70 acre tract of land, for the Northeast corner of the 

tract herein described; 

Thence North 89 Degrees 56 Minutes 38 Seconds West, at a distance of 

102.51 feet passing a 1⁄2" steel re-bar set on the Northerly projection of the East 

line of said 257.53 acre tract of land, at a distance of 1,524.67 feet passing a 1⁄2" 

steel re-bar found for the Southeast corner of said 70 acre tract, at a distance of 

3,154.16 feet passing the Southeast corner of said 80 acre tract of land, at a 

distance of 5,016.42 feet passing the Southwest corner of said 80 acre tract of 

land, at a distance of 5,064.47 feet passing a 1⁄2" steel re-bar set on the Northerly 

projection of the West line of said 257.53 acre tract of land, for a total distance of 

5,129.29 feet to the point of beginning and containing 274.94 acre tract of land. 

(Ord. No. 2005-1434, 6-10-2005) 

Sec. 82-59. - Disposal of solid waste prohibited. 

(a) Generally. The disposal of solid waste is prohibited everywhere in the 

city and its extraterritorial jurisdiction other than those locations where the 

disposal of solid waste is specifically allowed under this chapter. 

(b) Enforcement. 

(1) Violations under this article constitutes a Class C misdemeanor 

punishable by a fine of not to exceed $500.00. Each day that a violation is ongoing constitutes a new violation. 

(2) The city may bring a legal action to enjoin violations of this article and 

seek judgment for any civil penalties not to exceed $10,000.00 for each violation. 

Each day that a violation is on-going constitutes a new violation. 

(Ord. No. 2005-1434, 6-10-2005) 

Sec. 82-60. - Variance. 

The city may grant variances to the requirements of this chapter if the 

city finds that granting the variance would not be inconsistent with the promotion 

of public health, safety, and welfare. 

(Ord. No. 2005-1434, 6-10-2005)
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3 Mexican Regulatory framework 

3.1 Federal laws

3.1.1 General Law for the Prevention and Integrated Management 

of Waste

TITLE FIRST: General Dispositions.

SINGLE CHAPTER: Objective and scope of application of the law

Article 5.- For purposes of this Act means:

XXIX. Waste: Material or product whose owner or holder disposes and it 

is in solid or semisolid state, or is a liquid or gas in containers or tanks, and can 

be valuated or requires treatment or disposal under the dispositions of this Law 

and other regulations derived from it.

XXX. Special Management Waste: Those generated in productive 

processes that do not meet the characteristics to be considered hazardous or 

solid urban waste, or that are produced by large generators of urban solid waste.

TITLE THIRD: Classification of waste

SINGLE CHAPTER: Purposes, criteria and General Basis

Article 19.- Special Management waste are classified as follows, except 

in the case they are considered hazardous waste in this Law and the Mexican 

Official Standards:

IV. Transport services waste, as well as those generated as a result of 

the activities conducted in ports, airports, railway and port stations and customs.

TITLE SIXTH: Prevention and integrated Management of solid urban 

waste and special management waste.

SINGLE CHAPTER

Article 95.- The regulation of the generation and integrated management 

of solid urban waste and special management waste, will be carried out according 

to the stipulations of this Law, the dispositions issued by the legislatures of the 

states and other applicable dispositions.

Article 96.- The states and municipalities, within their respective 

competence, with the purpose of promoting the reduction of the generation, 

valuation and integrated management of solid urban waste and special 

management waste, in order to protect health and prevent and control 

environmental pollution produced by its management, must perform the following 

actions:

I. The control and surveillance of integrated waste management in the 

field of its competence.

II. Design and implement programs to encourage large waste generators 

to reduce their generation and bring them to an integrated management.

III. Promoting the subscription of agreements with the large generators of 

waste within the scope of their competence, to formulate and implement 

management plans for their generated waste.

IV. Integrate the registration of large waste generators in its scope of 

competence and waste management service providers, as well as the database in 
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which information is collected on the type, volume and the way waste are 

managed.

V. Integrate information regarding the integrated management of 

municipal solid waste and special management waste, to Environmental 

Information and Natural Resources National System. 

VI. Prepare, update and spread the basic diagnostic for integrated 

management of municipal solid waste and special management waste.

VII. Coordinate with federal authorities, with other states or 

municipalities, as appropriate, and arrange with of private and social 

organizations representatives to achieve the purposes this Law is refered and for 

the implementation of management plans for waste that are within its jurisdiction.

VIII. Establish programs to improve the environmental performance of 

supply chains involved in segregation, collection and preparation of municipal 

solid waste and special management waste for recycling.

Article 97.- Official Mexican Standards establish the terms which shall be 

subject the site locations, design, construction and operation of facilities for 

disposal of municipal solid waste and special management waste, in landfills or in 

controlled confinements.

The standards will specify the conditions to be met by facilities and waste 

types which may be disposed in them, to prevent leachate formation and its 

migration from the confinement cells. Also, the standards will rise in which cases 

can be allowed the biogas formation for its utilization.

Municipalities will regulate land use in accordance with the environmental 

regulatory and urban development programs, which will consider the areas where 

will be established the final disposal sites for municipal solid waste and special 

management waste.

Article 98.- For generation prevention, valuation and integrated 

management of special management waste, states will establish obligations of 

generators, distinguishing large and small, and special management service 

providers, and will formulate criteria and guidelines for its integrated management.

3.1.2 Regulation of the General Law for the Prevention and 

Integrated Management of Waste

TITLE FIRST: Preliminary Dispositions

Article 8. The Secretariat will publish on its Website the criteria and 

methodology for developing and updating the inventory of waste dumps or places 

where they have left waste of different types in each state and, under the second 

paragraph of the Article 39 of the Law, will integrate the three levels of 

government.

Article 9.- In an emergency situation related to integrated waste 

management, the first authority to take cognizance must notify the federal, state 

or municipal authorities so that they act in accordance with established programs 

in terms of the provisions of the Civil Protection General Law and other applicable 

provisions.
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Article 11.- The determination to classify a waste as special 

management, in terms of Article 19, section IX of the Law, will be established in 

the corresponding Official Mexican standard.

Article 12.- Mexican Official Standards issued by the Secretary for the 

classification of urban solid waste and special management that will be subject to 

management plans shall contain:

I. Criteria to be taken into consideration to determine the urban solid 

waste and special management waste that will be subject to management plan;

II. Criteria for the preparation of listings;

III. Waste listings subject to management plans;

IV. Criteria to be considered for inclusion and exclusion of waste in the 

listings, at the request of the states and municipalities;

V. Type of management plan, based on the characteristics of waste and 

associated control mechanisms, and

VI. Elements and procedures to be taken into account in the preparation 

and implementation of management plans.

The validity of the special management and urban solid waste listings 

subject to management plans will start from the date determined by the Official 

Mexican Standards provided in this article.

Article 14.- The principle of shared responsibility, established by the Law, 

shall also apply to integrated waste management of special management and 

urban solid waste that are not subject to management plans under the Law, this 

Regulation and the Official Mexican Standards.

Article 15.- Authorities of the three government levels can coordinate for 

the exercise of its powers to:

II. Support the dissemination of information needed to boost the valuation 

culture and exploitation of hazardous, special management and urban solid 

waste, and

III. Encourage voluntary instrument implementation such as 

environmental audits, process certification or other forms of agreements proposed 

by stakeholders to reduce the generation or look for the exploitation of urban solid 

and special management waste, and avoid the pollution.

TITLE SECOND: Management Plans

Chapter I Generalities

Article 18.- Municipal authorities, in coordination with the Secretary, will 

implement management plans that incorporate integrated management of 

hazardous waste generated in households in quantities equal to or lower than 

those generated by microgenerators, when disposing of consumer products 

containing hazardous materials, as well as homes or offices, institutions, agencies 

and entities and will be implemented by them.

States and municipalities providing cleaning public service or execute 

programs for the separation, collection and storage of waste identified in the 

previous paragraph and for that reason hold hazardous waste shall comply with 
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the management criteria set out in the Law, this Regulation and Official Mexican 

Standards.

Management plans set out in this Article may include other special 

management waste and urban solid waste that, according to the Law; are not 

subject to a management plan.

TITLE FOURTH: Hazardous waste

Chapter II Generators Categories and Registration

Article 42.- According to the categories established in the Law, 

hazardous waste generators are:

II. Small generator: Whoever performs an activity that generate a greater 

amount than four hundred kilograms and less than ten tons gross weight of 

hazardous waste per year or its equivalent in another unit of measure.

TITLE SIXTH: Polluted site remediation

Chapter II Remediation Programs

Section V Remediation Proposals

Article 143.- Proposals for emergency remediation and environmental 

liabilities will be integrated into the remediation program and shall contain:

IX. Evacuation plan for urban solid waste, construction waste, special 

management waste and hazardous waste on the site in the case of environmental 

liabilities.

3.2 State and local laws

3.2.1 Chihuahua

3.2.1.1 State laws

3.2.1.1.1 Law of Ecological Equilibrium and Environmental Protection 

of the State of Chihuahua

TITLE FIRST: General Dispositions

Article 5.- For purposes of this Law means:

VI. Utilization of waste: Set of actions aimed

to recover the economic value of waste that can be recycled and does not pose a 

risk in reuse;

XXI. Disposal: Action to permanently deposit or confine waste in sites 

and facilities whose characteristics allow to prevent their liberation to 

environment and the consequent affectations to health and ecosystems and their 

elements.

XXXI. Waste Management: Articulated and interrelated set of normative, 

operative, financial, planning, administrative, social, educational, monitoring, 

supervision and evaluation actions, for waste management, from generation to 

final disposal, in order to achieve environmental benefits, economic optimization 

of management and social acceptance, responding to the needs and 

circumstances of each locality or region;
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XXXII. Environmental impact: Modification of the environment caused by 

the action of man or nature;

XXXIII. Waste Inventory: Database in which waste generation volumes 

are settled with order and classification, which is integrated from the information 

provided by generators in the formats established for this purpose, in accordance 

with this ordinance.

XXXVII. Integrated Management: Activities of source reduction, 

separation, reuse, recycling, co-processing, biological, chemical, physical or 

thermal treatment, collection, storage, transportation and disposal of waste, 

individually made or combined appropriately, to adapt to conditions and needs of 

each place, fulfilling objectives of valuation, sanitary, environmental, 

technological, economic and social efficiency.

XLI. Management Plan: Instrument used to minimize generation and 

maximize the value of urban solid waste, special management waste and specific 

hazardous waste, under criteria of environmental, technological, economic and 

social efficiency, based on the Basic Diagnostic for Integrated Waste 

Management, designed under the principles of shared responsibility and 

integrated management, which considers the set of actions, procedures and 

practical means and involves producers, importers, exporters, distributors, 

traders, consumers, byproduct users and large waste generators, as appropriate, 

as well as all three levels of government;

XLVIII. Waste: Any material generated in the processes of extraction, 

beneficiation, processing, production, consumption, use, control or treatment, 

which its quality does not allows to use it again in the process that generated it.

LIV. Special Management Waste: Waste generated in production 

processes, that do not have the characteristics to be considered hazardous waste 

or urban solid waste, or are produced by municipal solid waste large generators 

as defined in the General Law for the Prevention and Integrated Management of 

Waste.

TITLE SECOND: Concurrence of the State and Municipalities and 

Environmental Management.

CHAPTER I: Jurisdiction of State and Municipalities

Article 8.- It corresponds to the Executive of the State, by conduit of the 

Secretary:

XIII. Formulate, lead and evaluate State policy and elaborate special 

management waste programs, according to National Program for the Prevention 

and Integral Management of waste and remediation of polluted sites.

XIV. Issue, in accordance with its powers and in accordance with the 

General Law for the Prevention and Integral Management of Waste, the 

guidelines on special management waste, as well as prevention of the pollution of 

sites and their remediation. Likewise, authorize the comprehensive management 

of waste and to identify those may be subject to management plans, treatment 

and confinement within the territory of the State.

XVII. Establish the registration of management plans and programs for 

the installation of systems for its collection, storage, transport, treatment, 

valuation and disposal, in accordance with the guidelines established in this law, 
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in the Mexican Official Standards in the environmental field and in the State 

Ecological Technique Standards that are issued, in the ambit of its competence.

XVIII. Promote, in coordination with the Federal Government and the 

relevant authorities, the creation of infrastructure in the State for the Integrated 

management of urban solid, special management and hazardous waste, with the 

participation of investors and social representatives.

XIX. Promote and follow up on State and municipal programs for saving 

electricity, classification, separation, management, collection and transport of 

urban, organic and inorganic solid waste, and prevention and management of 

waste within their competence, as well as prevention of pollution of polluted sites 

and their remediation, with the active participation of interested parts.

XXII. Promote the involvement of the private and social sectors, in the 

design and implementation of actions to prevent the generation of special 

management waste, and carry out its proper management, as well as for the 

prevention of the pollution of sites with these waste and its remediation, along the 

guidelines of this law and the corresponding Official Mexican Standards. 

XXIX. Submit for consideration by the Secretary, programs for the 

establishment of Integrated waste management systems of special management 

waste and the construction and operation of landfills, to receive technical 

assistance from the Federal Government for this purpose. 

TITLE SEVENTH: Environmental Protection

CHAPTER I: Prevention and control of pollution of the atmosphere.

Article 98.- In the field of air pollution and in accordance with provisions 

of this law, the State and the municipalities, within their respective jurisdictions, 

will make the following:

X. They will issue the provisions and shall establish measures to prevent 

the burning of any type of solid or liquid waste, including domestic trash, litter, 

dried herb, agricultural esquilines, tires, plastics, lubricants, solvents and others, 

as well as burnings for the purpose of land clearing or weeding.

CHAPTER III: Noise, vibration, odors, and energy pollution control

Article 117.- It is forbidden to throw any type of waste in public streets, 

highways and roads. The State Government through the Secretary, and the 

municipalities, shall take the necessary measures in this regard and, where 

appropriate, apply corresponding sanctions.

TITLE EIGHT: Regulations of activities that may cause harmful effects.

CHAPTER III: Municipal services

Article 129.- Confinement or the final disposal of non-hazardous solid 

waste that can accumulate and are deposited in the soil or are incinerated, must 

be done exclusively on the sites or facilities that are operated by the municipality 

for that purpose or concessions to individuals. 

CHAPTER VI: Waste Classification

Article 148.- Special Management waste are classified as indicated 

below, except in the case of waste considered as hazardous in the corresponding 

Mexican Official Standards:
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VIII. Technological waste from computing industries, electronics or motor 

vehicle manufacturers and others at the end of their lifetime, because of their 

characteristics, require a specific management.

CHAPTER VII: Integration of waste management programs

Article 150.- The secretary will develop and implement local programs for 

the prevention and urban solid and special management waste management, in 

accordance with this Law, with the Basic Diagnosis for the Integrated Waste

management and other applicable provisions. These programs shall contain at 

least the following: 

II. The local policy of urban solid and special management waste; 

III. The definition of objectives and local goals for the prevention and 

improvement of the management of urban solid and special management waste, 

as well as strategies and timelines for their implementation.

CHAPTER VIII: Management plans

Article 152.- They will be obliged to the manifestation of their waste

generation and to the formulation and implementation of management plans, 

large generators and producers, importers, exporters and distributors of the 

products when discarded turns in solid urban waste or special management waste

that are included in the list of waste subject to management plans in accordance 

with the corresponding Mexican Official Standards and the applicable state 

ecological technique Standards.

Article 155.- Companies or establishments responsible for management 

plans will submit to the Secretary, for its information and registration, special 

management waste, a list of non-hazardous solid waste requiring special 

management for recycling. To the same effect, the municipalities the urban solid 

waste, in accordance with the provisions of this law and as determined by its 

regulation and other legal ordainment derived from it.

When it is intended to make changes, modifications, or alterations in its 

activities, that cause increases in the amount of generated waste, must first obtain 

the authorization of the Direction of Ecology, the update of the special 

management waste generating company.

CHAPTER IX: Prevention and urban solid and special management 

waste integrated management.

Article 156.- Regulation of generation and integrated management of 

urban solid and non-hazardous waste requiring special management, be carried 

out in accordance with that established by this law and other applicable provisions

Article 157.- State Executive, through the Secretary, and the 

municipalities, within the scope of their respective competencies, with the purpose 

of promoting the reduction of the generation, recycling and integrated 

management of urban solid waste and the special management waste, in order to 

protect health and prevent and control environmental pollution caused by their 

management, must be carried out the following actions:
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V. Integrate the information concerning the management of urban solid 

waste and special management waste to the National System of Environmental 

Information and Natural Resources. 

VI. Develop, update and disseminate the basic diagnosis for the 

integrated management of urban solid waste and the special management waste. 

VIII. Establish programs to improve the environmental performance of 

the productive chains involved in segregation, collection and preparation of urban 

solid waste and special management waste for their recycling. 

IX. Develop guidelines for segregation, collection, storage, recycling, 

treatment and transport of waste.

Article 158.- The Official Mexican Standards, will establish the terms 

which the location of sites, design, construction and operation of facilities intended 

for the final disposal of urban solid waste and those requiring special 

management shall be subject, in landfills or controlled confinement.

Standards specify the conditions to be met by the facilities and the types 

of waste that can be disposed on them, to prevent the formation of leachate and 

migration of these outside the confinement cells. They also will arise in which 

cases may allow the formation of biogas its use.

Municipalities regulate land uses, in accordance with ecological land and 

urban development programs, which will consider the areas where final disposal 

of urban solid waste and special management waste can be conducted.

Article 159.- For the prevention of the generation and integrated 

management of special management waste, State Executive, through the 

Secretary, shall establish the obligations of generators, distinguishing large and 

small, and those of the service providers of the collection, disposal and treatment 

of waste, will formulate criteria and guidelines for its integrated management.

3.2.1.2 Local laws

3.2.1.2.1 City of Juarez

Municipal Regulation of Ecology and Environmental Protection of the 

Municipality of Juarez, Chih.

TITLE FIRST: Generalities

Chapter I Ecological terms definitions

Article 1.- For all relating to this regulation, will apply the following 

definitions, unless the term is defined differently in the General Law of Ecological 

Equilibrium and Environmental Protection, in which case the definition established 

in the Law will prevail.

II. Storage: Action of temporarily retain raw materials and waste as long 

as are processed for their use, are delivered to the collection services or is 

disposed.

XXVI. Final disposal: Action of permanently deposit waste in appropriate 

sites and conditions to prevent damage to the environment.
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XLVII. Generation manifesto: Document by which every waste generator 

expresses the amount of waste generated, as well as their characteristics and 

origin.

LXIII. Recycling: Method of treatment, which consists in the waste

transformation with productive purposes. 

LXIV. Collection: Action of gathering and transferring waste of equipment 

designed to lead them to storage, treatment or reuse facilities or final disposal 

sites.

Chapter II General Provisions

Article 7.- Corresponds to the Direction and where appropriate to the 

Municipal Water and Sanitation Council: 

X. The vigilance in regard to the management and final disposal of nonhazardous solid waste, as well as monitoring the management of non-hazardous 

industrial waste. 

XV. Coordinate and execute, direct actions of protection in environmental 

restoration, such as reforestation, non-hazardous solid waste management, 

prevention of erosion, urban impacts generated by the industry studies and those 

activities that degrade the population quality of life.

Article 9.- Corresponds to the Municipal Committee of Ecology: 

IX. Assist in the actions to be taken for environmental restoration, such 

as reforestation, management of solid waste, erosion, land use, urban impacts in 

the establishment of industries and activities that degrade the population quality of 

life.

TITLE SECOND: Air quality

Chapter I Emitting Sources

Article 11.- It is the responsibility of the direction to carry out actions to 

prevent and control the pollution of the atmosphere in municipal competition 

sources being able to: 

VIII. Issue agreements in coordination with the federal authorities or the 

State, according to its competition, to prevent the unauthorized burning of any 

type of solid or liquid waste, including domestic trash, litter, dried herb, agricultural 

esquiline, tires, plastics, lubricants, solvents as well as burning of agricultural 

fields or urban lands for the purpose of clearing or weeding.

TITLE FOURTH: Ecologic Policy Instruments

Chapter II: Environmental Impact

Article 127.- It is required the following minimum information on related to 

the project or activity for the evaluation of environmental impact:

II. Description of the work or projected activity from the stage of site 

selection for the project execution in the development of the activity; the area of 

land required; construction program, facilities mounting and corresponding 

operation; the type of activity, in its case, expected production volumes, and 

necessary investments; the type and quantity of natural resources to be used, 

both in the construction and operating stage; the program for waste management; 
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in the construction, operating and development of the activity; and the program for 

the site abandonment or activities cessation.

TITLE FIFTH: Environmental Protection

Chapter I Non-Hazardous Solid Waste

Article 137.- Must attach to the authorization of the Direction according to 

the current Standards, location, installation and operation of collection, storage, 

transport, accommodation, recovery, treatment and disposal of non-hazardous 

solid waste systems, whether operated by the municipality itself or granted to 

individuals. 

Article 138.- Non-hazardous solid waste management must be based on 

the following criteria: 

I. Solid waste constitute the main source of soil pollution, so their control 

is unavoidable. 

II. Municipal and industrial, non-hazardous solid waste contain reusable 

and recyclable materials, whose recovery through appropriate procedures and 

techniques contributes to reduce the generation of such waste. 

III. For vehicles used tires, the municipality will establish a program for 

their proper disposal for whose effect rights must payed established in the in the 

law of income municipality law.

Article 139.- All merchant or dealer of used tires that generate waste

must be channeled to points of accumulation and must pay for the final 

disposition.

Article 140.- Collection centers are required to recycle tires or, dispose 

them adequately, complying with the guidelines established by the municipality.

Article 141.- Vulcanizers, merchants or distributors are obliged to render 

the tire useless in the presence of the user at the time that is considered as 

waste.

Article 142.- Points of accumulation or in its case municipality will extend 

a tax receipt in which will be recorded the number of tires and quantity that will be 

received, and the size of them, carrying a logbook in coordination with the 

Direction.

Article 144.- For the location, installation and operation of non-hazardous 

waste management systems, will be taken into account the ecological regulation 

and urban development plans.

Article 145.- Non-hazardous solid waste that build up or can accumulate 

and are deposited in the soil, must meet the conditions necessary to prevent or 

avoid:

I. Subsoil pollution. 

II. Harmful alterations in biological processes occurring in soils.

III. Alteration of the characteristics of the soil that limit or prevent its use 

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IV. Risks and health problems. 

V. Visual pollution.

Article 146.- Any discharge or non-hazardous solid waste deposit in soils 

will be subject to the provisions of this regulation, the Official Mexican Standards 

and State and municipal regulations.

Article 147.- In order to preserve environment and ecosystems, Cleaning 

Management in coordination with the Direction and the Municipal Committee will 

monitor the following actions are carried out: 

I. Make the cleaning of the city through:

a) Collection and transport of urban solid waste to its final destination. 

CONSTRUCTION REGULATION OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF JUAREZ,

STATE OF CHIHUAHUA

TITLE FIRST: Administrative dispositions

CHAPTER 22- Requirements of the constructions destined for 

warehouses

SECTION 2201. Definition

b) The buildings, structures, establishments on the open in which 

vehicles are stored or used parts for automobiles, storage centers of recyclable 

materials, or parts of them which store highly flammable materials or hazardous, 

with high risk of fire, will have to comply with what’s stated on chapter 21. The 

buildings destined to the storage of rubber foams, rubber sponges or plastic 

foams, whether as raw materials or as manufactured products, and rubber tires, 

must comply with what’s stated in this chapter 22 but they won’t be allowed to 

have basements. 

3.2.1.2.2 City of Ojinaga

REGULATION OF THE PUBLIC CLEANING SERVICE FOR THE 

MUNICIPALITY OF OJINAGA

EIGHTH CHAPTER: Final disposition of non-hazardous solid waste

Article 33.-In the final disposal site of non hazardous waste of the 

municipality it’s forbidden to store, dispose of and treat hazardous waste.

Non hazardous waste originated from tree pruning, construction debris, 

tires and other similar waste must be located in places specifically assigned by 

the Direction of Municipal Cleaning Service.

NINTH CHAPTER: Treatment of non-hazardous solid waste.

Article 37.- The incineration of non-hazardous solid waste can only be 

performed in equipment designed for this end use.
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3.2.2 Coahuila

3.2.2.1 State laws

3.2.2.1.1 Law of Ecological Equilibrium and Environmental Protection 

of the State of Coahuila

TITLE FIRST: General Dispositions

CHAPTER I: Objectives and Definitions

Article 3. - For purposes of this Act is meant by:

XXXVII. - Jales: Waste generated in the primary operations of separation 

and concentration of minerals. Mexican term which applies to the deposit of 

residual materials resulting from the process of useful minerals. It is build by the 

action of man, which can occupy areas of several square kilometers and heights 

of ten or more meters.

XXXVIII. - LGEEPA: General Law of Ecological Equilibrium and 

Environmental Protection

XLI. - Hazardous Material. The elements, substances, compounds, 

mixtures of them or residues that regardless of their physical condition, pose a 

risk to the environment, health or natural resources due to their corrosive, 

reactive, explosive, toxic, flammable or biological-infectious characteristics.

LI. - Waste: Any material generated in the processes of extraction, 

beneficiation, transformation, production, consumption, utilization, control or 

treatment, whose quality does not allow use again in the process that produced it.

LIII. - Municipal solid waste: Solid waste resulting from domestic, 

commercial and small-scale services which are not considered hazardous 

according to current environmental regulations.

LIV. – Nonhazardous solid waste: Any material which is not dangerous 

according to the listings for that purpose by the Secretary of Environment, Natural 

Resources and Fisheries.

LVI. - Reuse: The use of all waste or solid waste, liquid or gas that can 

be used again, either in its present form or through physical, chemical, 

mechanical or biological transformations.

CHAPTER II: The Distribution and Coordination Competencies

Section I: The Attributes of Authorities

Article 10.- The Main Office shall have the following powers:

XXIX. - Regulate collection systems, transportation, storage, 

management, treatment and disposal of industrial solid waste which are not 

considered hazardous in accordance with the provisions of this Act;

Article 11.- For purposes of this Act, municipalities have the following 

powers:

V. - Implement legal provisions on the prevention and control of 

environmental effects caused by the generation, transportation, storage, 

management, treatment and disposal of municipal solid waste and industrial that 

are not considered hazardous;
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VIII. - Implement legal provisions on the prevention and control of noise 

pollution, vibration, heat, light, electromagnetic radiation and harmful odors to the 

ecological balance and environment from stationary sources that function as local 

commercial or service, as well as from the outcome of the open-fire burning of 

any type of nonhazardous solid waste;

Section II: Coordination of Competencies between the State and 

Municipalities

Article 12.- The State Executive may enter into agreements or 

arrangements for coordination and implementation with federal and municipal 

governments, with the participation, if any of the sectors of society, in order to 

fulfill the objectives of this Act and with the following functions relating to:

II. - The control of hazardous waste considered as low hazard in 

accordance with the provisions of the LGEEPA;

CHAPTER IV: The instruments of environmental policy state

Section II: Programs of Ecological Ordering State and Municipal

Article 25.- The Municipal Ecological Program must include:

V. - A balance of natural resources including:

d) An inventory of the different generators of nonhazardous solid waste 

and the amount produced by each one of them;

TITLE FOURTH: The environmental protection

CHAPTER I: General Dispositions

Article 99.- The Authority, in coordination with the agencies of Public 

Administration from the State and municipal authorities in their respective areas of 

responsibility shall integrate an inventory of air emissions, wastewater discharges 

into the sewer systems and materials and nonhazardous solid waste in the terms 

of this law, as well as coordinating the records established by this law and create 

a consolidated information system based on the authorizations, licenses or 

permits granted.

CHAPTER II: Prevention and control of pollution of the atmosphere

Section II: Control of Emissions from Stationary Sources

Article 113.- It is forbidden to burn municipal solid waste and vegetable 

material resulting from cleaning, disassembling, or paring of any land for purposes 

of construction or any other purpose, except when performed under a permit 

written exclusively by the Direction or, when applicable, the municipalities. Only in 

cases where the burn will not seriously impact air quality and justified for social 

reasons or agricultural.

CHAPTER III: The noise, the vibration, the energies of heat and light, the 

smells and the visual pollution

Article 126.- Those responsible for noise sources shall provide to the 

competent authorities the information they require for emissions that they 

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limits for technical or socio-economic reasons, in which case the authority of 

knowledge set the maximum permissible levels, specific to these sources.

CHAPTER V: The prevention and pollution control of soil and organic 

deterioration in urban areas

Section I: Management and Disposal of Non-Hazardous Waste

Article 142.- For the prevention and control of pollution of the ground, 

consider the following criteria:

II. - Nonhazardous solid waste must be managed properly, since they are 

a major source of soil contamination;

III. - It is necessary to prevent and reduce the generation of solid and 

industrial waste that are not considered hazardous, to incorporate techniques and 

procedures for reuse and recycling, and to regulate their management and 

disposal, and

IV. - In soils contaminated by the presence of materials or nonhazardous waste must be carried out to recover or restore their conditions, so that 

they can be used in any type of activity planned in urban development plan or 

land-use where applicable.

Article 143.- The criteria to prevent and control pollution of the soil are 

considered, particularly in:

II. - Operating systems and clean disposal of nonhazardous solid waste, 

including sanitary landfills

Article 144.- The waste that accumulate or may accumulate and are 

deposited or infiltrated in the soil must meet the conditions necessary to prevent 

or avoid:

I. - Soil contamination;

II. - The harmful alterations in the biological process of soils;

III. - The soil disturbances that may impair your benefit, use or 

exploitation;

IV. - Risks and health problems.

Article 145.- Corresponds to municipalities to implement the dispositions 

of law relating to the management and disposal of municipal solid waste, for 

which they can:

I. - Implement legal dispositions on the prevention and control of 

environmental effects caused by the generation, transportation, storage, 

management, treatment and disposal of municipal solid waste;

II. - Authorize the establishment of sites for disposal of municipal solid 

waste;

III. - Exercising control over the facilities and operation of landfills or 

storage of such waste;

IV. - Exercising control and issuing the appropriate permits with respect 

to the operation of collection systems, storage, transport, accommodation, reuse, 

treatment and disposal of municipal solid waste;
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Article 146.- Generation, management and disposal of slow degradation 

waste shall be subject to the establishment in the official Mexican standards 

issued by the Federation. Also, the generator is responsible to reuse and / or 

disposal.

Article 147.- Any discharge or deposit of non-hazardous solid waste in 

the soils of local competition, will be subject to the provisions of this Act, its 

regulations and Mexican Official Standards issued by the Federation to that effect.

Article 148.- For the location, installation and operation of management 

systems for nonhazardous solid waste shall take into account the land-use plans 

and urban development programs from State and its Municipalities.

Article 149.- The municipal authorities shall take the necessary measures 

in order to rationalize the generation of municipal solid waste and industrial nonhazardous and incorporate techniques and procedures for sorting, reuse and 

recycling. In the case of hazardous materials or waste shall be subject to the 

provisions of LGEEPA on the matter.

Article 150.- The municipalities, when they find it necessary, may apply 

to the Federation or the State technical assistance required for:

I. - Implementation and improvement of collection systems, treatment 

and disposal of nonhazardous solid waste, and

II. - Identification of alternatives for reuse and disposal of the waste in 

question, including inventories of themselves and their generating sources.

3.2.2.1.2 Law for the Prevention and Integrated Management of Waste

of the State of Coahuila

TITLE FIRST: General Dispositions

SOLE CHAPTER: Subject to this Law

Article 1.- This law is a public order and social interest and aims to 

ensure the right of everyone to an adequate environment and promote 

sustainable development through regulation of the generation, recovery and 

integrated management of urban solid waste and special management waste, as 

well as pollution prevention and remediation of soil contaminated with waste.

Article 2.- For purposes of this Act, apply the definitions contained in the 

General Law for Prevention and Integral Management of Waste and other legal 

regulations as well as the following:

I. Collecting: The act of gathering waste in a particular place and 

appropriate to prevent risks to health and the environment, to facilitate their 

collection;

II. Storage: temporary retention of waste in placed to prevent damage to 

the environment, natural resources and the health of the population, since they 

are reused, recycled, treated for their use or available;

IV. Container: The vessel destined for the environmentally storage and 

temporary form of urban solid waste or special management during collecting and 

transfer;
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VI. Company management service: A person or company registered and 

authorized to provide services to third parties to perform any of the steps involved 

in integrated waste management and those special stages of the comprehensive 

management of urban solid waste subject to authorization;

VII. Large generator: A person or company that generates an amount 

equal or greater than ten tons of waste per year;

XI. Collection: The action of receiving municipal solid waste or special 

management from its generators and transfer to authorized facilities, store, reuse, 

recycle, treat or dispose of in landfills or controlled sites;

TITLE SECOND: Distribution of competencies and coordination of 

authorities.

First Chapter: Authorities and Powers

Article 5.- The State Executive shall have the following powers:

I. Establishing state policy on waste;

II. Linking and integrating environmental policy and the provisions 

established by this law on integrated waste management;

III. Develop and evaluate the state program for the prevention and 

integrated waste management, and where appropriate regional programs;

IV. Develop and evaluate the program for the prevention and 

management for special management waste;

V. Regulate integrated waste management of special management 

waste and prevent and control of pollution caused by such waste;

VI. Promote coordination with the federal government and municipalities, 

the creation of infrastructure for the integrated management of urban solid waste, 

special management and hazardous waste in the state, with the participation of 

investors and representatives of social sectors;

VII. Promote research, development and application of technologies, 

equipment, systems and processes that eliminate, reduce or minimize 

environmental release and transfer from one to another of its elements, pollutants 

from the integrated management of urban solid waste and special management;

Article 6.- The Secretary shall have the following powers:

I. Develop, conduct and review government policy on special management waste;

III. Establish and maintain a register of waste management plans for 

special management waste in accordance with the guidelines determined in the 

regulations of this law;

V. Authorize the integrated waste management of special management 

waste;

VIII. Performing the studies and infrastructure projects to manage urban 

solid waste and special management waste;

IX. Deliver an opinion on the design, construction, operation and closure 

of transfer stations, plant selection and treatment, and disposal sites of waste;

XIII. Promote prevention programs and comprehensive management of 

municipal solid waste and special management waste, with the participation of 

concerned parties;
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XIV. Propose to the holder of the Executive the legal issue enabling the 

integrated management of special management waste and prevention of pollution 

of the waste sites and their remediation;

Article 7.- The Secretary shall have the following powers:

I. Verify compliance of the instruments and legal provisions on special 

management waste;

II. Inspect and monitor the integrated management of special 

management waste;

Article 8.- Municipalities have the following powers:

IV. Prevent the generation and control the integrated management of 

urban solid waste;

V. Train public servants involved in the provision of clean public service, 

collection, transfer, treatment and disposal of waste;

XIV. Avoid open dumps or sites not controlled of urban solid waste;

XV. Spread among the population practices of separation, reuse and 

recycling;

TITLE THIRD: Instruments of Prevention Policy and Integral 

Management of Waste

FIRST CHAPTER: State Program for Prevention and Integrated Waste 

Management

Article 11.- The State Executive through the Secretary set the state 

program for the prevention and integrated waste management in accordance with 

this law, with the initial analysis for the integrated management of urban solid 

waste and special management and other applicable provisions.

The state program for the prevention and integrated management of 

waste must be made in accordance with the stipulations of the national program 

of the matter, considering the following guidelines:

I. Apply the principles of recovery, shared responsibility and integrated 

waste management;

II. Take action to reduce waste generation, separation at source of origin, 

and its proper utilization, treatment and disposal;

IV. Promote the reduction of the amount of waste which reach disposal;

VIII. Promote measures to prevent the collection of residues in areas or 

conditions not authorized by the competent authority;

V. Provide the necessary infrastructure to ensure that waste is managed 

in environmentally adequate manner;

VI. Harmonization of policies for land use and ecological integrated 

waste management, identifying appropriate areas for the implementation of 

infrastructure for storage, treatment and disposal;

Article 12.- The Secretary will develop, will implement and will review the 

program for the prevention and integrated management of waste requiring special 

management.

Similarly, municipalities will develop, will implement and will evaluate 

municipal programs for the prevention and comprehensive management of urban 
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solid waste, who may require technical support from the Secretary for that 

purpose.

Article 13.- The programs referred to in the preceding article shall contain 

at least the following:

I. Policy on urban solid waste and special management waste, as 

appropriate;

II. Definition of objectives and targets for the prevention of the generation 

and improving the management of urban solid waste and special management 

waste, and the strategies and timelines for compliance;

SECOND CHAPTER: Management Plans

Article 14.- Management plans of urban solid waste and special 

management waste shall be aimed, among others, to:

I. Identify ways to prevent or reduce their generation;

II. Establish management regimes in which apply the principle of shared 

responsibility of the various sectors involved; 

III. Establish mechanisms to reuse, recycle or take advantage of waste 

that cannot be avoided, in accordance with applicable laws and as far as this is 

environmentally appropriate, economically viable and technologically feasible;

IV. Reduce the volume and risk on management of waste that cannot be 

valued, in accordance with applicable laws;

V. Encourage innovation in processes, methods and technologies to 

achieve an integrated waste management that will be economically feasible, and

VI. Dispose finally in a landfill or in a controlled site, as appropriate, 

waste that cannot be susceptible valorized.

