[Txsleuth]

Correct me if I am wrong, but, I thought that the old tires, rubber from shoes, etc, was now beeing used as covering for ground in playgrounds!

There are a few playgrounds that have a really nice bouncy feel with different colors and such---

Wouldn't that be a better idea than burning them?

[bvw]

I've worked -- on a start-up concept phase -- with one fellow who had a company that was making such a rubbereized asphalt-like mix from old tires up in Easton PA. We were doing something else with him -- sort of a hydro-seed idea. IIRC his tire grinder was very expensive to operate. And at the time the PA DEP may have shut him down.

On this idea we had we were at war with a part of the PA DEP -- in the course of events the DEP shut down at least one plant of someone who dared try something like we were doing (a precursor idea) -- about a dowen people lost their jobs, the plant was padlocked and the the PA DEP reached down into Delaware to have that state's DEP bring charges against a farmer who was that state's ex-Ag Secretary. Given that background, we roped in the PA Lt. Governor and some other key political alliances before we even showed a few cards from our hands. Even then we tapped out on start-up $$. Close only good in horseshoes. One of us even tripped down to Arkansas and met with the Tysons -- he came back all pumped up about some Bill Clinton, who at that time was a dark horse candidate in the Dem primary.

Anyway I learned that you can work around the regulators if you employ some ground leveling political tools long before you show your technology hand.