Ontario Tyre Backlog

Tyre collection is essentially a single-stream logistics system that gathers waste tyres from fitters and moves them to recyclers, and the hard part is securing recovery pathways for everything that is collected.

A Logistics System Under Strain

Tyre collection runs as a single-stream waste management operation. The logistics of collecting waste tyres from fitters and delivering them to recyclers are straightforward, but the persistent challenge sits downstream, in finding pathways that actually recycle those end-of-life tyres rather than simply holding them in storage for lack of a destination.

How Europe Keeps It Flowing

In Europe it is rare for waste tyres to go uncollected, and virtually none reach landfill thanks to the 2011 EU Landfill Ban. No fitter in Europe is left with a yard full of uncollected tyres, a result of both the legal ban and the mature collection and recycling networks that have built up over decades. The same cannot be said for many other countries and provinces.

Ontario’s Diverging Picture

Ontario, Canada is one place where the picture differs. Growing online reports describe stockpiles of tyres building up at collection sites across the province as revised waste tyre regulations reshape how end-of-life tyres flow through the system, leaving collected material waiting for a processing route.

What a Backlog Reveals

When collection outpaces processing, an Ontario tyre backlog becomes both a logistics burden and a signal that recovery capacity needs to catch up with the volume of tyres entering the system. The constraint is not the supply of tyres but the processing capacity and end markets available to absorb them.

Learn More:

• Tyre pyrolysis for ELT processing
• How pyrolysis converts end of life tyres
• Feasibility studies for tyre recycling

Turn a Collection Backlog into Recovery Throughput

Stockpiling end-of-life tyres is a clear sign that processing capacity, not supply, is the constraint in the system.

Klean Industries builds tyre pyrolysis plants that convert accumulated ELTs into carbon black, oil and steel.

Facing an ELT backlog that needs processing capacity?

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