Used Tires Piling Up

We haven't seen them in eight months.

One of the first things they did was apologize to us.

So I've read this and they said the government has reduced the number of tires they have to pick up, which has created a problem.

In the back corner of his lot off Industrial Park Road in Halliburton, Eddie Pinelli has an ever-growing pile of used tires.

They're out of the way, so you wouldn't notice them unless you went looking for them.

But Pinelli, who owns and runs County Automotive, says changes in Ontario's tire collection program are causing unnecessary headaches for businesses like his.

Touring the site, Pinelli says that while he's got some room for the old tires, he doesn't like watching the pile on his property continue to grow.

He questions what the disposal fee customers pay at the point of sale is being used for, since regular pickups have decreased to barely one per year.

They came and picked up, we loaded their entire truck.

They took 500 tires and there's still like 500 left.

As I said, we have the room here, so we're fortunate.

Here's the tires, they came about two months ago and we could probably fill up another one of those moving trucks.

I believe it was a provincial government.

Whoever does the tire recycling program, they used to pay for recycled tires.

Now they don't, which is fine.

They should give us like 50 cents or a dollar per tire.

Now every customer pays $5 and I think it's going up to $6 per tire.

We don't pay disposal fees anymore.

Like we used to, but we pay the disposal fees when we buy a new tire.

So every new tire that is purchased, and that's based on new tires and the 500 we had before.

The provider charges us $5 and we charge the customer $5 for disposal fees.

That's a lot of money per tire.

But the provincial government said change their policies and the guys that pick up the tires only have to pick up 60 or 70% instead of 100%.

We haven't seen them in eight months.

One of the first things they did was apologize to us.

So I've read this and they said the government has reduced the number of tires they have to pick up, which has created a problem.

In the back corner of his lot off Industrial Park Road in Halliburton, Eddie Pinelli has an ever-growing pile of used tires.

They're out of the way, so you wouldn't notice them unless you went looking for them.

But Pinelli, who owns and runs County Automotive, says changes in Ontario's tire collection program are causing unnecessary headaches for businesses like his.

Touring the site, Pinelli says that while he's got some room for the old tires, he doesn't like watching the pile on his property continue to grow.

He questions what the disposal fee customers pay at the point of sale is being used for, since regular pickups have decreased to barely one per year.

They came and picked up, we loaded their entire truck.

They took 500 tires and there's still like 500 left.

As I said, we have the room here, so we're fortunate.

Here's the tires, they came about two months ago and we could probably fill up another one of those moving trucks.

I believe it was a provincial government.

Whoever does the tire recycling program, they used to pay for recycled tires.

Now they don't, which is fine.

They should give us like 50 cents or a dollar per tire.

Now every customer pays $5 and I think it's going up to $6 per tire.

We don't pay disposal fees anymore.

Like we used to, but we pay the disposal fees when we buy a new tire.

So every new tire that is purchased, and that's based on new tires and the 500 we had before.

The provider charges us $5 and we charge the customer $5 for disposal fees.

That's a lot of money per tire.

But the provincial government said change their policies and the guys that pick up the tires only have to pick up 60 or 70% instead of 100%.