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Equipment side view Frank Mangiapane designed a system, with the help of Columbus McKinnon, that recycles tires in large volumes. Silver Lining Tire Recycling is committed to recycling 100% of all scrap tires, and was looking to increase productivity, which has now reached between 10 and 12 tons of finished product per hour.

Our system includes a primary shredder and a secondary shredder. The system reduces whole tires down to 2-inch minus tire chips, which are run under a magnet to remove any steel.

From "The Wyandotte Echo"
Thursday, December 1, 2005

Local Plant has Silver Lining
By Rosean Gabrys

Wyandotte is certainly fortunate that such an environmentally outstanding operation chose to negotiate a contract in Wyandotte. Silver Lining Tire Recycling is the sole supplier of tire-derived fuel (TDF) for the Wyandotte Municipal Power Plant. TDF has a higher Btu heating value than coal, it is half the price of coal and produces similar emissions. About 13,000 tons of TDF, the equivalent of 2.6 million scrap tires, were consumed at the power plant in 2001.

Silver Lining opened for business October 1, 2004, and processes about 2.5 million tires per year, most of those come from recognizable tire company names. There are also other vendors who supply them with primary shredded materials for back-up stock. Silver Lining is the only processing site in Michigan that operates completely indoors. It is a security feature and makes the facility a good neighbor.

January 12, 2008

Honorable James DeSana
3131 Biddle Ave.
Wyandotte, MI 48192

Re: Tire Derived Fuel as a Renewable

Dear Mayor DeSana:

Wyandotte Municipal Power Plant would like to express support for Tire Derived Fuel (TDF) as a Renewable Energy source. TDF is composed of 15% natural rubber as a component of the tire. As such, we feel the use of natural rubber from tires should be considered a renewable. At Wyandotte Municipal, we currently burn the equivalent of over 2,800,000 tires a year. This use of the tires allows us to offset the burning of coal .By burning these tires in the appropriate facility, the tires are not sent to occupy needed landfill space.

The tires we burn are processed in Wyandotte at Silver Lining Tire Recycling and provide 24 additional jobs to our community. Among other contracts, Silver Lining has an exclusive contract with Belle Tire servicing over 80 stores in Michigan. The steel from the tires is also recycled to local steel manufactures, offsetting the need to consume the additional raw natural resources for steel production. Silver Lining is able to recycle over 200,000 tires per month, the majority of which is sent to Wyandotte Municipal for fuel.

Wyandotte Boiler #8 has been permitted to burn 55% TDF. We feel the burning of tires in a facility designed to effectively capture emissions should be encouraged. If there are any questions, please feel free to contact me.

Respectfully,

M. L. McCoy
GM, Wyandotte Municipal Services

Letter from Wyandotte Municipal Services