Tire people and. truckers urged to go after a piece of the recycling action TERRACE — A wary group of about 30 people, most of them -Tetail auto service dealers and truckers, gathered at the Inn of the West Nov. 14 for an infor- mation session on the provincial government’s recycling program for car, truck and heavy equip- ment tires. The program, involving a $3 levy on each new tire sold and voluntary participation in recyc!- ing old tires by dealers, went into effect June 1. Although - taking old tires wasn’t manda- tory, circumstances in the Ter- race area conspired to create a series of disposal headaches for. local tire dealers, At about the same time the program began, the city of Terrace banned the disposal of tires at the city Meeting -elements of place. The remaining: elements, NOTICE OF MEETING | SKEENA VALLEY GOLF & COUNTRY CLUB ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING — | DECEMBER 2, 1991 BO00PM, . ..- THE CLUBHOUSE | The purpose of the Annual General is to Inform the General Membership of the 1991 Reports and the Election of Directors for the 1992 Season. dump. Collection and transporta- tion systems to get the used tires to shredding and production . facilities in the lower mainland hadn’t been set up, and junk tires began to pile up around dealerships. Brian Grant, the municipal solid waste branch head for the Ministry of Environment Skeena region, told the Terrace meeting that the non-mandatory nature of the program meant some lead time was required to get all the the program in he explained, could be some of the people who tumed out for the meeting. The tire recycling program is driven by a series of credits: the government issues end-user a credits for companies that use the tires and transportation credits for the companies that move them from:a collection point to the point where they're used. It’s an attempt to create an industry out of recycling tires, and that industry is in its infancy. Grant said to date the program has been successful in intercept- ing the tires themselves, the recycling rate having gone from 15 percent of the three million ‘used tires under 16 inches in diameter thrown out in B.C. annually to 50 percent. the pro- gram’s goal is 90 percent by the year 2000. Nineteen “marshalling yards" -—- collection areas for tires — are now set up around B.C., collecting tires for eight processing plants and 11 firms that use the tires for manufacturing things like truck | bed liners and flower pots. The primary user of junk tire material, however, is the Tilbury cement works in Delta, which burns the tires at high tempera- tures to fire its cement kilns. Grant said Tilbury alone could consume all the used tires gener- ated in B.C. and need to import ‘more of them from out of the . province for fuel, but the gov-. ernment is trying to encourage uses that have greater ecological and economic value. Truckers and tire dealers who _ asked about the economic incen- tives in the program got a de- scription of a complex program that gives end-users and trans- porters credits, the total amounts of which can be negotiated EXCITEMENT! 1992 LeMans SE Aerocoupe Times Change. Values Donit. | _ Count on LeMans SE Aerocoupe to give you a fresh perspective on performance. Observe its monochro- matic look. Notice the aerodynamic style, front fascia, fog lamps and rear hatch spoiler. On the inside you've got cargo room galore. 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LeMans features three dis- ut of can oe 639494 58 At Terrace Review —— Wednesday, November 20, 1991 5 ‘Brian Grant: Costly, but less than landfilling. through the system among sellers, marshalling yard oper- ators, transporters and used-tired product manufacturers. The bottom line appeared to be that no matter how the program is approached it will still cost the retailers in the end, and Grant said it’s intended to. He pointed out, however, that ultimately recycling tires will cost the dealers less than the amount required now to landfill them, particularly if dumps start charging to take tires. They'll also be making a contribution to cleaning up the environment, something Grant believes their customers will appreciate. Grant admitted that there may not be enough volume for any- one in the area to make money off transporting or collecting used tires, and he suggested that if the economics are prohibitive the government may consider subsidizing the process here. He noted, however, that one com- pany from Surrey is already deadheading to the northwest to collect tires, which gives him the impression that the transporta- tion credits may have created a situation more profitable than the program intended. He also warned the group that the new government in Victoria "may change everything". "We would prefer a core charge or partially refundable deposit (instead of the $3 levy) on new tires as a positive incen- tive (to return them), but that isn’t our decision," he said. By the end of the mecting retailers were still faced with a disposal problem. Grant held the city of Terrace partially to blame with its ban on tire disposal at the dump, saying, "Some local governments overreacted." But Stew Christensen, the city’s director of engineering, disputed that statement in an interview yesterday, saying Terrace closed the dump to tires early this sum- mer in response to a suggestion from the Ministry of Environ- ment afte being fined $100 for . a tire fire at the dump started by vandals, The Kitimat-Stikine Regional District has also closed the Thornhill dump to commercial. tire disposal, although they are still taking tires from non-com- mercial users. Regional district administrator Bob Marcellin told the Nov. 14 meeting that they had no choice because every tetailer in the area was using the Thornhill site. Grant believes tire dealers are only the first merchants to feel the social pressure of the recycl- ing trend. "Everyone here is trying to avoid a penalty," he told the mecting. "Retailers of all products ate going to be faced more and more with this problem of responsibility for what they sell." 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