{"id":1133,"date":"2018-08-04T01:58:20","date_gmt":"2018-08-04T05:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tracc.ca\/2018\/08\/04\/oil-prices-rise-as-investors-focus-on-u-s-data\/"},"modified":"2019-04-18T13:57:12","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T17:57:12","slug":"oil-prices-rise-as-investors-focus-on-u-s-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tracc.ca\/fr\/oil-prices-rise-as-investors-focus-on-u-s-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Recycle NB adds bicycle tires and tubes to tire recycling program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Brunswick cyclists now have a good reason to upgrade to a brand new set of tires, as the provincial government has announced their tire recycling program will now include old tires and tubes from bicycles.<\/p>\n<p>The existing program allows\u00a0drivers to bring their old vehicle tires to garages, and they are then sent to be used in a recycling operation.<\/p>\n<p>This expansion will now service those who travel\u00a0on the thinner, smaller version tires as well \u2014 allowing them to avoid sending their discards to landfills.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cNow there is a place for those old tires and tubes to go to be recycled and transformed into another useful product,\u201d<\/em> said Environment and Local Government Minister Serge Rousselle.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/support.twitter.com\/articles\/20175256\">Twitter Ads info and privacy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Used tires will be sent to Tire Recycling Atlantic Canada Corp\u2019s manufacturing plant in Minto where they\u2019re used in the production of cattle mattresses as well as crumb rubber, which goes into a variety of rubber products.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThis bike tire recycling program is great because a lot of bikers are environmentally friendly and green,\u201d<\/em> explained Recycle NB CEO Pat McCarthy. \u201cWhat we wanted to do was keep that rubber out of the landfill sites because it\u2019s good quality rubber.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s something that I don\u2019t want to say is long overdue but it\u2019s definitely something that is a great program to have,\u201d said Keenan Cook, Radical Edge store manager.<\/p>\n<p>Radical Edge Bike Shop in Fredericton, where the day\u2019s announcement took place, has been collecting used tires and tubes for months in advance of the program coming into effect.<\/p>\n<p>They estimate at least 1,000\u00a0used tires from their store alone will be saved from going to a landfill through this initiative.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe go through a lot of tires, a lot of used and worn out tires,\u201d<\/em> explained Cook. <em>\u201cSo to be able to make them into something new and avoid sending them to the landfill I think is a wonderful thing for cyclists, the environment and the province.\u201d<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Brunswick cyclists now have a good reason to upgrade to a brand new set of tires, as the provincial government has announced their tire recycling program will now include old tires and tubes from bicycles.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tracc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tracc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tracc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tracc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tracc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1133"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.tracc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3453,"href":"https:\/\/www.tracc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions\/3453"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tracc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tracc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tracc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tracc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}