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  Vehicle tires are a large environmental concern. In the state of New York alone there are approximately 18 to 20 million tires sent to waste a year. To try and tackle this growing problem, not only in Ne York but throughout the united States, many pieces of legislation have been brought into effect.
  
  

New York

• The governing body responsible for enforcing tire recycling laws in New York is the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC). The Waste Tire Management and Recycling Act of 2003 lays down several provisions regarding tire recycling. It established a fee of $2.50 that must be paid on every new tire in the state. It enforced mandatory acceptance by garages and recyclers of used tires from customers. Plans to abolish any non-compliant waste tire stockpiles were brought into effect. The act also made it illegal for any funds of the NYSDEC to be used to send tires to landfill, unless there is no reasonable alternative.
  
  

California

• CalRecycle or The California Department of Resources, Recycling and Recovery, is the body in charge of dealing with California's 44 million waste tires every year. To do this, they have the California Tire Recycling Act in 1989, which was extended in powers by the Senate Bill (SB) 876. The act established a grant program whereby people and businesses that developed and implemented ideas to environmentally reduce the number of tires going to landfill could receive a sum on money to help get them started. The amount that they are entitled to depends greatly on the number of tires their methods will deal with a year. It also required all tires to be registered so that they can be tracked on their disposal. Those found to be disposing of tires in a non environmentally friendly way can face severe fines.
  
  

Florida

• The Florida Solid Waste rule, 62-701.200 is the governing piece of legislation that decides how waste tires in Florida are to be dealt with. It requires that any company transporting more than 25 tires over public roads must register their load and their company. There is also an application needed for a new company to be licensed to deal in recycled and waste tires. The license must be renewed once a year and any breach of the rules is cause for refusal. The main rule for waste tire management in Florida is that no fire can be used, to simply burn them. This is punishable by severe fines and criminal proceedings. Every business must have a fire safety inspection carried out once every year.