The Tire Recycling Building: Past and Present
Written June 2000
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The old tire recycling building, once used to produce tire pellet, then used for tire shredding, is now unused. Sunbird Disposal & Recycling is interested in obtaining this spacious venue for its in-house recycling ambitions. |
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Tire pellet was once produced privately at the site. But because the process required shipping tire shreds to Vancouver and then delivering them back to Port Alberni for use, the practice was financially inefficient and soon fell apart. |
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The company Target took over, promising to clean up the mess. By connecting with Pacifica Papers, who in the meantime had obtained a Waste Management Permit, tire shreds like this were sent to the mill and disposed of by burning for industrial energy. Burning releases toxic particulates which are small enough to bond with oxygen and enter the blood stream. They contain such poisons as mercury. |
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A remaining pile of shredded tire matter at the old tire recycling site. |
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The tire site needs a great deal of cleaning up. Sunbird Disposal & Recycling is offering to help clean it up if they are granted use of the tire building. |
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A wall of enormous tires surrounds the tire recycling site. If given the tire building, Sunbird Disposal & Recycling would deposit compost along the wall and move it in a circuit around the site to aerate it, with the end product being a turf field. |
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The present state of the former tire recycling site. |
