A bill requiring tire recyclers to do something with shredded tires they process before collecting from a state incentive fund passed the House on Wednesday and is headed to Gov. John Hickenlooper’s desk to become law.
The bill, HB 1034, was drafted by Rep. Marsha Looper, R-Calhan. The state Senate earlier added a provision to the bill allocating $700,000 from a fund — fueled by a $1.50 fee that consumers pay with each new tire purchase — to reimburse recyclers who take scrap tires and put them to a different use.
That fund also reimburses recyclers for shredding waste tires and putting them to use rather than tossing them into a landfill.
Millions of tires sit in pits near Hudson at a monofill long known as “Tire Mountain.” The former owners of the monofill, Magnum d’Or, collected nearly $500,000 from the state recycling fund but did little more than shred scrap tires and dump the resulting crumbs into the same pits used for the whole waste tires.
