Jahra, Kuwait a five million tire fire erupted on April 16, Mohammed ALSULTAN

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1 Jahra, Kuwait a five million tire fire erupted on April 16, 2012 Mohammed ALSULTAN

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3 Waste Tires When Perceived Liabilities are Actually Assets

4 The Waste Tire Value Chain 1. Customer Buys New Tire Pays Fee to Leave Old Tire at Retail Tire Dealer

5 The Waste Tire Value Chain 2. Retail Tire Dealer pays Certified Tire Hauler to take Waste Tire

6 The Waste Tire Value Chain 3. Certified Tire Hauler transports Waste Tire to Tire Recycler or Landfill Pays Fee

7 The Waste Tire Value Chain 4. Tire Recycler injects new cash to produce TDF or Crumb Rubber to sell

8 The Waste Tire Value Chain 5. Cement Producer buys TDF from Recycler for Cash

9 The Waste Tire Value Chain 6. Many States pay reimbursements to users of Recycled Waste Tires Waste Tire Program Processor and End User Partial Reimbursement Program

10 Colorado s Experience with Waste Tires In General, here are the main Players in the Colorado s Waste Tire Experience: 1. GCC Mexican Cement Producer, located in Pueblo, Colorado 2. Hudson Tire Landfill 3. Holcim Swiss Cement Producer, located in Florence, Colorado 4. GeoCycle, LLC 5. Front Range Recycling 6. Utah Tire Recyclers Regional Tire Recycler 7. Liberty Tire National Tire Recycler 8. Colorado Dept of Health & Colorado Legislature

11 Colorado s Experience with Waste Tires GCC (Grupo Cementos de Chihuahua) is a world-class company that produces, distributes and markets cement, ready-mixed concrete, aggregates, and innovative products related to the construction industries in Mexico and the United States. After the 2008 completion of our brand-new plant in Pueblo, CO, USA, GCC has now reached an installed annual capacity of 5 million tons of cement production: 2.5 million output from our three plants in US, and 2.5 million from three plants in Mexico. Our company started operations in 1941.

12 GCC New Cement Plant, Pueblo, CO Photo Taken: 21 Apr 09

13 GCC Midway Tire Landfill

14 GCC Midway Tire Landfill

15 Colorado s Experience with Waste Tires The Hudson Tire Land Fill Operated for 30 Years as simple Waste Tire Mono-Landfill Designed for long term storage & Final Resting Place Purchased by Tire Recyclers, Inc, in early 2004 Bankruptcy Filing 17 Jul 07 by Tire Recyclers, Inc. Magnum d'or Resources of Magog, Quebec bought out of bankruptcy August 2009 Magnum lost property to foreclosure sale late 2011 Foreclosure Investors now arranging sale in 2012

16 Hudson Tire Landfill

17 Hudson Tire Landfill

18 Hudson Tire Landfill

19 Colorado s Experience with Waste Tires Holcim is a Swiss-based global company supplying cement and aggregates (crushed stone, sand and gravel). The company also supplies ready-mix concrete and asphalt including associated construction services. From its origins in Switzerland, the Group has grown into a global company with market presence in over 70 countries on all continents. The Group employs some 80,000 people. Holcim s 2010 revenues are estimated to be $18.5 Billion.

20 Holcim Cement Plant, Florence, CO Photo Taken: 21 Apr 09

21 Holcim Cement Plant, Florence, CO Photo Taken: 21 Apr 09

22 Colorado s Experience with Waste Tires Founded in 2002, Geocycle LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Holcim (US) Inc, offering sustainable solutions to waste management needs. Our services include waste assessment, onsite services, freight management, and end-disposal of the waste through coprocessing, a process that recovers both the mineral and energy content of the waste. In 2008 Geocycle acquired The Tire Broker located in Colorado Springs, thereby simplifying the tire collection process.

23 Colorado s Experience with Waste Tires Front Range Tire Recycle, Inc has been collecting, recycling and processing waste scrap tires since With over 25 years of experience in the scrap tire recycling business, we have emerged as the industry leader. Our facility currently recycles over 1 million scrap tires per year, and has the ability to recycle up to 3 million tires per year. We are a state certified recycling facility and a registered waste tire hauler through the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.

