Rather than Ask the question why recycle, we should be asking the question why not? When we look at the facts of the matter we find that we face a seemingly endless task, a task that we here at TRACC take very seriously.

                   When you imagine that many families own more than one vehicle and each of those have 4 rubber tires, the numbers become enormous. According to some analysts each year in Canada and the United States there is 1 tire per person that is disposed of, this fact alone is  you can see how we could soon have an overwhelming problem.

          Well then lets just bury them.. Or better yet just stack them behind our shed. In all honesty those solutions can really compound the problem. It is a known fact that landfills cannot support tire dumping  the reason being is that rotting garbage produces methane emissions. Tires buried in the ground can block the emission process of methane from the ground making it unstable. Ok the how about we put them behind the shed? Easy enough but when these tires fill with water and the water becomes stagnate this can become the breeding area for flies and mosquitoes that can carry disease and possibly fatal illnesses.

How Do We Solve The Issue?

So how then do we do it? Well very simply put we do it one tire at a time. The province of New Brunswick has in place a system in which tires from tire recycling depots throughout the province are shipped to our processing facilities in Minto , there they are shredded, then into a smaller crumb product, byproducts removed, now then have a viable product in which to make a variety of items that are environmentally friendly.