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Article: Long gestation; Years in the making, Ontario launches tire recycling effort.(News)(Ontario Tire Stewardship)
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- Rubber & Plastics News
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- October 5, 2009
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Byline: Miles Moore
Seven years in the making, the Ontario Used Tires Program Plan went into effect Sept. 1, with the goal of recycling 90 percent of the pro-vince's on-road tires and 50 percent of its off-road tires within five years.
Implementing the effort is Ontario Tire Stewardship, an industry funding organization created by the Waste Diversion Act of 2002, which pays for the program through the fees remitted by brand owners and first importers of tires.
Andrew Horsman is the executive director of OTS, appointed June 1. Horsman is scarcely new to the organization, though. He served on its board of directors from its inception in 2002 ...