Article 16.- Shall be obliged to the formulation and implementation of 

management plans large generators and producers, importers, exporters and 

distributors of products that, when they are disposed, become in urban solid 

waste or special management waste which are included in the lists of waste 

subject to management plans in accordance with the relevant Mexican Official 

Standards.

Article 18.- The large generators of urban solid waste and special 

management waste should incorporate a proposal to support the development of 

individual management plans, to be presented to the Secretary for validation and 

in which, based on, among others, the following :

I. The name, corporate name of the person submitting the proposal, the 

legal representative if applicable, the name of those authorized to receive notices, 

the administrative body to that address, place and date of preparation. The 

proposal must be signed by the applicant or his legal representative;

II. The waste generated will be the subject of management plans;

Article 19.- The Secretary may convene gradually, jointly with the 

councils , producers, importers, distributors and marketers of consumer products 

that, when they are disposed, become urban solid waste and special 

management waste, which may be subject to management plans under the 

provisions of general law, the Mexican Official Standards and this law in order to:
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I. Publicize that are priorities for attention for the degree of difficulty 

involved on relevant waste management or environmental problems that have 

been associated with common forms of disposal thereof;

II. Propose the development of pilot projects to gradually allow the return 

of waste by consumers, in order to deal with recycling, treatment or disposal;

THIRD CHAPTER: Instruments to encourage prevention and integrated 

waste management

Article 22.- The State Executive, in coordination with the competent 

authorities, evaluate, develop and promote the implementation of economic 

instruments, tax, financial or market incentives for the prevention of the 

generation, separation, storage and use, and treatment and final disposal of 

waste subject to the dispositions of this law.

In those cases where it is technically and economically feasible, promote 

the creation of production chains and provide incentives for the establishment of 

management plans.

Article 23.- The Secretary will promote the application of incentives to 

encourage private sector investment in technology development, equipment 

acquisition and construction of infrastructure to facilitate the prevention of the 

generation, reuse, recycling, treatment and final disposition of urban solid waste 

and special management waste and hazardous waste generated by home and 

micro cogeneration, in a way environmentally appropriate.

FOURTH CHAPTER: From Environmental Culture

Article 24.- State education authorities will promote the incorporation of 

environmental culture contents of study programs to enable the development of 

habits designed to achieve waste minimization.

The state's educational institutions are obliged to incorporate as part of 

their equipment, separate storage containers for urban solid waste and special 

management waste in accordance with the provisions of this law and other legal 

regulations.

The Secretary will support these institutions, to promote the education 

and environmental culture in the state.

TITLE FOURTH: The Integral Management Waste

FIRST CHAPTER: From Waste Classification

Article 29.- Special management waste are classified as follows, except 

in the case considered hazardous waste by the general law and in the Mexican 

Official Standards for:

I. Waste rocks or decomposition products that may only be used for the 

manufacture of building materials or are intended for this purpose, as well as the 

products derived from the decomposition of rocks, excluding federal jurisdiction 

under Sections IV and V of Article 5 of the Mining Law;

II. Health services waste generated by establishments performing 

medical-care activities to human or animal populations, research centers, with the 

exception of biological-infectious;
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III. Waste generated by fish farming, agriculture, forestry, poultry or 

livestock waste including the inputs used in these activities;

IV. Non-hazardous industrial waste generated by industrial processes or 

installations which do not have hazardous characteristics in accordance with 

existing environmental regulations;

V. Waste from transport services, as well as those generated as a result 

of the activities taking place in airports, railway terminals and customs;

VI. Sludge from wastewater treatment;

VII. Waste from department stores or shopping centers generated in 

large volumes;

VIII. Construction waste, general maintenance and demolition;

IX. Technological waste from the industries of information technology, 

electronics manufacturers or motor vehicles and others which, passing its life, by 

their nature, require specific management and

X. Others who are determined as such by the Secretary.

SECOND CHAPTER: General Obligations of Waste Generators

Article 32.- The individuals and businesses that generate urban solid 

waste and special management waste will be responsible until their reuse and / or 

disposal.

Article 33.- Is the obligation of every person generating urban solid waste 

and special management waste:

I. Separate and reduce waste generation;

II. Encourage the reuse and recycling of waste;

III. Comply with specific criteria, standards and technical 

recommendations applicable to the integrated management of urban solid waste 

and special management waste;

IV. Make known to the competent authorities deemed violations were 

committed against the regulation of waste

Article 34.- Large generators of special management waste, are obliged 

to:

VI. Submit to the Secretary an annual generation volumes and forms of 

waste management of special management generated in large volumes.

TITLE FIFTH: Integrated Waste Management

FIRST CHAPTER: Of the authorizations

Article 37.- The integrated management of waste comprises the following 

steps:

I. Source reduction;

II. Separation;

III. Reuse;

IV. Clean or sweep;

V. Collection;

VI. Gathering;

VII. Storage;
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VIII. Moving or transportation;

IX. Co-processing;

X. Treatment;

XI. Recycling, 

XII. Disposal.

The clean or sweep stage is excluded from the integrated waste 

management of special management waste

In the case of urban solid waste, clean or sweep stage , collection, 

transfer, or transportation treatment and disposal shall be provided by the 

municipalities for being a public service

Article 38.- Authorization is required from the Secretary to carry out the 

stages of integrated waste management of special management established in 

sections II, III and V to XII of the preceding article.

Municipalities may authorize the stages of the integrated management of 

urban solid waste identified in Sections V, VII, IX and XI of the preceding article.

The authorizations shall be granted for time.

The Regulation of this Act, shall indicate the terms and conditions of 

licenses.

SECOND CHAPTER: Phases of Integrated Waste Management

Article 43.- It is the responsibility of all urban solid waste and special 

management generators look for alternatives and implement actions to reduce or 

minimize the generation or where appropriate, strive for the biodegradability of 

these.

Article 51.- Collection of special management waste is obligation of its 

generators who may contract a management service company to perform this 

step.

Article 53.- Transportation of urban solid waste and special management 

waste in the state, will be made with the approval of state and municipal 

authorities in their jurisdiction.

For the transportation of urban solid waste and special management 

waste should be considered:

I. Necessary conditions for transportation, depending on the type of 

waste in question;

II. Security measures in the transport, both environmental in an integral 

way and human health as a priority, 

III. The best transport routes, depending on points of departure and 

destination of waste.

Article 54.- Sites for the treatment and final disposal of urban solid waste 

and special management waste, in addition to complying with the requirements 

set forth in Article 39 of this Act, shall require authorization of environmental 

impact in the terms established by the Law of Ecological Equilibrium and 

Environmental Protection of the State and other applicable regulations.
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TITLE SEVENTH: Safety measures, penalties, and repair of damage and 

resource review

SIXTH CHAPTER: Public Information

Article 80.- The State and municipal authorities develop, update and 

disseminate inventories of hazardous waste, urban solid waste and special 

management waste generation, according to their respective powers, for which 

will be based on data provided to them by generators and companies of waste 

management services, accordance with this Law and legal orders derived from it.

In addition, will integrate inventory of waste dumps or sites where have 

been abandoned illegally waste of different types in each state, in which settle 

data about their location, origin, characteristics and other information that are 

useful to the authorities, to develop measures to avoid or reduce risks. Integration 

of inventory will be based on criteria, methods and systems, previously agreed, 

standardized and disseminated.

3.2.2.1.3 Regulation of the Ecological Balance and Environmental 

Protection Law of the State of Coahuila de Zaragoza on matter of Environmental 

Impact

THIRD CHAPTER: Works and activities that require authorization in 

Environmental Impact and Exceptions

Article 7.- Those pretending to conduct or develop any of the following 

Works or activities, must submit to evaluation and require authorization from the 

Secretary on matters of environmental impact:

1. Works and activities of environmental sanitation such as wastewater 

treatment plants and integrated management of non-hazardous waste

2. Construction and operation of accumulation centers (acopio) and/or 

temporary storage of special-management waste.

3. Construction and operation of facilities for the segregation of specialmanagement waste.

4. Construction and operation of facilities or systems for specialmanagement waste treatment.

5. Construction and operation of special-management waste transfer 

stations.

8. Construction and operation of facilities for shelter of equipments, 

machinery and vehicles use on the transportation of special-management and 

solid-urban waste.

9. Construction and operation of final disposal sites of solid-urban and 

special-management waste.

10. Works and activities for the remediation of sites contaminated with 

special-management or solid-urban waste with a surface equal or higher that one 

hectare.

FIFTH CHAPTER: Procedure for evaluation of Environmental Impact 

Manifest

Article 23.- When is about works or activities of mining, parks, corridors, 

industrial zones or developments where no high-risk activities are considered; 
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storage, segregation, treatment facilities, transfer stations and final disposal sites 

of special-management and solid-urban waste that must be subject of the 

environmental impact evaluation procedure in conformance to this regulation, the 

Secretary will notify municipal governments, within the five following working days 

of the integration of the file, that a related environmental impact assessment has 

been received, with the objective that these, emit the opinion they consider 

opportune during the evaluation procedure.

Municipal authorities must emit their opinion in a time frame not longer 

that five working days, from the notification, in case of no response to the above, 

it will be understood that there are no observations to the project.

The authorization that the Secretary issues, does not obligate in any way 

to the municipal authorities to issue any authorization that corresponds to their 

applicable jurisdiction. 

3.2.2.1.4 Regulation of the Ecological Balance and Environmental 

Protection Law of the State of Coahuila de Zaragoza on matter of Contaminants 

Emissions and Transfer Registry

FIRST CHAPTER: General Provisions 

Article 3.- For the effects of this Regulation the definitions content in the 

Ecological Balance and Environmental Protection Law of the State of Coahuila de 

Zaragoza and other applicable laws, as well as the following:

XIII. Report: Annual Operations Report (COA), reporting instrument and 

compilation of information or the emissions and transfers of contaminants to air, 

water, soil sub-soil, special-management waste and materials, used for the 

updating of the Registry Database;

XIV.Registry: The Contaminants Emissions and Transfer Registry 

(RETC) of State jurisdiction, that integrates the information of the facilities subject 

to report about their contaminant emissions to the air, water and soil and sub-soil, 

special-management materials and waste, as well as those substances that 

competent authorities determinate, which will be operated and managed by the 

Environmental Secretary of the State of Coahuila de Zaragoza

XVII. Transfer: Translation of substances subject to report to a 

place physically separated from the facility that generated, with the intention of 

reuse, recycle, energy obtaining, treatment or confinement; including water 

discharges and management of special-management waste, except for their 

storage;

SECOND CHAPTER: Attributions on Registry of Emissions and Pollutant 

Transfer.

Article 4.- The Secretary is empowered to:

II. Integrate and keep the Registry updated with the information of fixed 

sources of their jurisdiction, about their contaminants emissions and transfers to 

the air, waste, soil and sub-soil, materials and waste, as well as the substances 

subject to State jurisdiction report for the contaminants emissions and transfer 

registry, and those established on the Mexican Official Norm or State Technical 

Norm published for such effect. Such registry will be operated and managed by 

the Secretary;
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Article 5.- Corresponds to the Municipalities:

II. To integrate and keep the Registry updated with the information of 

fixed sources of their competence, about their contaminants emissions and 

transfers to the air, waste, soil and sub-soil, materials and waste, as well as the 

substances subject to municipal jurisdiction report for the contaminants emissions 

and transfer registry, and those established on the Mexican Official Norm or State 

Technical Norm published for such effect. Such registry will be operated and 

managed by the municipalities;

Article 7.- The information integrated to the Registry Database presented 

by facilities subject to report, will be updated with the data corresponding to their 

contaminants and substances, materials and special-management waste 

emissions and transfer subject to report of State competence.

Article 8.- The Registry Database will be updated with the information 

presented by persons and companies responsible of facilities subject to report, to 

the Secretary or the competent authority of the municipalities, in which, the 

specific data per substance, material or special-management and solid-urban 

waste, will be integrated by source.

SECTION II: Conformation of the State Information Database.

Article 10.- Subject to reporting to State jurisdiction are those indicated in 

the article 101, fraction I, letters a, b and c of the Law, large-quantity generators of 

special-management waste in terms of the legal applicable dispositions, services 

providers that conduct one or more of the stages of separation, reuse, 

accumulation, recollection, storage, translation or transport, co-processing, 

treatment, recycle and final disposition, of special-management waste, as well as 

those that discharge wastewater into receptor bodies of State competence.

Article 11.- For the update of the Registry Database, facilities subject to 

report, must present the information regarding their contaminants emissions and 

transfer to the air, water, soil, sub-soil, materials and special-management waste, 

in conformance to the indicated in the articles 20 and 21 of this Regulation, as 

well as those substances established in the corresponding Mexican Official Norm 

or State Technical Norm.

The information pointed in the previous paragraph will be provided 

through the Report, which will be available at the Single Desks and the electronic 

portal of the Secretary, and will contain the following information:

VII. The inherent to the generation and transfer of special-management 

waste, which will contain the registry number of the generator, generation and 

transfer of special-management waste information, including the related to their 

storage within the facility, and their treatment and final disposition;
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3.2.2.2 Local laws

3.2.2.2.1 City of Acuña

Regulation of Ecology of the Municipality of City of Acuña, Coahuila.

CHAPTER II: Distribution and Coordination of Competencies.

SECTION I: Powers of the Authorities.

Article 8.- For the effects of this Regulation, the Municipal President will 

have the following attributions:

XVII. Apply the legal dispositions related to the prevention and control of 

the effects occurring for the generation, transport, storage, handling, treatment 

and final disposition of municipal solid waste;

XX. Apply the legal dispositions related to the prevention and control of 

the pollution caused by noise, vibration, thermal energy, light, electromagnetic 

radiations and odors harmful to the ecological balance and the environment, 

originated by fixed sources of air emissions operating as commercial or services 

facilities, as well as the result of open-fire burning of any type of non-hazardous 

waste;

FOURTH TITLE: From Environmental Protection.

CHAPTER I: General Provisions.

Article 70.- The office of the municipal public administration on 

environmental matters, in coordination with the offices and entities of the State 

public administration, and other authorities, in their corresponding competence 

ambit, must integrate an inventory of atmospheric emissions, wastewater 

discharges into sewer systems of their competence and materials and solid nonhazardous waste, in term of this Regulation; as well as coordinate the registries 

that the law establishes and create a consolidated information system based on 

the authorizations, licenses or permits that in the matter must be granted.

CHAPTER II: Prevention and Control of Atmospheric Pollution.

SECTION II: Control of Emissions from stationary sources.

Article 84.- The open-fire burning of any type of solid or liquid nonhazardous waste is forbidden; such as: tires, materials, plastics, oils and 

lubricants, solvents, used batteries, domestic trash and other; also the burning of 

dry grass and leaves, for the purpose of clearing o cleaning of urban properties.

Article 90.- Incineration, through controlled methods, of any type of waste 

considered as non-hazardous is subject to control dispositions indicated in the 

law.

CHAPTER V: Prevention and Control of Pollution of Soil and ecological 

deterioration in urban areas.

SECTION I: Handling and Disposal of Non-Hazardous Waste.

Article 129.- For the prevention and control of soil pollution, the following 

criteria will be considered:
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II. That the non-hazardous solid waste must be handled properly, since 

they constitute one of the main sources of soil pollution;

III. That it is necessary prevent reduce the generation of solid and 

industrial waste that are not considered as hazardous; incorporate techniques and 

procedures for the reuse and recycle, and also regulate their management and 

final disposition; and,

IV. That in sites, contaminated due to the presence of non-hazardous 

materials or waste, actions for the recovering or reestablishment of its conditions 

must be carried out, in ways that they could be used for any type of activity 

established in the urban development plan or ecological order applicable.

Article 130.- The criteria to prevent and control the soil pollution will be 

considered, particularly in:

II. The operation of systems for cleaning and final disposition of nonhazardous solid waste, including those known as sanitary landfills.

Article 132.- Corresponds to the municipality to apply the legal 

dispositions related to the management and final dispositions of municipal solid 

waste, for which they could:

I. Apply the legal dispositions related to the prevention and control of 

effects over the environmental occurring for the generation, transport, storage, 

handling, treatment and final dispositions of municipal solid waste;

II. Authorize the establishment of site designated for the final 

disposition of the municipal solid waste;

III. Enforce control over the installation and operation of the 

confinement or deposit of such waste;

IV. Enforce control and issue the corresponding authorizations related 

to the operation of the collection, storage, transport, housing, reuse, treatment 

and final disposition of municipal solid waste;

Article 133.- The generation, handling and final disposition of slowdegrading waste must observe the established on Mexican Official Norms that for 

such purpose the Federation issues. Also, generator will be responsible until its 

reuse and/or final disposition.

Article 135.- For the location, installation and operation of systems for the 

management of municipal solid waste, ecological orders, and municipal urban 

development plans and programs will be taken under consideration.

Article 136.- Competent municipal authorities will adopt the necessary 

measures with the purpose of restraining the generation of municipal solid waste 

and will incorporate techniques and procedures for its classification, reuse and 

recycle.

Article 137.- The municipalities, when consider necessary, could request 

to the Federation or the State the technical advice for:

I. The implementation and improvement of systems for the collection, 

transport and final disposition of municipal solid waste; and,
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II. The identification of alternatives for the reuse and final disposition of 

the waste mention, including the elaboration of inventories of the same and the 

generation sources.

Article 140.- To enforce what’s disposed in the previous article, the 

Ecology and primary services direction will have the following attributions:

XIV.- To orient the community about the waste and tires most convenient 

handling and recycling. The service providers dedicated to changing tires must 

charge $7.00 extra to users as cost of final disposition of the tires.

Article 163.- It is the obligation of neighbors, habitants and visitors of the 

municipality, to observe the dispositions previously described in this Chapter, in 

addition to the following determinations:

V. Not throwing or abandon in vacant lots or public ways, dead animal, 

toxic waste or substances or any other waste that could present unpleasant 

odors;

IX. Avoid open-fire burning of tires, plastics, leaves and in general, any 

solid waste which combustion pollutes the environment.

3.2.2.2.2 Piedras Negras

Regulation of Ecology and Environmental Protection of the Municipality 

of Piedras Negras, Coahuila.

CHAPTER II: Distribution and Coordination of Competencies

SECTION I: Powers of the Authorities.

Article 8.- For the effects of this Regulation, the Municipal President will 

have the following attributions:

XVII. Apply the legal dispositions related to the prevention and 

control of the effects occurring for the generation, transport, storage, handling, 

treatment and final disposition of municipal solid waste;

XX. Apply the legal dispositions related to the prevention and control of 

the pollution caused by noise, vibration, thermal energy, light, electromagnetic 

radiations and odors harmful to the ecological balance and the environment, 

originated by fixed sources of air emissions operating as commercial or services 

facilities, as well as the result of open-fire burning of any type of non-hazardous 

waste;

Article 90.- The open-fire burning of any type of solid or liquid nonhazardous waste is forbidden: such as: tires, materials, plastics, oils and 

lubricants, solvents, used batteries, domestic trash and other; also the burning of 

dry grass and leaves, for the purpose of clearing o cleaning of urban properties.

Article 96.- Incineration, through controlled methods, of any type of waste 

considered as non-hazardous is subject to control dispositions indicated in the 

law.
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CHAPTER IV: Prevention and Control of Water Pollution.

Article 124.- To avoid water pollution, will be subject of regulations that, 

in their respective ambits of competence, municipalities issue:

VI. The discharges of waste, substances or waste generated by the 

activities of extraction of non-renewable resources;

VII. The discharge of solid waste, hazardous materials, and nonhazardous, and sludge coming from wastewater treatment into water bodies and 

flows.

CHAPTER V: Prevention and Control of Pollution of Soils and ecological 

deterioration in urban areas.

SECTION I: Handling and Disposal of Non-Hazardous Waste.

Article 135.- For the prevention and control of soil pollution, the following 

criteria will be considered:

II. That the non-hazardous solid waste must be handled properly, since 

they constitute one of the main sources of soil pollution;

III. That it is necessary prevent reduce the generation of solid and 

industrial waste that are not considered as hazardous; incorporate techniques and 

procedures for the reuse and recycle, and also regulate their management and 

final disposition; and,

IV. That in sites, contaminated due to the presence of non-hazardous 

materials or waste, actions for the recovering or reestablishment of its conditions 

must be carried out, in ways that they could be used for any type of activity 

established in the urban development plan or ecological order applicable.

Article 136.- The criteria to prevent and control the soil pollution will be 

considered, particularly in:

II. The operation of systems for cleaning and final disposition of nonhazardous solid waste, including those known as sanitary landfills.

Article 137.- Waste that accumulate or could accumulate and are 

deposited or infiltrated in the ground must comply the necessary conditions to 

prevent or avoid:

I. Soil contamination;

II. Alterations harmful to the biological process of the soil;

III. Alterations to the soil that damage its profit, use or exploitation; and,

IV. Health risks and problems.

Article 138.- Corresponds to the municipality to apply the legal 

dispositions related to the management and final dispositions of municipal solid 

waste, for which they could:

I. Apply the legal dispositions related to the prevention and control of 

effects over the environmental occurring for the generation, transport, storage, 

handling, treatment and final dispositions of municipal solid waste;

II. Authorize the establishment of site designated for the final 

disposition of the municipal solid waste;

III. Enforce control over the installation and operation of the 

confinement or deposit of such waste;
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IV. Enforce control and issue the corresponding authorizations related 

to the operation of the collection, storage, transport, housing, reuse, treatment 

and final disposition of municipal solid waste.

Article 139.- The generation, handling and final disposition of slowdegrading waste must observe the established on Mexican Official Norms that for 

such purpose the Federation issues. Also, generator will be responsible until its 

reuse and/or final disposition.

Article 140.- All discharges or deposits of municipal solid waste, will be 

subject of what this Regulation establishes, the law and the Mexican official 

norms that the Federation for such effect issues.

Article 141.- For the location, installation and operation of systems for the 

management of municipal solid waste, ecological orders, and municipal urban 

development plans and programs will be taken under consideration.

Article 143.- The municipalities, when consider necessary, could request 

to the Federation or the State the technical advice for:

I. The implementation and improvement of systems for the collection, 

transport and final disposition of municipal solid waste; and,

II. The identification of alternatives for the reuse and final disposition of 

the waste mention, including the elaboration of inventories of the same and the 

generation sources.

Article 169.- It is the obligation of neighbors, habitants and visitors of the 

municipality, to observe the dispositions previously described in this Chapter, in 

addition to the following determinations:

VI. Not throwing trash into vacant lots, empty house or in general, in 

place not authorized for the deposit of waste;

Avoid open-fire burning of tires, plastics, leaves and in general, any solid 

waste which combustion pollutes the environment.

3.2.2.2.3 Nava

No regulatory waste tire management regulatory framework or agencies 

found in Nava legislation.

3.2.3 Nuevo Leon

3.2.3.1 State Laws

3.2.3.1.1 Environmental Law of the State of Nuevo Leon

TITLE FIRST: General Dispositions

CHAPTER I: Preliminary Norms

Article 3.- For purposes of this Act means:

XXXIV. Integrated waste management: articulated and interrelated set of 

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educational, of monitoring, supervision and evaluation to waste management from 

generation to final disposal, to achieve environmental benefits, economic 

optimization of their management and social acceptance, responding to the needs 

and circumstances of each locality or region;

XXXVII. Incineration: Any process to reduce the volume and 

decomposing or change the physical, chemical or biological composition of a solid 

waste liquid or gaseous, by thermal oxidation, in which all the combustion factors 

such as temperature, time of retention and turbulence can be controlled in order 

to achieve efficiency, effectiveness and environmental parameters previously 

established. This definition includes pyrolysis, gasification and plasma, only when 

the combustible byproducts generated in these processes are subjected to 

combustion in an oxygen-rich environment;

LIV. Reuse: Use of a previously used material or waste, without an 

intervening processing;

LVII. Waste: Material or product whose owner or holder disposes and it is 

in solid or semisolid state, or is a liquid or gas in containers or tanks, and can be 

valuated or requires treatment or disposal under the dispositions of the General 

Law for the Prevention and Integrated Management of Waste and other 

applicable regulations.

LIX. Special Management Waste: those generated in the productive 

processes, which do not meet the characteristics to be considered as hazardous 

or urban solid waste, or which are produced by large generators of urban solid 

waste.

CHAPTER II: Prevention and control of pollution to the atmosphere.

Section II: Prevention and control of pollutants emissions from fixed 

sources

Article 143. - It is prohibited open-fire burning of urban solid waste as 

well as vegetable material resulting from cleaning, disassemble, or paring of any 

land for purposes of construction or any other purpose, except when conducted 

with a written authorization from the Secretary or, where appropriate, the 

municipal authorities as appropriate. The Secretary or the municipalities may only 

issue permits in cases where the burning will not cause an environmental risk or 

impact air quality and justified for social reasons or agricultural, or other applied in 

the opinion of the respective authorities. It also prohibits the incineration of 

municipal solid waste.

Incineration of special management waste only can be made on 

industrial processes or services as an alternate means for energy generation, To 

do this it must obtain prior authorization from the Secretary, for which those 

interested will formulate and submit Management Plan which state:

I. Residues are not susceptible to be valuated using other processes 

when they become available, are environmentally effective, technologically and 

economically feasible;

II. Description of the method of incineration and equipment to be used for 

efficient combustion, avoiding conditions for the formation of persistent organic 

pollutants, minimizing which are generated and managing generated waste 

material properly;
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III. The obligation to comply with the provisions of this Act specified in

emissions, and,

IV. The others which are specified in the Regulation of this Law

CHAPTER IV: Prevention and control of pollution of the soil

Article 166. - For the prevention and control of soil contamination is 

considered the criteria set forth in this Law, the Law for the Prevention and 

Integral Management of Waste, and other applicable ordinances.

Article 167. - For the prevention and control of pollution of the soil, will 

consider the following criteria:

I. Corresponds to the State, the Municipalities and society, preventing 

soil pollution by promoting waste separation at source and the control and 

reduction of the generation urban solid waste and Special Management waste 

and incorporating techniques and procedures for reuse and recycling as well as 

use of biogas production from decomposition of organic waste as a renewable 

source of energy;

Article 168.-The criteria specified in the foregoing article shall be 

regarded as in: 

I. Land use, planning of human settlements and urban development 

planning; 

II. The operation of the systems clean, management and final disposal of 

solid urban waste and special management waste in landfills.

CHAPTER V: Management and Integrated Waste Management.

Article 169. - The authorities specified in this Act, shall exercise their 

powers on waste legislation, in accordance with the distribution of powers 

established by the General Law for Prevention and Integral Management of 

Waste, this Act and other applicable ordinances.

Article 170. - The waste which accumulate or may accumulate and be 

deposited or infiltrate the soil, must meet the conditions necessary to prevent or 

avoid:

I. Soil contamination;

II. Harmful alterations in the biological process of soils;

III. Changes in soil that may impair your benefit, use or exploitation, and;

IV. The risks and health problems.

Article 172.- Any person or entity that generates special management 

waste, is responsible for its management to final disposal, and can transfer that 

responsibility to the service providers for collection, transport or treatment of such 

waste to the effect that contract.

Article 172-Bis. - The service providers collect, transport or treatment of 

special management waste shall be authorized and registered for such purpose 

by the Secretary, it being necessary verify generators of such waste that 

companies providing services management and disposal thereof, have the 
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respective authorizations and effect, otherwise shall be liable for damages that 

are caused by management.

In case of contract management services and disposal of special 

management waste by companies authorized by the Secretary and the waste is 

delivered to these, the responsibility for the operations will correspond to the 

company, regardless of the responsibility of the generator.

Article 172-Bis 1. - special management waste may be transferred to 

industries for use as inputs in their processes, making previously known to the 

Secretary through a management plan for these inputs, which will be based on 

minimization of risks.

Article 173. - The natural or legal persons responsible for the production, 

distribution or marketing of goods that, after completing their useful life, generate 

solid waste and special management waste in high volume or produce significant 

environmental imbalances, shall, addition to the obligations stipulated in this Law 

and other applicable provisions, with the following:

I. Implement management plans for urban solid waste and special 

management waste in their production processes, service delivery or the use of 

packaging as well as their manufacture or design, marketing or use that contribute 

to waste minimization and promote the reduction of generation at source, 

recovery or disposal, which cause the least environmental impact;

II. Adopt efficient recovery systems to minimize, recycle or reuse of 

urban solid waste and special management waste from the commercialization of 

their final products, and

III. Promote the use of packaging that once used are subject to recovery 

through reuse and recycling processes.

The Regulation of this Law shall define the cases where it is deemed that 

the individuals or companies generate solid waste and special handling in high 

volume.

Article 174. - For the prevention of the generation, valuation and waste 

management are regulated by this Act, be included in the Regulations make 

provisions for management plans, guidelines and guidelines for large generators 

of such waste.

Article 175.- It is considered conduct violations or infringement of this 

Act, on waste legislation, the following:

I. Throwing or leaving on public roads, vacant lots, open pit, surface 

water or groundwater, drainage systems, sewers, parks, ravines, roads, 

highways, rivers, streams and generally in places not authorized by the authority, 

or those specified in this Act, urban solid waste and special management waste;

VII. Diluting or mixing solid urban waste or special management waste or 

hazardous waste in any liquid and discharged into the sewer system, any body of 

water or soils with or without vegetation;

X. Using vehicles or conveyances for the collection, management, 

storage, transfer or disposal of urban solid waste or special management waste, 
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which are not registered, through a folio number, with the Secretary, or 

municipality, as appropriate.

Article 176. - The Secretary shall prepare and update an inventory of 

special management waste and their types of generating sources, in order to:

I. Guide decision-making aimed at prevention, control and minimization 

of the generation of special management waste;

II. Provide to who generate, collect, treat, recycle or dispose of special 

management waste, with indicators of physical condition or features to anticipate 

their behavior in the environment and

III. Identify sources of generation of special management waste and 

urban solid waste, the characteristics that constitute them and aspects related 

with their valuation.

Violations of the provisions of this Article shall be punished in 

accordance with the provisions of this Law, subject to the provisions of other 

applicable laws.

Article 177. - In the area of waste, the Secretary shall issue permits for:

I. Service delivery of integrated management of special management 

waste;

VII. Collection, transportation, recycling, reuse and disposal of special 

management waste;

VIII. Operation of collection vehicles of urban solid waste when they 

provide service to more than two municipalities and special management waste

moving in the State;

XI. Specific Management Plans for special management waste.

Article 179. - Sites intended to be used for disposal of waste covered by 

this Act, shall comply with applicable Mexican Official Standards and resolutive 

environmental impact issued for such purpose. They must also adhere to the 

guidelines provided in the plans of State and municipal urban development and in 

programs on environmental management and planning.

Article 180. - Authorities will take the measures necessary to streamline 

the generation of waste covered by this Act, and will promote the techniques and 

procedures for separation, sorting, reuse and recycling. Will also promote the 

manufacture and use, within their respective jurisdictions, packaging and 

containers for all kinds of products, which materials to reduce pollution to the 

environment.

Article 181-Bis. - In the case of rims and tires new or previously used by 

motor vehicles or other kind, will seek their reuse, in whole or in part, in industrial 

or production processes, as well as applications that do not involve a risk 

environment, thus preventing their use by incineration methods, favoring reuse or 

recycling by cutting mechanical systems or the like.

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The state and municipalities will encourage development policies that 

allow the reuse or recycling of this waste, in conformity with the official Mexican 

standards, state environmental rules or other applicable ordinances.

Article 181 Bis 1. - It is forbidden open accumulation of rims or tires new 

or previously used by motor vehicles or other kind and their burning under these 

conditions.

Consenting may only be for temporary accumulation of rims or tires new 

or previously used in the open, through the authorization if issued by the 

Secretary, which set a deadline that in no case exceeding six months, for transfer 

to a suitable site for disposal or storage.

The violation of the provisions of this Article shall be subject to penalties, 

to the depositor of rims and tires and new or previously used for legitimate 

purposes or who in fact have the disposition of the property, either in accordance 

with the provisions of this law.

TITLE SIXTH: Inspection and surveillance, security measures, sanctions 

and appeal of discontent

CHAPTER III: Administrative sanctions

Article 236. - Are considered violative conduct of this Law, the following:

I. Deposit, throw, drop, spill or burn waste, roads, highways, rights of 

way, vacant lots, privately owned land and in bodies or streams, or assigned state 

jurisdiction;

II. Generate waste from the categories specified in this Act and not 

meeting the provisions established in thereof, and other applicable laws;

III. Carry out the management and disposal waste without authorization;

Article 237. - The temporary closure of all or part, shall occur when:

VII. Carry out the management and disposal waste without authorization;

3.2.3.1.2 Law of the Environment and Natural Resources Protection 

Agency

CHAPTER I: General dispositions

Article 5. - The purpose of the Agency is:

V. Establishing general policies on recycling and waste disposal;

CHAPTER II Attributions and structure of the Agency

Article 8. - For the proper fulfillment of its objective, the Agency shall 

have the following powers:

V. Regulating collection systems, transportation, storage, management, 

treatment and disposal of solid and industrial waste that are not considered 

hazardous;

Article 16.- City hall may establish working committees, whether 

permanent or temporary, in order to conduct studies, analyzes and investigations 

of certain subject or issue, that allow the formulation corresponding opinions to 

the Agency, or to propose specific actions in the issues related to areas of 

competence of the Agency. The standing committees shall be:

II. Soil and Waste;
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3.2.3.1.3 Regulation of the Environmental Law of the State of Nuevo 

Leon

TITLE SECOND: Evaluation of Environmental Impact

CHAPTER I: Authorizations

Article 6. - Those who intend to do any of the following works or activities 

required prior authorization from the Agency regarding environmental impact:

VIII. Facilities that will make the collection, separation, sale of recyclable 

material in quantities of 10 or more tons per year, or in the establishments in 

which treatments are carried out in general special management waste and urban 

solid waste as well as those disposal sites urban solid waste and special 

management waste in accordance with the provisions of the General Law on the 

Prevention and Integrated Waste Management, Regulations and other applicable 

provisions, -

XVII. Commercial and service establishments that are included in the 

partial plans for urban development, as long as they are in any of the following 

assumptions:

f. Generated in quantities equal to or greater than 400 kilograms of waste 

per year of special management waste;

Article 11.- In the case of works or activities to be subject to the 

procedure of environmental impact assessment in accordance with the Act and 

this Regulation, consisting of state public works such as roads or highways, 

facilities for wastewater treatment, confinement of solid waste or special 

management, hazardous industries that do not fall within the federation, or tourist 

real estate developments of over 20 hectares, of over 20,000 m2 hotel, and 

generally works intending to be in flood zones or gradients greater than 30% in 

protected areas, in soils impacted with debris, or those not provided or prohibited 

in urban development plans, for which the Agency to require expansion of items 

and information shall be notified by official letter or official electronic mail 

municipal governments, in terms of the provisions of Article 41 of the Act where 

appropriate authorization issued by the Agency, not in any way require local 

authorities to issue authorizations to them in the scope of their respective 

competencies.

TITLE FOURTH: Self-Regulatory Instruments

CHAPTER II: Environmental Audits Development

Article 88. - The proposed action plan referred to in section VI of the 

previous article, incorporate preventive and corrective measures regarding the 

following matters, as appropriate:

IV. Urban solid waste and special management waste;

TITLE SIXTH: Environment Protection

FOURTH CHAPTER: Prevention and Control of Pollution on the Ground 

and Integrated Waste Management

Article 186.- Without prejudice to the provisions of the Act, it is prohibited:

I. Dispose of waste in a manner that causes harm to the environment or 

endangers the health, welfare and safety of persons;
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II. Depositing waste in final destinations other than those provided in the 

Act or this Regulation;

III. Construct, operate or close a facility in which there is any of various 

forms comprising the integrated management of municipal solid waste or special 

management, without proper notification, registration or authorization by the 

Agency and / or the relevant municipality ;

VI. Deposited in landfills used tires that have not been previously 

crushed or cut into pieces to avoid the accumulation of air, water or liquid inside, 

except when competent authorities consider it justifiable;

IX. Discharge in aquifers or surface waters, wastewater generated in a 

facility of management of urban solid waste or special management waste, 

without compliance with applicable legal provisions;

XI. Store special management waste and urban solid that are 

inconsistent in terms of the applicable regulations;

XII. Store special management waste and urban solid in quantities 

exceeding the storage capacity and,

XIII. Store special management waste and urban solid in areas that do 

not qualify under the Act or this Regulation, or that are prone to flooding.

Article 187.- It is the responsibility of the municipal authority provide as 

necessary to prevent the clogging of storm sewer systems or sewage with solid 

waste or special management.

