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Rubber, meet road. Not in the usual sense of tires rolling on pavement, but in rubber from scrap tires becoming part of road surfaces around Michigan. Recent paving projects backed by the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) in Bay and Clare counties are expanding Michigan’s use of rubber tire scrap in road resurfacing, keeping the materials out of landfills and shaping the highways of the future.

The projects also highlight a Michigan recycling milestone: As of this year, the state’s major scrap tire processing businesses – about 10 in all – no longer send any regular scrap materials to landfills. Apart from small quantities too dirty or contaminated, all the material is recovered and repurposed for use not only in road work but as mulch, in rain gardens and septic fields, as weights for construction barrels and silage covers, in molded and extruded plastic products, as porous pavement for trails and pathways, as tire-derived fuel, as recycled metal from tires’ steel belts, and more.

“The scrap tire market in Michigan is in a transformation from managing scrap tires as a waste to creating economic value,” said Kirsten Clemens, scrap tire coordinator in EGLE’s Materials Management Division.

The repaving in Bay and Clare counties used material from about 59,500 tires on more than five and a half miles of roadway. EGLE awarded Michigan Technological University a $396,000 grant for project design and testing. Each county’s road commission performed the paving work, resurfacing 4.5 miles of Seven Mile Road from E. Midland Road to E. Beaver Road in Bay County and 1.15 miles of W. Haskell Lake Road from Cook Avenue to Lake Station Avenue in Clare County. At both locations, the repaving was divided into sections to enable side-by-side comparison of the rubberized and conventional paving materials.

It’s far from the first such project in Michigan. Last year alone, four Michigan counties implemented rubberized local road projects using scrap from more than 30,000 tires. As far back as 2005 and 2006, Saginaw County rolled out a pair of two-mile sections of rubberized asphalt. The Michigan Department of Transportation allows a portion of asphalt mixes to be recycled materials, but it is not required.

“We have about 20 years of projects, and we’ve got some really solid technology now,” Clemens said. “What we’re trying to do is expand the use by getting the material into the communities that need infrastructure solutions.”

The growing consensus is that rubber-modified paving is a winner for local roads. In 2019, EGLE helped fund a Michigan Tech project in Dickinson County to see how an asphalt-rubber mix would hold up to extreme Upper Peninsula weather. A study two years later found the pavement resists rutting during hot weather and cracking in the cold. Researchers will continue monitoring the project – which won a 2019 County Road Association of Michigan award – for 10 or more years.

Caption: Installation of rubber modified chip seal on 7 Mile Road in Bay County.

Michigan Lt. Gov. Gilchrist has joined with other lieutenant governors in supporting a resolution that urges motorists to inspect tires regularly.

Environmental stewardship and education were front and center at nearly 200 Michigan schools recently recognized at Michigan Green Schools.

A massive pile of illegally dumped scrap tires in Battle Creek has been cleaned up, thanks to funding from EGLE scrap tire grant program.

Residents who live in neighborhoods with curb-cut rain gardens are seeing more bees and butterflies and less stormwater being transported down the storm drains to Plaster Creek.

The beach walks summer program offers hands-on opportunity to learn about Great Lakes coastlines.

New funding this year will give an additional boost to communities working to shore up aging water infrastructure, but the needs still far outstrip the dollars available for this critical work.

Working side-by-side with partners at local, regional, state and federal levels, the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) safeguards our state's environment while supporting the economic growth and development crucial for Michigan's future. 

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