N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law § 27-1903: Waste tire management priorities

§ 27-1903. Waste tire management priorities.

In the interest of public health, safety and welfare and in order to

conserve natural resources and to promote recycling and market

development for waste tires, the state of New York establishes a policy

on the management of waste tires that states:

1. The waste tire management priorities in this state are:

(a) first, to reduce the number of waste tires generated;

(b) second, to remediate waste tire stockpiles in noncompliance;

(c) third, to recycle waste tires into value-added products;

(d) fourth, to beneficially use waste tires in an environmentally

acceptable manner, including the beneficial use in civil engineering

applications; and

(e) fifth, to recover, in an environmentally acceptable manner

consistent with the purpose of this chapter, energy from waste tires

that cannot be economically recycled or otherwise beneficially used.

2. State government must make an essential contribution to the

development and implementation of environmentally, economically and

technically viable waste tire management programs. The department shall

cooperate with other state agencies, including the department of

economic development, New York state energy research and development

authority, the department of transportation, the New York state thruway

authority and the department of health, to ensure that waste tires are

effectively managed and used in environmentally acceptable ways

consistent with the purposes of this chapter.