Article 191.- The facilities in which they perform the collection, 

separation, sale of recyclable material, or in the establishments in which 

treatments are carried out in general special management waste and urban solid 

as well as those disposal sites for urban solid waste and Special Management, 

whether public or private, require authorization from the Agency.

Article 192.- The person responsible for obtaining any authorizations 

referred to in the preceding article, shall submit the relevant application stating:

I. Name, address and particulars of the applicant and his legal 

representative, having to prove the personality that appears;

II. The kind of waste in question;

III. The composition waste generated;

IV. The volume waste generated;

V. The origin of the various waste;

VI. The frequency with which they generate;

VII. The process to be used for storage, treatment, transport or transfer 

and disposal;

VIII. The delimitation of the land area that is to make the storage, 

treatment or disposal of waste, pointing at a map or sketch, the location, 

boundaries and area;

IX. Evidence that the information provided, and,

X. Other established in the appropriate formats.

Once the Agency has received this information, it can make a visit to the 

place where these waste are generated in order to verify the information received.
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Article 193. - The Agency shall issue the corresponding technical report 

to determine if the process of management or disposal of waste special 

management or urban or their confinement, can contaminate soil, alter or produce 

biological process risks or problems health or environmental emergency.

Also be made with regard to hazardous waste generated or managed by 

micro generators, in accordance with the agreements or coordination agreements 

for that purpose the Agency subscribes to the Federation and shall be published 

in the Official State Newspaper.

Article 195. - For purposes of Article 173 of the Act, it is considered that 

individuals or companies generate urban solid waste and Special Management 

waste at high volume they generate an amount not less than ten tons gross 

weight of waste per year or equivalent to another unit of measure.

Article 197. - To comply with Article 176 of the Act, generators and 

recyclers of waste special management shall be registered with the Agency in 

accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 208 of this Regulation.

Article 206. - Municipalities with each other, and these with the State, 

may enter into agreements for the implementation and improvement of collection 

systems and collection, storage, transfer, transport and disposal of municipal solid 

waste and for reuse or treatment, especially in the urban zones.

TITLE SEVENTH

SINGLE CHAPTER: State Environmental Information System and 

Natural Resources

Article 217.- The Agency shall keep a current inventory of discharges of 

wastewater into sewer systems, septic tanks or receiving bodies of their 

competence, as well as materials and waste that are not reserved to the 

Federation, such as special management waste and hazardous waste managed 

or generated by micro generators, as provided by the General Law on the 

Prevention and Integral Management of Waste and other regulations in the 

matter.

TITLE EIGHT: Record pollutant release and transfer of contaminants

CHAPTER II: The formation of the state information database register

Article 225.- Are considered liable to local competition report, those listed 

in Article 137 of this Regulation, the micro generators of hazardous waste or the 

terms of agreements with the Federation, the generators of waste special 

management in terms of the applicable provisions, as well as those who 

discharge wastewater into bodies of state competition or in the sewer system.
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3.2.3.2 Local Laws

3.2.3.2.1 Anahuac

Civil Guard Regulation

Article 42.- It an obligation of the owners, tenants or users of barren 

areas of inhabited or uninhabited, within the population centers of the 

municipality, to maintain yards free of ignitable materials such as dry weeds or 

grass, wood, tires, solvents and garbage among others.

3.2.4 Tamaulipas

3.2.4.1 State Laws

3.2.4.1.1 Environmental Protection Law for the sustainable 

development of the State of Tamaulipas.

TITLE FIRST: General Provisions

SINGLE CHAPTER

Article 3.- For all relating to the present Law, it will be subject to the 

following definitions:

d) Special Management Waste Final disposal: Action to permanently 

deposit waste in and adequate sites and conditions to avoid damage to the 

environment.

r) Waste collection: Action to accept and transfer the waste to storage, 

treatment and reuse or disposal.

s) Recycling: Method of processing, transforming and adaptation of 

waste for productive purposes.

t) Special management waste: Remnants generated in production 

processes that do not have the characteristics to be considered hazardous waste 

or solid waste, or that are produced by large generators of urban solid waste.

TITLE SECOND: Competence Distribution and Coordination

CHAPTER I: Competence Distributions

Article 5.- Responsibility of the State, through the Secretary:

d) Regulation and Prevention of the generation, transportation, use and 

integrated management of special management waste and hazardous waste that 

has assigned.

Article 6.- Compete to City hall

x) Regulation of the generation, transportation, storage, manage, 

treatment and disposal of solid waste and special management waste that has 

assigned.

TITLE FOURTH: Environmental Policy Instruments

CHAPTER V: Environmental impact assessment 

Article 34.- Whoever intend to conduct the following works or activities, 

whether public or private will need environmental impact authorization:
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f) Facilities for treatment, recovery and disposal of urban solid waste and 

special management waste.

TITLE SEVENTH: Environmental protection and regulation

CHAPTER I: Prevention and control of Atmospheric pollution.

Article 115.- Secretary or City halls, within their jurisdiction, establish 

mechanisms to prevent or prohibit:

c).- Burning of waste and any solid or liquid residue, including among 

others, domestic trash, straw, dried grass, agricultural waste, used tires, plastics, 

lubricants and used solvents, and well as burnings clearing or weeding purposes, 

except those which are subject to compliance with applicable regulations.

CHAPTER V: Special management and urban solid waste

Article 138.- State and local authorities will promote rationalization in the 

production of waste and shall take the necessary measures to incorporate 

techniques and procedures for recycling and reuse.

Article 139.- Accumulated solid waste or may accumulate and be 

deposited or infiltrate the soil, must meet the necessary conditions to prevent or 

avoid:

a) Soil contamination

b) Changes harmful biological processes of soil

c) Changes in the soil that affect its development, use or exploitation

d) Risks and health problems.

Article 140.- There must be authorization from the respective City hall for 

the operation of collection, storage, transport, reuse, treatment and disposal 

systems of urban solid waste. Such authorization may be granted only when the 

operation of such systems is carrying out as established by regulations and 

Official Mexican Standards.

Article 141.- Generation, management and final disposal of slow 

degradation waste must be subject to what is established in State environmental 

regulations issued by the Secretary.

Article 143.- Applies to municipalities:

a) Formulate dispositions to regulate, within its jurisdiction, collection, 

treatment and disposal of urban solid waste, as well as provided in the General 

Law for the Prevention and Integrated Management of Waste, the present Law, its 

regulations and Mexican Official Standards for;

b).- Authorize the establishment of sites for the final disposal of urban 

solid waste

c).- Control facilities and operation of landfills or waste confinements.

d).- Exercise control and issue the appropriate permits for operation of 

collection, storage, transport, accommodation, reuse, treatment and disposal 

systems of urban solid waste

e).- Have an inventory of deposits or solid waste confinements and as 

well as generating sources whose data will be integrated into Environmental 

Information System operated by the Secretary. 
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Article 144.- Sites intended to be used for disposal of urban solid waste

and special management waste, shall comply with relevant environmental 

regulations and environmental impact authorizations issued for this purpose and 

shall comply with the guidelines established in state and municipal urban 

development plans, and population centers, as well as Ecological Regulation 

Programs

Article 145.- In order to prevent and control the adverse effects which 

may cause the solid waste and special management waste, respective City hall, 

with the corresponding participation of the State, will boost the following 

programs:

a) Separation, reuse and recycling of waste;

b) Awareness and neighborhood organization to prevent waste of any 

kind to be deposited and thrown into public areas.

c) Cleaning and control of the vacant lands so that they do not become 

urban solid and special management waste dumps, as well as focus of public 

unsanitary and pollution;

d) Any other aimed at preventing and controlling pollution caused by 

waste

e) Remediation of polluted sites.

Article 146.- In the absence of normatively appropriate technique cells for 

the special management waste final disposal in authorized landfills, the petitioners 

must submit to the Secretary an executive project that establishes the possible 

site, design and construction, plus the environmental impact assessment that is 

required under the terms of this Law for the corresponding evaluation.

Article 147.- Establishes the following prohibitions:

a) Enabling waste dump or open-fire incineration.

b) Storage, housing, reuse and disposal of urban solid waste and special 

management waste, without complying with relevant environmental regulations or 

authorizations respective environmental impact.

d) Waste dumping on public roads, vacant lots, ravines, gullies, sewer 

pipes, electrical or telephone wiring, gas, in water bodies, underground cavities, 

natural protected areas and ecological conservation areas, rural areas and places 

without explicit authorization issued by competent authority.

e) Final disposal of sludge from industrial processes and treatment 

plants, as well as special management waste in authorized municipal landfills 

special management, except in the case the landfill has technical cells and 

normatively suitable for final disposal and previous authorization from the 

Secretary.

Article 148.- Every state or municipal waste generator will have shared 

responsibility with those responsible for transportation, management or waste 

disposal processes.
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TITLE TENTH: Social participation

CHAPTER II: State and Municipal Ecology Committee

Article 161.- Ecological municipal committees will be agencies 

responsible for citizen dialogue and will look for the participation of the community 

in:

a) Information dissemination and training programs, urban solid, 

hazardous and non-hazardous industrial waste.

TITLE ELEVENTH: Inspection and surveillance, security measures and 

sanctions

CHAPTER III: Administrative sanctions

Article 173.- Violations to the provisions of this Law, regulations and 

dispositions derived from it constitute infringement and will be sanctioned 

administratively by the Secretary or municipalities within their jurisdiction, as 

follows:

b) Fine from 20 to 100 days of minimum salary effective in the State 

capital to anyone who:

I.- Deposit, abandon, spill or burn urban solid or special management 

waste in roads, highways, rights of way, vacant lots, private properties and bodies 

of water of State competition;

d).- Fine of 1,000 to 5,000 days of existing minimum salary effective in 

the capital of the State to anyone who:

III.- Generate, manage or dispose special management waste without 

previous authorization;

IV.- Being a rural or urban property owner authorizes its use for the 

disposal of urban solid or special management waste.

3.2.4.1.2 Law of Ecological Equilibrium and Environmental Protection 

of the State of Tamaulipas

TITLE FIRST: General Provisions

CHAPTER I: Introductory rules

Article 4.- For purposes of this Act shall be considered, in addition to the 

definitions contained in the General Law of Ecological Equilibrium and 

Environmental Protection, the following:

Non-hazardous waste storage: Action for collection and retention of nonhazardous waste, while are processed for exploitation.

Deposit: Place intended for the conservation of materials or residues for 

control and exploitation. 

Non-hazardous solid waste management: It is the set of operations 

related to harvest, transport, reuse, storage, treatment and disposal of nonhazardous solid waste. 

Non-hazardous solid waste reuse: It is the process of utilization of nonhazardous solid waste that have been treated and can be applied to a new 

process of transformation or any other 

Non-hazardous solid waste treatment: It is the process to transform nonhazardous waste whereby its characteristics are changed.
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TITLE SECOND: Competence Distributions

SOLE CHAPTER: Competences

Article 6.- Responsibility of the State:

X. Regulate management and disposal of non-hazardous solid waste, 

according to the General Law of Ecological Equilibrium and Environmental 

Protection.

Article 7.- Responsibility of the Municipality:

XXVIII. Regulate management and disposal of non-hazardous solid 

waste, according to the General Law of Ecological Equilibrium and Environmental 

Protection.

TITLE FIFTH: Environmental Protection

CHAPTER IV: High Risk Activities

Article 95.- Correspond to City halls control of risky activities in following 

cases:

I.- When developing risky activities non-hazardous waste are generate 

and dumped into drainage and sewerage systems of population centers, or be 

integrated into the trash; 

II.- When risky activities are related to non-hazardous waste generated 

in public services whose regulation or management corresponds to the 

municipalities or are related to these services.

Article 96.- When risky facilities exist or hazardous waste are generated 

causing or may cause environmental contingencies or ecological emergencies 

and by its effects go beyond the territory of the state, state authorities may apply 

by themselves the security measures necessary to protect the ecological 

equilibrium and the environment, without prejudice to the powers that Federation 

compete in this area.

CHAPTER V. Management and non-hazardous waste disposal

Article 97.- State and local authorities will promote the rationalization of 

waste generation and take the necessary measures to incorporate techniques 

and procedures for reuse and recycling.

Article 98.- Accumulate solid waste or may accumulate and be deposited 

or infiltrate the soil, must meet the conditions necessary to prevent or avoid

I. Soil pollution.

II. Harmful alterations to soil biological processes.

III. Soil alterations that affect its development, use or exploitation and,

IV. Risks and health problems.

Article 99.- There must be authorization from the respective City hall for 

the operation of collection, storage, transport, accommodation, reuse, treatment 

and disposal systems of non-hazardous solid waste. Such authorization may be 

granted only when the operation of systems is fulfilled according to established 

regulations and Ecological Technical Standards.
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Article 100.- Industrial activities generating slow degradation residues, 

will be carried out in accordance with the provisions of General Law of Ecological 

Equilibrium and Environmental Protection and its regulations. In final disposal of 

waste will be attended as stated in this Law.

Article 102.- Collection, storage, transport, accommodation, reuse, 

treatment and disposal systems of non-hazardous solid waste may grant 

concessions for individuals subjecting to Standards issued by the Secretary.

Article 103.- Responsibility of the Municipality:

I.- Formulate regulating provisions, within its jurisdiction, the activities of 

collection, treatment and disposal of nonhazardous solid waste, according to the 

General Law of Ecological Equilibrium and Environmental Protection, present 

Law, its regulations and Ecological Technical standards for; 

II. Authorize the establishment of sites for disposal of non-hazardous 

waste; 

III. Control facilities and operation of confinements and waste deposits; 

IV. Monitor and issue the appropriate authorizations with respect to the 

operation of collection, storage, transport, accommodation, reuse, treatment and 

disposal systems of non-hazardous solid waste. 

V. Maintain an inventory of confinements or non-hazardous solid waste 

deposits, as well as generating sources whose data will be Integrated into the 

Environmental Information National System to be operated by the Urban 

Development and Ecology Secretary.

Article 104.- Powers of the state and municipalities in matters covered by 

this chapter may be exercised through: 

I. Urban development regulations.

II. Cleaning and urban solid waste disposal systems operation.

III. Granting authorizations for installation and operation of landfills or 

waste deposits.

3.2.4.1.3 Code for Sustainable Development of the State of 

Tamaulipas

TITLE FOURTH: Integrated management of waste

CHAPTER II: Classifications

Article 136.- Except in the case of waste considered as hazardous by the 

General Law of Waste and the corresponding Official Mexican standards, special 

management waste are classified as follows: 

V.- Transport services waste, as well as those generated as a result of 

activities conducted in ports, airports, rail and port and customs;

CHAPTER III: General Obligations

Article 139.- It is the obligation of every person generating urban solid 

waste or special management waste: 

I. Minimize the generation of waste and carry out their separation;

II. Promote reuse and recycling of waste;
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III. Comply with the provisions and technical standards for integrated 

management of solid waste generated;

IV. Inform the competent authorities violations were committed against 

waste regulations, and

V. Other established by legal regulations.

To fulfill these obligations the Environment Agency and the municipalities 

within their respective attributions shall carry out the actions of verification, 

inspection and monitoring of compliance of this Code.

Article 140.- Large generators of urban solid waste and special 

management waste generators, are obliged to:

I. Register with the Environmental Agency and obtain approval for waste

generated management;

II. Submit management plans, request validation, modification and

updating and register with the Environmental Agency;

III. Using the manifest system established by the Environment Agency to 

monitor the generation and types of integrated management of their waste 

throughout its life cycle;

IV. Develop and maintain logbooks updated where volume, type of waste 

generated and form of management is registered;

V. Operating the integrated management of waste themselves or through 

management service companies in accordance with the provisions of this Book 

and other ordinances that may apply;

VI. Submit to the Environmental Agency an annual generation volumes 

and forms of management for special management waste generated, and

VII. Have a environmental insurance, when required by the 

Environmental Agency.

3.2.4.2 Local laws

3.2.4.2.1 Nuevo Laredo

Regulations for the Ecological Equilibrium and Environmental Protection 

in the Municipality of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas

TITLE FIRST: Generalities

CHAPTER II: Definitions

Article 6.- For all relating to the present regulation, it will be subject to the 

following definitions:

Storage: Action to temporarily retain waste, while processed for use, are 

delivered to the collection service, or are disposed. 

Non-hazardous waste storage: Action for collection and retention of nonhazardous waste, while are processed for exploitation.

Dealer: Physical or moral authorized person by the municipality to 

collect, transport, store or recycle non-hazardous waste.

Deposit: Place intended for the conservation of materials or residues for 

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Disposal: Action to permanently deposit waste in appropriate sites and 

conditions to prevent damage to the environment 

Non-hazardous solid waste disposal: Action to permanently deposit of 

non-hazardous waste in appropriate sites and conditions to prevent damage to 

the environment 

Incineration: Treatment method which consists in the oxidation of waste, 

through controlled combustion.

Non-hazardous solid waste management: It is the set of operations 

related to harvest, transport, reuse, storage, treatment and disposal of nonhazardous solid waste. 

Environmental Impact Assessment: Document through which is given to 

know, based on studies, the potential and significant environmental impact which 

would generate a work or activity, as well as ways to prevent it or attenuate it, in 

case that it is negative. 

Recycling: It is the method of treatment, transformation and adaptation of 

waste, with productive purposes. 

Collecting: Action of transferring waste to the equipment designed to lead 

to storage, treatment or refusal facilities, or to its final disposal sites.

Waste: Any material generated in the processes of extraction, benefit, 

processing, production, consumption, use, control or treatment whose quality 

does not allow to use it again in the process.

Incompatible waste: Waste which cannot be mixed with another, reacts 

to produce heat or pressure, fire or evaporation; or particles, gases or hazardous 

vapors; it may be a violent reaction.

Non-hazardous solid waste reuse: Use of non-hazardous solid waste that 

have been treated and can be applied to a new transformation process or any 

other type.

CHAPTER III: Powers and functions of the City Hall

Article 9.- Powers and functions of the Ecology Municipal Advisory 

Council:

h) Assist in the actions taken, such as reforestation, solid waste 

management, soil erosion, urban impacts in the establishment of industries and 

activities that degrade population quality of life.

TITLE SECOND: Ecological Regulations and Land Use

CHAPTER II: Soil and Natural Resources protection

Article 27.- It is prohibited to deposit solid or liquids waste on 

unauthorized sites.

Article 27 BIS.- When transfer of solid or liquid non-hazardous waste

activities are carried out to authorized places by people providing this service 

under economic compensation, must have an authorization of the authority except 

for shipments of non-hazardous waste made by individuals. 

Precautions shall be taken in both cases to not allow during or after, 

spills in streets, otherwise they will be sanctioned.
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TITLE TENTH: Safety measures

Article 179.- Where imminent danger of ecological disequilibrium exists, 

damage or deterioration to natural resources, pollution situation with danger for 

ecosystems, its components or public health, the dependence may order some of 

the following security measures:

III. Neutralization or any similar action, to prevent materials or nonhazardous waste to generate the effects provided in the first paragraph of this 

article. Likewise, the dependence may promote to the competent authority the 

execution of one or more of the security measures established in other legal 

systems.

3.2.4.2.2 Guerrero

No regulatory waste tire management regulatory framework or agencies 

found in Guerrero legislation.

3.2.4.2.3 Miguel Aleman

No regulatory waste tire management regulatory framework or agencies 

found in Miguel Aleman legislation.

3.2.4.2.4 Camargo

No regulatory waste tire management regulatory framework or agencies 

found in Camargo legislation.

3.2.4.2.5 Gustavo Diaz Ordaz

No regulatory waste tire management regulatory framework or agencies 

found in Gustavo Diaz Ordaz legislation.

3.2.4.2.6 Reynosa

Regulation for the Ecological Equilibrium and Environmental Protection in 

the Municipality of Reynosa, Tamaulipas

TITLE FIRST

SINGLE CHAPTER: General Provisions

Article 6.- For the purposes of the provisions contained in the present 

regulation, are considered the definitions and concepts established in the General 

Law of Ecological Equilibrium and Environmental Protection and those derived 

from the law of Law of Ecological Equilibrium and Environmental Protection of the 

State of Tamaulipas.

Non-hazardous waste storage: Action for collection and retention of nonhazardous waste, while are processed for exploitation.

Deposit: Place intended for the conservation of materials or residues for 

control and exploitation. 
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Non-hazardous solid waste disposal: Action to permanently deposit of 

non-hazardous waste in appropriate sites and conditions to prevent damage to 

the environment 

Non-hazardous solid waste management: It is the set of operations 

related to harvest, transport, reuse, storage, treatment and disposal of nonhazardous solid waste. 

Recycling: It is the method of treatment, transformation and adaptation of 

waste, with productive purposes. 

Waste: Any material generated in the processes of extraction, benefit, 

processing, production, consumption, use, control or treatment whose quality 

does not allow using it again in the process.

Solid Waste: Non-hazardous solid waste resulting from domestic, 

commercial and small-scale service within the municipality.

Reuse of nonhazardous solid waste: The process of using nonhazardous solid waste which has been treated and will be applied to a new 

process of transformation or any other.

TITLE THIRD

SINGLE CHAPTER: Municipal authority attributions

Article 10.- Corresponds to the City Hall, through the Municipal President 

or the ecology direction, the following attributions: 

XXX. Decide on management and final disposal of solid waste that are 

not considered dangerous, by the General Law of Ecological Equilibrium and 

Environmental Protection

XLV. Management and final disposal of non-dangerous solid waste

regulation, in accordance with the provisions of the General Law of Ecological 

Equilibrium and Environmental Protection, as well as established by Law of 

Ecological Equilibrium and Environmental Protection of the State of Tamaulipas.

TITLE FIFTH

CHAPTER II: Atmospheric pollution prevention and control

Article 78.- It is prohibited to perform burnings of any material or waste, 

solid or liquid, or for the purpose of clearing or weeding, or simulacrum for fire 

control, without the authorization of the Ecology Direction, whoever intend to carry 

out a burning, must submit an application, largely justifying the reason why such 

action is required. The Municipal direction of Ecology will analyze the request and 

solve in one period not exceeding three days, approving, conditioning or denying 

permission. 

CHAPTER III: Soil and subsoil pollution and prevention and urban solid 

waste management

Article 100.- Individuals carrying out activities that generate nonhazardous solid waste and do not use the authorized Municipal collection, 

management, transport and final disposal service, will be responsible for these 

activities, as well as damages to human health, environment and scenery.

Article 101.- City hall shall exercise the powers set out in this chapter in:

I. Management and disposal of non-hazardous solid waste.

II. Granting authorizations for the establishment of sites for the final 

disposition of non-hazardous solid waste.
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IV Promotion and implementation of technical programs and procedures 

for reuse and recycling of non-hazardous solid waste, as well as promotion 

programs, techniques and procedures for the reduction of the generation of 

waste.

Article 102.- Authorizations issued by City hall to individuals for 

collection, transport, storage, hosting, reuse, treatment and final disposal of nonhazardous solid waste, shall be granted in accordance with the Ecological 

Techniques Standards and environmental control, as well as in accordance with 

other applicable provisions.

Article 103.- Established industries in the municipal territory are 

responsible for the storage, management, transportation and final destination of 

solid waste that can produce damage to human health and environment.

Article 104.- Established industries in the municipal territory, that in their 

production processes generate slow degradation or not degradable waste, will be 

subject to the provisions in this regulation, the General Law of Ecological 

Equilibrium and Environmental Protection, the Law of Ecological Equilibrium and 

Environmental Protection of the State of Tamaulipas and the other applicable 

provisions

Article 105.- It is prohibited to deposit in the municipal territory, any solid 

waste coming from other municipalities, or other federal entities, without the prior 

consent of the City hall, which, in its case, before granting, will request the 

payment of the respective rights. The aforementioned authorization shall be 

granted once the study and analysis of the classification of the relevant solid 

waste has been made, by the Direction of ecology who shall deliver an opinion.

Article 106.- City Hall through the Direction of Ecology, will take a 

pollutants, landfills and solid non-hazardous waste-generating sources inventory. 

Data obtained will be forwarded to the competent authorities, State and Federal, 

in order that they may be in the possibility to take decisions within the scope of 

their respective attributions.

Article 107.- For the purposes of this regulation non-hazardous solid 

waste are classified in the following way:

III Class three: Slow degradation materials.

IV Class four: Rapid degradation materials but if incinerated can produce 

toxic fumes.

Article 111.- City hall may prepare coordinating and consulting 

agreements with the Social Federal Secretary, for:

I. Instrumentation and improvement of collection, processing, use and 

final disposal of solid waste systems.

II. Identification of alternatives for reuse and disposal of solid waste, 

including inventories and their generating sources.
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3.2.4.2.7 Rio Bravo

Regulation for the Ecological Equilibrium and Environmental Protection in 

the Municipality of Rio Bravo, Tamaulipas

TITLE FIRST: General provisions

CHAPTER I: General Guidelines

Article 4.- For the purposes of this regulation, means:

Illegal dumping: Land spaces where waste are illegally deposited and 

produce an infection focus

Pollution: Action of harmfully alter a substance or organism due to effects 

of waste from human activity or the presence of certain germs.

CHAPTER III: Environmental protection local authority competence

Article 8.- Corresponds to the City Hall, through the Municipal President 

and the direction of ecology, the following functions:

XXX. Promote social participation in the management, treatment, 

disposal and separation of non-hazardous waste.

XXXII Advise social and private sectors in the evaluation and 

improvement of the collection, transfer, transportation, treatment and final 

disposal systems of waste, according to this regulation and in the formulation of 

the regulations for the provision of public services.

LX Preserve and restore the ecological equilibrium, and environmental 

protection in population centers, derived of services: sewerage, cleaning, 

markets, pantheons, trails, streets, parks, gardens, transit, local and foreign public 

transportation, bus stations, trucks, auto federal transportation workshops, 

garages individuals or private and those which change oil and tires located within 

the territory of the municipality.

LXI Decide on the management and final disposal of solid waste that are 

not considered hazardous, by the General Law of Ecological Equilibrium and 

Environmental Protection.

TITLE THIRD: Environmental Protection

CHAPTER II: Urban and suburban area common provisions

Article 50.- It is prohibited open-fire burning of trash, toxic materials, 

hospitals waste, fuel or tires. If necessary, it must be done under the authorization 

and supervision of the relevant authorities.

CHAPTER IV: Atmospheric environmental protection

Article 60.- It is prohibited the burning of any material or waste, solid or 

liquid, or for clearing or weeding purposes, either fire control simulacrum, without 

express authorization from the Direction of Ecology, whoever intend to carry out a 

burning, must submit an application, largely justifying the reason why such action 

is required. Direction will examine the request and will resolve in one period not 

exceeding 15 days, approving, conditioning or denying permission.
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CHAPTER VI: Soil protection and Urban solid waste management

Article 83.- For the protection and utilization of soils, as well as the 

correct and effective collection, management, reuse and disposal of nonhazardous waste, City hall will consider the following criteria.

I.- The productive land uses must not alter the equilibrium of ecosystems, 

so it should always take care of their physical integrity and avoid any practice that 

promotes erosion and degradation of the topographic characteristics that go 

against the environment.

II.- Degradation erosion and soil pollution, as well as the decline in 

productivity, has in the generation and the poor management of solid waste, its 

causes, therefore to maintain or increase productivity and soil conservation, it 

must regulate correct and punish any action or activity that solid waste generation 

may lead to the diminution of the characteristics.

Article 84.- Regarding the soil protection and urban solid waste 

management, corresponds to the City hall, through the Direction of Ecology in 

coordination with the Primary services Direction, the following functions:

I. Monitoring municipal services does not promote or generate solid 

waste with no control.

II. Operate or Commission the establishment of municipal service of 

cleaning, collection, recycling and final disposal of urban solid waste.

III.- Celebrate coordination agreements with the neighboring 

municipalities city halls in order to receive or send solid non-hazardous waste for 

final disposal in officially established sites.

IV.- Make respective denunciation to PROFEPA, of hazardous waste 

generating sources; including a record of quantities produced, its components and 

characteristics of the systems and management sites, transport, storage, 

accommodation, recovery, treatment and final disposal.

V.- Promote education and dissemination among the population about 

recycling and integrated management of urban solid waste, in order to rationalize 

the use of raw materials and reduce waste generation.

Article 89.- Individuals carrying out activities that generate solid waste, 

which do not use municipal services of collecting, management, transport and 

disposal, will be responsible for these activities as well as the damage of health, 

environment or scenery, and may being sanctioned, economically or suffer 

administrative arrests up to 36 hours; that will be imposed by the corresponding 

Municipal Authority.

Article 90.- Industries will be responsible for storage, management, 

transportation and final destination of solid and liquids waste produced, as well as 

damage to health, environment or scenery.

Article 93.- Within the Municipality, responsible for the generation, 

storage, management, transportation and final destination of solid waste, as well 

as the general public, are required to support the implementation of preventive 

measures for the purpose identified, in case of federal competition and, in case of 

municipal competition, will be established City hall, and will be subject to the 

Ecological Standards.
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Article 94.- it is prohibited in the municipality to transport and deposit, in 

the areas of final destination that purpose exist, all those solid waste from other 

municipalities or any other States, without the full consent and authorization of 

Public works, urban development, ecology and primary services Directions. 

Permission will be conditional to the type of solid waste, compliance with 

environmental standards issued and the payment of the corresponding fees.

Article 95.- It is prohibited to discharge solid and liquids waste of any kind 

in public roads, agricultural land, urban lands, vacant properties and abandoned 

farms.

3.2.4.2.8 Matamoros

Regulation for the Equilibrium and Environmental Protection in the 

Municipality of Matamoros, Tamaulipas

TITLE FIRST

CHAPTER I: General Provisions

Article 3.- For the purposes of this regulation, means:

XXIII. Non hazardous solid waste management: Joint operations of 

collection, transport, storage, recycling, treatment or disposal of waste.

XXXII. Landfills: Deposits of non-hazardous solid waste in the open, 

which must meet the characteristics described in this regulation.

XXXIII. Waste: Any material generated in extraction, benefit, processing, 

production, consumption, use, control or treatment processes, whose quality does 

not allow using it again in the process that generated it.

Article 4.- City hall is involved in:

XIII. The management and final disposal of solid waste that are not 

considered hazardous, by the General Law of ecological Equilibrium and 

Environmental Protection.

XXXII. Management and final disposal management of solid waste not 

considered hazardous, in accordance with the provisions of the General Law of 

ecological Equilibrium and Environmental Protection as well as established by the 

Law of Ecological Equilibrium and Environmental Protection of the State of 

Tamaulipas.

CHAPTER III: Environmental control Direction

Article 9.- Matamoros Municipality for exercising the powers given to 

municipalities by the Law of Ecological Equilibrium and Environmental Protection 

of the State of Tamaulipas will have the direction of Municipal Environmental 

Control, which shall have the following functions:

XVII. Management and final disposal of solid waste regulation that are 

not hazardous in accordance with the provisions of General Law of ecological 

Equilibrium and Environmental Protection, as well as according to the Law of 

Ecological Equilibrium and Environmental Protection of the State of Tamaulipas.
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TITLE THIRD

CHAPTER II: Soil and subsoil prevention and control of pollution. 

Article 50.- It is prohibited to perform any act or activity, linked with nonhazardous solid waste, unless it is done according to the provisions in this 

regulation.

Article 51.- Individuals carrying out activities that generate nonhazardous solid waste, which do not use the municipal cleaning public service, 

will be responsible for their activities, as well as damages to human health and 

environment in general

Article 52.- City hall shall exercise the established in this chapter in:

I. Management and disposal of non-hazardous solid waste.

II. Granting authorizations for the establishment of sites for disposal of 

non-hazardous solid waste.

III. Control and permanent and continuous surveillance on the facilities 

and the operation of landfills and confinements.

IV. Promotion and implementation of technical programs and procedures 

for reusing and recycling non-hazardous solid waste, as well as the promotion of 

programs, techniques and procedures for the reduction of the generation of those 

waste.

V. Promotion of programs, techniques and procedures for the reduction 

of the generation of non-hazardous solid waste.

VI. Other powers derived from the applicable provisions.

Article 53.- Authorizations issued by the city hall for the operation, 

collection, transport, storage, hosting, reuse, treatment and final disposal of nonhazardous solid waste, shall be granted according to Ecological and 

environmental control Standards as well as in accordance with other applicable 

provisions.

Article 54.- Industries established in the municipal territory, will be 

responsible for storage, management, transportation and final destination of solid 

waste that can produce damages to human health and the environment in 

General.

Article 55.- Industries within the municipality, that in their production 

processes generate slow degradation or not degradable waste, will be subject to 

provisions in this regulation, the General Law of ecological Equilibrium and

Environmental Protection, as well as according to the Law of Ecological 

Equilibrium and Environmental Protection of the State of Tamaulipas and other 

applicable provisions.

Article 56.- It is prohibited to deposit in the municipal territory, any solid 

waste coming from other municipalities, or other States, without the prior consent 

of the City hall, which before granted, will request the payment of the rights.
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The aforementioned authorization shall be granted once the study and 

analysis of the classification of the corresponding solid waste has made by the, 

who shall deliver an opinion on the subject.

Article 57.- City Hall through the Municipal Environmental Control 

Direction, will conduct an inventory of the confinements, landfills and nonhazardous solid waste generating sources. Data obtained by City hall will forward 

them to the Federal Social Development Secretary and the State, with the finality 

that these dependencies can take decisions within the scope of their respective 

powers.

Article 58.- For the purposes of this regulation non-hazardous solid waste

are classified in the following way:

B. CLASS II: Materials if incinerated generate fumes or highly toxic 

products.

C. CLASS III: Slow degradation materials.

Article 62.- City Hall may conduct coordinating and consulting 

agreements with the Social Federal Secretary, for:

I.- Introduction and improvement of systems of collection, processing, 

use and final disposal of solid waste.

II. Identification of alternatives for reuse and solid waste disposal

including inventories and their generating sources.
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4 Enforcement agencies

4.1 U.S. Enforcement Agencies

Two different levels of authority are involved in the main enforcement of 

applicable requirements for the management of scrap tires in the U.S. territory, as 

identified in the following sections.

4.1.1 Federal

The Federal authority is the Environmental Protection Agency 

(www.epa.gov).

4.1.2 State

Environmental Authority at State level in Texas is the Texas Commission 

on Environmental Quality (http://www.tceq.state.tx.us/).

4.2 Mexican Enforcement Agencies

Two different levels of authority are involved in the main enforcement of 

applicable requirements for the management of scrap tires in the U.S. territory, as 

identified in the following sections:

4.2.1 Federal

The Federal authority is the Mexican Secretary for the Environmental 

and Natural Resources (Secretaria del Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales,

SEMARNAT) (www.semarnat.gob.mx). The prosecutor agency at the service of 

SEMARNAT for the supervision of the applicably of federal regulations is the 

PROFEPA (Procuraduria Federal de Proteccion al Ambiente).

4.2.2 State

Four Mexican States are involved in the Texas-Mexico border area as 

previously identified. Each State with an environmental office, identified as 

follows:

 State of Coahuila Environmental Office (Secretaria del Medio 

Ambiente de Coahuila, SEMAC) (http://www.semac.gob.mx/).

 State of Chihuahua Urban Development and Ecology Office 

(Secretaria de Desarrollo Urbano y Ecologia, SEDUE) 

(www.chihuahua.gob.mx).

 State of Nuevo Leon Environment Protection and Natural Resources 

Agency (Subsecretaria de Proteccion al Medio Ambiente y Recursos 

Naturales, SPMARN) (www.nl.gob.mx).

 State of Tamaulipas Urban Development and Environment Office 

(Secretaria de Desarrollo Urbano y Medio Ambiente, SEDUMA) 

(seduma.tamaulipas.gob.mx).
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4.2.3 Municipal

Municipal Ecology and public Works departments are in charge of tire 

management enforcement in a municipal level when waste tires are generated as 

municipal solid waste.
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ATTACHMENT 23

Disposal cost savings per tire 

when disposing cut tires in 

Texas
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Table 1.

Disposal cost savings per tire when disposing cut tires in Texas

City

Waste tires proper 

disposal alternatives 

reported by generators 

and city authorities

Disposal fee per tire

Whole tires Additional information (US dollars, 

dollars)

Cut 

tires 

(dollars)

Difference 

(percentage)

Brownsville City's solid waste 

dumpsters $1.25 $0.25 80%

Comparing LIBERTY TIRE RECYCLING LLC 

price for a whole passenger tire in Pharr 

against disposal on Brownsville's city solid 

waste rental dumpsters.

Brownsville City landfill $0.91 $0.33 64% Comparing whole tire and cut tire (shredded) 

disposal costs in Brownsville's landfill.

Pharr Donna recycling center $1.50 $0.35 77%

Comparing disposal price of LIBERTY TIRE 

RECYCLING LLC for a whole tire in Pharr 

against Donna recycling center fee for cut 

tires.

Pharr Donna recycling center $1.50 $0.50 67%

Comparing disposal price of LIBERTY TIRE 

RECYCLING LLC for a whole tire in Pharr 

against Donna recycling center fee for cut 

tires.

