Free cleanup day a chance to recycle.
Byline: Todd Thompson For The Register-Guard Spring is the time when people start looking around their yards and garages at the items they've collected and ask: "How can I get rid of all this stuff?" Every year, hundreds of Springfield residents know the answer. I...

Playground 'tire crumb' safe. (Clinical Capsules).
Parents can be reassured that their children can safely use playgrounds surfaced with crushed scrap tires, Dr. Tee L. Guidotti said at a conference in Chicago sponsored by the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. Increasingly used to surface playgrounds and exercise mats, "tire crumb" is...

State buys seven acres for parkway.
Byline: JOE HARWOOD The Register-Guard The future of the West Eugene Parkway may be in limbo, but that hasn't stopped the Oregon Department of Transportation from buying more land to build the 5.8-mile bypass. The agency in late April bought about seven acres at 175...

Native American Tribes Contribute to State Economies.
Contrary to popular belief, the economic success of Indian tribes goes far beyond gaming. In recent years, tribes have been setting their sights on other lucrative opportunities from retail to banking to pharmaceuticals. And it's having a positive effect on state economies. The Citizen Potowatomie Nation in...

Taking the tire the final mile.
The Problem The Scott County, Iowa, Health Department, through complaint investigations, determined that large numbers of waste tires were being illegally dumped in ravines, in road ditches, and on farms. In addition to marring the landscape of Scott County, the tires presented the community with public health problems. Waste...

Nathaniel Energy Corporation Launches Aggressive Expansion Campaign at Dallas Site.
CASTLE ROCK, Colo., June 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Nathaniel Energy Corporation (OTC Pink Sheets: NECX) announced today that they have launched PHASE I of a four-part expansion campaign at their Hutchins, Texas tire disposal site. NECX has installed a Trommel Screen and automated feeding system to run 1...

Better planet: retiring tires: a heated debate on using them as fuel.
Reuse and recycle. It's a message that's been hammered home; unfortunately, it isn't always feasible. The automobile tire is the perfect example. Even hybrid cars need four of them apiece, and the global love affair with the automobile isn't ending anytime soon. Worldwide, about a billion tires are sold...

The solution to garbage problem.
MANDATORY segregation of household wastes in the kitchen is the ONLY solution to the garbage problem.Mandatory segregation of household wastes into THREE containers in the kitchen is the only intelligent way to recover the entire garbage. Mandatory segregation in THREE containers means: 1. Organic wastes...

Tire-derived activated carbon production and application.
Abstract: The objective of the paper is to demonstrate the conversion process of scrap tires to activated carbon. By the process of pyrolysis and subsequent activation it is possible to produce carbons with surface areas greater than 500 [m.sup.2]/g and significant micropore volumes. Tire shreddings are pyrolyzed in batch...

Eugene weighs wider toxics law.
Byline: Diane Dietz The Register-Guard Dry cleaners, crematories and day spa companies would have to tell the public exactly what chemicals they use, under a proposal to expand the Eugene Toxics Right-to-Know program. Those businesses - and others - would join 40 large manufacturing firms...