Allan Gerlat, News Editor

April 11, 2013

1 Min Read
Liberty Tire Recycling Partners with NASCAR

Liberty Tire Recycling and NASCAR are partnering to enhance tire recycling in connection with the auto racing.

Pittsburgh-based Liberty said in a news release that as the official tire recycler of NASCAR Green it will keep discarded tires out of landfills and recycle them into new products. Liberty Tire Recycling products, such as rubberized asphalt, will be used to repave racetracks and parking lots at NASCAR Home Track racetracks nationally. Liberty also will provide GroundSmart rubber mulch for needed tree landscaping around the country.

The partnership is part of a month-long effort by the sport, NASCAR Race to Green, to improve Daytona Beach, Fla.-based NASCAR’s carbon footprint. NASCAR claims to have the largest recycling program in sports, including the recycling of about 120,000 Goodyear tires from NASCAR’s top three national series each year.

NASCAR Green’s other partners in the recycling program include Coca-Cola, MillerCoors, Creative Recycling, Goodyear, Safety-Kleen and Sprint.

Liberty recycles more than 140 million tires annually.

 

About the Author(s)

Allan Gerlat

News Editor, Waste360

Allan Gerlat joined the Waste360 staff in September 2011 as news editor. He was the editor of Waste & Recycling News for the first 16 years of its history, and under his guidance the publication won 27 national and regional awards.

Before Waste & Recycling News, Allan worked at another Crain Communications publication, Rubber & Plastics News, which covers rubber product manufacturing. He began with the publication as associate editor and eventually became managing editor, a position he held for nine years.

Allan is a graduate of Ohio University, where he earned a BS in journalism. He is based in Sagamore Hills, in northeast Ohio.

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