 Tires Product Category
Regulatory History
In 1991, Ministry set up the Financial Incentives to Recycle Scrap Tires ("FIRST") programs, the first of its kind in Canada. This early, "first generation" program gave consumers waste management options for their scrap tires but failed to fully satisfy the definition of "product stewardship." FIRST was government operated and consumer funded through government levies assessed on the sale of new tires. Therefore only minimal industry / producer responsibility existed.
In 2001, the Ministry contemplated new Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) programs and requests from industry for a more performance-based, rather than prescriptive regulation.
To support the development of new programs and address the industry concern, the Ministry created its Industry Product Stewardship Business Plan approved on September 30, 2002. The business plan established the framework for existing and new stewardship programs based on four principles, and recommended the development of a single, performance-based regulation for all programs. The ministry then embarked on a regulatory review process to determine if the residual regulation was an appropriate regulatory model or a new regulation was required.
On January 01, 2007, 16 years after the first B.C. Scrap Tire Recycling Program, a major shift occurred. With the approval of Tire Stewardship B.C.’s (TSBC) product stewardship plan (under the Recycling Regulation) in September 2006, the program changed from being government-led to industry- led.
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