Mc Allen DLD $1.50 $1.25 17%

Comparing disposal price of LIBERTY TIRE 

RECYCLING LLC for a whole tire in Pharr 

against DLD fee for a cut tire.

El Paso TRES PESETAS INC $1.50 $0.75 50% Comparing TRES PESETAS own fees.

El Paso TRES PESETAS INC $3.00 $0.75 75% Comparing TRES PESETAS own fees.

Geometric mean of savings 55%
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City of Laredo, TX and Pharr, TX 

Tire Ordinances common 

sections comparison
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Marked in blue are common contents in the Laredo and Pharr tire ordinance 

common sections. These contents should be present in any Tire ordinance to be passed on 

the Texas-Mexico border. 

Note: Always under the supervision and approval of a legal professional with experience in law making.

Table 1.

Comparison of ordinances common sections

Laredo Pharr

(Article IV of the Chapter 15, Part II of 

the Laredo Code of Ordinances.) (Ordinance No. 0-2010-33)

1.-Definitions

Dump

Health director Health director

Mobile tire repair road service unit Mobile tire repair road service unit

Scrap tire Scrap/Used/Waste tire

Tire business

Tire business operator

Tire recycling facility Tire recycling facility

Tires Tire

Manifest

Person

Waste tire hauler

Waste tire disposer

Waste tire generator
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Table 2.

Comparison of ordinances common sections

Laredo Pharr

(Article IV of the Chapter 15, Part II of 

the Laredo Code of Ordinances.) (Ordinance No. 0-2010-33)

2.-Tire business applications

Annual fee established depending on 

the number of employees ranging from 

$35 to $140 USD

Annual permit non refundable fee of 

$35 USD

1) The name, mailing address, county, 

telephone and facsimile numbers of the 

applicant; and

1. Name, physical address, telephone 

and facsimile number (if applicable), of 

the applicant.

2) The name, mailing address, county, 

and telephone number of the property 

owner where the tire business is 

located; and

2. Name, mailing address, telephone 

and facsimile number of the owner of 

the tire business (if different from #1 

above).

3) The tax identification number or tax 

payer identification number; and

3. Tax identification number or tax 

payer identification number.

4) The physical address where the tire 

business is located; and 4. Current physical address of the site.

5) The approximate number of tires 

that will be stored on site; and

5. Estimated number of tires that will 

be stored on site.

6) The existing zoning of the site and 

certified compliance with zoning laws by 

the City of Laredo zoning enforcement 

supervisor or designated 

representative; and

6. Conditional Use Permit issued by 

planning and Zoning Department.

7) Compliance with building codes and 

all applicable health and safety 

ordinances; and

8) Mobile tire repair road service units 

shall provide and demonstrate proof of 

vehicle license, current vehicle 

inspection sticker, current liability 

insurance and driver's license; and

9) The required annual registration fee.

7. Proof of current county business 

license, issued to the applicant at the 

proposed business address.
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Table 2.

Comparison of ordinances common sections

Laredo Pharr

(Article IV of the Chapter 15, Part II of 

the Laredo Code of Ordinances.) (Ordinance No. 0-2010-33)

2.-Tire business applications

8. A statement setting forth and 

describing the available space for 

properly accommodating and protecting 

all tires (site plan showing storage area 

and buildings)

9. Proof of insurance required as per 

Texas Financial Responsibility laws.

10. Such other and further information 

as the Public Works Department may 

require.
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Table 3.

Comparison of ordinances common sections

Laredo Pharr

(Article IV of the Chapter 15, Part II of 

the Laredo Code of Ordinances.) (Ordinance No. 0-2010-33)

3.-Denial of permit or renewal; suspension or revocation of permit

The health director may refuse to issue 

or renew a tire business and/or a mobile 

tire repair road service units permit(s) or 

may suspend or revoke such permit(s) 

if:

...the Public Works Department may 

refuse to issue or renew a tire business 

or tire hauler permit or may suspend or 

revoke such permit or decal if:

1. The applicant or permit holder 

refuses to permit entry into the tire 

business by the health director or his 

authorized representative or otherwise 

willfully obstructs the inspection of the 

tire business and or mobile tire repair 

road service unit; or

1) The applicant or permit holder 

refuses to allow entry into the tire 

business by the authorized 

representative(s) of the City or 

otherwise willfully obstructs the 

inspection of the tire business; or

2. There are repeated or a serious 

violation(s) of any city ordinance by the 

tire business and or mobile tire repair 

road service units; or

2) There are repeated or a serious 

violation(s) occurs of any city ordinance 

by the tire business or tire hauler; or

3. The tire business and or mobile tire 

repair road service units fails to comply 

with any provisions of the Article, or 

Chapter 15, Health and Sanitation, 

Article V, Dengue Fever Prevention and 

or any applicable city ordinance.

3) The tire business or tire hauler fails 

to comply with any provisions of this 

Article and/or any other applicable city 

ordinance(s); or

4) The tire business or tire hauler fails 

to comply with any applicable state or 

federal law, rule or regulation; or

5) The tire business knowingly 

authorizes a tire hauler who is not 

property permitted as required in 

section 26-190(Tire hauler permit) to 

transport tires on behalf of such 

business.
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Table 4.

Comparison of ordinances common sections

Laredo Pharr

(Article IV of the Chapter 15, Part II of 

the Laredo Code of Ordinances.) (Ordinance No. 0-2010-33)

4.-Disposal of tires and manifests

I. Individuals, tire businesses and 

mobile tire repair road service units may 

dispose of tires at the city landfill at a 

fee established by city ordinance, 

provided that the city landfill accepts the 

tires and/or signs a transmittal manifest. 

All landfill fees will be payable to the 

City of Laredo upon entrance to the city 

landfill; or

II. Tires may be disposed of by delivery 

and manifesting of tires through a 

registered tire transporter to a 

registered tire recycling facility or a tire 

disposal facility regulated and licensed 

by the state for the disposal and/or 

processing of tires, provided said 

transporter signs transmittal manifest 

and authorized disposal facility accepts 

the tires and signs the transmittal 

manifest.

e) Tires shall be properly disposed of in 

accordance with Section 26-195 by the 

delivery and manifesting of tires to an 

authorized tire disposal or tire recycling 

facility designated by the City. Tire 

businesses contracting with a tire 

hauler(s) for the proper disposal of tires 

generated by such business shall 

require such hauler(s) utilize a 

transmittal manifest documenting the 

pick-up and delivery of the tires to an 

authorized tire disposal or tire recycling 

facility.

Note: Laredo ordinance requires manifest according to Texas 

regulations, the Pharr ordinance states in section 26-195 (Disposal 

records/Transmittal manifest) the minimum data that must be available in 

each manifest, as well as other disposal records requirements.

a) It shall be unlawful for any person or 

tire business to cause, suffer or allow 

the dumping of tires at any place in the 

city of Pharr including, without limitation, 

in or on any public highway, road, 

street, alley or thoroughfare, including 

any portion of the right of way thereof, 

any public or private property in the City 

or any waters in the City.
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Table 4.

Comparison of ordinances common sections

Laredo Pharr

(Article IV of the Chapter 15, Part II of 

the Laredo Code of Ordinances.) (Ordinance No. 0-2010-33)

4.-Disposal of tires and manifests

b) It shall be unlawful for any person in 

a residential zone to accumulate more 

than five (5) scrap tires on or around 

property which they own or occupy.

c) A retail tire dealer may hold up to 

250 scrap tires in storage.

d) It shall be unlawful for any person 

or tire business to cause, suffer, or 

allow the disposal of whole tires in a 

landfill.
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Table 5.

Comparison of ordinances common sections

Laredo Pharr

(Article IV of the Chapter 15, Part II of 

the Laredo Code of Ordinances.) (Ordinance No. 0-2010-33)

5.-Penalties

...upon conviction by the municipal 

court of the city be subject to a 

minimum fine of five hundred dollars 

($500.00) or a fine not to exceed two 

thousand dollars ($2,000.00) for each 

offense, and each day of violation of 

said article shall constitute a separate 

offense.

...any tire business or tire hauler 

violating or failing to comply with any 

provision of this ordinance shall be 

guilty of a misdemeanor, subject to a 

civil penalty of $50.00/$500.00 up to 

$1,000.00/$2,000.00 for each offence 

as determined by the city municipal 

court.

a) The improper storage of one or 

more tires constitute a separate offense 

per tire and be punishable by a fine of 

fifty ($50.00) dollars for each

improperly stored tire on the location of 

the tire business. Each day of continued 

violation of this subsection constitutes a 

separate offence.

b) The transport of one or more tires 

without the required permit and decal 

shall constitute a separate offense per 

tire an be punishable by a fine of fifty 

($50.00) dollars for each tire being 

transported in violation to this Article. 

Each day of continued violation of this 

subsection constitutes a separate 

offence.

c) The improper dumping of a tire 

shall constitute a separate offense per 

tire and be punishable by a fine of one 

hundred ($100.00) dollars for each 

tire found improperly dumped that is 

related back to a specific tire business. 

Each day of continued violation of this 

subsection constitutes a separate 

offense.
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Table 5.

Comparison of ordinances common sections

Laredo Pharr

(Article IV of the Chapter 15, Part II of 

the Laredo Code of Ordinances.) (Ordinance No. 0-2010-33)

5.-Penalties

d) Any violation of this Ordinance shall 

be subject to both civil and criminal 

penalties. A criminal conviction shall be 

a class C misdemeanor. A violator shall 

also be subject to the maximum 

penalties allowed by law for failing to 

appear in Court when charged with an 

offense as described herein. If conduct 

constituting an offense under this 

ordinance also constitutes an offense 

under another law, the person may be 

prosecuted under all applicable laws.

Table 6.

Comparison of ordinances common sections

Laredo Pharr

(Article IV of the Chapter 15, Part II of 

the Laredo Code of Ordinances.) (Ordinance No. 0-2010-33)

6.-Injunctive relief

In addition to and cumulative of all other 

penalties, the health director shall have 

the right to seek injunctive relief for any 

violation(s) of this article.

In addition to, and cumulative of, all 

other penalties herein provided, the city 

of Pharr shall have the right to seek 

injunctive relief, for any violation(s) of 

this Article.
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Crackdown on Illegal Dumping - 

Handbook for Local Government
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Crackdown on Illegal Dumping - Handbook for Local Government 37

4.0 ILLEGAL DUMPING PREVENTION TECHNIQUES

When researchers at University College London studied 

the opportunities that give rise to illegal dumping 

they found that conventional enforcement tactics can 

sometimes reduce the activity quickly but the effects 

soon fade without additional preventive measures. 

Whereas well-designed and well-focused illegal 

dumping prevention programs can have a substantial 

and long-term impact on illegal dumping.12

Which techniques councils choose to adopt will depend 

on the analysis of existing data and information. 

Importantly, the decision must focus on the mechanism 

most suited to the problem, for example, increase 

the effort or reduce the rewards, before going on to 

select the particular technique that’s most likely to 

trigger it. Too often practitioners jump to the technique 

before thinking through how it is supposed to work 

and whether this is likely in the circumstances of the 

particular problem.

You will then need to monitor how it is done and the 

outcome to identify the need for any further intervention. 

This may involve refining the initial response, or if 

necessary trying something completely different. 

It may also be necessary to keep an eye on newly 

emerging problems so that they can be dealt with as 

quickly as possible. Where appropriate, a combination 

of mechanisms, if used strategically, can often be more 

effective.12

Figure 17 summarises the techniques you can use to 

tackle illegal dumping.

4.1 Increase the effort: make 

access difficult

In most cases illegal dumping takes very little effort. 

It can take more effort to dispose of waste legally than 

to dump it illegally. Councils can change the balance to 

make it easier to comply with the law and make it harder 

to not do so. Many areas continue to experience illegal 

dumping problems after being cleaned up. Effective 

structural solutions will increase the effort and risk of 

being caught thereby deterring offenders. Structural 

solutions can reduce accessibility to popular sites for 

illegal dumping.12 A clean up plus introducing signs, 

lighting, barriers, landscaping or increasing the visibility 

of a site can contribute to reducing or eliminating 

continued dumping.

Structural approaches

Councils across NSW have used the following structural 

approaches, usually combined with a mix of education 

and regulation.

Lighting

When lighting is used in other crime prevention 

strategies it can be an effective deterrent in poorly lit 

or remote areas. This may be useful where dumping 

occurs under the cover of darkness. Additional lighting 

increases the visibility of the offender and increases the 

risk of being caught. The impact of sensor lights has yet 

to be evaluated. 

Solar lights in 

hotspots

City of Canada Bay Council installed solar 

lights and signs in a dumping hot spot. 

Outcome

The enhanced lighting has deterred 

dumping in the area and resulted in fewer 

complaints to the council. Anecdotal 

opinion is that other known dumping areas 

near this hot spot are also experiencing less 

illegal dumping.
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Figure 17: The five main illegal dumping prevention mechanisms

1. Increase the effort: make access difficult (see Section 4.1)

Make access difficult to hot spots using structural approaches, such as:

• lighting

• landscaping, revegetation or beautification

• barriers, such as fences and locked gates, concrete blocks, logs and boulders and earth mounds.

2. Increase the risk of getting caught (see Section 4.2)

Strengthen surveillance:

• use surveillance cameras and signs to indicate the area is being watched

• increase patrols in hot spots

• assist community surveillance and reporting of suspect activities

• use aerial surveillance in rural and remote areas.

Carry out periodic, high-profile compliance campaigns.

Use partnerships with other councils, agencies and stakeholders.

Publicise successes as widely as possible.

3. Reduce the rewards: deny financial benefits (see Section 4.3)

Provide and/or promote free or subsidised waste services.

Issue fines to offenders.

Require offenders to clean up.

4. Reduce provocations: don’t give them a reason to dump (see Section 4.4)

Provide efficient and well communicated waste services.

Ensure reasonable waste service costs where possible.

Foster community pride by enhancing the area’s aesthetic appeal.

Keep areas free of illegally dumped material.

5. Remove excuses: educate and inform the community (see Section 4.5)

Publicise waste services.

Carry out education programs outlining responsibilities.

Keep areas free of illegally dumped material.

Install signs at hot spots with illegal dumping prevention messages. 

It is crucial to alter the perceived as well as the actual degree of effort, risk and reward involved.12
































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Landscaping, revegetation and 

beautification

Landscaping and revegetating a site can indicate it is 

valued, monitored and used. Simple landscape activities, 

such as grass cutting and weed removal, can be enough 

in some areas to suggest that a site is cared for and 

maintained, which will deter some of the nuisance 

dumping offenders.

Beautification, such as benches, pathways, picnic tables, 

murals or flowerbeds, can change a community’s 

perception of a site. Many communities will get involved 

in and take part in projects that build community pride 

and can lead to changed perceptions and increased 

community surveillance, which all contribute to 

increasing the risk for people illegally dumping. 

Barriers

Physical barricades that restrict access are very effective 

for reducing dumping in areas with a single point of 

entry, such as lanes, fire trails and private roads. Fences, 

posts, earth mounds, bollards and rocks have all been 

used to prevent vehicle access. Each site is unique and 

therefore deterrents need to be carefully managed and 

planned. On some sites a single barrier blocking access is 

all that is required. In some cases offenders may be able to 

continue to dump over a barrier, but this increases the risk 

of being caught and may deter the majority of offenders. 

Councils used funding from the 2002-2004 Illegal 

Dumping Clean-up and Deterrence Grants to build a 

range of physical barriers with varying success. They 

reported that some sites were difficult to enclose. 

Beautification: Woollahra Municipal Council’s ‘Liveable Lanes’ project

Woollahra Municipal Council’s ‘Liveable Lanes’ project was designed to change its community’s perception 

of back lanes as a dumping ground. The council was committed to beautify and improve the look and feel 

of the area to increase community pride and, therefore, reduce the incidence of illegal dumping. It used 

a 2002-2004 Illegal Dumping Clean-up and Deterrence grant to clean up dumping hot spots, landscape 

them and carry out an education campaign to deter future dumping. Minor capital works in the area 

complemented the educational component.

The council developed its project in an attempt to keep sites clean long after the campaign had finished. 

A second part of the project focused on a reserve that experienced persistent dumping. It used landscaping 

works, including new plants for garden beds, to improve the aesthetics of the area and detract dumpers. 

The new plants were selected to make it difficult to hide bags and other dumped rubbish, as was previously

the case. Plants were widely dispersed so that the garden is more open to deter other anti-social behaviours. 

The council also built a retaining wall to stop bins being dragged through, presented and stored in the 

garden area. 

Woollahra Municipal Council attributes the success of its project to a multidisciplinary team of council 

staff, including team members from communications, waste section, compliance, outdoor works and 

management, who collaborated and brought together areas of the project according to their expertise. 

A broader, more strategic prevention program can bring in representation from much wider sections of 

council asking for comments on program design, use and evaluation. The project is also a good example 

of community participation where the council values the community as a partner.

Outcome

The enhancement of the Oswald Street Reserve has provided the most positive results in improved 

environment. Dumps in this area have decreased and been maintained over a five-month period. 
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Fences and locked gates 

Many councils used illegal dumping clean up and 

deterrence grants of 2002-2004 to install fences

and locked gates. 

Some councils indicated that new gates and locks were 

vandalised almost immediately after installation. Locks 

were tampered with or gates and fences broken down. 

For some dumpers, locked gates “just seem to be an 

invitation to become a vandal as well”. Often there was no 

real alternative to fences and gates and so many councils 

need to consider vandalism in project planning as either 

programmed maintenance scheduled for a period of time 

or as the additional cost of vandal-resistant materials.

At a number of sites vandal-resistant locks, locking 

bollards and almost indestructible fence materials have 

been carefully selected. 

Concrete blocks 

A number of councils reported using concrete blocks 

to barricade entry to a site. This was described as a 

‘relatively cheap, inexpensive and effective option’. 

For many residents though the blocks are unsightly, 

do not fit in with the natural environment and may 

incur complaints to council. Some sites had experienced 

graffiti soon after installing the blocks. 

Fences to protect 

rural hotspots

Maitland City Council selected a rural 

style fence to restrict vehicle access at 

some rural sites. 

Outcome

It helped reduce illegal dumping on the sites 

and restricted access to a small stockpile area 

for local road reconstruction works. Four of 

the five fenced sites continued to show little 

signs of illegal dumping activity 12 months 

after the project.

Indestructable 

fencing materials

Tharawal Local Aboriginal Land Council (LALC) 

and DECC Parks and Wildlife Division used 

almost indestructible fence materials at a 

remote site in Wedderburn to prevent 4WD and 

commercial vehicles dumping materials. The 

adjoining landholder (industry) donated railway 

track and steel rope, which was used to erect a 

500-metre fence line. 

Outcome

The fence has remained intact and unauthorised 

vehicles have been kept out.
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2011 Scrap Tire Transporter 

Annual Report format

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ATTACHMENT 27

Estimated and consulted market 

prices of tire derived products 

currently supplying the identified 

markets
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Table 1.

Market prices for tire derived products or similar products.

Type of 

dead tire 

required

Tire part 

required

Image of tire part 

required image. 

Source: IEMS

End use 

market Image of end use

market 

price 

(USD)

Notes and source

A Tread Landscaping 

edging.

$ 

18.97

*Price in US dollars for a Master Mark Terrace Board 5 in. 

x 40 ft. Black Landscape Lawn Edging with Stakes. 

Price source: http://www.homedepot.com 

Image's source: IEMS

A Tread Tread cattle 

fence railing.

$ 

1.89

*Price in US dollars for a treated wood lumber board 6 

feet long, 1 by 3 inches. 

Price source: telephonic quotation from Zarsky lumber 

yard in Harlimgen, Texas. 

Image ́s source: IEMS

A Tread Tread hog 

fencing.

$ 

124.50

*Price in US dollars for a roll of 330 feet of a Hinge Lock 

woven wire fence. 

8 horizontal wires (graduated spacing), 32" Tall , 6" 

spacing between vertical wires/stays, 330' per roll, 12-1/2 

gauge intermediate wires,10 gauge Top and Bottom 

Wires, Galvanized. 

Price source: http://www.afence.com 

Image's source: IEMS
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Table 1.

Market prices for tire derived products or similar products.

Type of 

dead tire 

required

Tire part 

required

Image of tire part 

required image. 

Source: IEMS

End use 

market Image of end use

market 

price 

(USD)

Notes and source

A Tread

Tread 

intruder 

control 

fencing.

$ 

3.49

*Price in US dollars per foot of a chain link fabric 96" tall. 

Sold by the foot, Galvanized After Weaving (GAW), meets 

ASTM specification A392, 2" diamond mesh , weight 3.65 

lbs, knuckle on bottom/twist on top (KT), 50 linear feet per 

roll, maintenance Free. 

Price source: http://www.afence.com 

Image's source: IEMS

A Tread Tree edging. $ 

11.99

*Retail price in US dollars for a Suncast Eco Edge Quick 

Edge Edging 20 ft long. 

Price source: http://outdoors.pricegrabber.com 

Image's source: IEMS

AB Sidewall 

bead wire

Passenger 

tire 

sidewalls' 

bead wire 

(bulk).

NA $ 

164.66

USD/ton. Price based on the mean purchase price of tire 

wire in the Mexican scope border area of $2.48 mexican 

pesos per kilogram. This price was estimated using 

information of the 25 and 26 of June 2012 in the cities of 

Juarez, Matamoros and Reynosa.
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Table 1.

Market prices for tire derived products or similar products.

Type of 

dead tire 

required

Tire part 

required

Image of tire part 

required image. 

Source: IEMS

End use 

market Image of end use

market 

price 

(USD)

Notes and source

AB Sidewalls

Passenger 

tire sidewalls 

(bulk).

NA $ 

2.39

USD/ton. Price for un-de beaded sidewalls from 

passenger tires slit at the shoulder, including 11", 12", 13", 

14" 15" & P16"rim sizes. 

Price source: May 2012 ScrapIndex.com daily price mean.

AB Sidewalls

de beaded 

passenger 

sidewalls 

(bulk).

NA $ 

64.56

USD/ ton. Price for passenger Sidewalls (black & white) 

which consist of de beaded sidewalls from passenger tires 

slit at the shoulder, including 11", 12", 13", 14" 15" & P16" 

rim sizes.

May include white lettered or whitewalls. 

Price source: May 2012 ScrapIndex.com daily price mean.

AB Sidewalls

Ground 

rubber for 

Athletic and 

recreational 

surfaces 

(bulk).

$ 

291.20

USD/ ton. Price for No.2 Tire Granule (minus 20 mesh) 

consisting of granulated tire crumb, Black & White 

Guaranteed metal free, sized to minus 20 Mesh. 

Magnetically separated materials are not acceptable. 

Fluff from tire cord removed. 

Price source: May 2012 ScrapIndex.com daily price mean. 

Image's source: Houston Astrodome 

(http://www.ballparksofbaseball.com/past/Astrodome.htm)
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Table 1.

Market prices for tire derived products or similar products.

Type of 

dead tire 

required

Tire part 

required

Image of tire part 

required image. 

Source: IEMS

End use 

market Image of end use

market 

price 

(USD)

Notes and source

AB Sidewalls

Ground 

rubber for 

molded and 

extruded 

products 

(bulk).

$ 

291.20

USD/ton. Price for No.2 Tire Granule (minus 20 mesh) 

consisting of granulated tire crumb, Black & White 

Guaranteed metal free, sized to minus 20 Mesh. 

Magnetically separated materials are not acceptable. 

Fluff from tire cord removed. 

Price source: May 2012 ScrapIndex.com daily price mean. 

Image's source: IEMS, Scrap Tires: Handbook on 

Recycling Applications and Management for the U.S. and 

Mexico (US EPA, 2010)

AB Sidewalls Rubber 

mulch (bulk).

$ 

86.08

USD/ton. Price for No.2 Rubber Chips consisting of 

uniform chipped bias tire or metal free sidewalls, sized to 

minus 2.5" plus 10 mesh. 

Must be guaranteed metal free (magnetically separated 

material is not acceptable) and may contain black & white. 

Price source: May 2012 ScrapIndex.com daily price mean. 

Image's source: Scrap Tires: Handbook on Recycling 

Applications and Management for the U.S. and Mexico 

(US EPA, 2010)
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Table 1.

Market prices for tire derived products or similar products.

Type of 

dead tire 

required

Tire part 

required

Image of tire part 

required image. 

Source: IEMS

End use 

market Image of end use

market 

price 

(USD)

Notes and source

AB Sidewalls

Ground 

rubber for 

extruded 

products 

(bulk).

$ 

313.00

USD/ton. Price for No.2 Tire Granule (minus 40 mesh) 

consisting of granulated tire crumb, Black & White 

Guaranteed metal free, sized to minus 40 Mesh. 

Magnetically separated materials are not acceptable. 

Fluff from tire cord removed. 

Price source: May 2012 ScrapIndex.com daily price mean. 

Image's source: IEMS

A

Tread from 

Heavy 

truck and 

passenger 

tires

Tire-derivedgeocylinders, 

(TDGC) or 

Geocells for 

civil 

engineering 

applications.

$ 

2.00

Price per cylinder in US dollars, FOB. For purchases of 

over 20,000 cylinders price can be lowered to $2 USD.

Price and image's source: Samuel G. Bonasso, P.E. 

Reinforced Aggregates Company P.O. Box 199, 

Morgantown, WV. U.S, Patent 7,470,092 B1

AB

Tread from 

Heavy 

truck and 

passenger 

tires

Tire treads 

(bulk). NA $ 25.82

USD/ton. Price for passenger treads (steel belt) consisting 

of treads or crowns from slit radial passenger tires, 

including 11", 12", 13", 14" 15" & P16"rim sizes. 

Price source: May 2012 ScrapIndex.com daily price mean.
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Table 1.

Market prices for tire derived products or similar products.

Type of 

dead tire 

required

Tire part 

required

Image of tire part 

required image. 

Source: IEMS

End use 

market Image of end use

market 

price 

(USD)

Notes and source

ABC

Whole or 

any part of 

truck and 

passenger

Ground 

rubber for 

Rubberized 

Asphalt 

(RA).

$ 

0.05

USD /lb. Price for No.4 Tire Granule (minus 20 mesh) 

consisting of granulated tire crumb, Black & White 

Magnetically Separated, sized to minus 20 Mesh. Fluff 

from tire cord removed. 

Minus 20 mesh refers to material that has been sized by 

passing through a screen with 20 holes per inch. 

Price source: May 2012 ScrapIndex.com daily price mean. 

Image's source: Arizona, USA, Department of 

Transportation's webpage. 

(http://www.azdot.gov/quietroads/photos.asp)

ABC

Whole or 

any part of 

truck and 

passenger

Type A tire 

derived 

aggregate 

(TDA).

$ 

11.08

USD/ton. Price for No.2 Shredded Tires consisting of 

shredded whole tires sized to minus 3" (No warranty is 

given to assure shear shredding was employed, specific 

required size percentage is met nor metal wires are 

exposed in an amount less than the one required by TDA 

specifications) 

Price source: May 2012 ScrapIndex.com daily price mean. 

Image's source: Calrecycle's webpage 

(http://www.calrecycle.ca.gov/Tires/TDA/Uses/default.htm

#Landfill)

ABC

Whole or 

any part of 

truck and 

passenger

Type B tire 

derived 

aggregate 

(TDA).

NA

Image's source: Calrecycle's webpage 

(http://www.calrecycle.ca.gov/Tires/TDA/Projects/Dixon.ht

m)
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Table 1.

Market prices for tire derived products or similar products.

Type of 

dead tire 

required

Tire part 

required

Image of tire part 

required image. 

Source: IEMS

End use 

market Image of end use

market 

price 

(USD)

Notes and source

A

Whole 

without 

one 

sidewall

Source: 

http://www.rootsimple.com/2008/11/u

sed-tire-compost-bin.html

Steel belted 

rubber for 

rammedearth 

encased 

walls.

$ 

25.82

*USD/ton. Price for passenger treads (steel belt) 

consisting of treads or crowns from slit radial passenger 

tires, including 11", 12", 13", 14" 15" & P16"rim sizes. 

Price source: May 2012 ScrapIndex.com daily price mean. 

Image's source: Owl swamp natural builder projects 

(http://picasaweb.google.com/115744233306866378689/

TireWall?gsessionid=jJWIulHV57N4IPDhTDrfvQ#)

* Price cells colored in orange were estimated based on a similar product's retail price. The similar product's description is available on the cell located next to the price. 1 Price in US Dollars estimated based on the FIX monthly average value of 13.6634 pesos per US dollar published by the Bank of Mexico (BANXICO) for May 2012. 2 The description of each waste tire type is reported on Chapter 8. 3 TDF markets are only available in the US, Mexico's interviewed cement companies do not compensate their TDF suppliers, for which TDF is considered by this study as a disposal option rather than a 

market.

Note: Information contained in ScrapIndex.com, ( spot market prices, market trend reports and the historical pricing data ) is generated from internal proprietary data from The Recycler's Exchange and 

Recycling Offset Credits (ROCs) Reports and may not reflect external markets or transactions. RecycleNet tracks 100's of individual grades of scrap and recyclable commodities from The Recycler's 

Exchange and a network of regional exchanges worldwide. Each day at 10:00am EST a snapshot is taken of the on-line spot market prices; this information is archived as historical pricing data. 

Information contained in the The RecycleNet Composite Index, the spot market prices and the historical pricing data is generated from internal proprietary data and may not reflect external markets or 

transactions. May 2012 ScrapIndex.com daily price mean estimations are presented as Attachment 31 of this report. Other prices for tire parts and tire derived raw materials are available at 

www.scrapindex.com

USD = United States Dollars

Ton= 2000 pounds

Bulk refers to sorted and prepared materials, packaged and ready for shipment in typical truck load quantities (weight over 40,000 pounds).
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ATTACHMENT 28

May 2012 ScrapIndex.com daily 

prices and estimation of a 

monthly mean price
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The purpose of this Attachment is to illustrate how some of the mean 

prices reported on Attachment 27 were estimated. The tables below present the 

daily prices of tire parts and granules depending on their characteristics. All these 

prices were obtained from the web page: http://www.scrapindex.com/ 

Information contained in ScrapIndex.com, ( spot market prices, market 

trend reports and the historical pricing data ) is generated from internal proprietary 

data from The Recycler's Exchange and Recycling Offset Credits (ROCs) Reports 

and may not reflect external markets or transactions. RecycleNet tracks 100's of 

individual grades of scrap and recyclable commodities from The Recycler's 

Exchange and a network of regional exchanges worldwide. Each day at 10:00am 

EST a snapshot is taken of the on-line spot market prices, this information is 

archived as historical pricing data. Information contained in the The RecycleNet 

Composite Index, the spot market prices and the historical pricing data is 

generated from internal proprietary data and may not reflect external markets or 

transactions. Other prices for tire parts and tire derived raw materials are available 

at www.scrapindex.com.
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Prices for un-de beaded 

sidewalls from passenger tires 

slit at the shoulder, including 

11", 12", 13", 14" 15" & 

P16"rim sizes.

Prices for passenger treads 

(steel belt) consisting of treads 

or crowns from slit radial 

passenger tires, including 11", 

12", 13", 14" 15" & P16"rim 

sizes.

Date

Price

Date

Price

(USD/ton) (USD/ton)

May 01, 2012 $ 2.38 May 01, 2012 $25.85

May 02, 2012 $ 2.41 May 02, 2012 $25.84

May 03, 2012 $ 2.41 May 03, 2012 $25.84

May 04, 2012 $ 2.39 May 04, 2012 $25.84

May 05, 2012 $ 2.39 May 05, 2012 $25.84

May 06, 2012 $ 2.39 May 06, 2012 $25.84

May 07, 2012 $ 2.39 May 07, 2012 $25.84

May 08, 2012 $ 2.39 May 08, 2012 $25.84

May 09, 2012 $ 2.38 May 09, 2012 $25.84

May 10, 2012 $ 2.40 May 10, 2012 $25.83

May 11, 2012 $ 2.40 May 11, 2012 $25.83

May 12, 2012 $ 2.40 May 12, 2012 $25.83

May 13, 2012 $ 2.40 May 13, 2012 $25.83

May 14, 2012 $ 2.40 May 14, 2012 $25.83

May 15, 2012 $ 2.40 May 15, 2012 $25.82

May 16, 2012 $ 2.40 May 16, 2012 $25.82

May 17, 2012 $ 2.41 May 17, 2012 $25.82

May 18, 2012 $ 2.41 May 18, 2012 $25.82

May 19, 2012 $ 2.41 May 19, 2012 $25.82

May 20, 2012 $ 2.41 May 20, 2012 $25.82

May 21, 2012 $ 2.41 May 21, 2012 $25.81

May 22, 2012 $ 2.43 May 22, 2012 $25.81

May 23, 2012 $ 2.41 May 23, 2012 $25.81

May 24, 2012 $ 2.39 May 24, 2012 $25.81

May 25, 2012 $ 2.39 May 25, 2012 $25.81

May 26, 2012 $ 2.39 May 26, 2012 $25.81

May 27, 2012 $ 2.39 May 27, 2012 $25.81

May 28, 2012 $ 2.38 May 28, 2012 $25.81

May 29, 2012 $ 2.37 May 29, 2012 $25.81

May 30, 2012 $ 2.35 May 30, 2012 $25.81

May 31, 2012 $ 2.31 May 31, 2012 $25.80

Geometric mean $ 2.39 Geometric mean $ 25.82
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Prices for passenger Sidewalls 

(black & white) which consist of de 

beaded sidewalls from passenger 

tires slit at the shoulder, including 

11", 12", 13", 14" 15" & P16" rim 

sizes.

Prices for No.2 Tire Granule (minus 20 

mesh) consisting of granulated tire 

crumb, Black & White Guaranteed metal 

free, sized to minus 20 Mesh. 

Magnetically separated materials are not 

acceptable. 

Fluff from tire cord removed. 

Date

Price

Date

Price

(USD/ton) (USD/lbs) (USD/ton)

May 01, 2012 $64.63 May 01, 2012 $0.13 $291.20

May 02, 2012 $64.61 May 02, 2012 $0.13 $291.20

May 03, 2012 $64.61 May 03, 2012 $0.13 $291.20

May 04, 2012 $64.60 May 04, 2012 $0.13 $291.20

May 05, 2012 $64.60 May 05, 2012 $0.13 $291.20

May 06, 2012 $64.60 May 06, 2012 $0.13 $291.20

May 07, 2012 $64.59 May 07, 2012 $0.13 $291.20

May 08, 2012 $64.59 May 08, 2012 $0.13 $291.20

May 09, 2012 $64.59 May 09, 2012 $0.13 $291.20

May 10, 2012 $64.59 May 10, 2012 $0.13 $291.20

May 11, 2012 $64.58 May 11, 2012 $0.13 $291.20

May 12, 2012 $64.58 May 12, 2012 $0.13 $291.20

May 13, 2012 $64.58 May 13, 2012 $0.13 $291.20

May 14, 2012 $64.58 May 14, 2012 $0.13 $291.20

May 15, 2012 $64.56 May 15, 2012 $0.13 $291.20

May 16, 2012 $64.56 May 16, 2012 $0.13 $291.20

May 17, 2012 $64.55 May 17, 2012 $0.13 $291.20

May 18, 2012 $64.55 May 18, 2012 $0.13 $291.20

May 19, 2012 $64.54 May 19, 2012 $0.13 $291.20

May 20, 2012 $64.54 May 20, 2012 $0.13 $291.20

May 21, 2012 $64.54 May 21, 2012 $0.13 $291.20

May 22, 2012 $64.54 May 22, 2012 $0.13 $291.20

May 23, 2012 $64.53 May 23, 2012 $0.13 $291.20

May 24, 2012 $64.53 May 24, 2012 $0.13 $291.20

May 25, 2012 $64.53 May 25, 2012 $0.13 $291.20

May 26, 2012 $64.53 May 26, 2012 $0.13 $291.20

May 27, 2012 $64.52 May 27, 2012 $0.13 $291.20

May 28, 2012 $64.52 May 28, 2012 $0.13 $291.20

May 29, 2012 $64.52 May 29, 2012 $0.13 $291.20

May 30, 2012 $64.52 May 30, 2012 $0.13 $291.20

May 31, 2012 $64.51 May 31, 2012 $0.13 $291.20

Geometric mean $ 64.56 Geometric mean $ 0.13 $291.20
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Attachment 28

Printed on 100% recycled fiber paper using solid ink 

Prices for No.2 Rubber Chips 

consisting of uniform chipped 

bias tire or metal free sidewalls, 

sized to minus 2.5" plus 10 

mesh.

Must be guaranteed metal free 

(magnetically separated material 

is not acceptable) and may 

contain black & white.

Prices for No.2 Tire Granule (minus 40 

mesh) consisting of granulated tire crumb, 

Black & White Guaranteed metal free, sized 

to minus 40 Mesh. 

Magnetically separated materials are not 

acceptable. 

Fluff from tire cord removed. 