24 Colorado s Experience with Waste Tires Liberty Tire Recycling is the premier provider of tire recycling services in the United States. By reclaiming more than 33 percent of the nation s discarded tires, Liberty Tire annually transforms more than 110 million tires into raw materials for smart, sustainable products. An athletic field requires approximately 125 tons of crumb rubber about 20,000 tires. Liberty Tire Recycling is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

25 Colorado s Experience with Waste Tires Existing Business Model Centralized System Denver Metro Area 2 Front Range Tire Recycling Hudson Tire Landfill 5 Midway Tire Landfill Holcim Cement Plant GCC New Cement Plant

26 These Existing Business Models In each case, fundamental to each of these key players business model, is: (a) The transport of thousands of tons of whole Waste Tires over a hundred miles from where the Waste Tire is generated to where the Waste Tire is to be recycled or consumed; (b) The handling of said thousands of tons of Waste Tires several times before it becomes TDF and consumed as fuel; or (c) When the Waste Tire is to be recycled, each Waste Tire is handled several times and then, often re-transported another 100+ miles to be used as a recycled Waste Tire

27 Another Possibility Centralized Systems vs. Distributed Systems Here s an Older Example

28 Older Model Central Processing Slave Terminals Data Center Main Frame Computers Slave Terminals Slave Terminals Slave Terminals Slave Terminals Slave Terminals Slave Terminals

29 New Model Distributed Processing

30 New Model Distributed Processing Why Did this Work?

31 New Model Distributed Processing Why Did this Work? 1. Affordable Micro Processors

32 New Model Distributed Processing Why Did this Work? 2. It Matched the Actual Patten of Use

33 Another Possibility Centralized Systems vs. Distributed Systems Here s an Existing Example

34 Centrally Generated Electricity

35 Centrally Generated Electricity

36 Centrally Generated Electricity

37 Centrally Generated Electricity Part 1: Power Generation

38 Centrally Generated Electricity Part 2: Grid Interface Infrastructure

39 Centrally Generated Electricity Part 3: The Grid Distribution System

40 Centrally Generated Electricity Part 4: The Users

41 Centrally Generated Electricity Fuel Transport - Cost Millions of Tons Over Hundreds of Miles Fuel Generation Source - Cost Large investment to move Fuel to Generation Site

42 Centrally Generated Electricity Infrastructure Intense

43 Centrally Generated Electricity The Good News -The Grid is Already Paid For

44 The Existing Use Pattern is Not Optimized Each are Hundreds of Miles Apart Fuel

45 Consume in Place (CIP) Fuel Electricity Users

46 Colorado s Experience with Waste Tires Existing Business Model Centralized System Denver Metro Area 2 Front Range Tire Recycling Hudson Tire Landfill 5 Midway Tire Landfill Holcim Cement Plant GCC New Cement Plant

47 Centrally Generated Electricity

48 Distributed Generated Electricity Tire Collection & Electricity Generation Function

49 Converting Perceived Liability into Cash STEP 1 Income Get Paid to Take Tire STEP 2 Cost To Shred Tire for TDF STEP 3 Income Sell Recycled Steel

50 Converting Perceived Liability into Cash STEP 4 Cost Convert TDF to Electricity STEP 5 Income Sell Electricity STEP 6 Income State Pays to Recycle Tires

51 New Model Distributed Processing

52 Newest Model - Distributed Processing + Connectivity The World Wide Web

53 Tire Retailers - Exist Distributed Electricity Generation All the Pieces are Here Grid - Exists Tire Haulers - Exist Customers - Exist Processors - Exist Technology - Exists

54 Tire Retailers - Exist Distributed Electricity Generation All the Pieces are Here Grid - Exists Tire Haulers - Exist Customers - Exist Processors - Exist Technology - Exists

55 Waste Tires When Perceived Liabilities are Actually Assets There could be an opportunity here.