Education and Promotion

Education and promotion is an important component of any program to alleviate the problems of waste tires. Audiences that may need to be informed about one facet or another of the scrap tire problem include individual citizens, environmental groups, tire dealers, corporations, those who are or would like to be involved in businesses related to scrap tires, potential users of scrap tire material, and representatives of local, state and Federal government. 

It is particularly difficult to control the dumping of tires in sparsely populated areas, and special efforts may be needed to recognize the problems before they get out of hand. Waste tire dumps may be started on abandoned land and may accumulate thousands of tires before authorities become aware and are able to take action. Informed citizens and local police may be particularly helpful in spotting nascent illegal tire dumps. 

Citizens can be educated regarding source reduction alternatives such as caring properly for tires and using retread tires. Both governments and companies operating fleets of vehicles can be encouraged similarly. Federal procurement guidelines for retreaded tires, described above, address this issue. 

Tire dealers need ready access to information on reputable or licensed haulers, recyclers, or disposers of waste tires. They also need information on companies that sell used tires and that retread tires. Information on the location of large tire piles is helpful to entrepreneurs seeking to process these tires for eventual recycling or energy recovery. 

Suppliers of scrap tire-derived products often need to educate themselves on the requirements of potential users of their products. For example, facilities that can use tire-derived fuel may need this fuel supplied with uniform, consistent quality. Producers and users of tdf need to work together to classify this material based on factors such as size of chips and quality of the cut. (i.e.. Are there wires protruding from the rubber chips or is it clean-cut ) This information will help potential users be assured of quality supplies that will not damage equipment. This information in turn, aids in developing and expanding markets for tire-derived material. 

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It advises parliaments and governments on scientific matters and fosters relations between academic research and the private sector as well as research abroad. It devotes particular attention to the education and promotion of young scientists. To accomplish this mission, the DFG receives funds from the federal government and from the states (Lander) on a 50 50 basis for regular programs. (For special programs, the formula for funding is somewhat different, i.e., 60 40.) The total amount in the year 2000 was around 2000 million DM. 

Nurses are one of the largest groups in the frontline within the humanitarian community especially in the health care arena. They, as highly skilled professionals, have a vast contribution to make in relation to quality assurance in international disaster response especially with respect to knowledgeable, effective, efficient use of resources and as educators and promoters of health. Evaluation of the effectiveness and quality of any contribution is important for overall quality assurance and improvement in aid relief worldwide. Continuous quality improvement and quality assurance are key to ensuring accountability for efficient and effective delivery of humanitarian aid. Nurses are ideally placed to influence and monitor these two processes. 

The Commission shall, in any of its educational or promotional activities, cooperate with other departments and agencies in the performance of such educational and promotional activities. 

The founding of this society is a real example of the cooperation between Duisberg and Fischer. Fischer had to convince scientists at universities and government as well, and Duisberg had to find sponsors in industry. It is astonishing that these activities to educate and promote young chemists happened in the late period of the war, and even in its final days. 

Geller, E. S., Sleet, D., Elder, J., and Hovell, M., Behavior change approaches to deterring alcohol-impaired driving, in Advances in Health Education and Promotion, Vol.III, Ward, W. B. and Lewis, R M., Eds., Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Philadelphia, PA, 1991. 

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