Company Turns Tired Tires into Fertilizer

Zinc in your truck and tractor tires may someday be extracted and re-purposed as fertilizer, according to Titan Tire Reclamation, which is doing exactly that in the Fort McMurray, Alta., oil sands.

In an email interview with Paul Newton, owner of Saskatoon Wholesale Tire, the Titan dealer said waste tires have been a major environmental concern in Canada since the 1990 Hagersville, Ont., catastrophe. …

Source: The Western Producer