Date

Price

Date

Price Price

(USD/ton) (USD/lbs) (USD/ton)

May 01, 2012 $86.18 May 01, 2012 $0.14 $313.60

May 02, 2012 $86.15 May 02, 2012 $0.14 $313.60

May 03, 2012 $86.15 May 03, 2012 $0.14 $313.60

May 04, 2012 $86.14 May 04, 2012 $0.14 $313.60

May 05, 2012 $86.14 May 05, 2012 $0.14 $313.60

May 06, 2012 $86.13 May 06, 2012 $0.14 $313.60

May 07, 2012 $86.12 May 07, 2012 $0.14 $313.60

May 08, 2012 $86.12 May 08, 2012 $0.14 $313.60

May 09, 2012 $86.12 May 09, 2012 $0.14 $313.60

May 10, 2012 $86.12 May 10, 2012 $0.14 $313.60

May 11, 2012 $86.11 May 11, 2012 $0.14 $313.60

May 12, 2012 $86.11 May 12, 2012 $0.14 $313.60

May 13, 2012 $86.11 May 13, 2012 $0.14 $313.60

May 14, 2012 $86.10 May 14, 2012 $0.14 $313.60

May 15, 2012 $86.08 May 15, 2012 $0.14 $313.60

May 16, 2012 $86.08 May 16, 2012 $0.14 $313.60

May 17, 2012 $86.07 May 17, 2012 $0.14 $313.60

May 18, 2012 $86.06 May 18, 2012 $0.14 $313.60

May 19, 2012 $86.06 May 19, 2012 $0.14 $313.60

May 20, 2012 $86.06 May 20, 2012 $0.14 $313.60

May 21, 2012 $86.05 May 21, 2012 $0.14 $313.60

May 22, 2012 $86.05 May 22, 2012 $0.14 $313.60

May 23, 2012 $86.04 May 23, 2012 $0.14 $313.60

May 24, 2012 $86.04 May 24, 2012 $0.14 $313.60

May 25, 2012 $86.04 May 25, 2012 $0.14 $313.60

May 26, 2012 $86.04 May 26, 2012 $0.14 $313.60

May 27, 2012 $86.03 May 27, 2012 $0.14 $313.60

May 28, 2012 $86.03 May 28, 2012 $0.14 $313.60

May 29, 2012 $86.03 May 29, 2012 $0.14 $313.60

May 30, 2012 $86.02 May 30, 2012 $0.14 $313.60

May 31, 2012 $86.02 May 31, 2012 $0.14 $313.60

Geometric mean $ 86.08 Geometric mean $ 0.14 $313.60
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Attachment 28 6

Printed on 100% recycled fiber paper using solid ink 

Prices for No.2 Shredded Tires 

consisting of shredded whole 

tires sized to minus 3" 

Prices for No.4 Tire Granule (minus 20 

mesh) consisting of granulated tire 

crumb, Black & White Magnetically 

Separated, sized to minus 20 Mesh. 

Fluff from tire cord removed. 

Minus 20 mesh refers to material that 

has been sized by passing through a 

screen with 20 holes per inch. 

Date

Price

Date

Price

(USD/ton) (USD/lbs)

May 01, 2012 $11.01 May 01, 2012 $0.05

May 02, 2012 $11.16 May 02, 2012 $0.05

May 03, 2012 $11.16 May 03, 2012 $0.05

May 04, 2012 $11.09 May 04, 2012 $0.05

May 05, 2012 $11.06 May 05, 2012 $0.05

May 06, 2012 $11.04 May 06, 2012 $0.05

May 07, 2012 $11.04 May 07, 2012 $0.05

May 08, 2012 $11.04 May 08, 2012 $0.05

May 09, 2012 $11.01 May 09, 2012 $0.05

May 10, 2012 $11.13 May 10, 2012 $0.05

May 11, 2012 $11.11 May 11, 2012 $0.05

May 12, 2012 $11.11 May 12, 2012 $0.05

May 13, 2012 $11.11 May 13, 2012 $0.05

May 14, 2012 $11.11 May 14, 2012 $0.05

May 15, 2012 $11.11 May 15, 2012 $0.05

May 16, 2012 $11.11 May 16, 2012 $0.05

May 17, 2012 $11.18 May 17, 2012 $0.05

May 18, 2012 $11.16 May 18, 2012 $0.05

May 19, 2012 $11.16 May 19, 2012 $0.05

May 20, 2012 $11.14 May 20, 2012 $0.05

May 21, 2012 $11.14 May 21, 2012 $0.05

May 22, 2012 $11.23 May 22, 2012 $0.05

May 23, 2012 $11.16 May 23, 2012 $0.05

May 24, 2012 $11.08 May 24, 2012 $0.05

May 25, 2012 $11.09 May 25, 2012 $0.05

May 26, 2012 $11.09 May 26, 2012 $0.05

May 27, 2012 $11.02 May 27, 2012 $0.05

May 28, 2012 $11.00 May 28, 2012 $0.05

May 29, 2012 $10.94 May 29, 2012 $0.05

May 30, 2012 $10.88 May 30, 2012 $0.05

May 31, 2012 $10.70 May 31, 2012 $0.05

Geometric mean $ 11.08 Geometric mean $ 0.05 
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ATTACHMENT 29

Potential revenue per passenger 

tire equivalent (PTE) for each 

market and formulas applied to 

obtain each
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Table 1.

Formulas applied to obtain tire derived products potential revenue per passenger 

tire equivalent (PTE)

Market

Price per 

passenger tire 

equivalent 

(USD / PTE)

Applied formula Notes

tire part 

considered 

as source

Passenger tire sidewalls (bulk). $0.004 2.39*20*0.2/2240 1,4 sidewalls

Passenger tire sidewalls' bead wire (bulk). $0.074 164.66*20*0.2*0.25/2240 1,4 sidewalls 

bead wire

De-beaded passenger sidewalls (bulk). $0.086 64.56*20*0.2*0.75/2240 1,4 de-beaded 

sidewalls

Type A tire derived aggregate (TDA). $0.099 11.08*20/2240 4 whole

Tire treads (bulk). $0.184 25.82*20*0.8/2240 1,4 tread

Steel belted rubber for rammed-earth 

encased walls. $0.207 25.82*20*0.9/2240 1 tread

Ground rubber for Athletic and recreational 

surfaces (bulk). $0.390 291.2*20*0.2*0.75/2240 1,3,4 de-beaded sidewalls

Ground rubber for molded and extruded 

products (bulk). $0.390 291.2*20*0.2*0.75/2240 1,3,4 de-beaded sidewalls

Ground rubber for extruded products (bulk). $0.419 313*20*0.2*0.75/2240 1,3,4 de-beaded 

sidewalls

Tread hog fencing. $0.455 ((124.5/330)*4.82)/4 2,5 tread

Rubber mulch (bulk). $0.769 86.08*20/2240 4 whole

Ground rubber for Rubberized Asphalt (RA). $1.000 0.05*20 4 whole

Tread cattle fence railing. $1.518 (1.89/6)*4.82 2 tread

Tire-derived-geo-cylinders (TDGC). $2.000 Estimation not required tread

Landscaping edging. $2.286 (18.97/40)*4.82 2 tread

Tread intruder control fencing. $2.403 3.49*4.82/7 2,6 tread

Tree edging. $2.890 (11.99/20)*4.82 2 tread

* Highlighted cells were estimated based on a similar product's retail price. 

1 In order to perform these estimations the following assumptions were made since different tire parts are used to obtain different 

types of rubber: 1 PTE sidewall=10% of a PTE. 1 PTE posses 2 PTE sidewalls. 25% of a PTE sidewall's weight is bead wire. 

Meaning each PTE posses approximately 1 pound of bead wire. (TNRCC, 1999) 

2 PTE cut tire treads are considered on these estimations to be 1.47m (4.82 feet) long, which is the rim 15 tires mean tread length 

estimated in this report. 

3 The following are considered to use de-beaded tire sidewalls as rubber source, where magnetically separated materials are not 

acceptable: Ground rubber for athletic and recreational surfaces, molded and extruded products, and rubber chips for colored 

rubber mulch.

4 A Passenger tire Equivalent (PTE) is equal to 20 pounds (9.07 kg). 5 A tread Hog fence was assumed to use 4 horizontal parallel PTE cut treads.

6 A tread intruder control fence was assumed to use 7 horizontal parallel PTE cut treads.

PTE= Passenger Tire Equivalent

Note: Prices for Type B tire derived aggregate were not available.
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ATTACHMENT 30

Matrix of required equipment 

investment in order to be able to 

supply each market
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Attachment 30

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Table 1.

Matrix of required equipment investment in order to be able to supply each market 

Image of equipment NA NA NA

Equipment / Cost 

(US dollars)

Automatic 

passenger 

tire sidewall 

remover1

Automatic 

truck tire 

sidewalls 

remover1

Automatic 

Sidewall 

debeader1

Automatic 

passenger 

tire tread 

cutter1

Grinding 

equipment for 

nominal 1 inch 

shreds3

Grinding 

equipment for 

Type A TDA3

Grinding 

equipment for 

Type B TDA 

only 2

Grinding 

equipment to 

produce crumb 

rubber up to 20 

mesh and rubber 

mulch1

Minimum 

investment on 

equipment 

Market $3,900.00 $7,000.00 $3,650.00 $3,400.00 $651,326.59 $651,326.59 $464,781.59 $662,500.00 (US Dollars)

Passenger tire 

sidewalls (bulk). 1 $3,900.00

Tire-derived-geocylinders, (TDGC) 1 $3,900.00

Steel belted rubber 

for rammed-earth 

encased walls.

1 $3,900.00

Tire treads (bulk). 1 $3,900.00

De-beaded 

passenger sidewalls 

(bulk).

1 1 $7,550.00

Passenger tire 

sidewalls' bead wire 

(bulk).

1 1 $7,550.00

Cut treads for tree 

and landscape 

edging

1 1 1 $10,950.00

Cut treads for 

fencing 1 1 1 $10,950.00
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Table 1.

Matrix of required equipment investment in order to be able to supply each market 

Image of equipment NA NA NA

Equipment / Cost 

(US dollars)

Automatic 

passenger 

tire sidewall 

remover1

Automatic 

truck tire 

sidewalls 

remover1

Automatic 

Sidewall 

debeader1

Automatic 

passenger 

tire tread 

cutter1

Grinding 

equipment for 

nominal 1 inch 

shreds3

Grinding 

equipment for 

Type A TDA3

Grinding 

equipment for 

Type B TDA 

only 2

Grinding 

equipment to 

produce crumb 

rubber up to 20 

mesh and rubber 

mulch1

Minimum 

investment on 

equipment 

Market $3,900.00 $7,000.00 $3,650.00 $3,400.00 $651,326.59 $651,326.59 $464,781.59 $662,500.00 (US Dollars)

Type B tire derived 

aggregate (TDA) 1 $464,781.59

Type A tire derived 

aggregate (TDA) 1 $651,326.59

Ground rubber for 

Rubberized Asphalt 

(RA) 

1 $662,500.00

Ground rubber for 

Athletic and 

recreational surfaces 

(bulk).

1 1 1 $670,050.00

Rubber mulch 

(bulk). 1 1 1 $670,050.00

Ground rubber for 

molded and extruded 

products (bulk).

1 1 1 $670,050.00
Tire Flow Study in the Texas-Mexico Border Region

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Table 1.

Matrix of required equipment investment in order to be able to supply each market 

Image of equipment NA NA NA

Equipment / Cost 

(US dollars)

Automatic 

passenger 

tire sidewall 

remover1

Automatic 

truck tire 

sidewalls 

remover1

Automatic 

Sidewall 

debeader1

Automatic 

passenger 

tire tread 

cutter1

Grinding 

equipment for 

nominal 1 inch 

shreds3

Grinding 

equipment for 

Type A TDA3

Grinding 

equipment for 

Type B TDA 

only 2

Grinding 

equipment to 

produce crumb 

rubber up to 20 

mesh and rubber 

mulch1

Minimum 

investment on 

equipment 

Market $3,900.00 $7,000.00 $3,650.00 $3,400.00 $651,326.59 $651,326.59 $464,781.59 $662,500.00 (US Dollars)

Ground rubber for 

extruded products 

(bulk). 4 1 1 1 $670,050.00

1 Quotations obtained for these equipments are presented on Attachment 17 of this report.

2 Value updated from $441,000.00 USD in 2010 to 2012 prices using the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI Inflation calculator. 

(http://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm). Quotations obtained from the Scrap Tires: Handbook on Recycling Applications and Management for the U.S. and Mexico published 

on December 2012 by the Environmental protection Agency of the USA. Prices include only equipment and its installation, facilities or alternative equipment are not considered.

3 Value updated from $618,000.00 USD in 2010 to 2012 prices using the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI Inflation calculator. 

(http://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm) Quotations obtained from the Scrap Tires: Handbook on Recycling Applications and Management for the U.S. and Mexico published 

on December 2012 by the Environmental protection Agency of the USA. Prices include only equipment and its installation, facilities or alternative equipment are not considered.

4 The investment on this facility is larger than the one reported since additional granulators or grinding equipment is necessary.

The following uses are considered to use de beaded tire sidewalls as rubber source, where magnetically separated materials are not acceptable: Ground rubber for athletic and 

recreational surfaces, molded and extruded products, and rubber chips for colored rubber mulch.

Note: to remove sidewalls of passenger tires a linoleum knife of $15.2 US dollars may be employed. 
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ATTACHMENT 31

Equipment quotations and price 

sources
BIOS 

Thomas Dom  Founder/President  Mechanical Engineer (ASU)

Alex Dom  Mechanical Engineer (NYIT)

Matthew Dom  Welding Degree (EVIT)  11 MIG and TIG certifications  Fabricator

5432 Any Street West

Townsville, State 54321

555.543.5432 ph 

555.543.5433 fax

www.adatum.com

EECO

6869 E. Vernon Ave.

Scottsdale, Az 85257

USA

Shop 480-264-8780

Office 480-990-2037

Fax 480-990-2037

www.eaeco.com

www.eaeco.com

EECO’S BUSINESS ETHICS 

At EECO we believe in manufacturing 

equipment using 3 simple ideas:  Use ingenuity and creativeness to 

create simple operating machines

 Implement modern technology and 

efficient manufacturing methods

 Incorporate standard/common parts 

and hardware

These simple rules result in affordable, 

dependable and easily repairable

machines for anyone looking to improve 

their tire recycling business or to start their 

own. .

ENGINEERING & EQUIPMENT CO.

This brochure was designed to use less ink 

FUN FACTS  Founded in 1991  3 U.S. Patents  Sold over 380 machines to 11

different countries

Because we are family owned and 

operated we focus our personal 

attention to suit any of your custom 

tire recycling needs.
PRODUCTS 

Sidewall Cutter

Tread Cutter

DeBeader

Production Rate: 

180 sidewalls per hour

(average)

Cutters:

Standard heavy duty utility 

knife blades

Price:

$3900 w/ Free shipping

Production Rate: 

180 sidewalls per hour 

(average)

Cutters:

Hardened steel cutting disc

Price:

$3400 w/ Free shipping

Production Rate: 

360 sidewalls per hour 

(average)

Cutters:

Standard heavy duty utility 

knife blades

Price:

$3650 w/ Free shipping

BACKGROUND 

Engineering and Equipment Co.

manufactures tire recycling equipment; 

our Sidewall and Tread Cutter as well 

as our Bead Remover use simple, 

standard and easily accessible parts. 

All machines are mobile and easy to 

operate.

We also offer engineering design and 

analysis of any custom machine built to 

fit your needs. 

 3D Modeling with PRO/E and 

SolidWorks (drawings and stress 

analysis)

 Certified TIG, MIG and Arc 

Welding

 CNC Machining and CNC Plasma 

Cutting

Ever since the first version of our 

Sidewall Cutter we continue to improve 

our machines every step of the way. 

We perform Research and Development 

to develop better tire recycling 

machines as well as other innovative 

ideas. Check out our website to see our 

current projects.

WHAT’S NEW 

Research and Development is being 

conducted for 3 new machines that will hit 

our product line by the end of 2011!

 Our Semi-Truck Sidewall Cutter 

will remove Semi-Truck Sidewalls 

at equal rates as our competitors, 

but at half the cost!

 Our up and coming Sidewall 

Chipper will produce a chip size of 

1⁄2”x 1⁄2” from car and light truck tire 

sidewalls.

 We are in the midst of testing our 

Bead Stripping Machine that 

essentially peels away the rubber 

left on beads cut from car and light 

truck tires from our DeBeader 

Machine; leaving the clean high 

quality steel ring to be recycled!

www.eaeco.com 
Engineering & Equipment Co.

SALES QUOTE

6869 E. Vernon Ave.

Scottsdale, Az USA 85257 www.eaeco.com

email eaeco@hotmail.com

tel 480-264-8780

fax 480-990-2037

quote # SQ-000010

date 4/20/2012

billing address Integrated Environmental Management Services shipping address Integrated Environmental Management Services

El Paso, TX

USA

contact

phone

Esteban Ibarra

305-407-9964

sales rep payment terms

Alex Dom Payment Due Before Shipment

ITEM DESCRIPTION QUANTITY UNIT PRICE DISCOUNT SUB-TOTAL

DeBeader Removes bead from sidewall 3 $3,650.00 5 % $10,402.50

Sidewall Cutter Removes Sidewalls 3 $3,900.00 5 % $11,115.00

Truck Tire Sidewall 

Cutter

Removes sidewalls from truck tires and 

super singles

3 $7,000.00 5 % $19,950.00

TT Tread Cutter Cuts Treads of Truck Tires 3 $4,400.00 5 % $12,540.00

Tread Cutter Tire Cutting Machine and manual - 1 

Crate - 480 Lbs, 65"L x 37"W x 39"H

3 $3,400.00 5 % $9,690.00

TOTAL $63,697.50

SUB-TOTAL $63,697.50

Make all checks payable to EECO

We Appreciate Your Purchase And Promise to Continue Our Service For As Long As You Own Our Equipment. Page 1 of 1
Engineering & Equipment Co.

SALES QUOTE

6869 E. Vernon Ave.

Scottsdale, Az USA 85257 www.eaeco.com

email eaeco@hotmail.com

tel 480-264-8780

fax 480-990-2037

quote # SQ-000010

date 4/20/2012

billing address Integrated Environmental Management Services shipping address Integrated Environmental Management Services

Warez

Mexico

contact

phone

Esteban Ibarra

305-407-9964

sales rep payment terms

Alex Dom Payment Due Before Shipment

ITEM DESCRIPTION QUANTITY UNIT PRICE DISCOUNT SUB-TOTAL

DeBeader Removes bead from sidewall 3 $3,650.00 5 % $10,402.50

Sidewall Cutter Removes Sidewalls 3 $3,900.00 5 % $11,115.00

Truck Tire Sidewall 

Cutter

Removes sidewalls from truck tires and 

super singles

3 $7,000.00 5 % $19,950.00

TT Tread Cutter Cuts Treads of Truck Tires 3 $4,400.00 5 % $12,540.00

Tread Cutter Tire Cutting Machine and manual - 1 

Crate - 480 Lbs, 65"L x 37"W x 39"H

3 $3,400.00 5 % $9,690.00

FREIGHT

TOTAL

$1,950.00

$65,647.50

SUB-TOTAL $63,697.50

Make all checks payable to EECO

We Appreciate Your Purchase And Promise to Continue Our Service For As Long As You Own Our Equipment. Page 1 of 1
A-20

Appendix G Scrap Tires: Handbook on Recycling Applications and

Management for the U.S. and Mexico

APPENDIX G

Scrap Tire Processing Facility 

Economic Parameters

BASIS

The projected operating mode is a single facility capable of receiving and processing 250,000 to 1,000,000 

passenger tire equivalents (PTEs)/year into specific shredded product sizes ranging from Class B tire-derived 

aggregate (TDA) to 1-inch nominal chips

SITE PARAMETERS

Property Size:

Approximately 5 acres of flat, dry land in a central location with highway access and stable soil, plus additional 

property for product storage if more than 1 month’s inventory is required. 

Property Use: 

3 acres for site operations, equipment movement and limited tire storage

2 acres for office and maintenance trailers and limited product storage, as well as water storage if applicable

Common Property Improvements:

Fenced and gated perimeter provides access control to decrease theft, vandalism, and arson

Operating area lighting, and possibly storage area lighting (depending on surroundings), enhances 

operating flexibility, safety, and security

Soil stabilization of storage and working areas: (1) decreases tire contamination and associated equipment 

maintenance, and (2) decreases product contamination for greater marketability and value

Concrete over about 1 acre of the centralized operating area prevents water displaced from tires during 

handling and processing; creating wet and undesirable conditions. A berm (3 to 4 feet high) around the 

perimeter of the storage area controls dispersion of pyrolytic oil or water if there is a fire.

Water accessibility or a water storage pond (lined if necessary) for emergency fire fighting

Electrical power for processing equipment, including a transformer if the available power is not stepped down

Office and associated equipment required to conduct business

Shop area and tools required to maintain equipment

Basic operation can be conducted outside, but efficiency may be impaired by weather. A portable cover may 

be desirable for shredder maintenance.

Additional Product Storage Requirements:

Depending on the products and markets, seasonal markets may require inventory up to 80 percent of annual 

production in an environmentally safe manner that minimizes the probability of a fire and maximizes the ability 

to control a fire if one occurs. Such an inventory would require an additional:

5 acres for 10 piles 50 x 150 x 10 feet (with 50 feet clear around each one) for storage of 800,000 PTEs of TDA

About 760 meters (2,500 linear feet) of fencing to enclose this area
A-21

Appendix G Scrap Tires:

Management for the U.S. and MexicoHandbook on Recycling Applications and

EQUIPMENT FOR TYPE B TDA

Processing - If the sole product is Type B TDA, one of the least expensive single machines to purchase and 

maintain is the Barclay 4.9-inch horizontal primary shredder mounted at a 45-degree angle with a classification 

and recycle system. Alternatives include tire shredders with 4-inch knife spacing, but these generally have 

higher capital and operating costs. The major components and approximate current costs in $US are as follows:

Shredder with extended infeed conveyor $230,000

Classifier $45,000

Recycle conveyors (local supply) $36,000

Discharge conveyor (local supply) $50,000

Transportation (estimated from California) $5,000

Equipment Subtotal $366,000

Installation (approximate) $75,000

Spare parts $40,000

Miscellaneous and contingency $100,000

Total processing equipment $581,000

Additional Equipment – Required for movement of tires and shreds

Front end loader (used) $60,000

Supplemental Bobcat $20,000

Electrical supply/controls (estimate) $25,000

Dump truck/trailer for on-site shred movement $20,000

Total additional equipment $125,000

FOR NOMINAL 2 INCH SHREDS (3-4 INCH MAX SIZE)

Processing - Normal use is a single high-capacity tire shredder with a classification and recycle system for 

volumes up to 1 million tires/year. The major components and approximate current costs in $US are as 

follows:

Shredder $350,000 - $500,000

Infeed conveyor/mechanical system $ 25,000 - $150,000

Classifier $ 45,000 - $230,000

Recycle conveyors (local supply) $ 36,000

Discharge conveyor (local supply) $ 50,000

Transportation (estimated) $ 12,000 - $ 20,000

Equipment Subtotal $518,000 - $986,000

Installation (approximate) $100,000

Spare parts $ 60,000

Miscellaneous and contingency $125,000

Total processing equipment $803,000 -$1,271,000
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Appendix G Scrap Tires: Handbook on Recycling Applications and

Management for the U.S. and Mexico

Additional Equipment – Required for movement of tires and shreds

Front end loader (used) $60,000

Supplemental Bobcat $20,000

Electrical supply/controls (estimate) $ 25,000

Dump truck/trailer for on-site shred movement $ 20,000

Total additional equipment $125,000

FOR NOMINAL 1 INCH SHREDS

Processing – Processing capital costs will be the same as for 2-inch shreds, but magnets may be required 

to remove chips that contain bead wire for some applications. If there is no market or reasonable disposal 

alternative for this material (30 to 40 percent), then additional equipment can be installed to liberate the wire 

for sale (as previously discussed) and salvage the rubber in a variety of sizes down to crumb rubber. The major 

components and approximate current costs in $US are as follows:

Total 2-inch equipment $803,000 - $1,271,000

Additional magnets/conveyors $ 60,000 -$ 110,000

Total processing equipment $863,000 -$1,381,000

Additional cost for wire liberation/recovery/

Classification equipment to produce saleable

wire and some crumb rubber products $500,000 -$1,200,000

OPERATING COST COMPONENTS

Typical Staffing level for one shift/5 day operation (some jobs can be combined in low-volume operations)

1 Manager

1 Office/accounting

1 Shipment receiving/monitoring

1 Supervisor/maintenance manager

1 Loader operator

1-2 Laborer/maintenance

Professional Services (such as accounting, marketing, and legal)

Processing/Maintenance

For Class B TDA

Processing equipment maintenance $ 6.00/ton

Loader/Bobcat maintenance $ 2.00/ton

Power for Equipment 

For 1.0 million tires/year

(150 hp x 70% load x .746 kilowatt [kW] conversion = 78 kW/hour x 2,080 hours/yr = 162,240 kW/year) 

For 0.5 million tires/year, est 50 % load factor or 115,000 kW/year

For 0.25 million tires/year, est 40 % load or 92,000 kW/yr

For 2-inch nominal shreds

Processing equipment maintenance $15.00/ton

Loader/Bobcat maintenance $ 2.00/ton

Power for Equipment 

For 1.0 million tires/year
A-23

Appendix G Scrap Tires:

Management for the U.S. and MexicoHandbook on Recycling Applications and

(250 hp x 70% load x .746 kW conversion = 131 kW/hour x 2,080 hours/yr = 272,480 kW/year) 

For 0.5 million tires/year, est 50% load factor or 195,000 kW/year

For 0.25 million tires/year, est 40% load or 156,000 kW/yr

For 1-inch nominal shreds

Processing equipment maintenance $25.00/ton

Loader/Bobcat maintenance $ 2.00/ton

Power for Equipment 

For 1.0 million tires/year

(250 hp x 85%load x .746 kW conversion = 159 kW/hour x 2,080 hours/yr = 330,000 kW/year) 

For 0.5 million tires/year, est 70% load factor or 272,000 kW/year

For 0.25 million tires/year, est 55% load or 213,000 kW/yr

OTHER FIXED COST COMPONENTS

Insurance

Financing

Government Taxes
ECO CR 1000 C Tire Recycling 

Plant Proposal

Prepared for: Esteban Ibarra

Prepared by: Brad Swenson

June 20, 2012

Proposal Number: 1-6170
Scope of Project

The ECO CR 1000 C Tire Recycling Plant is designed to process up to 1000 kgs of input per hour. ECO 

Green’s system is proven to turn whole scrap tires into high quality, uncontaminated crumb rubber. It is 

uniquely designed to allow the customer to adjust the equipment screens for precise sizing control and 

flexibility for output sizes. Our Crumb Rubber Systems also utilize a variety of conveying and separation 

technologies to minimize product losses, maximize efficiency, and maintain a clean operating 

environment. 

System Capacity

	 	 Up to 1000 kgs of input per hour of SUV and Car Tires

Available Byproducts and Sizes:

! ! Tire Derived Fuel Chips (TDF)-25-150 mm(1-6”) Nominal Chip (Removed after Shredder)

! ! Rubber Mulch-16 mm - 44 mm(.625-1.75”) Mulch (removed after The Grater)

! ! Rubber Powder-4 - 20 mesh(6-1 mm) (removed after the Granulators)

! ! Steel

! ! Fiber

Crumb Rubber Purity

! ! 98% Free of Textile.

! ! 98% Free of Steel.

! ! 98% Free of Stones and other contaminants.

Steel Purity

	 	 90%-92% Contaminant free.

Power


 
 Power Type: 440V / 3Ph / 60Hz or 380V / 3 Ph / 50 Hz(Range)

! ! Total Kilowatts: 417-476 Kw(559-638 HP)

! ! Estimated Power Usage Per Hour of Operation: $50.04-57.12 USD per/hr 

! ! ! ***Based on a price of $.12 per kilowatt hour.
ECO 120-L TS Shredder

ECO Green’s two-shaft shredders 

are designed with an aggressive 

low RPM, high torque shredding 

technology. The shredder blade 

thickness ranges from 25 mm to 

152 mm(1-6”) depending on the 

type of tires, throughput, and 

desired end product.

ECO 1200 Grater

The ECO 800 Grater is the ultimate 

machine for mid-stream grinding 

and steel separation. It is 

specifically designed to take preshredded tire chips and produce 

between 44-16 mm(1.75”and 

0.625”) wire free rubber chips.

ECO G1 Granulator

The ECO Granulators are designed 

to grind the rubber mulch from the 

Grater into small granules from 

4-20 mesh. The granules are 

screened and re-circulated until the 

desired size is reached. During the 

granulation process, 99% of the 

fiber is removed, leaving a 

contaminant free crumb rubber 

granulate.

ECO Shredding Process
# Qty Item Weight Power Range

1 1 Infeed Conveyor 300 kgs 2.5-2.2 kW

2 1 ECO-120-L Shredder 6,300 kgs 50-44 kW

3 1 Recirculating Conveyor 300 kgs 2.5-2.2 kW

4 1 Conveyor 300 kgs 2.5-2.2 kW

5 1 NA NA NA

6 1 NA NA NA

7 1 Conveyor 300 kgs 2.5-2.2 kW

8 1 ECO-1200 Grater 6,100 kgs 150-132 kW

System Layout and Description
9 1 Magnetic Conveyor Belt 350 kgs 2.5-2.2 kW

10 1 Vibrating Screen 1800 kgs 5-4.4 kW

11 1 Screw Loader 1800 kgs 5-4 kW

12 1 ECO-G1 Granulators 5,600 kgs 205-180 kW

13 1 Vibrating Screen 1400 kgs 4-3 kW

14 1 Blower 150 kgs 6-5.5 kW

15 1 Blower 150 kgs 6-5.5 kW

16 1 Blower 150 kgs 6-5.5 kW

17 1 Blower 150 kgs 6-5.5 kW

18 1 Central Dust Removal System 1000 kgs 12-10 kW

19 1 High Pressure Blower 150 kgs 8.5-7.5 kW

20 1 ECO BRAIN Control Center NA NA
Maintenance 

• Shredder-Allow for 20 minutes for every 8 hours of run time-tighten bolts, lubricate, and inspect

• Grater-Allow for 60 minutes for 8 hours of run time- tighten bolts, lubricate, inspect blades and screens

• Granulators-20 minutes for every 8 hours of run time-tighten bolts, lubricate, inspect blades and 

screens 

• Maintenance and wear costs for the plant are estimated between $20-25.00 USD per ton

Environmental ComplianceThe dust removal and air filter system are included in this system. There are no harmful pollutants 

generated or released in the recycling process. All fiber or rubber that build up outside of the equipment 

can be disposed.

Human Resource RequirementThe plant can be operated by 6-8 people per shift. Estimated employee breakdown-

• 1 Plant Manager

• 1 Maintenance Mechanics 

• 3-5 material handlers

• 1 Quality and Packaging Specialist 

Recommended Plant Area 

• Warehouse Space*- 1,000 sq meters or 10,000 sq ft with celling clearance of 7.5 meters or 25 ft 

• Outside Space Required- 250 sq meters or 2,700 sq ft 

• Storage Area- determined by buyer

• Office Space-1000 sq meters or determined by the buyer 

• All other space deemed as necessary by buyer. 

***Warehouse size does not take in consideration tire or product storage***
System QuoteSales Price Ex-Works: $662,500 USD

Terms of Sale: 50% down at time of order/50% prior to shipment

***Quote Valid for 30 days***

Buyer is Responsible for the following-

• Any custom duties, fees, taxes, etc are to be paid directly by buyer

• Freight

• Installation

• Electrical Power

• Cables and wiring

• Building or Land to house the system

• Source of Water

• Source of compressed air 

• Ductwork

• Any Permits required

• Any auxiliary equipment-material handling, storage super sacks, tools, and any other equipment not 

listed on ECO Green’s equipment list. 

Timeline

Project begins when the purchase agreement is signed and the initial deposit is received. System will be 

manufactured within 3-4 months from the time the deposit is received. The client will receive a milestone 

outline within two weeks of placing the order that provide a detailed timeline of the manufacturing and 

estimated delivery time. 

Confidentiality

This proposal and all of its contents, including but not limited to layouts, descriptions, machine 

information, etc. are for the exclusive use of person and/or company for whom this quote is prepared. 

This quote contains proprietary information and technical details the sole property of which belong to 

ECO Green Equipment. No release or disclosure of the technical or pricing information shall be released 

to any party without prior written consent from ECO Green Equipment. ECO Green reserves the right to 

prosecute to the fullest anyone who violates this confidentiality.
Warranty

ECO Green Equipments warrants that at the time of shipment to the buyer, all equipment was free of any defects or damages. 

Twelve (12) months from the date of first use, based on a five (5) day work week and an eight (8) hour work day. For example, if you 

run your equipment for sixteen (16) hours in one day that would be considered two (2) days. Or eighteen (18) months from the time 

the first item is shipped to the buyer.

Warranty will become null and void if the machine is used in anyway improperly. Repairs and alterations to the system or machine 

have been done by someone outside of ECO Green Equipments representation. Failure to complete and return ECO Green 

Maintenance forms each month.

ECO Green Equipment only warrants items manufactured by ECO Green Equipment. All products manufactured by other 

companies will fall under that companies warrantee on the product.

It is the responsibility of the buyer to return the defective part to ECO Green. If the part is found to be defective the part will be 

replaced or repaired and the buyer will be reimbursed for the freight. 

ECO Green Equipment will not be responsible for any damage or losses incurred in shipment from the factory. 

ECO Green Equipment will not be responsible for damage or losses incurred during operation of our machinery arising from Buyer's 

disregard or neglect of safety precautions necessary to insure safe operation of our equipment. 

ECO Green Equipment reserves the right under its product improvement policy to change construction or design details and furnish 

equipment when so altered without reference to illustrations or specifications used herein. 

ECO Green Equipment shall in no event be liable for consequential damages or contingent liabilities arising out of failure under this 

or any other warranty expressed, implied or statutory. 

ECO Green Equipment agrees to replace or repair the defective article, part, or machine thereof provided notice of such defect is 

provided in writing prior to expiration of the "WARRANTY TIME PERIOD" as described herein, and provided said article is made 

available for inspection by ECO Green Equipment. The extent of this warranty is limited to the correction of the condition, or, at ECO 

Green Equipment's option, to a refund of the purchase price and return of the used machinery components to ECO Green 

Equipment, provided notice of such defect is received in writing prior to this warranty expiring, and provided article is available for 

inspection by ECO Green Equipment. 

ECO Green Equipment will not be responsible for labor costs incurred in the removal or reinstatement of defective articles or parts 

thereof. If the Buyer grants a warranty on such articles or conditions of greater scope than indicated above, the Buyer will assume 

the burden of such greater warranty and shall hold ECO Green Equipment harmless from any and all claims of third parties based 

upon such extended warranties. 

ECO Green Equipment does not warrant wear items, capacities of units, throughput rates of units, or product sizing unless 

specifically stated in writing by ECO Green Equipment. 

No representative of ECO Green Equipment has the authority to change this warranty in any manner, and no attempt to repair or 

promise to repair the equipment by any such representative shall alter or extend this warranty.
Thank you for the opportunity to provide you a quote and 

we look forward for working with you. Please feel 

free to contact us with any questions.

ECO GREEN EQUIPMENT

Tel: 801.505.6841

Fax: 801.823.4585

sales@ecogreenequipment.com

www.ecogreenequipment.com
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ATTACHMENT 32

Scrap tire wire purchase prices 

in the Mexican side of the TexasMexico Border Region
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Table 1.

Mean of scrap tire wire prices in the municipality of Reynosa, Tamaulipas, 

Mexico

Business data

Scrap wire price 

(Mexican pesos/ 

Kilogram)

Municipality Date of 

quotation

GARCIA LOZANO JOSE LUIS

PRL RIO PURIFICACION 3005 , LUIS DONALDO 

COLOSIO

TEL: (899)955-1443

$3.00

Reynosa, 

Tamaulipas, 

Mexico.

25/06/2012

EL ROL

LAZARO CARDENAS 133 , LA PRESA , C.P 

88750 , REYNOSA , TAMS

TEL: (899)926-0004

$2.60

Reynosa, 

Tamaulipas, 

Mexico.

25/06/2012

FYMER INDUSTRIAL

ZARAGOZA 933 , LONGORIA , C.P 88660 , 

REYNOSA , TAMS

TEL: (899)924-2841

$3.20

Reynosa, 

Tamaulipas, 

Mexico.

25/06/2012

Geometric mean $2.92

Note: The prices for Reynosa are presented on a separated table due to the fact that in 

that municipality the highest price per kilogram of tire wire is paid. The mean obtained 

from purchase prices in this municipality was used as the reference price of purchase of 

tire wire for the Mexican Scope’s area.
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Table 2.

