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Tire Recycling Helps Avoid Harmful Emissions – 2023 Report eTracks participates in an annual Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) with data spanning 2019 – 2023, measuring the impacts of it’s tire recycling activities. Read on to find out how tire recycling avoids harmful emissions when comparing products made from recycled tires, to the impacts of using new materials to create the same products. Read the latest report including 2023 data: Scrap Tire Life Cycle Assessment Background: Meeting producer obligations under Ontario’s Resource Recovery and Circular Economy Act (RRCEA) and Tire Regulation 225/18 means providing services to producers that ensure they meet their regulatory target to collect and recycle 85% per cent of the weight of tires they sell into the marketplace, accounting for 15% wear over a tire initial lifespan. This includes transporting them to processing facilities and verifying how they are repurposed into new products for approved use in the marketplace as a Tire Derived Product (TDP). A TDP displaces the more conventional use of new, or “raw” materials used to make products. P...

Find an eTracks Collection Site Tire recycling is regulated under the Resource Recovery and Circular Economy Act (RRCEA) in Ontario. The Act, and the Tire Regulation 225/18 within the Act, specify that under the Individual Producer Responsibility (IPR) model currently operating in Ontario; tire producers (tire manufacturers, auto makers and importers) are responsible for establishing and operating a “compliant collection network” in Ontario. It’s part of their overall responsibility for ensuring the tires they sell into the market, are collected and recycled. This includes having at least one tire collection site for every 3000 residents in each of the 444 municipalities across Ontario, with specific requirements for those enrolled collection sites. Learn more about the RRCEA on our Resources page. What are enrolled tire collection sites required to do under the RRCEA and Tire Regulation 225/18?    Enrolled eTracks collection sites must accept used tires from consumers AT NO CHARGE (of similar size and weight to the ones they sell and service), during regular busine...