L&S Tire Co. joins King County's LinkUp program - Tires - Brief Article

Recycling Today, Dec, 2002

L & S Tire Company has joined the LinkUp program of King County, Wash.

The Link-Up team will assist L & S Tire in researching technology grant opportunities, updating the company's business plan and providing market research assistance.

LinkUp will help L & S Tire evaluate the feasibility of entering two new, higher-value markets: the manufacturing of smaller tire chips for civil engineering applications and tire-derived fuel and the production of crumb rubber for use in recycled rubber products.

L & S Tire, headquartered in Spokane with a facility in Lakewood, Wash., collects scrap tires from waste transfer stations, landfills, tire retailers and wrecking yards. Launched in 1999, the company is Washington's largest scrap tire recycler and one of the largest in the Northwest. Last year, L & S collected 1.5 million scrap tires in Washington, Idaho and parts of Oregon.

The King County Solid Waste Division launched LinkUp two years ago to encourage businesses and manufactures to incorporate more recycled materials into their products. For more information on LinkUp, contact Erv Sandlin at (206) 296-0233, or visit http://dnr.metrokc.gov/linkup.