News – eTracks Tire Management Systems

July 30, 2025

eTracks Honours Local Companies for Recycling and Reusing Tire Waste

Oakville, ON., DATE, 2025—eTracks Tire Management Systems, a not-for-profit company, recently recognized exceptional local companies that are essential to our efforts to recycle and keep end-of-life tires out of landfills in Ontario. The annual awards program honours tire processors for their vital role in promoting the circular economy and minimizing tire waste, haulers for their efforts in making sure tire waste is removed from collection sites and transported to recycling facilities, and tire collection sites for their dedication to collecting and recycling tires within their communities. 2024 Collection Site Award of Excellence Winners: Congratulations to the 12 winners of the Collection Site of Excellence this year! By ensuring that tires are collected and recycled correctly, these facilities showed exceptional performance in 2024, helping to create a cleaner and more sustainable environment in Ontario. The following collection locations are being recognized for their la...

July 30, 2025

Tire Recycling Reduces Hazardous Emissions into the Environment

Comparing the effects of recycling tires to those of utilizing new materials to make the same product, an ongoing study demonstrates that recycling tires prevents harmful emissions. For information on eTracks’ tire recycling initiatives, view the most recent LCA Report: Scrap Tire Life Cycle Assessment (updated to include 2023 data). Fulfilling producer obligations under Ontario’s Resource Recovery and Circular Economy Act (RRCEA) and Tire Regulation 225/18 entails offering services to producers that guarantee they reach their legal goal of collecting and recycling all used tires they sell as Tire Derived Product (TDP). The more traditional usage of new, or “raw” resources to create things is replaced by a TDP. Compared to the use of (new) resources they replace, consumers anticipate that items created from recycled tires will have a positive environmental impact. In order to quantify this expectation, seven members of the Canadian Association of Tire ...

September 10, 2024

Board Member Announcement

eTracks Tire Management Systems and its Board of Directors are pleased to announce two new board members, who will each help support the organization’s strategic plan with notable expertise and credentials in governance, sustainability, and executive leadership. Frank Denton brings decades of experience and executive leadership in public service including, regulatory policy and delivery, public private partnerships and crown governance. His most recent position was as CEO of the Resource Productivity and Recovery Authority (RPRA), the regulatory authority responsible for implementing the Resource Recovery and Circular Economy Act (RRCEA), including Tire Regulation 225/18. Prior to this appointment in 2017, Frank held a variety of senior executive positions in the Ontario Public Sector and was the assistant deputy minister responsible for design and delivery of a range of regulatory programs. As assistant deputy minister in the Ministry of Finance, he led several public sector comm...