What happens to tires after they wear out? That’s a good question — and one that can now be answered by Frank DeCarlo, new general counsel of Liberty Tire Recycling. DeCarlo was appointed as the company’s top lawyer last week.

As DeCarlo would tell you, some 110 million used tires are collected by Liberty annually and reprocessed into about 1.5 billion pounds of rubber each year. Liberty, a private company, then uses that rubber to produce crumb rubber, industrial feedstock, rubber mulch, and tire derived fuel.

This content has been archived. It is available through our partners, LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law.

To view this content, please continue to their sites.

Not a Lexis Subscriber?
Subscribe Now

Not a Bloomberg Law Subscriber?
Subscribe Now

Why am I seeing this?

LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law are third party online distributors of the broad collection of current and archived versions of ALM's legal news publications. LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law customers are able to access and use ALM's content, including content from the National Law Journal, The American Lawyer, Legaltech News, The New York Law Journal, and Corporate Counsel, as well as other sources of legal information.

For questions call 1-877-256-2472 or contact us at [email protected]