Tire Burning Facilities

Below is a list of facilities that burn tires. In all likelihood, it is incomplete. Please contact us if you know of other such facilities. The list is in alphabetical order by state. BC is British Columbia. QC is Quebec. All other abbreviations are U.S. states. The sources are listed at the bottom of the page.

Most of the plants listed below currently burn tires. However, there are also a number of plants listed that stopped burning tires, have a permit to burn tires, or have been determined "at risk" for tire incineration by the source researchers. We will keep this list as up to date as possible, but there is always a possibility that the information for any given facility is outdated. Before attempting to campaign against any of these facilities it is advisable to double check the plant's current status yourself first.

A more recent list of facilities currently burning TDF can be found near the end of the Rubber Manufacturers Association's "U.S. Scrap Tire Markets 2005" report.

State	Town	County	Company	Plant	Type	Other Fuels Burned	Operating?	Source	Misc
AL	Leeds		Lehigh	Leeds	Cement		Yes	[1]
AL	Theodore		Holcim		Cement		Yes	[1]
AL	Mobile		IPSCO Steel		Electric Arc Furnace		Yes
AR	Foreman		Ash Grove		Cement		Yes
AZ	Tucson		California Portland	Rillito	Cement		Yes	[1]
BC	Port Alberni		Pacifica Papers		Specialty Paper (1200 tonnes/day lightweight coated, telephone directory and newsprint)		Yes	[4]	Fought by Alberni Environmental Coalition
BC	Richmond		LaFarge		Cement		Yes	[1]
BC	Tilbury		CBR		Cement		Yes	[1]
CA	Baja		Cemex		Cement		Yes	[1]
CA	Cupertino	Santa Clara	Kaiser Cement		Cement		Attempting (?)	[1]
CA	Davenport (near Santa Cruz)	Santa Cruz	RMC Lonestar	Davenport			Attempted	[3]
CA	Lebec	Kern	National Cement Co.		Cement	Burned Hazardous Waste Until 8/97	No (Stopped by Activists)	[3]
CA	Lucerne Valley	San Bernardino	Mitsubishi Cement Co.	Cushenbury	Cement		Yes	[1]
CA	Modesto		Modesto Energy Limited Partnership (MELP)		Dedicated Tire Incinerator		No (Shut down after uncontrolled tire fire adjacent to plant)	[3]
CA	Mojave	Kern	California Portland	Mojave	Cement		Attempting	[1]
CA	Monolith	Kern	Calaveras Cement Co.		Cement	Coal and Coke	"At Risk"	[3]
CA	Ora Grande		Riverside		Cement		Attempted	[1]
CA	Redding		California Portland		Cement		Yes	[1]
CA	Redding	Shasta (near Mountain Gate)	Calaveras Cement Co.				Yes	[3]
CA	Riverside	Riverside	Riverside Cement Co.	Crestmore	Cement	Fuel oil	"At Risk"	[3]
CA	San Bernardino	San Bernardino	California Portland	Colton	Cement	Industrial Wastes	Yes	[3]
CA	Victorville	San Bernardino	Southwestern Portland Cement	Quarry	Cement		Yes	[3]
CO	Portland		Holnam		Cement		Yes	[1]
CO	Lyons	Larimer	Cemex		Cement		Tire Burning Halted During 2007		Fought by St. Vrain Valley Community Watchdogs, Colorado Citizens Campaign, Mothers Against Burning Tires and Rocky Mountain Clean Air Action.
CT	Sterling	Windham	Exeter Energy Limited Partnership		Dedicated Tire Incinerator	Tires	Yes	[8]	Burns 10-11 million tires/year. Went online in 1991. See violation track record.
FL	Brooksville	Hernando	FL Crushed Stone		Cement		Yes	[1]
FL	Brooksville	Hernando	Southdown		Cement		Yes	[1]
FL	Newberry	Alachua	Florida Rock Industries	Newberry Cement Plant	Cement				Permitted to burn 3.5 million tires/year.
FL	Ridge		Wheelabrator Technologies	Ridge	Incinerator	Wood, Tires, Landfill gas		[8]
FL	Suwannee	Suwannee	Suwannee American (Anderson-Columbia)		Cement		Seeking Permit	[6]	Fought by Save The Ichetucknee River
GA	Clinchfield		Medusa		Cement		Yes	[1]
IA	Mason City		Holcim		Cement		Yes	[1]
ID	Inkom		Ash Grove		Cement		Yes	[1]
IL	Ford Heights	Cook	KTI Inc. / Casella Waste Systems		Dedicated Tire Incinerator	TDF	No	[8]	Was to burn 3 million tires/year. Went online in 1996, operation for 10 days and went bankrupt. In 2005, Geneva Energy, LLC is applying for a permit to restart this facility and burn the equivalent of 700 passenger tires per hour.
IL	LaSalle		Illinois Cement		Cement		Yes	[1]
IL	Oglesby		Lone Star		Cement		Yes	[1]
KS	Humboldt		Monarch		Cement		Yes	[1]
MD	Frederick		ESSROC		Cement		Yes	[1]
MD	Hagerstown		Independent		Cement		Yes	[1]
MD	Hagerstown		St. Lawrence		Cement	Coal and/or waste oil	Has permit	[4]
MD	Union Bridge		Lehigh		Cement		Yes	[1]
MN	Preston	Fillmore	Heartland Energy and Recycling		Dedicated Tire Incinerator	TDF	Defeated in 2005		Would have been the world's largest tire incinerator. See Southeastern Minnesotans for Environmental Protection for info.
