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By next spring, the $2.80 recycling levy consumers now pay on top of the price of their tires (including those on new cars) will likely increase to at least $4. The increases for truckers and farmers are likely to be much stiffer, perhaps up to $10 on tires for semi-trailers and $35 for the mammoth back tires on tractors.
"The levies should have been increased in the past," he said. "Now the program is insolvent and what has happened to all the money that has been pre-paid for recycling?"* Saskatchewan -- A multi-tiered levy system is used that includes passenger car tires, medium truck tires, agricultural tires and large off-road/mining tires. Annual sales of 1.1 million tires produced a levy amount of $4.2 million.See the full content of this document
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Tire Recycling Levy Likely Heading Up
By Martin Cash
THE pile of shredded black rubber on the lot of Reliable Tire Recycling may not look very sexy but it is the hard evidence of 12 years worth of tire recycling in Manitoba. The provincial program has effectively eliminated most of the unsightly and dang...See the full content of this document
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