How they do it up north

We in California are not the only ones getting in on the tire-recycling action. In Ashren, Canada, which is in the province of Manitoba, a former cattle rancher has found new life (and work) recycling some of Manitoba's yearly pile up of 1.4 million tires. Peter Schroedter started Off the Road (OTR) Recycling to reuse off-road industrial tires and turn them into cattle troughs and asphalt filler. Read the article from the Winnipeg Free Press here.

Schroedter details the trials of recycling tires, saying "A hockey puck is about 95 hardness. Most of our rubber is in the high 70s from mining tires, and our softest is 60. Car tires are 58."