SCRAP TIRE PROGRAMS ALONG US/MEXICO BORDER

The border region between the United States and Mexico has abandoned or poorly managed scrap tire piles each with upwards of thousands to over a million tires. The fire, health, and environmental hazards posed by poorly managed scrap tire piles in the border will get worse unless proactive measures are taken.

The US-Mexico Border 2012 Program signed in 2003 has an objective to cleanup three of the largest tire piles in the border region (http://www.epa.gov/usmexicoborder). However, recognizing the need to take further bi-national action to abate as well as, cleanup existing tire piles, the US-Mexico Bi-national Commission held November 2004, signed a letter stating their intent to draft a scrap tire management strategy to address the border region and all of Mexico. The focus of these efforts is "to develop and cooperate on an environmentally sustainable, comprehensive scrap tire management strategy."

Recently, a US/Mexico Border Region Scrap Tire Ad hoc Committee was created to support the development of a US-Mexico scrap tire management plan. Click on the links below to view some of the information related to the work of this committee. Contact Michael Blumenthal at mblumenthal@rma.org with any question.

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

  • U.S.-Mexico Border 2012 Framework
  • "Cross-Border Environmental Management: Used Oil and Scrap Tires" Conference
  • Border 2012: U.S.-Mexico Border Scrap Tire Inventory
  • Plan de Accion Binacional Acerca del Desarrollo de la Infraestructura del Control y Prevencion de Desperdicios
  • U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Offices (Spanish)
  • Border Scrap Tire Summary Action Plans
  • U.S.-Mexico Border Scrap Tire Integrated Management Initiative
  • U.S.-Mexico Border Scrap Tire Integrated Management Initiative (Spanish)
  • U.S. Mexico Border Scrap Tire Management Partnership Initiative
  • Tire Pile Clean Up Status
  • Border 2012: U.S.-Mexico Environmental Program
  • Binational Action Plan on Developing Waste Management and Prevention Infrastructure

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