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United Nations Children's Fund • unicef For a free catalogue, call: UNICEF Canada 1-800-567-4483 C JIM AMPBELL SANITATION Septic Tank Cleaning Jim Campbell Lloyd Weber 527-0085 887-6700 DON° 7ORGIE $3.00 THURSDAY SAVE ON YOUR CLASSIFIED AD THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1993. PAGE 17. Research develops new uses for scrap rubber By Kathy Dermott The rubber between you and the road could become the surface you drive on as Ontario's Ministry of Transportation, in partnership with privateindustry, researches and develops-new uses for scrap tires. Recycled rubber is now appearing as the main ingredient in an award-winning interlocking paving block, collars for manholes on public roads, lightweight fill, and even highway noise barriers. Many of these new products are tested by the Ontario Ministry of Transportation, (MTO), which has intensified its efforts to find ways to reuse scrap tires in the past few years. Dr. Gerhard Kennepohl, head of pavement research in MTO's Research and Development Branch, says the branch's goal is to find "value-added products" that can be made from scrap tires for application in the transportation industry. "A value-added product is one whose applications are enhanced by incorporating recycled materials," says Kermepohl. "In addition to the obvious environmental benefits associated with reusing scrap tires, we want to end up with a better product." Annie Dozois of Kingsbridge and Mary Gregg of Goderich are the first winners in the "Mile in Your Shoes" contest sponsored by Tony McQuail, federal New Democratic candidate in Huron-Bruce. Their names were drawn at an election planning committee meeting held July 28, at the McQuail farm near Lucknow. Mr. McQuail explained the contest by saying, "Part of a Member of Parliament's job is to understand and represent the concerns of his constituents. One way to do this is to spend time with people 'walking a mile in their shoes'. We will be holding a In 1990, the tire fire in Hagersville, focused public attention on the problems associated with scrap tire disposal. The 17-day fire illustrated in graphic detail the need for practical, environmental and economically viable ways to reuse some of the estimated 11 million tires scrapped in Ontario every year. Some 65 per cent end up in landfill sites, 25 per cent are reused or recycled and 10 per cent are stockpiled. But various government ministries and private entrepreneurs have spent more than a decade researching uses for scrap tires. And the findings of that research are benefitting new value-added products like the Enviropaver interlocking paving blocks. The blocks are the product of Enviroblock Surfacing Canada Inc., a company that has been working with federal and provincial ministries to develop and test their product.With the financial assistance of the environment ministries at both the provincial and federal level, and technical advice and testing by Ontario's Transportation Ministry, the blocks are being tested now on a suburban road in the City of Mississauga. monthly draw for people who want to have me come to work with them on whatever task they'd like. I think it is important that we work together so that we will have a sense of shared accomplishment in the job as well as a chance to talk about the issues of importance to them." Annie Dozois plans to put McQuail to work with her husband Richard building a wood shed. He will be learning about the workings of a local committee when Mary Gregg takes him to a Stop Women Abuse Now (SWAN) committee meeting. McQuail says he has a lot of different skills, from changing The blocks are made of scrap rubber from tires, waste asphalt, recycled plastic and other waste plastic, molded into paving blocks suitable for use on driveways, school yards, parking lots, shipping yards and bus terminals. When the company's Mississauga plant is in full operation, it will use 616,000 scrap tires annually, about 95,500 tons of waste asphalt and 14,000 tons of recycled plastic. Company CEO Denis Richards says it was the Hagersville tire fire that sparked his inventive imagination. "I made two obvious conclusions -- that a market for scrap rubber did not exist and that the only viable solution to the problem of scrap tires was to recycle them," said Richards. "The beauty of his product is that it is a green product that answers both of those dilemmas and offers a practical and economical long-life alternative to the problems and expense of asphalt surfacing." In 1992, the Enviropaver interlocking block was named Green Product of the Year in The Financial Post's environment award competition. Another recycled rubber tire product finding use on municipal roads is the manhole transition collar, Invented by Domal babies and washing diapers to house construction and farm work. He's worked in factories, chaired committees and run a Cabinet Ministers office. He can wash dishes, stock shelves or cook meals too. He hopes to work with many people across Huron-Bruce during the course of the contest which will run from now until the election. Beth Fulton of Belgrave is the secretary for the Huron-Bruce New Democrats. She will be co- ordinating the contest and anyone interested in entering should contact her at 357-1206 after 6 p.m. It's a chance to get some work done as well as share ideas with a local candidate. Envirotech Inc. of Toronto, the collar can be inserted around the opening of a manhole to absorb the stress on the pavement caused by the vehicles passing over it as well as the weather-related expansion and contraction of the pavement against the rigid structure of the manhole frames. Other advantages of the rubber collars include their ease of installation. Each collar uses the rubber of 36 tires. If you consider that 3,000 to 4,000 manholes are repaired in the City of Toronto each year, the new collars could divert up to 144,000 tires from local landfill sites annually. Provincewide, statistics indicate that the collars have the potential to reduce the number pf scrap tires piling up in Ontano by as much as 20 per cent. Local wins "Mile in Your Shoes" contest