3.6. Environmental concerns
The main environmental concerns are with the tire
shredding plant (4.C). They have some possible water
pollution problems and also erosion problems due to
the lack of ground cover. Currently, water is used in
the shredding process to clean the tires and cool the
shredder. This water, containing particles of tire and
whatever was on the tire, ¯ow over bare ground into a storage pond. It is possible that this water contains
harmful hydrocarbons such as oil and gas. A better
solution would be to send the water through an oil
skimmer to separate out the hydrocarbons before
returning it to the storage pond via a narrow concreteor
vegetation-lined channel.