The General Assembly finds that waste tires are a threat to human health, safety, and the environment when they are not properly managed. The General Assembly further finds that waste tires can be used in civil engineering applications, as tire-derived fuel, and may be recycled, but that markets for these uses have not been adequately developed. Therefore, a waste tire program should be established to manage waste tires in a way that protects human health, safety, and the environment, and which encourages the development of markets for waste tires.
Effective: July 15, 1998

Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 224.50-850

  • Waste: means :
    (a) "Solid waste" means any garbage, refuse, sludge, and other discarded material, including solid, liquid, semi-solid, or contained gaseous material resulting from industrial, commercial, mining (excluding coal mining wastes, coal mining by-products, refuse, and overburden), agricultural operations, and from community activities, but does not include those materials including, but not limited to, sand, soil, rock, gravel, or bridge debris extracted as part of a public road construction project funded wholly or in part with state funds, recovered material, post-use polymers or recovered feedstocks, tire-derived fuel, special wastes as designated by KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010

History: Created 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 529, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1998.

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