A group responsible for tire recycling in B.C. is helping environmentalists pluck tires from some of B.C.B次元官网网址檚 hard-to-reach places.
The Tire Stewardship British Columbia group announced Friday it will be providing $30,000 to the Ocean Legacy Foundation in each of the next five years to support the foundationB次元官网网址檚 scrap-tire clean up initiatives across the province.
In 2022 alone, the foundation and its partners cleaned up more than 2,000 scrap tires from a small island off the Sunshine Coast.
B次元官网网址淲e are responsible for the tire recycling so we felt it was just a natural fit, and really just an obligation on our part to fund the work that [Ocean Legacy] is doing,B次元官网网址� said Tire Stewardship B.C. executive director Rosemary Sutton.
Ocean Legacy was started in 2013 to develop programs that respond to plastic pollution in Canada, with goals of ending the plastic pollution crisis. The foundation works to remove foam-filled tires from beach cleanups or dock deconstructions, and the hands them off to other teams to recycle.
B次元官网网址淭hese funds are going to be critical in allowing our team to continue accessing remote coastal locations around the province to remove pollution that has been reported,B次元官网网址� said Chloe Dubois, Executive Director and co-founder of Ocean Legacy.
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Funding will be put toward expanding into more communities and working to remove pollution from more ecologically sensitive environments.
B次元官网网址淭his partnership with Tire Stewardship B.C. is an important puzzle piece in helping to secure that annual funding,B次元官网网址� said Dubois.
Tire Stewardship B.C. is a non-profit organization that also works to collect scrap tires, and then recycles them into things such as playground surfaces, athletic tracks and garden mulch.
Established in 1991, the organization has recycled more than 100 million tires into new products, and Sutton said this new established partnership was the right next step to boost the pollution reduction initiatives.
B次元官网网址淚 think for us, itB次元官网网址檚 just an absolute win. We are obligated to deal with tires, and to go from having to say B次元官网网址業B次元官网网址檓 sorry they have to go to the landfillB次元官网网址� to the fact that we now have a solution is an incredible win for everybody. For us, for [Dubois], for the public, for the environment,B次元官网网址� Sutton said.
