Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities, Feb 1996 v10 n1 
            p40(1) 
                Discussion. (response to Paul S.H. Poh and Bengt B. Broms, 
                Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities, vol. 9, 
                February 1995)(Slope Stabilization Using Old Rubber Tires and 
                Geotextiles) Imad A. Basheer; Yacoub M. Najjar. 
            Abstract: The use of rubber tires in stabilizing soils would 
            gradually solve the problem of disposing used tires. Consumers in 
            the US throw away 237,000,000 tires annually. Fourteen-percent of 
            these used tires are recycled as fuel, 5% are used as rubberized 
            asphalt, and another 10% are used for erosion control structures and 
            highway barriers. The tires are used together with geotextiles that 
            are wrapped at the slope face. However, the standard practice is to 
            use the tires as the face without wrapping the geotextiles against 
            the soil. 
             
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