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15. B. 5. WASTE TIRE PYROLYSIS DEMONSTRATION AT INDIAN RIVER COUNTY <br />LANDFILL <br />Director Mehta recapped the Memorandum of January 12, 2010, conveying how the <br />Customer Convenience Center (CCC's) and Landfill have been providing a disposal service of <br />waste tires for the residents of Indian River County, and how they are routinely shipped to the <br />Wheelabrator facility in Winter Haven, FL, at a cost of $85.00 per ton. Currently there is an <br />accumulation of approximately 12,000 tires, and it would cost about $15,000 to transport them. <br />He revealed that staff had been presented with an opportunity to demonstrate a pyrolysis unit for <br />waste tires at the Landfill Facility; the joint venture would be with E Fuels, LLC, and Preservation <br />Energy, LLC; would be at no cost to the Solid Waste Disposal District; and noted that the <br />demonstration would consume the existing inventory as well as all incoming tires over the next six <br />to nine months. He felt this would not only be an opportunity to handle the current inventory, but <br />to view the technology. <br />There was a brief discussion as to why Indian River County was chosen to demonstrate the <br />technology, whether the Disposal Fee would be eliminated if this technology would go <br />nationwide, and the production of char -ash. <br />Jim Jackson, Managing Member of Preservation Energy, LLC, disclosed that this was not <br />a new technology, and that consideration had been given to taking this nationwide, and eventually <br />international. <br />February 2, 2010 <br />S.W.D.D. <br />4 <br />