Scrap tire wire prices obtained in most populated municipalities of the Mexican 

side of the Texas-Mexico border

Business data

Scrap wire price 

(Mexican pesos/ 

Kilogram)

Municipality Date

RECICLAJE Y RECUPERACION DE 

MATERIALES SA DE CV

CARR PANAMERICANA 2651 , RINCON DEL 

SOLAR , C.P 32674 , CIUDAD JUAREZ , CHIH

TEL: (656)683-8210

$2.50

Juarez, 

Chihuahua, 

Mexico.

25/06/2012

MARTINEZ RAMIREZ MA GUADALU

CLL VALLE VERDE 105 , BENITO JUAREZ

TEL: (868)111-2687

$1.50

Matamoros, 

Tamaulipas, 

Mexico.

26/06/2012

MARTINEZ VAZQUEZ MA SN JUANA

CLL HEROE DE NACATAZ 7018 , BUENOS 

AIRES

TEL: (867)749-0413

Ecology authorities 

forbade the 

purchase of tire 

wire

Nuevo Laredo, 

Tamaulipas, 

Mexico.

26/06/2012

MARTINEZ VAZQUEZ MA SN JUANA

PRL MONTERREY 5202 , FRACC LOS 

ENCINOS

TEL: (867)718-6942

They don't buy it 

any more

Nuevo Laredo, 

Tamaulipas, 

Mexico.

26/06/2012

MARTINEZ VAZQUEZ MA SN JUANA

AND 4 4 1 , JUAREZ

TEL: (867)710-0266

They don't buy it 

any more

Nuevo Laredo, 

Tamaulipas, 

Mexico.

26/06/2012

GARCIA LOZANO JOSE LUIS

PRL RIO PURIFICACION 3005 , LUIS DONALDO 

COLOSIO

TEL: (899)955-1443

$3.00

Reynosa, 

Tamaulipas, 

Mexico.

25/06/2012

EL ROL

LAZARO CARDENAS 133 , LA PRESA , C.P 

88750 , REYNOSA , TAMS

TEL: (899)926-0004

$2.60

Reynosa, 

Tamaulipas, 

Mexico.

25/06/2012

FYMER INDUSTRIAL

ZARAGOZA 933 , LONGORIA , C.P 88660 , 

REYNOSA , TAMS

TEL: (899)924-2841

$3.20

Reynosa, 

Tamaulipas, 

Mexico.

25/06/2012

Geometric mean $2.48
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ATTACHMENT 33

Legislations in the Mexican side 

of the Texas-Mexico Border 

regarding the burning of tires in 

open areas
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Legal restrictions and regulations on the burning of tires in the Mexican 

scope area

Federal

Official Mexican Standard NOM-040-ECOL-2002, regarding environmental 

protection- fabrication of hydraulic cement- Maximum permissible emissions to the 

atmosphere levels. 

State of Tamaulipas

Environmental protection Law for the sustainable development of the State of 

Tamaulipas

Article 115. Secretary or City halls, within their jurisdiction, establish mechanisms 

to prevent or prohibit:

c).- Burning of wastes and any solid or liquid residue, including among others, 

domestic trash, straw, dried grass, agricultural wastes, used tires, plastics, lubricants and 

used solvents, and well as burnings clearing or weeding purposes, except those which are 

subject to compliance with applicable regulations.

Municipality of Matamoros, Tamaulipas

Regulation for the environmental equilibrium and protection of Matamoros, 

Tamaulipas.

Article 67. It is forbidden to emit pollutants which alter the atmosphere or may 

degrade or bother human health, flora, fauna and ecosystems.

Article 68. For the effects of this rulebook, will be considered as sources of 

atmospheric pollution:

C) Several, as the incineration, deposits or burning on open air of solid wastes...

Municipality of Rio Bravo, Tamaulipas

Regulation for the environmental equilibrium and protection of Rio Bravo, 

Tamaulipas, 

Article 50. It is forbidden the burning of trash, toxic materials, hospital wastes, fuel 

and tires on open air. In case it is necessary, it must be made under the authorization and 

supervision of the corresponding authorities, in the terms of article 59 of this regulation.

Municipality of Reynosa, Tamaulipas

Regulation for the environmental equilibrium and protection of Reynosa, 

Tamaulipas

Article 78. It is forbidden to burn in open air any material, solid waste...
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Municipality of Miguel Aleman, Tamaulipas

Regulation for the public cleaning service and sanitation of Miguel Aleman, 

Tamaulipas, 

Article 60. ...it is forbidden the use of the public way to: 

V. burn or incinerate solid wastes...

Municipality of Guerrero, Tamaulipas

Public cleaning Regulation of Nueva Ciudad Guerrero, 

Article 21. It is strictly forbidden:

d) To burn any type of waste or trash in private properties or the public way.

Municipality of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas

Scrap metal businesses during deskwork activities reported buying tire scrap 

metal was not allowed by the municipal ecology authorities, no specific law or regulation 

was found, yet the following regulation was:

Regulation for the environmental protection and sustainable development of the 

municipality of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, 

Article 397. It is considered a serious offence, besides the ones determined by 

the authority in the corresponding procedures, the following:

I. Combustion of tires, waste or materials that cause dangerous emissions in 

any amount or periodicity.

State of Nuevo Leon

Environmental Law of the State of Nuevo Leon

Article 181-Bis. In the case of rims and tires new or previously used by motor 

vehicles or other kind, will seek their reuse, in whole or in part, in industrial or production 

processes, as well as applications that do not involve a risk to the environment, thus 

preventing their use by incineration methods, favoring reuse or recycling by cutting 

mechanical systems or the like.

Municipality of Anahuac, Nuevo Leon

Civil Guard Regulation

Article 42. It is an obligation of the owners, tenants or users of barren areas of 

inhabited or uninhabited, within the population centers of the municipality, to maintain 

yards free of ignitable materials such as dry weeds or grass, wood, tires, solvents and 

garbage among others.
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State of Coahuila

Environmental equilibrium and environmental protection law of the state of 

Coahuila de Zaragoza

Article 113. Burning solid municipal wastes is forbidden... Only if the burning 

doesn’t seriously impact air quality and is justified by social or agriculture reasons.

Article 114. Incineration, by controlled methods, of any waste considered as non 

hazardous will be subject to the emissions dispositions signaled in this law.

Municipality of Acuña, Coahuila

Ecological Regulation of the Municipality of Acuña, Coahuila 

Article 163. It is the obligation of neighbors, habitants and visitors of the 

municipality, to observe the dispositions previously described in this Chapter, in addition to 

the following determinations:

IX. Avoid open-fire burning of tires, plastics, leaves and in general, any solid 

waste which combustion pollutes the environment.

Municipality of Piedras Negras, Coahuila

Regulation of Ecology and Environmental Protection of the Municipality of Piedras 

Negras, Coahuila.

Article 169. It is the obligation of neighbors, habitants and visitors of the 

municipality, to observe the dispositions previously described in this Chapter, in addition to 

the following determinations:

IX.- Avoid open-fire burning of tires, plastics, leaves and in general, any solid 

waste which combustion pollutes the environment.

Municipality of Nava, Coahuila

Regulation of cleaning, use and collection of garbage of the municipality of Nava, 

Coahuila.

Article 44. It’s forbidden to:

IV. Burn in non authorized places any type of solid wastes.

State of Chihuahua

Law of Ecological Equilibrium and Environmental Protection of the State of 

Chihuahua

Article 98. In the field of air pollution and in accordance with provisions of this law, 

the State and the municipalities, within their respective jurisdictions, will make the 

following:

X. They will issue the provisions and shall establish measures to prevent the 

burning of any type of solid or liquid waste, including domestic trash, litter, dried herb, 

agricultural esquilines, tires, plastics, lubricants, solvents and others, as well as burnings 

for the purpose of land clearing or weeding.
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Municipality of Juarez, Chihuahua

Municipal Regulation of Ecology and Environmental Protection of the Municipality 

of Juarez, Chihuahua

Article 11. It is the responsibility of the direction to carry out actions to prevent 

and control the pollution of the atmosphere in municipal competition sources being able to: 

VIII. Issue agreements in coordination with the federal authorities or the State, 

according to its competition, to prevent the unauthorized burning of any type of solid or 

liquid waste, including domestic trash, litter, dried herb, agricultural esquiline, tires, 

plastics, lubricants, solvents as well as burning of agricultural fields or urban lands for the 

purpose of clearing or weeding.

Municipality of Ojinaga, Chihuahua

Regulation of the public cleaning service for the municipality of Ojinaga,

Article 37. The incineration of non-hazardous solid wastes can only be performed 

in equipment designed for this end use.

Note: No specific legislation was found on municipalities not mentioned.
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ATTACHMENT 34

Potential of Tire Derived Geocell 

(TDGC) market as road base 

strengthening to remediate 

border tire piles
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TDGC market ability to consume existing tire piles using TDGC as road base 

reinforcement

The following table displays the amount of road base area that could be 

reinforced using tire derived geo cylinders (TDGC) manufactured from tires identified in 

each tire pile. 

Table 1.

Potential reinforced road base area using TDGC manufactured from tires accumulated 

on the identified tire piles in the Texas-Mexico border area

General Data Number of 

waste tires 

accumulated1

Potential base area 

reinforced2

Id 

# Municipality State Type of site (Square meters, m2)

(Square feet, 

ft2)

1 Matamoros Tamaulipas Municipal Waste Tires 

Collection Center 2,250,000 1,104,089 11,884,317

2 Rio Bravo Tamaulipas

Municipal Landfill and 

waste tires storage 

center

32,000 15,703 169,021

3 Reynosa Tamaulipas "Las Anacuas" City 

open-air dump. 550,000 269,888 2,905,055

4 Reynosa Tamaulipas Open air dump "Las 

Calabazas" 50,000 24,535 264,096

7 Reynosa Tamaulipas "Las Colmenas" Landfill 1,000 491 5,282

8 Reynosa Tamaulipas "Alto Bonito" Landfill 100,000 49,071 528,192

11 Camargo Tamaulipas Municipal Waste Tires 

Collection Center 800 393 4,226

12 Miguel Aleman Tamaulipas

Provisional Municipal 

Waste Tires Collection 

Center

3,000 1,472 15,846

13 Guerrero Tamaulipas Municipal open-air 

dump 200 98 1,056

14 Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas Storage center remediated NA NA

15 Anahuac Nuevo Leon Municipal Landfill 13,000 6,379 68,665

19 Cerralvo* Nuevo Leon* Unknown* 1,500 736 7,923

20 Sabinas

Hidalgo* Nuevo Leon* Unknown* 8,000 3,926 42,255

31 Acuña Coahuila Municipal Landfill 200,000 98,141 1,056,384

32 Piedras negras Coahuila Private landfill. 115,500 56,677 610,062

33 Nava Coahuila Storage center 1,000 491 5,282

34 Ojinaga Chihuahua Storage center 50,000 24,535 264,096

35 Juarez Chihuahua Storage center 2,500,000 1,226,766 13,204,797

36 Matamoros Tamaulipas Municipal landfill waste 

tire storage center 400,000 196,283 2,112,767

Total reinforced base area: 3,079,673 33,149,322
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* Means data was not confirmed with a key stakeholder, it is presented as it was obtained from previous tire pile 

inventories as described.

1 The number of waste tires accumulated on this attachment was obtained through remote interviews with the key 

stakeholders mentioned on Attachment 1.

2 Estimation based on a two way , one lane for each direction, street with a width of 7 meters (23 feet) as stated in the 

Standards Manual, Geometrical Road Design Manual, Volume IV (TOMO IV, Manual de Diseño Geométrico de 

Vialidades) issued by the Urban Development and Territorial Management Subministry (Subsecretaria de desarrollo 

urbano y ordenación del territorio) in the Technical Assisstance Program on Urban Transport for Medium size Mexican 

Cities (Programa de asistencia técnica en transporte urbano para las ciudades medias mexicanas). Based on a setting 

of 2.04 passenger tires geo cylinders per square meter. (0.19 TDGC per square foot) based on reports by REAGCO 

stating a 1 mile long 12 ft wide road consumes 12,000 TDGCs.

Numbers colored in red mean that even though the site accumulated less than 500 tires, since it is active it is likely to 

reach this number eventually if actual management practices continue.

NA= not applicable

As a reference the municipality of Reynosa alone plans on paving during the 

2011-2013 administration 1.5 million square meters1 (16’145,865.6 square feet). If the 

base of said paved area were reinforced using TDGC it could consume the currently 

accumulated tires in the municipalities of:

 Matamoros, 

 Rio Bravo, 

 Reynosa, 

 Camargo, 

 Miguel Aleman and 

 Guerrero 

(Piles with Id. numbers 1,2,3,4,7, 8, 11, 12 and 13) which would potentially remediate all 

identified tire piles in the Texas-Tamaulipas border area and consume over 30% of the 

accumulated waste tires.

Additionally the municipality of Reynosa would reduce the maintenance annual 

costs of said newly paved areas and if applied properly potholes and rut problems would 

be practically eliminated as well as obtaining other benefits.

Municipal Developments plans of the largest Mexican cities in the border area 

such as Matamoros, Juarez and Nuevo Laredo also report paving plans and needs.

 1 Data obtained from the 2011-2013 Municipal Development Plan for the municipality of Reynosa unanimously 

approved on March 22, 2011 in extraordinary session of the town hall, act number 6.
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ATTACHMENT 35

Draft of the general specification 

for the construction of 

mechanical concrete geocylinder 

confinement systems for 

roadway base or shoulders, 

gravity retaining walls or 

Mechanically Stabilized Earth 

(MSE) walls, load bearing walls, 

abutments or load bearing pier 

foundations
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DRAFT

Proposed West Virginia Division of Highways Draft 

General Specification for the Construction of 

Mechanical Concrete® Geocylinder Confinement Systems

For Roadway Base or Shoulders,

Gravity Retaining Walls or Mechanically Stabilized Earth (MSE) Walls, 

Load Bearing Walls, Abutments or Load Bearing Pier Foundations.

General Description: This work shall consist of furnishing and installing 

geocylindrical base reinforcement in accordance with these specifications and in reasonable 

close conformity with the lines, grades and dimensions shown on the plans or established by 

the Engineer. Design details for Mechanical Concrete® geocylinder base reinforcement, base 

aggregate minimum thickness, asphalt thickness and associated details shall be shown on the 

plans.

Using accepted civil engineering design techniques and processes and traditional 

construction techniques, Mechanical Concrete®geocylinders may be designed and 

constructed to function as a foundation, road base, gravity or mechanically stabilized 

earth (MSE) retaining walls or load bearing walls, bridge abutment or pier beam support. 

The technique consists of confining stone or other suitable aggregate materials 

within a structural geocylinder. The geocylinders are thin-walled circular, cylindrical 

segments. The geocylinders are filled with stone aggregates, sand, or other granular soil

materials. The structural geocylinders function as lateral reinforcing by confining the 

aggregates and resisting the lateral pressure generated within the aggregates from its dead 

weight and from any the superimposed dead and live loads

General Execution of the Work: The Contractor shall be responsible for obtaining the 

geocylinder reinforcement materials and associated components that meet all requirements of 

the Specification. For the purpose of this specification geocylinders are tire-derived-geocylinders, TDGC, made from a waste auto tire by removing both sidewalls.

The geocylinders and the aggregate fill shall be accurately placed on the subgrade 

soil in flat single rows creating a web covering the area to be stabilized. The subgrade 

soil shall be of suitable bearing strength and graded or leveled to the design elevations. 

If specified, a layer of separation fabric or geosynthetic mesh shall be placed on top of

the subgrade soil. The geocylinders shall be arranged according to the drawings. They

shall be laid out, circular to the eye, in contact with each other in rows. Each edge 

cylinder shall contact two or three other cylinders. Interior cylinders shall contact three 

or four other cylinders. They may be stacked and filled depending on the designed use 

and as indicated on the drawings. In roadway base and foundation uses, before filling 

with stone, to preserve their arrangement and geometry each geocylinder shall be nailed 

with a nail gun to the immediately adjacent cylinders with a nail of sufficient length to 

fully penetrate the cylinder wall thicknesses of both cylinders or otherwise attached with

a screw, string or wire. Then each horizontal layer of geocylinders shall be filled with the 

specified aggregate material.
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When the application specifies additional reinforcement on top of or between 

layers of geocylinders, as shown on the drawings geo-synthetic mesh material the width 

of the geocylinder area to be covered is placed on the top of the stone filled 

geocylindrical segments. This material is intended to further integrate the cylindrical 

elements into a relatively uniform structural mass suitable for sustaining its own weight 

and further distributing the weight of superimposed loads.

The Mechanical Concrete®geocylinders when designed to function as the facing

wall of a mechanically stabilized earth (MSE) retaining wall system; the MSE geosynthetic mesh reinforcing layers shall be anchored by extending the MSE grid layer on 

top of the filled stone surface the full width of the diameter of the geocylindrical element 

overhanging the external face of the cylinder.

Multiple wythe walls designed and constructed as gravity retaining walls or as 

load bearing walls and as temporary bridge abutments, use the same basic bearing and 

retaining wall design and construction procedures. For load bearing walls the height shall 

not exceed six (6) times the wall thickness without additional wall stiffening measures 

being designed.

Materials

Certification of Materials and Submittals: 

Specification Compliance Certification: Prior to construction the Contractor shall submit to 

the Engineer a certification that the geocylinder has been evaluated in full compliance with 

this Specification. The Contractor’s submittal package shall include; but not be limited to; the 

Supplier’s written certification that all tire-derived-geo-cylinders used to produce the 

Mechanical Concrete® were made from waste auto tires that were sold in the commerce of 

the United States of America and met all the original tire specifications and requirements for 

use on over the road automobiles or trucks. 

Base Course Reinforcement Tire-Derived-Geo-Cylinders: The geocylindrical 

reinforcing shall be a thin walled, circular, cylindrical segment of a material suitable for 

absorbing the circumferential tensile stresses resulting from the lateral pressure generated 

by the weight of the stone and any superimposed dead and live loads.

For the purpose of this specification the geocylindrical reinforcing element is a 

used automotive vehicle tire with both the sidewalls removed. The tire-derived-geocylinders, TDGC, shall be of uniform diameter and tread width and have no internal steel 

for fiber belts exposed in the tread surface. When functioning as a tire, the tire-derivedgeo-cylinder shall have had a maximum operating air pressure of at least 44psi. 

Earth Retention Reinforcement Tire-Derived-Geo-Cylinders: For wall segments using 

stacked tire-derived-geo-cylinders: the overall ‘inflated diameter’ dimension of passenger 

car and light truck tires shall be within plus or minus one-half inch and the ‘loaded 

section width’ dimension shall be within plus or minus one half inch; the overall ‘inflated 

diameter’ dimension of ‘medium’ (large semi and dump) truck tires shall be within plus 

or minus one inch and the ‘loaded section width’ dimension shall be within plus or minus 

one inch. Passenger and light trucks tires shall have sidewalls removed to within one

inch of the surface of the tread to a tolerance of plus three-quarters of an inch (one and 
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three quarters inches) and minus of zero. Medium truck tires shall have sidewalls 

removed to within two inches of the surface of the tread to a tolerance of plus three

quarters of an inch (two and three quarter inches) and minus of zero inches. All tire 

cylinders so prepared and used as Mechanical Concrete®geocylinders shall have 

sufficient circumferential tensile strength to withstand the lateral stress generated by the 

weight of stone aggregates and the superimposed loads based on standard hoop stress 

calculations. The maximum Mechanical Concrete® internal pressure on the inside of the 

tire-derived-geo-cylinder shall not exceed 25 psi for auto and light truck tires and 50 psi 

for medium truck tires when experiencing a standard AASHTO Truck Wheel Load. 

Stone: For structural applications and foundations the stone aggregate placed inside the 

geocylinders shall be limestone or other suitable virgin or recycled stone, recycled 

asphalt pavement, industrial slag or stone aggregate with a comparable compressive 

strength. In remote areas, local river gravel may be used. For highway use the size of the 

stone shall conform to AASHTO coarse aggregate size number 57 or number 3 or another 

selected relatively uniform sized stone particle gradation approved by the engineer. The 

engineer may specify the use of sand, indigenous granular soil materials or the recycling 

of existing roadway or shoulder stone base be placed in the geocylinders if the material is 

suitable and without excessive clay fines. Roadway shoulders shall be surfaced on top of 

the geocylinders with 4 inches of optimally compacted one-and-one half inch crusher run 

stone.

Stone Leveling Course: The site subgrade shall be prepared to receive the 

Mechanical Concrete®geocylinders by removing all topsoil and organic materials and 

generally graded to the specified elevation down to an undisturbed soil with a suitable 

bearing capacity to sustain the loads generated by the structure to be built. 

For structures such as abutments, piers or walls and other multiple-course vertical 

applications, to receive the first course of Mechanical Concrete®geocylinders at the 

appropriate elevation, a minimum four inch leveling course of three-quarter inch crusher 

run limestone or equivalent material shall be placed and compacted to ninety percent of 

standard Procter density. This leveling course shall be six inches wider than the diameter 

of the geocylinders and shall be level to within plus or minus one half inch vertical in 

thirty six inches horizontal.

When soft subgrades such as soft clays and sands are encountered with allowable 

bearing pressures equal to or less than one ton per square foot; for roadway base 

stabilization, shoulder stabilization, site stabilization, and other horizontal applications; a 

minimum of one layer of woven separation fabric shall be first placed to cover such soils

where Mechanical Concrete®geocylinders are to be placed. 

Method of Construction: All work shall commence from the elevation of the leveling 

course or separation fabric and as shown on the drawings. Geocylindrical segments shall 

be placed, circular to the eye, one by one so that each is in contact with the next and those 

geocylinders around it. For dozer / machine aggregate filling each cylindrical element 

shall be attached to the next element with a nail, string or wire or other acceptable 
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exterior use device to temporarily preserve the arrangement and geometry of the 

geocylinders during the stone filling process. 

The geocylinders shall be laid relatively plumb and level to the line and grade 

shown on the drawings. The vertical face of these elements in a single wythe wall shall 

be not laid steeper than a slope of one horizontal to six vertical. 

Each layer of geocylindrical cell elements shall be placed on top of the previous

layer and attached together in the same manner to preserve their geometrical 

relationship during the construction process. These vertical geocylindrical elements shall 

be laid at the batter slope shown on the drawings but not steeper than one horizontal to 

six vertical. As the each row is filled with stone, adequate and appropriate care, by 

means of a plumb line or other leveling device, shall be taken to see that the line and 

grade geometry shown on the drawings is preserved. 

When the design calls for the insertion of a layer of geo-synthetic mesh, the fabric 

shall be placed between the geocylindrical segments and laid the full width of the 

geocylinder and extend to overhang its face as a friction anchorage for the geo-synthetic

mesh. Intermediate layers of cylinders shall then be laid. When a next level of geosynthetic mesh is called for by the design it shall be placed in a similar manner. 

The work shall proceed in this manner until the Mechanical Concrete®structure or 

site is completed.

Multiple Wythe Walls: For structural bearing walls such as bridge abutments, piers

or gravity retaining walls, the plans may call for multiple wythe walls of Mechanical 

Concrete®geocylinders. The geocylinders in the second wythe shall be nested at the 

interface of the cylinders in the adjacent wythe. Each cylinder in the second wythe shall 

be nail attached otherwise attached to the cylinders in the adjacent wythe at each contact 

point. In addition to this attachment a layer of geo-synthetic mesh shall be laid covering 

both wythes at every other course. If three or more wythes are called for by the plans they

shall be constructed in a like manner. Multiple wythe bearing walls shall be constructed 

vertically plumb and shall be made of geocylinders of equal original diameters with a 

tolerance of plus or minus one quarter of an inch and original widths of plus or minus one 

quarter of an inch. In all other respects multiple wythe walls shall be constructed in 

accordance with these specifications.

Roadway Bases and Site Stabilization: Mechanical Concrete®geocylinders for use 

in a confined roadway base or in construction site stabilization requires topsoil and cover 

to be excavated to the level of the subgrade for the desired road cross section width. 

Where soft subgrade soils remain, with allowable bearing pressures equal to or less than 

one ton per square foot, and/or if positive drainage is desired; as a minimum requirement 

one layer of woven stabilization geotextile fabric shall be placed covering the exposed 

subgrade extending into and covering the ditch section. 

The geocylinders are first laid out on the subgrade, circular to the eye, to outline 

the area boundary to be covered and then the bounded area is filled in relatively parallel 

rows. Each geocylinder will contact the adjacent geocylinder and those in the next row 

at one point. When interior geocylinders are in place they shall be in contact with

adjacent geocylinders at a minimum of three points. This shall proceed until the entire 
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width of the roadway area is covered. In roadway base uses, before filling with stone, to 

preserve their arrangement and geometry each cylinder shall be nailed with a nail gun to 

the immediately adjacent cylinder with a nail of sufficient length to fully penetrate the 

cylinder wall thicknesses of both cylinders or otherwise attached with string or wire. An

interior cylinder shall be attached a minimum of three locations with adjacent cylinders.

Geocylinders shall be hand adjusted upward during nailing so that the top surface is 

relatively flat. 

The appropriate specified aggregate is then placed inside the geocylinder. It shall 

achieve an optimum density based on gradation characteristics or by means of further 

compaction. Unless otherwise specified the size of the stone shall conform to AASHTO 

coarse aggregate size number 57. A minimum four , (4”), wearing course of compacted, 

one-and-one-half inch, crusher run, stone aggregates shall then be placed on top of the 

Mechanical Concrete®prior to paving or other surfacing. Ditches shall extend four to 

six inches (4” to 6”) below the subgrade soil elevation and be filled to the upper surface 

of the Mechanical Concrete® with 3 to 4 inch ‘gabion’ stone to the elevation of the top of 

the geocylinders.

Mechanical Concrete® road bases can support any type of wearing surface. If 

hydraulic concrete, asphalt concrete, or resin impregnated or compacted stone surfaces 

are used they shall be designed and constructed to meet the wheel loading duty 

requirements and drainage requirements of the roadway and standard state highway 

specifications. For compacted stone surfaces a minimum crown or side slope of one-halfinch per foot is herewith specified.

Single Pier Foundations: Mechanical Concrete® for use as a pier foundation 

generally requires topsoil and cover to be excavated to a frost free subgrade depth 

suitable to the geographic locale. This use assumes that the engineer, contractor or owner 

has established through tests or other acceptable engineering methods that the subgrade 

soil or geologic material is suitable to support the required superimposed foundation 

loads and that the superimposed loads do not exceed 12 tons per square foot. For a single

diameter geocylinder pier foundation the subgrade is leveled and covered with a suitable 

layer of vinyl or non-woven geotextile. The first cylinder is then placed and filled with 

an appropriate stone as called for in these specifications. Additional cylinders are placed 

on top of each other until the desired height is reached. In no case shall a single cylinder 

pier height exceed four (4) times the diameter of the cylinder. A leveling layer of number 

8’s or hydraulic cement mortar shall be applied to the top cylinder stone prior to placing 

the structural beam or column elements. 

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ATTACHMENT 36

Questionnaire applied to Samuel 

G. Bonasso

P.E. Reinforced Aggregates 

Company Inc.
June 15, 2012 

Questions about Mechanical ConcreteTM technology application in the United States from 

Integrated Environmental Management Services, 4000 ISLAND BLVD., SUITE 2302, 

AVENTURA, FL 33160

General

Mechanical Concrete® is a US patent protected construction technology with rights to license owned 

by Reinforced Aggregates Company, REAGCO. Among the patent licenses offered to organizations 

are licenses to manufacture and construct with the technology. Several options are available, such as 

the limited license offer on our website which is to use a specific quantity of Mechanical Concrete®. 

The cost of a patent license depends on the size of the project and the size of area and population 

being served. 

1. What would a, city or county, Public Works department should do to be able to build using 

mechanical concrete technology? (licenses, costs, legal requirements, supply, etc) 

A. There are several ways a public entity can access Mechanical Concrete® construction

technology. They can use a contractor who is licensed to install Mechanical Concrete®. The can 

also purchase tire-derived-geo-cylinders from a licensed manufacturer and install them with their 

own forces. They can become a licensee and manufacture and install themselves. Each option 

has its advantages and disadvantages. For example, the WV Division of Highways has a license 

to convert the waste tires it generates into tire-derived-geo-cylinders and use them to construct

Mechanical Concrete® applications.

2. What would a, city or county, should do to be able to manufacture and commercialize 

mechanical concrete technology? (licenses, costs, legal requirements, supply, etc) 

A. Contact REAGCO. The principal commercialization activity is to manufacture tire-derived-geocylinders by removing the sidewalls from scrap tires and then selling these tire-derived-geocylinders directly to users in the construction industry. This involves a territorial patent license 

the cost of which depends on the size of the area and population being served. See also answer to 

question #1. 

3. What should a common citizen do to be able to build using mechanical concrete technology? 

(licenses, costs, legal requirements, supply, etc)

A. Contact REAGCO. A private citizen or for profit legal entity can purchase tire-derived-geocylinders from a manufacturing licensee and then use the cylinders to build a project. They can 

also use a contractor who is licensed to install Mechanical Concrete® to build a project. Costs 

of licenses are based on project size and area of the populations being served. 

4. What should a common citizen do to be able to manufacture and commercialize mechanical 

concrete technology? (licenses, costs, legal requirements, supply, etc)
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A. Contact REAGCO. A private citizen or for profit legal entity can also become a manufacturing or 

project licensee. Costs of licenses are based on the size and area of the populations being served. 

5. What should a commercial entity do to be able to build using mechanical concrete 

technology? (licenses, costs, legal requirements, supply, etc)

A. Contact REAGCO. Commercial licenses are available to project owners and construction 

companies to build using Mechanical Concrete® based on projects, geographic boundaries, fields 

of use, etc. Costs of licenses are based on project size and area of the populations being served. 

6. What should a commercial entity do to be able to manufacture and commercialize mechanical 

concrete technology? (licenses, costs, legal requirements, supply, etc) 

A. Contact REAGCO. A for-profit business organization can become a Mechanical Concrete®

manufacturing licensee. Costs of licenses are based on the size and area of the populations 

being served

7. Are there any legal, standard or code requirements that have to be passed by any Federal, 

State or local authority in order to make Mechanical Concrete an accepted technical solution for 

engineering projects? (licenses, costs, legal requirements, supply, etc) 

A. No new laws or regulations are required to use Mechanical Concrete®. The US EPA and state 

departments of environmental protection all promote viable and appropriate civil engineering 

uses for waste tires. Since Mechanical Concrete® is similar in behavior and applications to 

geocell technology, there are no special legal or code requirements necessary. Any competent 

professional civil engineer with a geo-technical background can demonstrate that Mechanical 

Concrete® meets standard building code requirements. 

8. Recommended market price for a TDC? 

A. Currently in quantities, less than 1000, tire-derived-geo-cylinders are being sold for $ 3.00 each

F.O.B. In large quantities, over 20,000, they can be purchased for around $2.00 each. This includes 

royalties but does not include freight and delivery costs which are usually between $0.05 to $0.10 per 

tire-derived-geo-cylinder depending on quantity and distance. This $3 material cost is a square foot 

cost of approximately $0.50 per SF. 

9. List of references to discuss this technology with someone who has used it. 

The following 12 people have built with, used and are otherwise familiar with Mechanical Concrete® in a 

variety of capacities.

 Greg Clark

Project Manager

Jgclark@sundt.com

Sundt Construction

Tempe, AZ

(602) 908-5517
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 Tom Laurita

Heavy and Highway Contractor Owner & Licensee

Laurita, Inc

tom@laurita.com

Morgantown, WV

304-692-3000

 Dennis Chambers, P.E.

Geotechnical Engineer and Retaining wall Owner

dchambers57@frontier.com

Morgantown, WV

(304) 292-1900

 Onas Aliff, P.E.

Geotechnical Engineer and Retaining Wall Builder

Morgantown, WV

(304) 692-8630

 Garld E. Blanton, Construction Supervisor

Installed Mechanical Concrete®

geblanton@sundt.com 

Sundt Construction

Tempe, AZ

480 305 4118

 Professor Roger H. L. Chang. PhD

Researched and Tested Mechanical Concrete®

hchen@wvu.edu

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering 

West Virginia University

Morgantown, WV

(304) 685-4065

 Robert Adams, Engineering Technician 

Installed Mechanical Concrete®

radams@ctleng.com

CTL Consulting Engineers

Morgantown, WV

304 216-0064

 Shane Cook, Construction Supervisor

Installed Mechanical Concrete®

shanecook@comcast.net

River LLC Excavating
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Morgantown, WV

304 216 9535

 Bryan Jones, General Manager

Industrial Road Construction Installed Mechanical Concrete®

bjones@libertytire.com

Liberty Tire Recycling

Minerva, OH

330 205 6413

 Jerry Swartz, Fuels Manager

Industrial Road Owner Maintains a Mechanical Concrete® stone surfaced road

jerryswartz@mepcoinc.com

MEPCO Mining

Morgantown, WV

304 288 6269

 Josh S. Bunting, Project Supervisor

Road Construction Installed Mechanical Concrete®

jsbunting@sundt.com

Sundt Construction 

Tempe, AZ

602 723 4280

 Chuck Richards

Construction Supervisor Installed Mechanical Concrete®

Chuck.B.Richards@wv.gov 

WV Division of Highways District 4

Bridgeport, WV

304-612-1221
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ATTACHMENT 37

Mechanical Concrete approval 

letter issued by the West Virginia 

Department of Transportation 

(WVDOT) Materials Control, Soils 

and Test Division (MCSTD)

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ATTACHMENT 38

Quotations of regular Geocell 

mats in Mexico
REQUISICION DE 

COTIZACION No.:

VIA CORREO 

ELECTRONICO

COTIZACION FECHA DE 

EMISION

No.: GTX18612 18/06/2012

CLIENTE:

RFC: 

PARTIDA 

LISTA DE 

PRECIOS

UNIDAD CANTIDAD

 PRECIO 

UNITARIO ( 

USD ) 

 IMPORTE TOTAL 

( USD ) 

05 M2 700.00 14.04 $ $ 9,826.92 

$ 9,826.92

COTIZACION

REF. REVISION: 00

CONTRATO No.: 

www.iems-mex.com <http://www.iems-mex.com/>

SUMINISTRO DE GEOCELDA TIPO EGA-30-200 

ESTEBAN IBARRA LOPEZ 

-INGENIERIACAMINO REAL DE CARRETAS No. 393 PISO 2, OFICINA 7, 

MILENIO III ING. ESTEBAN IBARRA LOPEZ

QUERETARO QRO., C.P. 76060 estebani@iems-mex.com

CONTACTO

OBRA: SUMINISTRO DE GEOCELDA EGA-30-200

ORDEN DE TRABAJO No.:

DESCRIPCION

PARA MAYORES INFORMES

INDUSTRIAS DE TUBERIAS FLEXIBLES, S. DE R.L. DE C.V.

CALLE PRINCIPAL S/N; ANACLETO CANABAL 1a. SECCION

MUNICIPIO CENTRO TABASCO, C.P. 86280 TELEFONO: 01.993.339.1557

ATENTAMENTE

ING. H. GERARDO GONZALEZ AGUIRRE

IMPORTE:

SON: NUEVE MIL OCHOCIENTOS VEINTISEIS DOLLARES 92/100

COORDINACION DE INSTALACIONES
REQUISICION DE 

COTIZACION No.:

VIA CORREO 

ELECTRONICO

COTIZACION FECHA DE 

EMISION

No.: GTX18612 18/06/2012

A LUGAR DE ENTREGA

B TIEMPO DE ENTREGA

C TIPO DE MONEDA

D TIPO DE GEOCELDA

E GEOTEXTIL

F GEOMEMBRANA

G DE LA INSTALACION

H

TRABAJOS REGULARES, 

ESPECIALES, 

COMPLEMENTARIOS, ASI COMO 

GRUA PARA DESCARGA.

I TERMINOS DE PAGO

J NORMA ASTM

K NORMA ASTM

L NORMA ASTM

M NORMA ASTM

N CERTIFICADO

O CERTIFICADO

P VIGENCIA COTIZACION

Q IMPUESTOS

EGA-30-200

N/A

N/A

N/A

POR CUENTA DE LA EMPRESA

SU OBRA EN CD. REYNOSA TAMAULIPAS.

INMEDIATO.

DOLARES AMERICANOS

CALLE PRINCIPAL S/N; ANACLETO CANABAL 1a. SECCION

MUNICIPIO CENTRO TABASCO, C.P. 86280 TELEFONO: 01.993.339.1557

ATENTAMENTE

ING. H. GERARDO GONZALEZ AGUIRRE

COORDINACION DE INSTALACIONES

INDUSTRIAS DE TUBERIAS FLEXIBLES, S. DE R.L. DE C.V.

EL 50 % DE ANTICIPO CON LA ORDEN Y EL 50 % RESTANTE AL MOMENTO DEL EMBARQUE.

