eTracks Tire Management Systems, a not-for-profit Producer Responsibility Organization (PRO) has partnered with Algoma Steel to remove and recycle 850 tonnes of end-of-life tires in an effort to promote a more circular economy.<\/p>\n
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Established to help the tire industry meet new recovery and recycling regulations that rolled out in Ontario last year, eTracks is managing and partly funding this project which began in September 2019 at this Canadian steel producer\u2019s facility in Sault Ste. Marie. The organization is collaborating with local haulers from across Northern Ontario to remove decades-old tires and bring them to recycling facilities capable of handling the intake.<\/p>\n
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\u201ceTracks remains committed to building an ethical, cutting-edge and sustainable tire management system in Ontario. Even though this is beyond our usual scope, we recognized Algoma\u2019s desire to have their legacy tires removed and recycled in an environmentally-friendly way and have partnered with local haulers to make it happen,\u201d said Steve Meldrum, CEO of eTracks Tire Management Systems. \u201cSome of the tires at the site range from three to twelve feet in diameter, so it wasn\u2019t just the quantity but also the size of the tires that proved to be a challenge while facilitating their removal.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The vast majority of these tires \u2013 with a combined weight equivalent of seven adult blue whales \u2013 will be recycled into new products and will be used in a variety of ways, such as turf for synthetic grass on sports fields, playground safety pads, sports arena mats, comfort flooring for livestock, rubberized asphalt and padding in safety helmets.<\/p>\n
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In the early 1990s, Algoma Steel implemented a \u201cone-in, one-out\u201d policy to ensure all tires were recycled on a go forward basis. While there had been several previous attempts to remove the older tires, their size and quantity posed logistical and recycling challenges, such as the distance to recycling facilities capable of handling such large tires, until now.<\/p>\n
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\u201cIt is important for us to deal of our legacy tires in an environmentally responsible manner,\u201d said Fred Post, Algoma Steel Environment Control Manager\u00a0 \u201ceTracks has made that possible, ensuring that our tires get recycled safely and responsibly.\u201d<\/p>\n
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eTracks has also cleaned up tires from a variety of other sites across Northern Ontario, with an additional weight of 318 tonnes. Currently, over half of the tires at Algoma Steel have been removed with the balance slated for removal by June 2020.<\/p>\n
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About eTracks<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Incorporated by the\u00a0Tire and Rubber Association of Canada (TRAC), eTracks Tire Management Systems<\/strong>\u00a0is the largest Producer Responsibility Organization (PRO) in Ontario, working with tire Processors and Haulers on behalf of North America\u2019s largest tire suppliers. eTracks helps Producers responsibly manage and dispose of ELTs\u00a0(End of Life Tires) in Ontario as required by the\u00a0Ontario Resource Recovery and Circular Economy Act (RRCEA).\u00a0<\/em>For more information, or to find out where to dispose of your ELTs, visit\u00a0etracks.ca<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" eTracks Tire Management Systems, a not-for-profit Producer Responsibility Organization (PRO) has partnered with Algoma Steel to remove and recycle 850 tonnes of end-of-life tires in an effort to promote a more circular economy. Established to help the tire industry meet new recovery and recycling regulations that rolled out in Ontario last year, eTracks is …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[495],"class_list":["post-28975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","tag-algoma-steel"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-24 01:39:40","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28976,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28975\/revisions\/28976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}