LIBERTY TIRE RECYCLING, INC (Formerly Georgia Tire Recycling, Inc, former ly Recovery Technologies Group of Georgia, formerly Waste Recovery, Inc) Dewey Grantham, Jr. 1593 Huber Street, NW Atlanta, GA 30318 (404) 355-0547 Facility address: SAME

Tire-Derived Fuel varies by region. A lot of people in this indus try is pretty tight-lipped.

SSI costs --> seems a little high. Their equipment is pretty poor.

Typically, it costs in the range of $35-40 per ton to produce a 2-inch rubber chip and extract a good percentage of the wire and fibe r out of it. It’s not cost effective to try to remove 100% of the wire, and it’s very hard to do that on a larger chip, because the rubber’s bigger. The only way to get it out is to pull the wire through. Cut the chip in half, half the energy to pull the energy through.

When someone tries to provide 100 % wire free material, they try to produce a very small product because it’s achievable. We use a grinding equipm ent (granulators). We’ve been here for 21 years. The equipment was designed and built by th e facility (Waste Recovery Inc.) that opened this facility; was ahead of their time. They were the pioneers of the tire recycling industry back

in the 1980s.

Back in the 1980s, state started to regulate and when they came out , that’s when waste recovery started to build facilities. At some poin t they had 5 or 6 facilities nationwide.

Contracts: No contracts. We deal with the broker as well. And ther e’s one common broker, called MA Associates. I believe the way the pro cess works is they provide a sample and the paper mill or cement kiln or power plant will bur n the sample and do an analysis and determine if they can actually use a lot of that product or not. If not, they woul d tell you what’s high and what’s low. I’ll tell you one thing that you need to know is that it ’s very complicated for most processors to make changes to the product that they produce without some si gnificant investment in the equipment they’re using.

We do actually remove the wire, but not 100% . You know, if you looked at my product, you would see wire exposed and feel wire exposed, but comparatively speaking, it looks very clean. The thing with wire-free in TDF is if there’s too much wire, it clumps toge ther in big balls (big spike of energy or fire that you can’t control).

Differences in what’s asked. I wouldn’t know the answer to that question.

I’ve discovered that a lot of people when they burn TDF, they tend to run into problems with their equipment; their first respon se is that the response is TDF related. From my experience, the2 people who have had problems with material with heavy wire content, is because, like I said, the material clumps together, and they have problems feeding it into their system.

TDF is less profitable, but at th e same time, most of the other products are seasonal, where TDF is year-round. It probably costs me approx. $40/ ton, and on average, I net around $30/ton. I lose $10/ton just making TDF, but I have to have some where for that rubber to go, I can’t sit on it for a year. State regulations, can’t accumulate ti res. Can’t exceed storage levels without

consequences.

MA Associates, they broker about 80% of TDF in the U.S. (913-663-0100). Owns and operator Mike Sorcher, and he’s been around forever.