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Canada: Recycled Rubber Meets the Road Posted: 23 Apr 2008 04:55 AM CDT The Saskatchewan Scrap Tire Corp. is a nonprofit, nongovernment agency that has recycled more than 10 million tires since it started in 1996. SSTC recycles about 1 million tires a year, paid for by motorists, who are charged a $4 tire recycling fee with the purchase of every new passenger tire. Tires recycled by SSTC are used to make rubberized asphalt and padding for artificial turf. SSTC also has funded 12 community improvement projects through the community demonstration grant program, which provides up to $5,000 for community projects that use recycled tire products. Some recycled tire projects include playground crumb, landscape mulch, paving stones, speed bumps, and rubberized asphalt, says SSTC executive director Theresa McQuoid. SSTC chairman Don Schlosser says 2007 was one of SSTC's most successful years, though there will be some challenges in the future, including an increase in the price of fuel. The cost of tire collection has increased $150 per load, according to tire collectors, and the 3 percent raise collectors got at the beginning of the year has not been enough to cover rising fuel costs. Schlosser says SSTC is working on a system to counter rising fuel costs as well as plans to complete its landfill cleanup initiative. Out of the more than 300 initial landfills, there are 135 landfills still waiting to be cleaned up. Last year more than 165,000 tires were removed from 13 landfills around the province at no cost to the communities.

Netherlands plans life-cycle approach to waste Posted: 23 Apr 2008 03:28 AM CDT A life-cycle analysis of the environmental impacts of the Netherlands' largest waste streams published last week by consultancy CE Delft has pointed to possible new national policy priorities. Commissioned by the environment ministry to help prepare a waste management plan for 2009, the study identifies two energy-intensive waste streams not usually seen as priorities: products like cars that consume a lot of energy during use and products like bio-waste that require a lot of energy to produce. Waste must be joined up with other policy areas, say the report's authors. See [url=http://www.vrom.nl/pagina.html?id=35810]press release[/url] and [url=http://www.wastexchange.co.uk/documenti/w2008_04afvalonderzoekce.pdf]study[/url].

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