Enormous tires are piling up at landfills in Manitoba because a provincial recycling program has stopped taking responsibility for them.
A tire stewardship program that started 13 years ago has diverted 14 million tires from landfills, farmers' fields and dealerships for recycling into new products.
Manitobans pay for the program through a $3 levy on most passenger and truck tires sold in the province, but there is no levy on large farm tires.
Tire pick-up costs have gone up but the levy hasn't increased in a decade and the program is slowly running out of money.
Officials decided to stop picking up farm and industrial tires last fall.
Since then, more than 3,000 of them have accumulated at landfills and tire dealerships around Manitoba.
The Opposition Tories say the government has mismanaged the program but provincial officials say the tires will eventually be retrieved. - Canada.com
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