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A Glimpse at Tire EPR in North America
2024-04-09 15:15:04| Waste Age
About 280 million tires are discarded in the U.S. each year and a good share of them are illegally dumped, posing risk for soil contamination, fires and mosquito-borne illness, and strapping governments with enormous clean up expenses. In response, a few U.S. states and several Canadian provinces have followed Europes lead by enacting or introducing Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) laws holding tire producers responsible for the cost and management of end-of-life tires (EOL).
Category:Energy and Environment