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