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Article: Tire recycling news took center stage in '08.
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- Tire Business
- Article date:
- December 22, 2008
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Byline: Miles Moore
Tire recycling continued as a major industry topic in 2008, with product innovations and company buyouts competing for attention with environmental controversies.
Some of the biggest recycling news of the year came out of Canada in August. After 15 years with no scrap tire laws in place, the Ontario Ministry of the Environment directed Waste Diversion Ontario, the non-profit provincial corporation charged with creating and administering recycling programs, to create a plan for recycling the 12 million scrap tires generated annually in Ontario.
The program should place a priority on higher-end uses for tires wherever possible ...