Author(s)

N.-W. Kuo, C.-C. Liu & J Leu

Abstract

Environmental restoration by using waste tires: an example of the Nan-Liao landfill in Taiwan N.-W. KUO', C.-C. ~ i u ~ & J. k u 3 I Graduate Institute of Tourism and Health Science, National Taipei College of Nursing, Taiwan, R.O.C. 2 Bureau of Solid Waste Management, Environmental Protection Administration Government of the Republic of China 3 Ecologue Landscape Architecture, Environmental Planning & Design Company, Taiwan, R. 0. C. Abstract Waste tires are becoming one of the modt serious solid waste problems because the use of automobiles is increasing. If they are incinerated, some hazardous chemical compounds are emitted. When they are deposited outdoors, they become the habitats of mosquitoes and may cause environmental diseases such as breakbone fever. Much effort is devoted to waste tire treatment, but most of the available methods need pretreatment processes such as the separation of other materials or chipping into small parts. Energy, materials and man resources are always needed

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