Dive summary:
- The Ontario Tire Stewardship (OTS) has reached their milestone of collecting 50 million tires for recycling in less than four years.
- In addition to collecting tires, OTS has invested over $2 million into research and development to recycle tire rubber, cleaned up more than 500,000 tires strewn across the province and stimulated over $40 million in investments and jobs.
- OTS has 6,900 collection sites across the province, which take up to four tires from customers free of charge.
From the article:
To put this into perspective, 50 million tires laid side-by-side would cross Canada twice (10,160 km), fill up two Rogers Centres and weigh more than nine Titanic ships.
OTS, which manages the Used Tires Program in Ontario, announced the accomplishment today, asking Ontario residents and businesses to rethink the lifecycle of tires to fulfill its vision to recycle 100 per cent of used tires in Ontario and transform communities with sustainable products made from recycled tires.
"We cannot thank Ontarians enough for embracing this program and keeping tires out of our landfills. Since we launched the Used Tires Program in September 2009, our mission has been to sustainably manage the 12 million tires that enter Ontario annually once they reach their end of life," said Andrew Horsman, Executive Director of OTS in a statement to media. "From the people who drop off the used tires, to the organizations that collect and move them, straight through to the Ontario companies that turn those tires into innovative new products, this program has focused on rethinking how we look at used tires." ...