CUMPLE CON:

ASTM D 1505 - STÁNDAD TEST METHOD FOR DENSITY OF PLASTICS BY THE DENSITY-GRADIENT TECHNIQUE. 

ASTM D 1603 - STÁNDAD TEST METHOD FOR CARBON BLACK IN OLEFIN PLASTICS.

ASTM D 5394 - STÁNDAD TEST METHOD FOR ENVIROMENTAL STRESS-CRACKING OF ETHYLENE PLASTICS.

ASTM D 5199 - STANDARD TEST METHOD FOR MEASURING THE NOMINAL THICKNESS OF GEOSINTEHETICS. 

US ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS (USACE) TECHNICAL REPORT GL-86-19, APPENDIX A.

ISO-9001-2008

30 DIAS NATURALES

SE AGREGARA EL 16% IMPUESTO AL VALOR AGREGADO EN CADA PAGO AL MOMENTO DE FACTURAR

PARA MAYORES INFORMES

REF. REVISION: 00

CONTRATO No.: 

COTIZACION
COTIZACIÓN No. 0400/12

Carretera Villahermosa-Cárdenas Km 9.5 s/n. Ranchería González 1a. Sección. C.P 86280 Villahermosa, Tabasco.

Tels. +52 (993) 3802073 / 3802076. Fax. +52 (993) 3802073 / 3802076. e-mail. memecol@prodigy.net.mx. URL. www.membranasecologicas.com

GEOMEMBRANAS: Reforzamiento de Suelos, Control de Erosión, Descarga de Hidrocarburos, Impermeabilización de Suelos, Productos para el Medio Ambiente.

VILLAHERMOSA, TABASCO A 19 DE JUNIO DE 2012.

INTEGRATED ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SERVICES, S.A. DE C.V.

C. ING. ESTEBAN IBARRA.

P R E S E N T E

AGRADECIENDO SU AMABLE SOLICITUD DE COTIZACION, POR ESTE CONDUCTO ME 

PERMITO PRESENTAR A SU APRECIABLE CONSIDERACION NUESTRO PRESUPUESTO 

PARA LOS MATERIALES QUE SE DESCRIBEN A CONTINUACION:

DESCRIPCIÓN CANT. UNIDAD PRECIO 

UNIT.

IMPORTE 

M.N.

SUMINISTRO DE GEOCELDAS EN 

MEDIDAS DE (5 X 12) 60 M2 CADA 

CELDA. 8CM DEL ALTO PERALTE. 

720 M2 $70.00 $ 50,400

COTIZACION EN MONEDA NACIONAL.

ESTA COTIZACION NO INCLUYE IVA.

L.A.B. NUESTRO ALMACEN.

TIEMPO DE ENTREGA: INMEDIATA.

CONDICIONES COMERCIALES: 

LIQUIDACIÓN PARA FABRICACIÓN DE MATERIAL

ESTE PRECIO ES CONSIDERADO POR EL MATERIAL COMPLETO

ESTA COTIZACION PUEDE VARIAR SIN PREVIO AVISO

ABONO A NUESTRA CUENTA BANCOMER 00101126954 MONEDA NACIONAL, 

CLABE INTERBANCARIA BANCOMER 012790001011269548 MONEDA NACIONAL.

A NOMBRE DE: MEMBRANAS ECOLÓGICAS DE MÉXICO, S.A. DE C.V.

EN ESPERA DE PODER SERVIRLES, QUEDAMOS A SUS APRECIABLES ORDES

ATENTAMENTE.

____________________________________

LIC. JULIO MARTINEZ DE LOS SANTOS.

DIRECTOR COMERCIAL.
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Estimated cut tread length per 

passenger tire rim size
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Table 1.

U.S.-Mexico most popular tire sizes theoretical cut tread length

Section width 

(millimeters, mm)

Sidewall aspect ratio 

(percentage, %)

Tire and wheel 

diameter 

(inches, in)

Cut tread length 

(m)

155 80 13 1.285

165 80 13 1.301

175 70 13 1.282

185 70 13 1.296

175 70 14 1.362

185 70 14 1.376

195 70 14 1.390

205 70 14 1.404

195 65 15 1.450

195 60 15 1.431

205 65 15 1.463

235 75 15 1.549

205 65 16 1.543

205 55 16 1.502

215 60 16 1.535

215 60 16 1.535

215 65 16 1.556

215 85 16 1.642

225 60 16 1.547

225 60 16 1.547

225 75 16 1.614

225 75 16 1.614

235 70 16 1.606

235 85 16 1.676

245 75 16 1.644

245 75 16 1.644

265 75 16 1.674

285 75 16 1.704

215 55 17 1.593

225 50 17 1.582

235 65 17 1.662

235 80 17 1.733

245 70 17 1.700

245 75 17 1.724

245 70 17 1.700

245 75 17 1.724

265 70 17 1.728

265 70 17 1.728

265 70 17 1.728
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Table 1.

U.S.-Mexico most popular tire sizes theoretical cut tread length

Section width 

(millimeters, mm)

Sidewall aspect ratio 

(percentage, %)

Tire and wheel 

diameter 

(inches, in)

Cut tread length 

(m)

265 70 17 1.728

285 70 17 1.756

265 60 18 1.754

265 70 18 1.807

275 65 18 1.794

275 70 18 1.821

275 65 18 1.794

275 65 20 1.953

Geometric mean 1.592

Source of USA most common tire sizes: 2011 Estimates, 2012 RMA Preliminary Factbook.

Mexico's most common tire sizes are 13, 14 and 15 inches reason for which 4 different models for 

each of these sizes were considered for this estimation.

Note: tire size 31x10.50R15LT wasn't included in the estimation

Table 2.

Estimated mean cut tread length per rim 

size

Rim size (in) Cut tread mean length (m)

13 1.29

14 1.38

15 1.47

16 1.60

17 1.70

18 1.79

20 1.95

Geometric mean 1.58
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Livestock fences comparison 

with tire tread fences
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The purpose of this attachment is to predict how well would a tread fence would 

perform compared with other livestock fencing technologies, it was prepared based on 

available literature.

Table 1.

Livestock fences comparison table

Reference 

image NA

Source of image

http://www.harrisonfence.n

et/gallery-of-fences/rancfences/

http://yoderfence.com/hight

ensile.htm Diagram by IEMS NA

Fence 

characteristics

Pressure treated 

wood high tensile wire Type A cut tire tread

Ideal 

livestock 

fence

Breaking strength 

(KN) High (854

) Low (83) N/A5 (202) High

Height Any3 Any3 Any3 Any

Visibility High3 Low5 High5 High

Easiness to 

construct Low3 High3 Low5 High

Elasticity Low3 High3 High5 High

Investment High3 Low3 Low3 Low

Maintenance Low3 Medium3 Low5 Low

Durability High3 High3 High5 High

Keep livestock in High3 Medium1 N/A High

Distance between 

posts (feet) Low (83

) Medium (40-503) Low5 High

Visually attractive High3 Low3 Medium5 High

Safe for animals High3 Low3 High5 High

Fire resistance Low3 High3 Low3 High

1 High-tensile wire fences should be used with electricity to improve animal-holding capability and predator control. (Michael J. 

Buschermohle) 2 Obtained from the publication “Application of scrap tires as earth reinforcement for repair of tropical residual soil slope”(Bujang B. K. 

Huat, 2008). 3 Based or obtained from the University of Tennessee publication “Planning and building fences on the farm” (Michael J. 

Buschermohle). 4 Estimation for a 1 by 3 inch pressure treated lumber board with strength of 6,410psi (Klyosov, 2007) 5 Rating performed by IEMS based on the available data presented in this table. Construction easiness, distance between posts and 

required maintenance for tread fences were assumed to be similar to pressure treated wood fences.

KN: Kilonewtons

N/A: No information is available
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ATTACHMENT 41

Equipment electrical demand 

and CO2 emissions per 

Passenger Tire Equivalent (PTE) 

for each tire derived product
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Table 1.

Matrix of required electrical power demand in order to process one passenger tire equivalent (PTE) and related greenhouse emissions

Equipment / Cost (US dollars)

Automatic 

passenger 

tire sidewall 

remover1

Automatic 

truck tire 

sidewalls 

remover1

Automatic 

Sidewall 

debeader1

Automatic 

passenger 

tire tread 

cutter1

Grinding 

equipment 

for nominal 1 

inch shreds2

Grinding 

equipment 

for Type A 

TDA2

Grinding 

equipment 

for Type B 

TDA only 2

Grinding 

equipment to 

produce crumb 

rubber up to 20 

mesh and rubber 

mulch3,7

Minimum 

electrical 

power 

demand per 

PTE 

Equivalent 

CO2

emissions 

per PTE5

Motor (HP) 1 2 1.5 1.5 250 250 150 598.5

tires per hour (PTE/hour) 180 60 360 180 480 480 480 734.8742397

Electrical power demand 

(kWh/PTE)6 0.004 0.025 0.003 0.006 0.389 0.389 0.233 0.608

electric 

power 

(kWh/PTE)

Kg 

CO2 equivalent

/PTE

Passenger tire sidewalls (bulk). 1 0.004 0.003

Tire-derived-geo-cylinders, (TDGC) 1 0.004 0.003

Steel belted rubber for rammed-earth 

encased walls. 1 0.004 0.003

Tire treads (bulk). 1 0.004 0.003

De-beaded passenger sidewalls 

(bulk). 1 1 0.007 0.005

Passenger tire sidewalls' bead wire 

(bulk). 1 1 0.007 0.005

Tree edging 1 1 1 0.013 0.009

Landscaping edging 1 1 1 0.013 0.009

Tread cattle fence railing. 1 1 1 0.013 0.009
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Table 1.

Matrix of required electrical power demand in order to process one passenger tire equivalent (PTE) and related greenhouse emissions

Equipment / Cost (US dollars)

Automatic 

passenger 

tire sidewall 

remover1

Automatic 

truck tire 

sidewalls 

remover1

Automatic 

Sidewall 

debeader1

Automatic 

passenger 

tire tread 

cutter1

Grinding 

equipment 

for nominal 1 

inch shreds2

Grinding 

equipment 

for Type A 

TDA2

Grinding 

equipment 

for Type B 

TDA only 2

Grinding 

equipment to 

produce crumb 

rubber up to 20 

mesh and rubber 

mulch3,7

Minimum 

electrical 

power 

demand per 

PTE 

Equivalent 

CO2

emissions 

per PTE5

Motor (HP) 1 2 1.5 1.5 250 250 150 598.5

tires per hour (PTE/hour) 180 60 360 180 480 480 480 734.8742397

Electrical power demand 

(kWh/PTE)6 0.004 0.025 0.003 0.006 0.389 0.389 0.233 0.608

electric 

power 

(kWh/PTE)

Kg 

CO2 equivalent

/PTE

Tread hog fencing 1 1 1 0.013 0.009

Tread intruder control fencing 1 1 1 0.013 0.009

Type B tire derived aggregate (TDA) 1 0.233 0.152

Type A tire derived aggregate (TDA)

1 0.389 0.254

Ground rubber for Rubberized Asphalt 

(RA) 1 0.608 0.397

Ground rubber for Athletic and 

recreational surfaces (bulk). 1 1 1 0.615 0.402

Rubber mulch (bulk). 1 1 1 0.615 0.402
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Table 1.

Matrix of required electrical power demand in order to process one passenger tire equivalent (PTE) and related greenhouse emissions

Equipment / Cost (US dollars)

Automatic 

passenger 

tire sidewall 

remover1

Automatic 

truck tire 

sidewalls 

remover1

Automatic 

Sidewall 

debeader1

Automatic 

passenger 

tire tread 

cutter1

Grinding 

equipment 

for nominal 1 

inch shreds2

Grinding 

equipment 

for Type A 

TDA2

Grinding 

equipment 

for Type B 

TDA only 2

Grinding 

equipment to 

produce crumb 

rubber up to 20 

mesh and rubber 

mulch3,7

Minimum 

electrical 

power 

demand per 

PTE 

Equivalent 

CO2

emissions 

per PTE5

Motor (HP) 1 2 1.5 1.5 250 250 150 598.5

tires per hour (PTE/hour) 180 60 360 180 480 480 480 734.8742397

Electrical power demand 

(kWh/PTE)6 0.004 0.025 0.003 0.006 0.389 0.389 0.233 0.608

electric 

power 

(kWh/PTE)

Kg 

CO2 equivalent

/PTE

Ground rubber for molded and 

extruded products (bulk). 1 1 1 0.615 0.402

Ground rubber for extruded products 

(bulk). 4 1 1 1 0.615 0.402

1 Motor power and processing capacity for these equipments were obtained from the webpage http://eaeco.com/Products.html consulted on June 29, 2012. 2 Power and processing capacity obtained from the Scrap Tires: Handbook on Recycling Applications and Management for the U.S. and Mexico published on December 2012 by the Environmental 

protection Agency of the USA. Prices include only equipment and its installation, facilities or alternative equipment are not considered. 3 Power and processing capacity of these equipments were obtained from their quotations presented on Attachment 31. 4 The investment on this facility is larger than the one reported since additional granulators or grinding equipment is necessary. 5 Based on an emission per KWh of 0.6539 Kilograms of equivalent CO2

 (ATPAE, 2003) multiplied times the minimum electric demand per PTE. 6 Estimated by multiplying motor power(HP) x 746 (Watts/HP) / [ 1000 (watts/KW) x tires per hour (tires/hour) ] 7 The following uses are considered to separate tires' sidewalls, de bead them and then process the de beaded tire sidewalls to be used on: Ground rubber for athletic and recreational surfaces, molded 

and extruded products, and rubber chips for colored rubber mulch. And then grind the treads using the same machinery for ground products which accept magnetically separated materials with same 

mesh requirements such as RA or others.

Note: to remove sidewalls of passenger tires a linoleum knife may be employed to manually perform the work not consuming electrical power.
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Estimated transportation costs 

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Table 1.

Estimated transportation costs per tire per mile in Texas*

Vehicle: Pickup truck Vehicle: Pickup with trailer

Item Basis Cost/mile Item Basis Cost/mile 

Labor ($/hr) $10/hour, 30 miles/hour $0.33 Labor ($/hr) $10/hour, 30 miles/hour $0.33

Fuel ($/mile) $4.00/gallon1

, 15 miles/ gallon $0.27 Fuel ($/mile) $4.00/gallon, 12 miles/ gallon $0.33

Maintenance($/mile) $1000/yr, 30,000 miles/yr $0.03 Maintenance($/mile) $2000/yr, 30,000 miles/yr $0.07

Subtotal-Variable Cost $0.63 Subtotal-Variable Cost $0.73

Insurance $1000/yr, 30,000 miles/yr $0.03 Insurance $1000/yr, 30,000 miles/yr $0.03

Depreciation $2500/yr, 30,000 miles/yr $0.08 Depreciation $2500/yr, 30,000 miles/yr $0.08

ROI $15,000x20%= $3,000/yr $0.10 ROI $18000x20%= $3600/yr $0.12

Subtotal-Fixed Cost $0.22 Subtotal-Fixed Cost $0.24

Total costs Total costs $0.85 Total costs Total costs $0.97

Whole tires/load 50 Whole tires/load 250

Cost/mile/whole tire 

for 1 mile $0.02

Cost/mile/whole tire 

for 1 mile $0.004

for 25 miles $0.43 for 25 miles $0.10

for 100 miles $1.70 for 100 miles $0.39

for 200 miles $3.40 for 200 miles $0.78

for 500 miles $8.50 for 500 miles $1.94

Cut tires/load2 85 Cut tires/load3 350

Cost/mile/cut tire 

for 1 mile $0.01

Cost/mile/cut tire 

for 1 mile $0.003

for 25 miles $0.25 for 25 miles $0.07

for 100 miles $1.00 for 100 miles $0.28

for 200 miles $2.00 for 200 miles $0.55

for 500 miles $5.00 for 500 miles $1.39
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Table 1.

Estimated transportation costs per tire per mile in Texas*

Vehicle: Box truck Vehicle: Tractor with 48 foot trailer 

Item Basis Cost/mile Item Basis Cost/mile 

Labor ($/hr) $12/hour, 30 miles/hour $0.40 Labor ($/hr) $15/hour, 30 miles/hour $0.50

Fuel ($/mile) $4.00/gallon, 8 miles/ gallon $0.50 Fuel ($/mile) $4.00/gallon1, 6 miles/gallon $0.67

Maintenance($/mile) $2500/yr, 30,000 miles/yr $0.08 Maintenance($/mile) $3500/yr, 30,000 miles/yr $0.12

Subtotal-Variable Cost $0.98 Subtotal-Variable Cost $1.28

Insurance $2000/yr, 30,000 miles/yr $0.07 Insurance $3000/yr, 30,000 miles/yr $0.10

Depreciation $3500/yr, 30,000 miles/yr $0.12 Depreciation $10000/yr, 30,000 miles/yr $0.33

ROI $25000x20%= $5000/yr $0.17 ROI $80000x20%, 30,000miles/yr $0.53

Subtotal-Fixed Cost $0.35 Subtotal-Fixed Cost $0.97

Total costs Total costs $1.33 Total costs Total costs $2.25

Whole tires/load 400 Whole tires/load 1400

Cost/mile/whole tire 

for 1 mile $0.003

Cost/mile/whole tire 

for 1 mile $0.002

for 25 miles $0.08 for 25 miles $0.04

for 100 miles $0.33 for 100 miles $0.16

for 200 miles $0.67 for 200 miles $0.32

for 500 miles $1.67 for 500 miles $0.80

Cut tires/load4 550 Cut tires/load5 2250

Cost/mile/cut tire 

for 1 mile $0.002

Cost/mile/cut tire 

for 1 mile $0.001

for 25 miles $0.06 for 25 miles $0.03

for 100 miles $0.24 for 100 miles $0.10

for 200 miles $0.48 for 200 miles $0.20

for 500 miles $1.21 for 500 miles $0.50

Cut tire transport costs are estimations based on common payload capacities of commercial trucks and trailers. Real capacities should be 

calculated in real life based on the vehicle to be employed specs.
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ROI = Return of investment

* Estimation procedure based on Appendix F of the Scrap Tires: Handbook on recycling applications and management for the U.S. and Mexico (EPA, 2010). 1 $3.9587 USD/Gallon is the result of calculating the geometric mean of the Monthly U.S. No 2 Diesel Retail Prices (Dollars per Gallon) from January 2012 to June 2012 

reported by the United States Energy Information Administration (US EIA) on its web page 

http://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=pet&s=emd_epd2d_pte_nus_dpg&f=m consulted on 13/July/2012 for this reason it was considered reasonable 

to estimate transportation costs based on a 4 USD/gallon fuel price. 2 Amount estimated based on the maximum cargo weight of a Ford F150, model 2012, Regular cab, 4x2, 3.7L, V6, (1,700 lbs) divided by the weight of a PTE (20 lbs). 

Source of maximum cargo weight: http://www.ford.com/trucks/f150/specifications/payload/ consulted on 17/July/2012. 3 Amount estimated based on a maximum payload of 7,000 lbs (for a 5,200 lb axle trailer) divided by the weight of a PTE (20 lbs). Source of maximum cargo weight: 

http://www.trailershowroom.com/reardoorl.htm consulted on 17/July/2012 4 Amount estimated based on a maximum payload of 11,000 lbs (for a 24'–26' Box Truck) divided by the weight of a PTE (20 lbs). Source of maximum cargo weight: 

http://www.enterprisetrucks.com/24x26-box-truck.html consulted on 17/July/2012 5 Amount estimated based on the maximum cargo weight of 48' trailers (45,000 lbs)divided by the weight of a PTE (20 lbs). Source of maximum cargo weight: 

http://www.bandztrucking.com/dryvan.html consulted on 16/July/2012.

Estimation methodology description

Transportation costs in Texas presented on Table 1 of this attachment were estimated based on the methodology employed by 

Mr. Terry Gray of T.A.G Resource Recovery and Dr. Dana Humphrey of the University of Maine in the following publication:

• Scrap Tires: Handbook on Recycling Applications and Management for the U.S. and Mexico (EPA, 2010)

To illustrate the differences, capital and operating costs associated with collecting and hauling tires about 30,000 miles a year 

were calculated for each major type of equipment. Since all of these costs vary significantly with time and location, this information 

should be used only for comparison or as a basis for recalculation using local economic conditions. The example assumes the 

purchase of used equipment in good condition with estimated labor, maintenance, and fuel costs based on some areas in the United 

States. Estimated insurance, depreciation, and a 20-percent annual return on investment have been included in the fixed cost 

calculations, but interest was not included for any funds borrowed. 

The capital and operating costs were estimated for a pickup truck, a pickup with a caged trailer, a box truck, and a diesel 

tractor with a 48-foot trailer. For simplicity, it was assumed that the vehicle averages 48.28 km/hour (30 mph), travel time will consider 

the loading and unloading times of the tires. The costs were calculated on a cost/km basis, and then reduced to cost/km/tire to more 

accurately reflect volume economics. 
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These calculations also assume that the vehicle is filled up during the trip. The cost/tire will increase if it is not filled, so a 

smaller vehicle may be better in these cases. In some cases, it may be most efficient to establish a collection point in a town or area 

where tires can be accumulated and then be hauled in larger vehicles to regional processing facilities or markets. (EPA, 2010)

Common waste tire transportation equipment data

Pickup Truck

Pickup trucks are a common vehicle capable of hauling many materials, including scrap tires. Carrying capacity for full-size 

pickups ranges from about 450 to 900 kg (1,000 to 2,000 pounds), depending on model and condition. The bed can hold the equivalent 

of up to 50 passenger tires (10 medium truck tires) if properly laced or stacked. These tires weigh approximately 1,000 pounds, the 

normal carrying capacity of basic half-ton (sometimes called 150-class) pickups in good condition. 

A metal cage can be added to increase the containment volume if the pickup has sufficient load carrying capacity. Some 0.7 

metric ton and 0.9 metric ton (called 250- and 350-Class) pickups can carry 900 kg (2,000 pounds) or more. 

Pickup with trailer

A caged trailer can be used to optimize hauling capacity because most pickups can tow more weight than they can carry within 

the truck itself. Towing capacity generally ranges from 2,250 to 4,550 kg (5,000 to 10,000 pounds), representing 250 to 500 passenger 

tires. Since most manageable trailers cannot hold that number of tires, trailer volume generally controls towing capacity. 
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Box Truck

Box trucks are commonly used for local waste tire collections. They can hold up to 400 passenger tires if tightly laced. 

Tractor Trailer

Traditional tractor trailer rigs are commonly used for collection and transport of large volumes of tires. Capacity for whole tires 

is limited by volume and depends on the trailer size, tire types, loading methods, and contamination. It ranges from 500 to 750 tires in a 

27-foot tandem trailer to more than 1,500 stacked in laced fashion in a 52-foot trailer. 

Processing reduces the tire volume by a factor of two to five, so processed tire loads are normally limited by maximum weight 

allowances, and not volume. Normal payload limits are 22 to 26 U.S. tons (2,200 to 2,600 passenger tire equivalents) in the United 

States, based on total weight limits minus the weight of the tractor and empty trailer. Tandem trailers further increase tire capacity for 

long hauls when local regulations allow them. (EPA, 2010).
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Estimated number of car tires to 

be buried per reclaimed cubic 

meter of mine space
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Table 1.

Estimated number of car tires to be buried per reclaimed cubic meter of mine space

Item Amount Units Source or formula to estimate it

Volume to be reclaimed 1 m3

Percentage of volume to be occupied by tire pieces 50 % % (Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, TCEQ, 2012)

Maximum weight of a passenger tire 20 pounds / car 

tire (Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission, TNRCC, 1999):

Car tires volume 10 car tires/ 

cubic yard (Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission, TNRCC, 1999):

Mean estimated volume reduction when removing the 

sidewalls of a passenger tire and tightly packing the 

resulting pieces together

77 % % Attachment 16 of this report

Estimated cut car tires volume (cubic yards, yd3) 43.48 cut car tires/ 

yd3 Car tires volume / ( 1- Mean estimated volume reduction when removing the sidewalls of a passenger tire and tightly packing the resulting pieces together)

Estimated cut car tires volume (cubic meters, m3) 56.87 cut car tires/ 

m3 Estimated cut car tires volume in cubic yards / 0.764555

Estimated number of car tires to be buried per 

reclaimed cubic meter of mine space 28 car tires/ m3 

reclaimed volume Estimated cut car tires volume / Percentage of volume to be ocuppied by tire pieces

Estimated weight of car tires to be buried per 

reclaimed cubic meter of mine space 560 pounds / m3

 

reclaimed volume

Estimated number of car tires to be used as reclaim volume * Maximum weight of a 

passenger tire

This Attachment presents, in blue cells, the estimated amount of car tires that can be disposed of in Land Reclamation Projects Using Tires (LRPUT) for every cubic meter of mine reclaimed.
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List of appropriate tire disposal 

alternatives identified in Texas
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The following table displays information regarding appropriate waste tire disposal sites in the Texas side of the Texas-Mexico 

border area. It is relevant to note that disposing of cut tires is in average 75% more economic than disposing of whole tires. IEMS 

recommends all generators to cut or shred their waste tires prior to disposal.

Passenger tires’ sidewalls may be easily removed using a linoleum knife or an automatic sidewall removing machine.

Commercial truck tires’ sidewalls may only be removed with a removing machine.

Table 1.

List of appropriate tire disposal alternatives identified in the Texas side of the Texas-Mexico border area and disposal fees 

charged at the time this study was written

County1 Permit No. or 

TCEQ ID 

Facility 

Name Type

Disposal fee per 

tire (USD/PTE)*

Additional information

Whole 

tires 

Cut or 

shred 

tires 

El Paso 2284 

Clint 

Municipal 

Landfill 

Type 1

landfill $3.00 $0.26

$3.00 for each tire with a diameter 19.5 inches or less (small or medium tires). $10.00 for 

each tire with a diameter greater than 19.5 inches (large tires). Cut or shredded tires are 

charged $26/ton, with a minimum charge of $16. Based on the disposal price per US ton 

of cut tires and PTE weight of 20 pounds, the estimated disposal fee per cut or shredded 

passenger tire would be $0.26 USD/tire3.

Maverick 2316 

Maverick 

County El 

Indio MSW 

Landfill 

Type 1

landfill $4.00 $0.40

Passenger tires are charged $4 USD/ tire; commercial truck tires are charged 

$12USD/tire. Cut or shredded tires would be charged $0.02USD per pound. Considering 

a PTE each cut passenger tire would be charged $0.4 USD/tire6. 

Webb 1693 

City of 

Laredo 

Sanitary 

Landfill 

Type 1

landfill $2.00 $0.32

They shred and then landfill waste tires. Passenger tires of commercial accounts are 

charged $2 USD per tire. Trailer tires are charged $6USD per tire. Special size tires are 

charged $100 USD per ton. Cut or shredded waste tires generated in Laredo city would 

pay a disposal fee of $31.5 per ton, generated in Webb county $66.5 USD/ton and 

generated outside of Webb county pay $201.5 USD/ton7. Based on the disposal price per 

US ton of cut tires and PTE weight, the estimated disposal fee per cut or shredded 

passenger tire would be $0.32USD/tire. 
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Table 1.

List of appropriate tire disposal alternatives identified in the Texas side of the Texas-Mexico border area and disposal fees 

charged at the time this study was written

County1 Permit No. or 

TCEQ ID 

Facility 

Name Type Disposal fee per tire (USD/PTE)* Additional information

Hidalgo 956 

Edinburg 

Regional 

Sanitary 

Landfill 

Type 1

landfill $5.00 $0.64

Whole used or scrap tires only if they are split and quartered or shredded and they do not 

come from a tire disposer/recycler who is reimbursed from the state Waste Tire 

Recycling Fund. Tires-rims must be removed; maximum size must not exceed 11.0 X 22

inches. To dispose of cut or shredded tires a class II waste profile would have to be 

submitted, disposed tires manifested and the requirements set by the landfill special 

waste plan executed. The fee for disposing cut or shredded tires would be $21 USD/ 

cubic yard8. Based on a volume of 1 cubic yard for 33 single passed shredded 

passenger tires9, assuming a similar volume for cut and packed waste tires the disposal 

fee for cut or shredded passenger tires would be of $0.64 USD/ tire.

Hidalgo 1948 

BFI-Rio 

Grande 

Valley 

Landfill 

Type 1

landfill $8.40 $0.46

Disposal fees of $8.4 USD per small tire, $13.8 USD per large tire and $45.5 per ton of 

cut tires are charged. This is a private landfill10. Considering a PTE the disposal cost per 

cut passenger tire equivalent is $0.46 dollars.

Cameron 1273 

Brownsville 

MSW 

Landfill 

Type 1

landfill $1.00 $0.36

The city landfill charges $36 USD per ton of cut tires, $1 USD per whole passenger tire, 

$5 USD per truck tire, $10USD per tractor tire and $23USD per heavy equipment tire 11. 

Considering a PTE the disposal cost per cut passenger tire equivalent is $0.36 dollars. 

Whole tires are shredded or bailed and then landfilled12.

Webb 6200005

UTW Tire 

Collection 

Services

LRPUT $1.00 NA A fee of $1USD per passenger tire and $5USD per semi truck tire is charged. Cut tires 

are not commonly received2 

El Paso 6200248 Tres 

Pesetas Inc LRPUT $1.50 $0.75 Depending on commercial agreements generators are charged from $1.5 to $3 USD for each whole tire. For each cut tire $0.75 USD are charged3.

Hidalgo 6200592

Santa Anita 

Reclamation 

LLC

LRPUT $1.00 $1.00 A fee of $0.05 USD/ pound is charged for whole tires, considering PTE the fee charged 

would be of 1USD/tire4. No fee for cut tires is available.

Doña 

Ana, New 

Mexico

27034

Chaparral 

Sand & 

Gravel5 LRPUT $0.95 $0.95 A fee of $95USD/ton is charged for disposal. Considering a PTE and a US ton the fee 

per cut or whole tire is $0.95 per tire6.

Average disposal fee charged $2.07 $0.51 Estimated applying the geometric mean of all prices available on each column.

Mean saving, when tires are cut or 

shredded, compared to disposing of 

whole tires:

75%

Formula applied: 

= ((mean whole tire disposal fee- mean cut tire disposal fee) / mean whole tire disposal 

fee) x 100%
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* Discounts or exception from payment, for disposing a limited number of tires per year, given to the area residents are not contemplated in this table or estimations here 

presented. 

Note: Disposal fees presented in this table should be confirmed, prices and policy may change and disposal fees in landfills may vary if the person disposing is not a local 

resident, yet they are presented for illustrative and evaluation purposes.

Type I landfills are authorized to accept municipal solid wastes. Source:http://www.tceq.texas.gov/assets/public/permitting/waste/msw/msw_lfs_Sep2011.pdf consulted on 11/July/2012.

PTE = passenger tire equivalent, which weighs 20 pounds (9.07 kg) Source: Scrap tire cleanup guidebook (EPA, 2006)

 1 Only Texan counties bordering Mexico are considered, data base updated on September 2010. 

Source:http://www.tceq.texas.gov/assets/public/permitting/waste/msw/msw_lfs_Sep2011.pdf consulted on 11/July/2012. 2 Fort Bliss landfill doesn't receive waste from outside the fort. Source: Telephonic statement from Lilia Lenhart on 16/07/2012, no signed confirmation format was provided. 3 Source: http://www.elpasotexas.gov/environmental_services/landfills.asp consulted on 11/July/2012.

4 Source: http://tx-delrio2.civicplus.com/index.aspx?nid=441 consulted on 12/July/2012. 5

 Data obtained via telephone from Mr. Dharrell G. Campbell landfill coordinator of the City of Del Rio on 12/ July/2012, no signed confirmation format was provided. 6 Source: telephonic quotation from Maverick-County Solid Waste Authority, Inc. 16179 Fm 1021, Eagle Pass, TX 78852 (830) 757-8191 contacted on 12/July/2012, no signed 

confirmation format was provided.

7 Source of disposal fees: http://www.laredosolidwaste.com/index.php/es/servicios/relleno-sanitario consulted on 11/July/2012 8 Sources: http://www.cityofedinburg.com/regionalI.php consulted on 11/July/2012. Fees and requirements on disposing cut tires obtained via telephone on 11/July/2012 and e-mail 

exchange with Elizabeth Munoz from the City of Edinburg Solid Waste Management on 12/July/2012. 9 Source: TNRCC INFORMATION, September 1999, Composition of a Tire, Waste Tire Recycling Program, Office of Permitting.

10 Source: Prices obtained through a telephonic call with Alicia Cabral on 16/July/2012. Private landfill managed by Republic services, Inc. no signed confirmation format was provided. 

Prices are independent of where waste tires were generated. 11 Source: http://publicworks.cob.us/business consulted on 12/July/2012. 12 Source: Face to face interview with Mr. Santiago Navarro Assistant Director of the City of Brownsville Public Works Office on 2/September/2011, no signed confirmation format was 

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Display map of appropriate tire 

disposal alternatives identified in 

Texas
300000 500000 700000 310000 510000 710000

300000 500000 700000 310000 510000 710000

3500000 3300000 3100000

3500000 3300000 3100000 2900000

2900000

Land Reclamation Project Using Tires 

(LRPUT)

Land Reclamation Project Using Tires 

(LRPUT) with whole tire burial 

authorized.

Type 1 Sanitary Landfill. 

Symbology

Note: Sites colored according to social and/or environmental performance, being green the most recommended, and red the least recommended 

alternative .Although all are considered appropriate tire disposal alternatives by this study.

Appropriate tire disposal alternatives 

in Texas’ international border area

UTM Coordinates 
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Land Reclamation Projects Using Tires can be conducted because it is unlikely 

that scrap tires are biologically harmful to the environment (Liu, Mead, & Stacer, 1998)

and the environmental impact associated with the use of tire depends on the presence of 

a release mechanism of chemicals present in tires (Birkholz, Belton, & Guidotti, 2003). 

Much of the research evaluating the potential for rubber tires to contaminate the 

environment tested which contaminants could be leached from whole or shredded tires by 

water as release mechanism. EPA’s Toxicity Characteristics Leaching Procedure has 

been used for various types of tires under different scrap tire processing scenarios and all 

results reported were below EPA’s regulatory levels (Park, Kim, & Edil, 1996).

As explained before, tires do not cause any significant environmental impact 

when used for land reclamation. Furthermore, shredded tires have been found to absorb 

volatile organic compounds (VOCs) up to 1 to 6% more than granular activated carbon 

and it has been proposed to use as a substitute for leachate collection system medium for 

removing VOCs in landfill leachate (Shin, Kyu-Seon, & Park, 1999); this makes waste tires 

suitable to be buried due to its good absorption capabilities. Ground tires were also used 

as a soil bed conditioner to remove odor and prevent the deterioration of soil due to short 

circuiting during the rainy season and cold winter. Tires also showed to be an efficient 

sorbent material for mercury, cadmium (II) and lead (II).

The composition of tire rubber differs according to the brand and use of the tire 

and is a complex mix of many different components. In addition to natural rubber, a 

number of synthetic rubbers also are used for the production of tires (Sullivan, 2006). 

Metals exist within automobile tires, but also that not all tires possess the same levels of 

metals; cadmium concentrations in the tires ranged from 0 to 2 mg/kg. Lead 

concentrations ranged from 8.1 to 22.3 mg/kg. Zinc concentrations ranged from 2524 to 

6012 mg/kg. The lead and cadmium concentrations in the tires were similar to those found 

in uncontaminated soils, but the zinc concentrations were much greater than that normally 

found in soils.

According with Birkholz, Belton, & Guidotti (2003) metals from tires can be 

leached at low pH and organic compounds can be leached at high pH, conclude that 

unbound shredded tires should be used in environments where the soil and groundwater 

are at a fairly neutral pH. Zinc was considered the major toxicant; nevertheless, it was 

showed that, although a significant fraction of Zinc is released from the rubber matrix 

within 1 year, the parallel increase in soil pH limits the mobilization of Zinc in soil

(Smolders & Degryse, 2002).

Chemicals leaching from relatively fresh tire may present a moderate toxic threat 

to aquatic species if the runoff is not diluted (Humpherey & Katz, 2000). However, this 

toxic activity is quickly degraded by natural processes, presumably by conversion of the 

chemicals responsible to nontoxic products and conditions likely to produce runoff, such 

as rain and snowmelt, are also likely to dilute the runoff in receiving sewers, bodies of 

water, and groundwater by considerable volumes. 
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Environmental impacts and 

proposed mitigation activities 

regarding a sanitary landfill 

lifecycle
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Landfills are engineered areas where waste is placed into the land. On type 1 

landfills the waste buried is commonly municipal solid waste (MSW) which contains a high 

water and organic matter content which releases a potentially contaminant leachate and 

nauseating scents. Once a landfill is filled up it must be closed but continuously monitored 

for decades. If waste tires are disposed of in a landfill they will occupy space which could 

have been employed for MSW disposal. 

