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Baum Environmental moving forward with its own tire shredding facility in NBR
Posted on 1/18/21 at 12:50 pm
Posted on 1/18/21 at 12:50 pm
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Baum Environmental moving forward with its own tire shredding facility
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Though the city-parish deal to purchase a tire shredder with federal grant money fell through last September, the environmental consulting firm that was planning to partner with the parish in operating the equipment is moving forward with plans to open its own tire shredding facility this spring.
Baum Environmental acquired a 9.5-acre site on Springfield Road off Highway 61 in late November that owner Diane Baum says is ideally suited for a tire shredder. The area is already zoned industrial and has on site a 100,000-square-foot warehouse with 40-foot ceilings, which will be large enough to house both the shredder and the waste tires awaiting processing.
“When I saw this spot, my eyes lit up,” Baum says. “It was perfect, beyond perfect.”
Baum has also applied for a waste tire processor permit from the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality and is hoping to receive it within 60 days. Once the permit comes through, she will purchase the $3.5 million shredder she has selected and begin operations.
Unlike the controversial plan with the city-parish that died last year, no federal funds will be used to purchase the tire shredder. Baum’s facility will be entirely privately operated, an offshoot of her environmental consulting firm.
Still, Baum says the facility will benefit the entire community because it will serve as a place where people can bring waste tires free of charge for processing. The firm will then sell the processed material to other environmental firms, which use it primarily for erosion control.
Baum Environmental will also be able to use the crumb rubber for its own projects, which will enable the firm to save money.
“Right now, I buy tire chips in a bag from Tennessee and bring them here,” Baum says. “Now, we’ll be able to use what we process so it’s a good deal for us.”
Baum had agreed to partner with the city-parish in early 2020 in the operation of a proposed tire shredder that, it was hoped, would reduce the local population of waste tires, which contribute to blight and serve as breeding pools of stagnant water for mosquito larvae. The parish Mosquito Abatement and Rodent Control district had received a grant to pay for the shredder from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
But the deal fell apart, after city-parish leaders could not agree on an acceptable site for the facility and failed to spend the federal money within the required period of time.
All of that craziness and the tire shredder is being built anyways.
Turns out that fight against progress was just not enough to stop it.
This post was edited on 1/18/21 at 12:54 pm
Posted on 1/18/21 at 12:58 pm to goofball
It's sort of hilarious that the community gets the tire shredder and doesn't need to use public money (whether through federal grants or local taxes or whatever) to do it.
So EBR throws a hissy fit and now they don't need to lift a finger or spend a dime of grant money. Not sure it's a precedent I like being set
So EBR throws a hissy fit and now they don't need to lift a finger or spend a dime of grant money. Not sure it's a precedent I like being set
This post was edited on 1/18/21 at 12:59 pm
Posted on 1/18/21 at 1:00 pm to jlovel7
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So EBR throws a hissy fit
north Baton Rouge specifically. Everyone knows there was a need except the people who live there.
Posted on 1/18/21 at 1:04 pm to goofball
I’m just glad I can shred my tires locally once every 6 years. Thank the lawd for that
This post was edited on 1/18/21 at 1:05 pm
Posted on 1/18/21 at 1:07 pm to goofball
The people who live there don’t give a shite, it’s the people that pretend to represent them that care (and for all the wrong reasons)
Posted on 1/18/21 at 1:20 pm to goofball
Gravy can’t be happy about this.
Posted on 1/18/21 at 1:24 pm to goofball
I don’t know Ms Baum but she’s sounds ok in my book.
Posted on 1/18/21 at 1:37 pm to BZ504
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Gravy can’t be happy about this.
Nope, can't eat tires. Even if they are already shredded.
Posted on 1/18/21 at 2:03 pm to shawnlsu
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Nope, can't eat tires. Even if they are already shredded.
Don't tempt that fat frick.
On second thought: no. tempt him. Maybe he'll finally choke on something.
Posted on 1/18/21 at 2:11 pm to goofball
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Everyone knows there was a need except the people who live there.
Are there that many abandoned tires strewn about Baton Rouge that its that much of a problem?
Posted on 1/18/21 at 2:15 pm to goofball
The last time I bought new tires I had to pay $2/tire (I believe) for an "environmental disposal fee" to trade in my old tires.
I wonder now if the "free disposal" of used tires by the Baum company will affect that fee?
Will new tire retailers continue to collect the disposal fee and then just take the traded-in tires to the new Baum site and pay nothing to get rid of the tires.
I wonder now if the "free disposal" of used tires by the Baum company will affect that fee?
Will new tire retailers continue to collect the disposal fee and then just take the traded-in tires to the new Baum site and pay nothing to get rid of the tires.
Posted on 1/18/21 at 2:20 pm to Jim Rockford
Ah, that's a hard no from me
Posted on 1/18/21 at 2:43 pm to goofball
So who pays for its operation if people can bring tires free of charge? Is shredded tire material sufficiently valuable to make a profit?
Posted on 1/18/21 at 2:59 pm to Jack Bauers HnK
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So who pays for its operation if people can bring tires free of charge? Is shredded tire material sufficiently valuable to make a profit?
Yes, especially so if your inventory is free.
Posted on 1/18/21 at 3:43 pm to Jack Bauers HnK
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Is shredded tire material sufficiently valuable to make a profit?
Nope
This will turn into a superfund site. They will never make this profitable without heavy tipping fees on the tires or grants. 3.5mm for a shredder line is a big nut to bust in this biz. They’ll get behind, start drowning in rubber then beg for a lifeline.
Posted on 1/18/21 at 3:47 pm to td1
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Yes, especially so if your inventory is free.
You could get the current full tip fee on each tire (negative cost of goods sold) and have a plan to market sell everything you make and you’ll still slowly go bankrupt.
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