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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, Each year in the United States, over 285,000,000 |
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| automobile tires require disposal; and
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| WHEREAS, Of that figure, only 33,000,000 tires are |
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| re-treaded and only 22,000,000 are reused and resold; and
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| WHEREAS, Another 42,000,000 are put to various other uses, |
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| leaving over 188,000,000 used tires to clog our nation's |
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| landfills and to be left in illegal dumps; and
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| WHEREAS, The United States Environmental Protection Agency |
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| estimates that the current domestic used tire problem amounts |
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| to over 3,000,000,000 tires; and
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| WHEREAS, Markets that currently use recycled tires are |
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| completely saturated and cannot absorb larger quantities of the |
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| excess; alternate markets need to be developed; and
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| WHEREAS, Various states, including Alaska, Arizona, |
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| California, and Tennessee, have been studying the use of scrap |
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| tire rubber in asphalt and implementing its use widely for over |
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| the past decade; and
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| WHEREAS, These programs have yielded wildly successful |
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| results in the savings of millions of dollars over time in |
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| maintenance and re-paving costs; and
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| WHEREAS, Action on this issue now will not only save |
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| taxpayers tens of millions of dollars in landfill costs and in |
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| road maintenance fees, but will also provide for the public |
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| health and safety in environmental terms; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE |
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| NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that |