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EPWM:CP:TD:RS:sm:srtires Santa Monica, California
Council Meeting: February 28, 1995
TO: Mayor and City Council FEB 2 8 1995
FROM: city Staff
SUBJECT: Resolution Allowing Used Tire Recycling at the City Yards
Transfer station and Establishing Appropriate Fees for
this Service
INTRODUCTION
This report recommends that the City Council approve the attached
resolution establishing a fee structure for recycling tires at the
City of Santa Monica Transfer Station located at 2500 Michigan
Avenue. The collection and recycling of used tires is a new
service to be created for the public which will be paid for by a
new user fee. The proposed user fee will recover the costs
associated with voluntary use of this service by the public.
BACKGROUND
The proper disposal of tires in the United states has long been a
major environmental concern. Approximately 305 million used tires
are discarded every year in the nation and at the present time only
45% of these are diverted into productive new uses. Of the tires
recovered, approximately 82 million are used for tire-derived fuel,
28 million used for reclaimed rubber or fabrlcated products, and 28
million are retreaded for further vehicular use. Unfortunately,
55% are still dumped into landfills. Discarding tires into
landfills signlficantly adds to the waste volume. It also causes
disposal problems for landfill operators in that even though the
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tires are buried, they maintain a self-sustaining buoyancy which
causes them, in time, to "floatH up to the surface.
Tire recycling options are limited due to the chemical complexities
involved in the manufacturing process itself. Aluminum/steel
containers, most plastics, and mixed waste paper can be almost
continually recycled because their manufacturing does not render
them impossible to reprocess. The vulcanization process in tire
manufacturing, however, is irreversible; tires cannot be "melted
down" and refurbished into new tires. The option of retreading
tires is also limited; tire casings can be retreaded only a finite
number of times -- usually 2 to 4 times. currently, the only
feasible alternatives to landfilling are burning tires for fuel and
creating functional and recreational products such as pavement
additives, traffic bumpers, footwear, and swings.
DISCUSSION
As part of its continuing effort to minimize the amount of waste
sent to landfills and comply with the state's waste diversion
mandates, the city of Santa Monica Solid Waste Division proposes to
implement a program whereby tires will be accepted at the Transfer
station Facillty and placed ln a standardized roll-off container
that can hold approximately 4.5 tons of tires. When filled, it
will be shipped to a facillty at Irwindale, California where the
tires will be processed into tire-derived fuel pellets for use in
the cement manufacturing process by firms based in Irwindale. Both
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the processing facility and cement plant meet all Air Resources
Board and South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD)
regulations. This disposal service will be available to local gas
stations and tire shops as well as to the general Santa Monica
public at a fee which will sustain the costs associated with
collection, storage, and transport from the City Transfer Facility
as well as the costs for tipping and processing at the receiving
facility in Irwindale.
In order to recover the costs of this voluntary program, staff
recommends that the following fees be adopted: light duty tires
will be charged $1.50/tire: and heavy duty tires will be charged
$4.00/tire. This program is directed primarl1y to Santa Monica
households and small businesses since most large contractors
already have adequate tire disposal systems in place. However, in
case a vendor accumulates a full ton of tires and wishes to recycle
the tires, staff calculates that $105.00/ton will be the
established fee. This program will also contribute toward the
City'S achievement of state-mandated waste diversion goals.
BUDGET/FINANCIAL ANALYSIS
Due to initial uncertainty with respect to the total level of
customer activlty which will be generated by this new service, it
is not recommended that any specific revenue or expenditure budget
charges be made at this time. Once the program is fully
implemented, staff may propose revenue and expenditure budget
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changes.
RECOMMENDATION
It is recommended that the City council adopt the attached
resolution establishing tire processing/waste dlversion fees at the
city Transfer station. These fees will be posted at the station
along with other appropriate fees that have been established by
previous Council resolution.
Prepared by: Craig Perkins, Environ/Public Works Director
Torn Dever, Solid Waste Operations Manager
Ruta Skirius, Sr. Administrative Analyst
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RESOLUTION NO.8872
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA REVISING FEES
CHARGED FOR SANITATION, BIN RENTAL,
AND BIN ROLL-OUT SERVICES
WHEREAS, Municipal Code section 5.08.350 allows monthly fees
for general City sanitation services to be set by resolution; and
WHEREAS, Municipal Code Section 5.08.210(a) and (b) allow fees
for bin rental and roll-out fees to be set by resolution; and
WHEREAS, a study has determined that sanitation service fees
must be revised in order to promote waste diversion efforts and
recover all City costs for prov~ding sanitat~on services; and
WHEREAS, the fees established by this Resolution are no more
than necessary to recover the costs Df the services provided,
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA
DOES RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Sanitation services fees, as provided for in
Municipal Code section 5.08.250, shall be as follows:
source-Separated Tires (without wheel rims) .....$105.00/ton
Single Automobile/L~ght Truck Tires up to . . . . - 1.50/tire
Size 235 R16
Single Heavy Duty TruckjConstruction- . . . . . 4.00jtire
Equipment Tires
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NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA
DOES HEREBY RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of
this Resolution, and thenceforth and thereafter the same shall be
in full force and effect.
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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city Attorney
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Adopted and approved tlus 28th of February. 1995.
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Mayor
I hereby certIfy that the foregomg ResolutIon 8872 (CCS) was duly adopted at a
meetmg of the City Council held on the 28th of February, 1995 by the followmg vote:
Ayes: Councllmembers Abdo, O'Connor, Greenberg, Holbrook. Genser
Rosenstem.
Noes Councllmembers . None
Abstalll . Councllmembers: None
Absent: Councllmembers: Ebner
ATTEST
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CIty Clerk