RRFB Nova Scotia Selects Lafarge Canada to Collect and Process Used Tires

RRFB Nova Scotia has selected Lafarge Canada and its partner Systech Environmental to collect and process the over 900,000vscrap tires generated in the province each year.

Lafarge will use the scrap tires as an alternate fuel source at its cement kiln in Brookfield, NS. The company expects to use 60 percent of the total tires collected from across the province at the facility; with the remaining tires transported to a Lafarge cement kiln in Quebec where they will be used as fuel. Lafarge Canada will be responsible for all collection, transport and processing of Nova Scotia’s used tires for the next five years.

RRFB Nova Scotia will soon begin finalizing contract details with Lafarge Canada. Further, Lafarge Canada will be required to secure any necessary approvals from the Nova Scotia Department of Environment and Labour before it can proceed to use scrap tires as alternate fuel at its Brookfield facility. The Brookfield facility must also undergo physical upgrades to ensure the reliable and consistent feeding of tires to the kiln. In the interim, RRFB Nova Scotia will continue to collect scrap tires throughout the province from tire retailers and other sources, and transport them to approved facilities.

Additional information about RRFB Nova Scotia’s announcement on its used-tire

management program is available at www.rrfb.com