If you compare the environmental impact of a new tire versus a retread tire, it's about a 70% difference. When you make a new tire, you have to make the casing, and then you put the tread on it. What we do in the retreading process is buff off the old tread and put new tread on it. It's a much lighter environmental impact.
You add to that the Chinese tire that's being disposed of—because when you try to buff it off, it won't hold a retread, so they're disposable tires. We see that all over the place in our retread plants: These tires come in and customers ask for them to be retreaded, and we say, “We can't. You bought a disposable tire. Off it goes to the landfill.”
On top of all that, I would add that because they're not being sold through the normal commerce chain, where the government collects a recycling fee to pay for that—they're being sold from brokers and off the backs of trucks and docks—when they get disposed of, they're just being dumped. They're not being paid for to have that recycling process take place.