Critics point to Ford's reduction in Ontario recycling targets as fueling the waste crisis with a growing number of municipalities, including Durham and Chatham-Kent, refusing to take any used tires.
A growing number of Ontario municipalities will no longer accept used tires because an organization tasked with shipping them to recycling depots isn’t clearing the tires out of municipal waste depots fast enough.
In Chatham-Kent, that has resulted in thousands of tires piling up at three of its depots, hampering daily operations and creating a fire hazard, says Huda Oda, the municipality’s manager of waste management.
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