That’s a great question.

As a retailer, you are the obligated party under the BC Recycling Regulation. What does that mean?  If you sell new tires or equipment with new tires that fall within our program (such as cars or trailers) you must either register with Tire Stewardship BC or submit your own stewardship plan for approval by the ministry to manage and recycle the tires you sell when they reach end of life. It’s a big responsibility. Each year, we collect the equivalent of over 5.5 million car tires. We’ve learned a lot from our experience and we can help you too.

The eco fee

You are required to remit the Advance Disposal Fee (or eco fee) to TSBC every month for every new tire you sell.  It’s as easy as using our online platform to enter the data.  There, you’ll find all your past remittances, and you will be able to update your contact information. Read up on the types of tires and remittance rules.

How do I get scrap tires picked up?

First, the scrap tires need to be ready. Make sure they’re clean, easily accessible and off any rims. It’s important to help our haulers, read the rules and learn about service fees. Then, reach out for pick up in two ways:

1.866.497.0281
bctirecollections@libertytire.com

Even more information is here. And, if you have any issues with pick up, please call our office at 1.866.759.0488.

In a nutshell, be open to accepting a few more old tires.

Here’s how the Return-to-Retailer works: any person, not just a customer, can return 4 passenger or light truck tires to a tire retailer. The tires must be clean, off the rims and delivered during the retailer’s business hours.

The R2R program is easy. It’s voluntary. And it’s a huge help to keeping BC’s environment free of scrap tires. Over 750 tire and equipment retailers have already registered with TSBC.

For more detail, go here. To register now, send us a quick email.

Our role is to help you! 
(And other groups around you.)

Our role can be broken down into four parts:

1. We help fulfill your mandate under the BC Recycling Regulation by managing the collection and processing of the tires in our province.
2. We use over 90% of the eco fee to haul and process the scrap tires and to make new products
3. We submit and manage the stewardship plan to the Ministry of Environment every five years, and report annually to the Ministry on the program’s status. Our network is proud of those BC tire retailers that are compliant with the regulation; thanks for all the hard work from everyone, including you!
4. We conduct compliance reviews to make sure tire retailers are remitting correctly and answer any questions about the program. Take a moment to read the details of this important program. And, if you need some help, reach out to our Compliance Department.

They live another life.

Old tires can become fun and useful new things like playground surfaces, animal mats, gym flooring, running tracks and other automotive products. And all of the hard work of collecting and processing happens right here in BC.

Some of the processing is done by Heidelberg Materials, while a large portion is handled by Western Rubber Products (a division of Liberty Tire). Western recycles some tires into landscaping mulch but most of them become crumb rubber, which is mainly sold to North West Rubber, also located in BC. From there, the rubber is used in new products as listed above. Check out this video to learn more.

It goes right back into BC.

All of the eco fees remitted to TSBC go right back into the program, mainly paid out to collect, recycle and make new products from the scrap tires.

The remaining 10% helps tire recycling operations throughout the province and promote our program. These promotions include: regional collection events, consumer education, program administration and community grants.

Since 2009, TSBC has provided grants to over 90 communities for nearly 350 projects that used our recycled rubber. You may have seen some of these projects in your own town in the form of playgrounds, running tracks and arena flooring.

All of our financial information is audited and found in the TSBC Annual Report.