When a landfill is near to end its intended lifecycle new sites are evaluated for the 

preparation and construction of a new one in order to continue the disposal of MSW. Since 

waste tire disposal in landfills would accelerate the filling process it could be concluded 

that it promotes the construction of new landfills reason for which in order to evaluate the 

environmental impacts caused by the preparation, construction, operation and closure of a 

landfill in the Texas-Mexico border area; one environmental impact assessments (EIA) 

prepared for said purpose and area was consulted. This document is the following:

 Environmental Impact Assessment of the construction of the City of 

Ascension, Chihuahua sanitary landfill. (Santal Estudios y Proyectos S.A. de 

C.V., SEPSA, 2006)

The following table presents an extract from the document above. It 

encompasses a landfill life cycle anticipated environmental impacts and necessary 

mitigation activities required to mitigate them. It is presented to illustrate the stakeholder 

on the environmental consequences expected from disposing of waste tires in a sanitary 

landfill which although is considered appropriate for safely receiving them will reduce its 

life expectancy and therefore accelerate the construction of other ones.

Table 1.

Environmental impacts and proposed mitigation activities during a sanitary landfill 

lifecycle

Impact Mitigation activities

Site Preparation and Construction

Particle emission, 

fragments and dust

Carry out activities of: cleaning, dismantle cutting, excavation, 

preparation of the support soil and those activities that generate 

that kind of impact in wet phase. And the use of treated water 

for this purpose.

Transport the materials for the construction of the 

complementary works in closed trucks or covered with tarps.

Dust generation could be minimized keeping the access road 

wet as often as necessary.

At the material’s bank, perform the extraction in wet phases, as 

well transporting in trucks closed or covered with tarps.
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Table 1.

Environmental impacts and proposed mitigation activities during a sanitary landfill 

lifecycle

Impact Mitigation activities

Particle emission, smoke 

and gases caused by the 

operation of machinery and 

equipment: diesel (sulfur 

dioxide, unburned 

hydrocarbons, nitrogen and 

carbon oxides and 

particles) and gasoline 

(carbon monoxide, 

unburned hydrocarbons 

and nitrogen oxides).

Verify that the collection trucks are in optimal operating 

conditions, to keep them from exceeding permitted levels of 

contaminant emissions. Check that machinery and equipment is 

in optimal conditions to operate and periodically refine trucks, 

machinery and equipment.

These actions must be followed by dependencies responsible 

for: the transport of the waste to the place of disposal and, by 

the company responsible for the building and operations of the 

landfill.

Increased levels sound 

(noise).

Vehicles traveling on the site, the machinery and equipment; 

must have silencers to reduce noise generation. This action 

must be followed by the units responsible for the transport, 

construction and operation of the site.

Generation of pathogens 

by the practice of outdoor 

defecation; affecting soil, 

water and air.

Must avoid the practice of defecation outdoors for this, the 

Department of Public Works of the municipality must install 

sanitary facilities (portable toilets) in the workspace and keep 

them operating properly

Alteration of hydrologic 

pattern, in both 

groundwater as surface 

water

In the landfill project must be integrated the design of the 

necessary hydraulic works (masonry channel for the peripheral 

drainage and the channels for the temporary drainage) in order 

to channel the runoffs of the area.

Incorporation of fats, oils, 

lubricants, diesel, gasoline 

and additives in soil and 

water, both groundwater 

and surface.

Provide adequate maintenance to the collection units, as well 

as to the machinery and equipment, to avoid the leakage of the 

indicated contaminants

Allocate an appropriate site for the maintenance activities of the 

equipment as well as a site for store fuels, lubricants, etc.

Incorporation of residues 

coming from the 

manufacture of asphalt, 

concrete and, other debris, 

in the water and soil.

Assign a specific site for the preparation of material blends 

required for construction of the complementary works, taking 

care of polluting the least possible, soil and groundwater.

Health effects of 

construction personnel by 

dust emissions, noise, 

handling of equipment and 

machinery etc.

It is necessary that all the construction personnel use a safety 

equipment (boots, overalls, gloves, belt, covers mouths, etc..) in 

order to avoid the risk of acquiring one respiratory tract 

infection, gastrointestinal disease, injuries, etc..

It is also important to conduct periodic medical reviews to the 

staff.

Alteration of the landscape 

elements.

Place a tree perimeter fence within the boundaries of the terrain 

assigned to the construction works, in a called: buffer zone
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Environmental impacts and proposed mitigation activities during a sanitary landfill 

lifecycle

Impact Mitigation activities

Operation

Increase of vehicular traffic 

on access roads to work.

Controlling the entrance and exit of all the vehicles to the site of 

disposal. Placing road signs and keep in good condition the 

access road.

Generation of particles, 

dust, odors and fumes.

Perform the activities of: soil movement and construction of 

cells in wet phase. Minimize dust by moistening the access 

roads, often as necessary.

The daily coverage of cells will reduce the spread of odors,

possible fires and minimize fumes. Odors associated with the 

leachate recirculation can be minimized by reducing the 

irrigation during periods in which, the winds circulate with 

excessive speed.

Odors caused by stagnation of leachate can be minimized by

providing aeration to the evaporation pond.

Emissions of particles, 

dusts, fumes and gases 

from trucks that travel on 

the site, as well as 

machinery.

Verify that the collection trucks are in optimal operating 

conditions, to keep them from exceeding permitted levels of 

contaminant emissions.

Check that machinery and equipment is in optimal conditions to 

operate. Periodically refine trucks, machinery and equipment.

These actions must be followed by dependencies responsible 

for: the transport of the waste to the place of disposal and, by 

the company responsible for the building and operations of the 

landfill.

Scattering of light debris by 

the wind.

Ensure that the waste trucks (collection) are closed trucks, or 

covered by tarps in the case that particulars be authorized to 

transport their own waste to the landfill.

The waste deposited in the cell, must be covered daily, and also 

a provisional fence must be placed to prevent the spread of 

waste.

Generation of biogas, 

which affects: air quality, 

soil, water resources as 

well as the health of 

operating personnel.

Place chimneys at suitable sites to evacuate the gases 

produced by the decomposition of trash.

At the end of each chimney, a device will be placed for burning 

gases.
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Table 1.

Environmental impacts and proposed mitigation activities during a sanitary landfill 

lifecycle

Impact Mitigation activities

Generation of pathogens 

by the practice of 

defecation outdoors which 

affects soil, water and air.

It shall be supervised that all the staff of the landfill uses the 

portable toilets in the workspace, further than that, takes place 

an adequate maintenance program for the toilets

Incorporation of fats, oils, 

lubricants, diesel, additives 

and gasoline in soil and 

both groundwater and 

surface waters.

Provide the adequate maintenance to the collection units, as 

well as the machinery and equipment in order to prevent 

leakage of the indicated contaminants.

Leachate generation and 

infiltration which affects the 

quality of soil and 

groundwater.

Installation of the natural system of waterproofing, using the 

material collected during excavation for site preparation. This 

material has a clay-sandy texture.

The coating with clay material must completely prevent the 

infiltration of rain into the body of the landfill.

It is planned to install a leachate collection system to minimize 

the risk of leachate infiltration into the groundwater. Should be 

performed a regular sampling of nearest water well in order to 

control the quality of the irrigation water extracted from it.

Increased noise levels

Creating a tree barrier on both sides of the road is a measure to 

mitigate the impact of the noise caused by machinery used to 

operate the landfill.

Vehicles traveling on the site, the machinery and equipment to 

use must have silencers to reduce noise generation. This 

measure must be attended by the dependencies responsible for 

transport, construction and operation of the work.

Impact on health of 

operating personnel by 

emissions of dust, noise, 

odors, gases, fumes, noise, 

handling of equipment and 

machinery, etc.

Monitor that all the operating personnel use properly the safety 

equipment (boots, overalls, gloves, belt, face masks, hearing 

protection, etc.), in order to avoid possible infection in 

respiratory, gastrointestinal, injuries, etc. It is also important to 

perform frequently medical examinations to the staff.

It is important that the staff that operates the equipment and 

working machinery is adequately trained for its proper 

operation.

Affect on landscape

In order to reduce the impact of the landfill on the surrounding 

population, should be placed a line of trees with the aim of 

prevents or reduce the visibility of the landfill in the vicinity of the 

adjacent road.

Proliferation of harmful 

fauna

After the construction of each cell it should be covered daily with 

the clay material obtained from the excavation of the site.
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Table 1.

Environmental impacts and proposed mitigation activities during a sanitary landfill 

lifecycle

Impact Mitigation activities

Closing

Leachate generation and 

infiltration that affects the 

quality of soil and 

groundwater.

It is recommended place a clay coating in order to totally 

prevent the infiltration of rain on the body of the landfill.

Periodic sampling should be performed in the nearest water 

well, in order to control the quality of the water that is extracted 

from it.

Generation of particles and 

dust, at the moment to 

carry out reforestation.

Make the final coating with soil in wet phase. The final cover will 

reduce the spread of odors and possible fires.

Generation of odors by the 

biogas which affects air 

quality and may cause 

fires.

Monitor that the burners installed in the chimneys to biogas 

output are in the best conditions of operation and there are no 

leaks.

During the closing there will be a monitoring of the gases issued 

by the landfill in order to keep track of possible migration of 

biogas from landfill.

It is recommended to study the biogas generation in the area 

and research in what kind of process would it be desirable to 

use it.

Affect on landscape

The surface of the landfill will be reforested and / or covered 

with stone to control and minimize the erosion of the final cover 

of soil placed.

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Approximate driving distances 

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tire final disposal sites in Texas
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Table 1.

Approximate driving distances from scope cities to appropriate tire final disposal sites in Texas1

County El Paso Maverick Webb Hidalgo Hidalgo Cameron Webb El Paso Hidalgo Doña Ana, 

NM

City

Texas 

scope 

population 

percentage2

Clint 

Municipal 

Landfill

Maverick 

County El 

Indio 

MSW 

Landfill

City of 

Laredo 

Sanitary 

Landfill

Edinburg 

Regional 

Sanitary 

Landfill

BFI-Rio 

Grande 

Valley 

Landfill

Brownsville 

MSW 

Landfill

UTW Tire 

Collection 

Services 

LRPUT

Tres 

Pesetas 

Inc 

LRPUT

Santa Anita 

Reclamation 

LLC 

LRPUT

Chaparral 

Sand & 

Gravel 

LRPUT

El Paso El Paso 47.4% 25 500 2 774 792 831 609 24 766 24

Webb Laredo 17.3% 614 112 7 150 160 205 18 639 142 635

Cameron Brownsville 12.8% 807 316 203 71 51 8 221 832 75 847

Hidalgo McAllen 9.5% 769 256 145 19 17 62 162 794 33 808

Hidalgo Pharr 5.1% 765 260 157 15 14 59 165 790 29 804

Valverde Del Rio 2.6% 402 72 185 324 339 384 181 427 316 441

Maverick Eagle Pass 1.9% 457 16 130 269 284 329 127 482 261 497

Starr Rio Grande 

City 1.0% 717 215 105 59 57 101 121 742 72 756

Starr Roma 0.7% 705 203 93 71 69 114 109 730 85 744

El Paso Fabens 0.6% 10 471 585 746 764 803 581 30 738 49

Hidalgo Progreso 0.4% 783 278 176 33 14 41 184 809 48 823

Hidalgo La Joya 0.3% 740 239 128 34 33 78 145 766 49 780

Presidio Presidio 0.3% 232 362 475 614 629 744 471 269 606 271

Total scope population 100.0% 1 Distances presented are based on the shortest driving time routes existing in July 2012, availability of roads should be confirmed as well as new routes prior to make a disposal decision. 

 Source: Google® maps.

2 Source: Texas state library and archives commission, 2010 Census: Population of Texas Cities Arranged in Alphabetical Order 

 Consulted in https://www.tsl.state.tx.us/ref/abouttx/popcity12010.html on 16/July/2012.
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Each row in table 1 is assigned to a different city, by simply selecting a row it is possible to read the driving distances to all 

appropriate disposal alternatives which are assigned one to each column. Cities are ordered from most populated on the top to less 

populated cities on the bottom. Rows and columns also present counties in order to facilitate the search of sites in specific regions.

Authorized tire transporters and processors which finally dispose of waste tires in these alternatives or other TCEQ 

authorized alternatives located further north should also be considered appropriate. They are not included in this table since this study

focus was specifically on final tire disposal alternatives, not including intermediaries.
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List of appropriate tire disposal 

alternatives identified in the 

Mexican side of the TexasMexico Border Area and disposal 

fees charged
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The following table displays information regarding appropriate waste tire disposal sites in the Mexican side of the TexasMexico border area. It is relevant to note that disposing of cut tires is in average 30% more economic than disposing of whole tires. IEMS 

recommends all generators to cut or shred their waste tires prior to disposal.

Passenger tires’ sidewalls may be easily removed using a linoleum knife or an automatic sidewall removing machine.

Commercial truck tires’ sidewalls may only be removed with a removing machine.

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List of appropriate tire disposal sites identified in the Mexican side of the Texas-Mexico border area and disposal fees 

charged at the time this study was written

State Municipality Facility 

name Type

Disposal fee per 

tire (Mexican 

pesos / PTE) Additional information

Whole 

tires 

Cut or 

shred 

tires 

Coahuila Acuña PASA Acuña Landfill $10.00 $2.45

A disposal fee per tire of $10 pesos is charged for whole tires. A waste disposal 

fee of $270 pesos is charged for every metric tonne disposed, cut tires disposal 

fee was estimated based on a PTE weight of 9.07kg (20 pounds)1. 

Coahuila Piedras Negras

PASA 

Piedras 

Negras

Landfill $9.62 $9.62

A disposal fee of $1,061 per metric tonne of whole waste tires is charged, cut tires 

would be received at the same price. Waste tires are currently being accumulated 

until shredding equipment arrives to the site.2

Nuevo 

Leon Monterrey

Pro ambiente 

S.A. De C.V. 

(Cemex)

Cement 

kiln $1.36 $1.36

They receive passenger and truck whole tires with a maximum rims size of 25”, 

shredded tires with a particle diameter less than 1” and tires with sidewalls slit on 

the shoulders. Tires must be free of garbage and vectors. They do not receive 

heavy equipment tires; they must be passenger or truck ones, always without rims, 

clean, free of water, garbage or vectors. No solid tires such as the ones used on 

forklifts are received. A disposal fee of $150 pesos per metric tonne of tires is 

charged regardless if they are cut, shred or whole3.
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Table 1. 

List of appropriate tire disposal sites identified in the Mexican side of the Texas-Mexico border area and disposal fees 

charged at the time this study was written

State Municipality Facility 

name Type

Disposal fee per 

tire (Mexican 

pesos / PTE)

Additional information

Nuevo 

Leon Hidalgo

Pro ambiente 

S.A. De C.V. 

(Cemex)

Cement 

kiln $1.36 $1.36

They receive passenger and truck whole tires with a maximum rims size of 25”, 

shredded tires with a particle diameter less than 1” and tires with sidewalls slit on 

the shoulders. Tires must be free of garbage and vectors. They do not receive 

heavy equipment tires; they must be passenger or truck ones, always without rims, 

clean, free of water, garbage or vectors. No solid tires such as the ones used on 

forklifts are received. A disposal fee of $150 pesos per metric tonne of tires is 

charged regardless if they are cut, shred or whole3. The Hidalgo, Nuevo Leon plant 

is currently on technical stop but it's reported to receive waste tires when 

operating. Data provided by phone by unidentified plant worker4.

Coahuila 

de 

Zaragoza

Ramos Arizpe

Ecoltec S.A. 

De C.V. 

(Holcim 

Apasco)

Cement 

kiln No fee No fee

They receive passenger and bicycle tires. In all but one plants they require tires to 

be shredded in order to process them; they can even provide the equipment to 

grind the tires in tire piles sites. The particle size must be less than 10 cm. They 

can also receive tires with sidewalls slit on the shoulders. Tires with rims are not 

accepted, nor machinery or forklift tires. No large tires such as for subway, mining 

or agriculture are accepted unless they are cut in four parts. Tires received mustn't 

be mixed of transported with other materials. If tires are delivered directly to their 

cement plants the operator must be insured by the Mexican Social Security 

Institute (Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, IMSS) and be dressed in a specific 

way5.

Chihuahua Juarez GCC 

Samalayuca

Cement 

kiln $2.27 NA

GCC charges $250 pesos per metric tonne of whole waste tires. They can process 

shredded tires in 4" X 4" chips or smaller. Whole tires they can receive must have 

a maximum dimension of tread of 11" and 43" of diameter. Price may be 

negotiated if tires are already shred6.
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Table 1. 

List of appropriate tire disposal sites identified in the Mexican side of the Texas-Mexico border area and disposal fees 

charged at the time this study was written

State Municipality Facility 

name Type

Disposal fee per 

tire (Mexican 

pesos / PTE)

Additional information

Chihuahua Chihuahua GCC 

Chihuahua

Cement 

kiln $2.27 NA

GCC charges $250 pesos per metric tonne of whole waste tires. They can process 

shredded tires in 4" X 4" chips or smaller. Whole tires they can receive must have 

a maximum dimension of tread of 11" and 43" of diameter. Price may be 

negotiated if tires are already shred.6

Average disposal fee charged $3.65 $2.57 Estimated applying the geometric mean of all prices available on each column.

Mean saving, when tires are cut or 

shredded, compared to disposing of 

whole tires:

30%

Formula applied: 

= ((mean whole tire disposal fee- mean cut tire disposal fee) / mean whole tire 

disposal fee) x 100%

Note: Of the private landfills in the Mexican side of the border, only PASA's Acuña and Piedras Negras landfills currently receive waste tires. Theoretically any landfill complying with 

Official Mexican Standard NOM-083-SEMARNAT-2003 may receive tires.

PASA= Promotora Ambiental S.A. de C.V.

GCC = Grupo Cementos de Chihuahua S.A.B. De C.V.

NA= Information was not available.

1 Source: Data provided by PASA Acuña landfill worker Isabel Morales during a telephonic quotation request on 2012. 2 Source: Data provided by PASA Piedras Negras landfill worker on a telephonic quotation request on 2012. 3 Source: Data obtained through a recyclers questionnaire answered by Mr. Americo Montemayor, production coordinator of Pro ambiente S.A. De C.V. on November 2011. 4 Source: Data provided by an unidentified facility worker through telephone on August 30, 2012. 5 Source: Data obtained through a recyclers questionnaire answered by Viviana Cordoba Benavides, Communications and marketing coordinator of Ecoltec S.A. de C.V. on June, 2012. 6 Source: Data obtained through e-mail exchange with Mr. Raul H. Villalba, clinker cement unit of GCC on July 6, 2012.
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Environmental performance of 

TDF use by cement kilns in U.S. 

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In order to understand the environmental impact of employing waste tires as Tire 

Derived Fuel in Cement Kilns the following documents were consulted:

 Official Mexican Standard NOM-040-ECOL-2002, regarding environmental 

protection- fabrication of hydraulic cement- Maximum permissible emissions 

to the atmosphere levels. (SEMARNAT, 2002)

 Scrap Tires: Handbook on Recycling Applications and Management for the 

U.S. and Mexico (EPA, 2010)

Mexico’s environmental experience using tires as cement kiln fuel

According to national and international experience this technology allows the

environmentally safe use of the caloric power of wastes introduced into a kiln as fuel, such 

as worn- out lubricating oils and grease, textiles impregnated with them, non chlorinated 

solvents and tires, among others, being this a recycling or using method of said wastes.

The recovery of energy from wastes doesn’t substantially modify the emissions of 

the hydraulic cement industry with respect to those generated by conventional fuels, 

currently and from the beginning of the 90’s, the Mexican cement industry has broadened 

this practice, having for this the respective approvals of the Mexican Environment and 

Natural Resources Ministry (Secretaria de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales, 

SEMARNAT) (SEMARNAT, 2002)

USA environmental experience using tires as cement kiln fuel

The use of tires as TDF amounts to simply burning tires in a controlled 

environment and can be a viable option under the correct conditions, as demonstrated by 

diligent monitoring of existing operations. Air pollution control regulations vary from U.S. 

state to state; however, analysis of emissions data demonstrates that facilities remain 

within permissible limits. Compliance and performance monitoring are integral parts to any 

state pollution control program. The following factors encourage use of tires as a 

supplemental energy resource in cement kilns, but the application also must be 

environmentally acceptable and not pose unnecessary risks to health or the environment. 

Several additional factors that affect environmental performance warrant discussion:

• Rigorous Combustion Conditions 

A unique combination of high temperature, long residence time, and turbulent air 

flow promotes complete combustion of organic compounds in cement kiln systems. 

Although tires are not hazardous wastes, the combustion conditions in cement kilns 

exceed the strict requirements for combustion of hazardous wastes in the United States. 

Combustion conditions for tires generally exceed 1,450oC (2,000oF) with air residence 

times in excess of 2 seconds.
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• SOx Control 

Limestone is commonly used to absorb SOx in air pollution control systems. It is 

also a major component in the cement raw mix. As a result, SOx in combustion gases is 

captured by the limestone in the raw mix as the gases pass through the kiln system, 

thereby providing an effective SOx control mechanism.

• Ash Utilization

Ash resulting from tire combustion becomes an integral component of the cement 

product, thereby eliminating the need to dispose of any ash from TDF combustion. These 

factors support use of scrap tires as a supplemental fuel in kilns. However, historical 

performance is a critical consideration in evaluating environmental acceptability of this 

application.

Cement kilns have collectively used more waste tires than any other single 

application in the United States and this application is among the largest in Europe and 

Japan. Furthermore, kilns are an important component of waste tire management in most 

U.S. states. Some cement companies in Mexico have used, or are using, scrap tires as a 

supplemental energy resource. Cement companies in northern Mexico have cooperated 

with Mexican governmental departments to constructively use tires removed from border 

stockpiles under economic conditions that were attractive to both government and 

industry. Cement kilns provide an important opportunity for using waste tire resources 

constructively. Any state or local government that is not fully utilizing its waste tire 

resource may want to objectively evaluate the environmental and economic merits of 

using scrap tires as an energy resource in cement kilns. (EPA, 2010)
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Approximate driving distances 

from scope municipalities to 

appropriate tire final disposal 

sites in the Mexican side of the 

Texas-Mexico Border Area
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Each row in Table 1 is assigned to a different tire pile site or municipality, by simply selecting a row it is possible to read the 

approximated driving distances to all appropriate disposal alternatives identified which are assigned one to each column. Municipalities 

are ordered from west on top of the list to east on the bottom.

Table 1.

Approximate driving distances from scope cities to appropriate tire final disposal sites in the Mexican side of the TexasMexico Border Area (Km)1

Id # State Municipality / 

disposal site

Monterrey, 

Nuevo Leon

Ramos 

Arizpe, 

Coahuila

Chihuahua, 

Chihuahua

Acuña, 

Coahuila

Piedras 

Negras, 

Coahuila

Juarez, 

Chihuahua 

(Samalayuca)

Hidalgo, 

Nuevo Leon

CEMEX 

cement kiln

APASCO 

cement kiln

GCC 

cement kiln

PASA 

landfill

PASA 

landfill

GCC 

cement kiln

CEMEX 

cement kiln

35 Chihuahua Juarez 1159 1096 344 1505 1452 23 1172

34 Chihuahua Ojinaga 909 846 222 1261 1203 548 931

31 Coahuila Acuña 491 493 1163 0 100 1488 501

32 Coahuila Piedras Negras 406 459 1105 100 0 1431 417

33 Coahuila Nava 420 385 1054 137 58 1380 360

15 Nuevo Leon Anahuac 200 253 1012 308 219 1337 197

NA Tamaulipas Nuevo Laredo 200 253 1011 304 216 1347 211

NA Tamaulipas Guerrero 175 194 994 401 313 1329 194

12 Tamaulipas Miguel Aleman 170 231 990 433 346 1315 189

11 Tamaulipas Camargo 198 260 1018 461 374 1343 218

NA Tamaulipas Gustavo Diaz Ordaz 216 287 1046 490 401 1382 245

3 Tamaulipas Reynosa 223 296 1054 540 451 1380 283

4 Tamaulipas Reynosa 222 294 1052 523 438 1378 251
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Table 1.

Approximate driving distances from scope cities to appropriate tire final disposal sites in the Mexican side of the TexasMexico Border Area (Km)1

Id # State Municipality / 

disposal site

Monterrey, 

Nuevo Leon

Ramos 

Arizpe, 

Coahuila

Chihuahua, 

Chihuahua

Acuña, 

Coahuila

Piedras 

Negras, 

Coahuila

Juarez, 

Chihuahua 

(Samalayuca)

Hidalgo, 

Nuevo Leon

CEMEX 

cement kiln

APASCO 

cement kiln

GCC 

cement kiln

PASA 

landfill

PASA 

landfill

GCC 

cement kiln

CEMEX 

cement kiln

8 Tamaulipas Reynosa 220 292 1050 524 437 1376 249

7 Tamaulipas Reynosa 220 292 1050 524 437 1376 249

2 Tamaulipas Rio Bravo 253 325 1083 565 476 1414 283

1 Tamaulipas Matamoros 298 370 1128 609 524 1456 327

36 Tamaulipas Matamoros 329 400 1159 640 551 1484 358

NA = Not applicable

APASCO = Holcim Apasco

CEMEX= CEMEX S.A.B. De C.V.

GCC= Grupo Cementos de Chihuahua S.A.B. De C.V.

PASA= Promotora Ambiental S.A. De C.V.

1 Distances presented are based on the shortest driving time routes existing in August 2012, availability of roads should be confirmed as well as new routes and security issues 

prior to make a disposal decision. Source: Google® maps.
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Transportations costs to cement 

kilns available from cities on the 

Mexican side of the TexasMexico Border Area
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Table 1.

Transportations costs to cement kilns per city per whole, cut or shredded tire (USD/tire)

ORIGINS

EQUIP.

DESTINATIONS

PLANT GCC CEMEX APASCO CEMEX CEMEX MOCTEZUMA CEMEX CEMEX

STATE Chihuahua Coahuila Coahuila Nuevo 

León

Nuevo 

León San Luis Potosí San Luis Potosí

San Luis 

Potosí

STATE CITY CITY Chihuahua Torreon Ramos 

Arizpe Monterrey Hidalgo Cerritos Valles Tamuin

Tamaulipas Matamoros

Truck whole $0.65 $0.55 $0.60 $0.85 $0.83 $0.83

Train whole $0.70 $0.60 $0.63 $1.16 $1.34 $1.37

Truck cut $0.41 $0.35 $0.38 $0.53 $0.52 $0.52

Train shred $0.22 $0.19 $0.20 $0.37 $0.43 $0.44

Tamaulipas Río Bravo

Truck whole

Train whole $0.63 $0.54 $0.57 $1.11 $1.29 $1.34

Truck cut

Train shred $0.20 $0.17 $0.18 $0.35 $0.41 $0.43

Tamaulipas Reynosa

Truck whole $0.50 $0.23 $0.43 $0.73 $0.60 $0.57

Train whole $0.61 $0.51 $0.55 $1.08 $1.26 $1.34

Truck cut $0.31 $0.15 $0.27 $0.46 $0.38 $0.35

Train shred $0.20 $0.16 $0.18 $0.35 $0.40 $0.43

Tamaulipas Gustavo Diaz Ordaz

Truck whole

Train whole $0.54 $0.48 $0.51 $1.06 $1.25 $1.30

Truck cut

Train shred $0.17 $0.15 $0.16 $0.34 $0.40 $0.41
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Table 1.

Transportations costs to cement kilns per city per whole, cut or shredded tire (USD/tire)

ORIGINS

EQUIP.

DESTINATIONS

PLANT GCC CEMEX APASCO CEMEX CEMEX MOCTEZUMA CEMEX CEMEX

STATE Chihuahua Coahuila Coahuila Nuevo 

León

Nuevo 

León San Luis Potosí San Luis Potosí

San Luis 

Potosí

STATE CITY CITY Chihuahua Torreon Ramos 

Arizpe Monterrey Hidalgo Cerritos Valles Tamuin

Tamaulipas Camargo

Truck whole

Train whole $0.54 $0.45 $0.48 $1.00 $1.25 $1.25

Truck cut

Train shred $0.17 $0.14 $0.15 $0.32 $0.40 $0.40

Tamaulipas Miguel Aleman

Truck whole

Train whole $0.54 $0.45 $0.48 $1.00 $1.25 $1.25

Truck cut

Train shred $0.17 $0.14 $0.15 $0.32 $0.40 $0.40

Tamaulipas Guerrero

Truck whole

Train whole $0.63 $0.55 $0.59 $1.11 $1.27 $1.32

Truck cut

Train shred $0.20 $0.18 $0.19 $0.36 $0.41 $0.42

Tamaulipas Nuevo Laredo

Truck whole $0.35 $0.24 $0.17

Train whole $0.63 $0.55 $0.59 $1.11 $1.27 $1.32

Truck cut $0.22 $0.15 $0.10

Train shred $0.20 $0.18 $0.19 $0.36 $0.41 $0.42
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Table 1.

Transportations costs to cement kilns per city per whole, cut or shredded tire (USD/tire)

ORIGINS

EQUIP.

DESTINATIONS

PLANT GCC CEMEX APASCO CEMEX CEMEX MOCTEZUMA CEMEX CEMEX

STATE Chihuahua Coahuila Coahuila Nuevo 

León

Nuevo 

León San Luis Potosí San Luis Potosí

San Luis 

Potosí

STATE CITY CITY Chihuahua Torreon Ramos 

Arizpe Monterrey Hidalgo Cerritos Valles Tamuin

Nuevo León Anahuac

Truck whole

Train whole $0.57 $0.47 $0.50 $0.95 $1.25 $1.30

Truck cut

Train shred $0.18 $0.15 $0.16 $0.30 $0.40 $0.42

Nuevo León Cerralvo

Truck whole

Train whole $0.48 $0.39 $0.42 $0.97 $1.14 $1.20

Truck cut

Train shred $0.15 $0.12 $0.13 $0.31 $0.37 $0.39

Nuevo León Sabinas Hidalgo

Truck whole

Train whole $0.46 $0.37 $0.40 $0.95 $1.15 $1.18

Truck cut

Train shred $0.15 $0.12 $0.13 $0.30 $0.37 $0.38

Nuevo León Los Aldamas

Truck whole

Train whole $0.50 $0.41 $0.45 $0.99 $1.20 $1.23

Truck cut

Train shred $0.16 $0.13 $0.14 $0.32 $0.38 $0.39
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Table 1.

Transportations costs to cement kilns per city per whole, cut or shredded tire (USD/tire)

ORIGINS

EQUIP.

DESTINATIONS

PLANT GCC CEMEX APASCO CEMEX CEMEX MOCTEZUMA CEMEX CEMEX

STATE Chihuahua Coahuila Coahuila Nuevo 

León

Nuevo 

León San Luis Potosí San Luis Potosí

San Luis 

Potosí

STATE CITY CITY Chihuahua Torreon Ramos 

Arizpe Monterrey Hidalgo Cerritos Valles Tamuin

Nuevo León General Bravo

Truck whole

Train whole $0.50 $0.41 $0.45 $0.99 $1.20 $1.23

Truck cut

Train shred $0.16 $0.13 $0.14 $0.32 $0.38 $0.39

Nuevo León Vallecillo

Truck whole

Train whole $0.52 $0.42 $0.46 $0.99 $1.20 $1.25

Truck cut

Train shred $0.17 $0.14 $0.15 $0.32 $0.38 $0.40

Coahuila Acuña

Truck whole $0.98 $0.50 $0.43 $0.45 $0.43

Train whole

Truck cut $0.61 $0.31 $0.27 $0.28 $0.27

Train shred

Coahuila Piedras Negras

Truck whole $0.93 $0.45 $0.38 $0.40 $0.38

Train whole $3.01 $2.71 $2.27 $2.13 $2.13

Truck cut $0.58 $0.28 $0.24 $0.25 $0.24

Train shred $1.08 $0.97 $0.82 $0.77 $0.77
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Table 1.

Transportations costs to cement kilns per city per whole, cut or shredded tire (USD/tire)

ORIGINS

EQUIP.

DESTINATIONS

PLANT GCC CEMEX APASCO CEMEX CEMEX MOCTEZUMA CEMEX CEMEX

STATE Chihuahua Coahuila Coahuila Nuevo 

León

Nuevo 

León San Luis Potosí San Luis Potosí

San Luis 

Potosí

STATE CITY CITY Chihuahua Torreon Ramos 

Arizpe Monterrey Hidalgo Cerritos Valles Tamuin

Coahuila Nava

Truck whole $0.93 $0.45 $0.38 $0.40 $0.38

Train whole $3.01 $2.71 $2.27 $2.13 $2.13

Truck cut $0.58 $0.28 $0.24 $0.25 $0.24

Train shred $1.08 $0.97 $0.82 $0.77 $0.77

Chihuahua Ojinaga

Truck whole $1.86 $1.38 $1.31 $1.33 $1.31

Train whole

Truck cut $1.16 $0.86 $0.82 $0.83 $0.82

Train shred

Chihuahua Juarez

Truck whole $0.33

Train whole $1.87

Truck cut $0.21

Train shred $0.67

 Estimations regarding volume reduction of whole tires stacked in laced fashion compared to cut tires are not available. For 

this reason transportation by train where volume is the limiting factor, even if tires are shred, is taken as a reference as to the estimated 

amount of PTE that could be transported.
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 Train transportation costs do not include loading and unloading operations, nor transportation from the tire pile to the rail

station or transportation from the destiny rail station to the kiln.

 Truck transportation costs do not include loading and unloading operations.

 Source data used to create the table is shown in the Table 2.

 Truck companies who provided quotations are described in Table 3.

Table 2.

Transportation source data

53 foot trailer. Amount Units Source Comment

Max Weight = 48,000 lb Quotations

Max Volume = 108.5 m3 Quotations

Max Whole Tire per Truck (Vol) = 1,500 tires (EPA, 2010) Stacked in laced fashion

Max Whole Tire density (Vol) = 13.82 tires/m3

Mx Whole Tire per 

Truck / Max 

Volume

Max Cut Tire per Truck (Wt) = 2,400 tires Max weight / 20 lb PTE=20lb (9.071847 kg)

Max Shredded Tire per Truck (Wt) = 2,400 tires Max weight / 20 lb PTE=20lb (9.071847 kg)
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Table 2.

Transportation source data

KCSM FSC 50' Train Wagons Amount Units Source:

Comment:

Max Weight = 99,790 kg KCSM

Max Volume = 179.53 m3 KCSM

Max Whole Tire per Wagon (Vol) = 2,482 tires 

Max Whole Tire 

density in 53' 

trucks x 50' 

wagon Max 

Volume

Stacked in laced fashion

Max Shredded Tires per Wagon (Vol) = 7,749 tires 

Max volume in 

cubic yards / 

Shredded tires 

volume

Volume is the limiting factor when 

transporting cut or shred tires in 50' wagons 

by train.

Ferromex 60' Train Wagons Amount Units Source:

Comment:

Max Weight = 75,000 kg FERROMEX

http://www.ferromex.com.mx/servi/flota.html 

consulted on May 15, 2012

Max Volume = 215.15 m3 FERROMEX

Max Whole Tire per Wagon (Vol) = 2,974 tires

53' trailer Max 

Whole Tire density 

x 60' Wagon Max 

Volume

Stacked in laced fashion

Max Shredded Tire per Wagon (Wt) = 8,267 tires Max Weight / 9.07 PTE=20lb (9.071847 kg)
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Table 2.

Transportation source data

Train Prices Considerations

Currency considered for the exchange rate of the first half of May 2012 (1 USD = 13.2678 MXN)

Truck transportation prices are considering a 53' trailer.

Prices of trains in red are subject to KCSM FSC 

Prices of trains in red don't include VAT and are for each 50' wagon (46 Tons)

Miguel Aleman train prices are considering Camargo city as origin station.

Guerrero train prices are considering Nuevo Laredo city as origin station.

Cerralvo train prices are considering Herreras city as origin station.

Sabinas train prices are considering Villaldama city as origin station.

Los Aldamas train prices are considering Aldamas city as origin station.

General Bravo train prices are considering Aldamas city as origin station.

Vallecillo train prices are considering Lampazos city as origin station.

Prices of trains in blue are subject to negotiations with Ferromex

Prices of trains in blue don't include VAT and are for each 60' wagon (75 Tons)

Nava train prices are considering Piedras Negras city as origin station.

Vol= means the limiting cargo factor is volume.

Wt= means limiting cargo factor is weight.

PTE = Passenger tire equivalent.

KCSM FSC = Kansas City Southern de Mexico rail company fuel surcharge.
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Table 3.

Truck companies which provided quotations

Company Origins

Transportes 1ro de Mayo

Piedras Negras

Ciudad Acuña

Nava

Auto Expres Saldivar Matamoros

Transporte Quintanilla Nuevo Laredo

Super Transporte Internacional Nuevo Laredo

Transportes Benitez Reynosa

Autotransportes Chamizal Juarez
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Display map of appropriate tire 

disposal alternatives identified in 

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