| Number and Percentage of Ties by Each Management Method by Survey Year | |||||||||||
| 2017 Survey Results | |||||||||||
| Description | Total ties | Reuse by same | Reuse by other RR | Reuse commercial landscape | Reuse agriculture | Reuse residential landscape | Other | Incineration | Recycle combustion (for energy) | Recycle gasify (for energy) | Landfill |
| Number of ties | 16,532,913 | 172,824 | 16,451 | 2,063,437 | 669,899 | 1,727,078 | 0 | 0 | 10,862,420 | 24,866 | 995,938 |
| Percent of ties | 1.0% | 0.1% | 12.5% | 4.1% | 10.4% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 65.7% | 0.2% | 6.0% | |
| 2014 Survey Results | |||||||||||
| Number of ties | 12,236,059 | 95,205 | 12,573 | 1,406,322 | 50,292 | 689,190 | 0 | 0 | 9,949,049 | 0 | 33,429 |
| Percent of ties | 0.8% | 0.1% | 11.5% | 0.4% | 5.6% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 81.3% | 0.0% | 0.3% | |
| 2008 Survey Results | |||||||||||
| Number of ties | 17,100,332 | 802,975 | 2,462,402 | 883,750 | 2,455,500 | 9,195,500 | 425,000 | 875,205 | |||
| Percent of ties | 4.7% | 14.4% | 5.2% | 14.4% | 53.8% | 2.5% | 5.1% | ||||