MO	Cape Girardea		Lone Star		Cement		Yes	[1]
MO	Clarksville		Holcim		Cement		Yes	[1]
MO	Columbia		Missouri University		Power plant (produces steam and electricity to entire university)	coal and up to 20% tires	Yes	[2]
NE	Norfolk	Madison	Nucor Steel	Nucor Steel Nebraska	Electric Arc Furnace	TDF	Yes		Started in March 2002.
NE	Louisville	Cass	Ash Grove Cement	Louisville Plant	Cement	TDF	Proposed		Test Burns in 2004-2005.
NS	Brookfield		LaFarge Cement	Brookfield Plant	Cement	TDF	Proposed		Fought by Citizens Against Burning of Tires
NY	Hempstead	Nassau	American Ref-Fuel		Trash Incinerator	Municipal Waste, Tires	Yes	[8]
NY	Hudson	Columbia	Holcim / St. Lawrence Cement		Cement	Tires a possibility	Defeated		Proposed kiln stopped by Friends of Hudson.
NY	Ravena	Albany	Lafarge		Cement		Proposed		Plans to burn 5 million tires/year. Fought by Friends of Hudson.
NY	Ticonderoga	Essex	International Paper		Paper Mill	Coal (TDF proposed)	No		Fought by People for Less Pollution and Northeast Clean Air Coalition. IP started a test burn in late 2006 and gave up when test data showed unacceptably high emissions.
NY	Auburn	Cayuga	Nucor Steel	Nucor Auburn	Electric Arc Furnace	TDF	Yes		Started in 2002. Capable of burning 800 tons TDF/day
NY	Niagara Falls	Niagara	WPS Empire State		Power Plant	Coal, petroleum coke, wood chips and TDF	Yes		Uses Circulating Fluidized Bed boilers
OR	Durkee		Pt. Ash Grove		Cement		Yes	[1]
OH	Fairborn	Montgomery	Cemex	Cemex, Fairborn	Cement	Petroleum Coke	Permit to Test Burn		Fought by Green Environmental Coalition
PA	Erie	Erie	Erie Renewable Energy LLC (Energy Products of Idaho and Caletta Renewable Energy)	International Paper Site	Dedicated Tire Incinerator		Proposed		800 tons tires/day; 70 megawatts of electricity production. Opposition website here.
PA	Northampton	Northampton	PG & E National Energy Group	Northampton Generating LP	Waste Coal Burning Power Plant		Proposed
PA	Bessemer	Lawrence	ESSROC		Cement		Yes	[5]
PA	Point Twp.	Northumberland	Tractebel/Viking Energy		Wood Burner	Wood	No		Tried twice to burn tires, with encouragement from state DEP. Community opposition stopped both attempts.
PA	Allentown	Lehigh	Lehigh		Cement		Yes	[1]
PA	Whitehall		LaFarge		Cement		Yes	[1]
PA	Chester	Delaware	Kimberly-Clark		Paper mill (tissue products)		No	[7]	This is a case of environmental racism. DEP allowed a trial burn in 1999, but later denied the full permit. Denial is under appeal. See www.ejnet.org/chester/
PA	Ebensberg	Cambria	El Paso Corp.	Cambria Cogen	Power Plant	Waste Coal	No (Trial burn in '96)	[4]
PA	Evansville		Lehigh Portland Cement		Cement	?	?	[5]
PA	Lock Haven		International Paper		Paper		No (Shut down June 2002)	[5]	Burned tires from 1997-2002.
QC	Joliette		St. Lawrence		Cement		Yes	[1]
RI			Caletta Renewable Energy		Tire and Trash Incinerator	Municipal Solid Waste	Proposed
SC	Harleyville		Blue Circle		Cement		Yes	[1]
TN	Chattanooga		Signal Mt.		Cement		Yes	[1]
TX	Buda	Hays	Texas Lehigh Cement Plant		Cement		Proposed
TX	Midlothian		Holcim		Cement		Yes	[1]
TX	Midlothian		No.Tex.Cem		Cement		Yes	[1]
UT	Devil's Slide		Holcim		Cement		Yes	[1]
UT	Leamington		Ash Grove		Cement		Yes	[1]
WA	Seattle		Ash Grove		Cement		Yes	[1]
WA	Seattle		Holcim		Cement		Yes	[1]
WI	Ashland	Ashland	Xcel	Bay Front	Coal Power Plant	Wood waste, Tires, coal	Yes	[9]	2000 tpy of tires
WV	Grant Town	Marion	American Bituminous Power LP	Grant Town Power Plant	Power Plant	Waste Coal and TDF	?		May have only burned TDF temporarily.
WV	Martinsburg		Capitol Cement		Cement	coal	would soon experiment with TDF	[4]

1. California Portland Cement Company. January 7th, 2003. www.calportland.com/colton/plantinfo/tires.html
2. Missouri University. May 2003. www.cf.missouri.edu/energy/tdf.stm
3. Port Alberni Environmental Coalition. (Source: State of California -- AB 3789 Cement Kiln study -- 12/1/95 Updated: 10/97 by community groups to the best of PAEC's knowledge) www.portaec.net/local/tireburning/list_of_cement_kilns_in_californ.html
4. Personal communication. May 2000.
5. Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection. Date uncertain.
6. Ichetucknee.org. June 2003. www.ichetucknee.org
7. Environmental Racism in Chester, PA. July, 2003. www.ejnet.org/chester/
8. "Waste-to-Energy Power Plants in the U.S.," Power Plants Around the World
   www.industcards.com/wte-usa.htm

9. Xcel Energy website and Western Regional Biomass Energy Program
   

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