Emterra Tire Recycling

Emterra Group is a company of four divisions offering municipal and industrial, commercial and institutional (ICI) customers a fully integrated approach to collecting, processing and marketing: 

• Printed Paper and Packaging
• Used and Scrap Tires
• Stale-dated and Un-saleable Products

We bring innovation, commitment and plain old hard work to the task of developing and managing material collection and resource recovery programs for our customers.

Our know-how stems from decades of resource recovery management in Canada as a company:

• Inspired by an entrepreneurial spirit.
• Focused on minimizing the environmental impacts of doing business.
• Striving to set an example in our industry by always searching for and developing best practices.
• Supporting the communities in which we live and do business.

In 2012, we marked 35 years of growth and development.  

Emterra’s roots extend back to Vancouver in 1976, where founder and CEO Emmie Leung first established International Paper Industries (IPI) to collect cardboard and other waste paper from commercial operations. Drawing on her strong entrepreneurial energy, Emmie tackled every job – driver, collector, baler, shipper, bookkeeper, along with everything in between, learning first hand the grassroots operation of handling resource materials.

As waste diversion and recycling gained momentum in British Columbia in the 1990s, IPI expanded and thrived, offering new and better services to a broader range of clients.  

In the ‘90s, IPI grew beyond BC, establishing an offshoot called Halton Recycling Ltd. in Ontario.  In 2003, IPI started the company’s first single stream MRF in Manitoba.  Both of these waste management companies, along with the original IPI in BC were brought together under the new name, Emterra Environmental, in 2008. 

Milestones 

• 1976 - Emmie started IPI collecting cardboard and newspaper in a panel truck.
• 1982 – Emterra’s first material recovery facility opens in Surrey, British Columbia. This facility is still in operation today.
• 1995 - The Ontario operation began under the name of Halton Recycling Ltd.
• 2003 - IPI expanded into Manitoba and installed the province's first single stream recycling processing system in the Winnipeg facility.
• 2004 - Canadian Liquids Processors Limited joins Emterra Group, specializing in product destruction for sugar- and alcohol-based liquids converting these into ethanol.
• 2005 - HRL opened a tire recycling plant, “Canadian Eco Rubber Ltd.,” in Brampton, Ontario and started collecting and processing used and scrap tires from across the province.
• 2008 - A new name and brand, Emterra Group, was established, designating IPI and HRL as Emterra Environmental and renaming Canadian Eco Rubber as Emterra Tire Recycling.  
• 2008 - Emterra Environmental installed a new single stream recycling processing system at the Burlington, Ontario plant to process recyclables from municipal and commercial sectors.
• 2009 - Installed a new single stream recycling processing system at the Surrey plant in BC to process recyclables from municipal and commercial sectors – the first of its kind in the province.
• 2009 - Emterra became the only waste management company in Canada with three single stream recycling material recovery facilities. 
• 2011 - Emterra's fleet of trucks serving Niagara Region started operating on biodiesel.
• 2011 - Emterra added the first compressed natural gas (CNG) truck to its fleet serving the City of Surrey, BC.
• 2012 - Emterra launched our first large-scale CNG fleet in Winnipeg - the largest cold weather CNG fleet in North America.
• 2012 - Emterra expanded into Michigan, USA through the acquisition of Richfield Management, L.L.C.. Emterra Environmental USA and sister company Huron Landfill were born.
• 2013 – Emterra’s opens the latest and most advanced single stream recycling facility in Regina, Saskatchewan.

Our Mission:

Our mission is to leverage our operational know-how and our boundless commitment to minimizing the amount of waste that is disposed of in landfill to deliver comprehensive value-added waste and recycling collection and processing services to our customers.  

Our business values:

• Providing the most comprehensive solutions for full waste diversion.
• Building long-term partnerships with municipal, institutional, commercial and industrial customers.
• Applying creative and innovative ideas to develop better waste collection and processing systems.
• Employing technologies and techniques that produce better results.
• Continually improving our operations to deliver services in a timely and cost-effective manner.
• Constantly looking for new opportunities to develop sustainable end markets for our recovered materials.

Our core beliefs:

• Our business is driven by our entrepreneurial spirit, resourcefulness, and commitment to delivering reliable and professional service and high quality recovered materials.
• We are an inspired and driven team who respect each other and value our differences. 
• We celebrate our successes, appreciate that work is part of a full and rewarding life, and take pride in knowing that our work positively affects our environment and future generations.
• We are dedicated to honesty and fairness and empower each other to act with integrity.
• Our commitment to continuous improvement compels us to be adaptable, to learn from both our successes and challenges, and to be open to new ideas.
• We aim to build superior relationships with all parties who contribute to our corporate mission and share our vision of protecting our planet.
• We believe that it is our corporate responsibility to have a positive impact on the communities in which we live and work.

Tire Disposal and Collection Services

Tire collection for recycling simply makes sense. Ontario residents can dispose of their used rubber tires free of charge at any Ontario Tire Stewardship (OTS) registered collection location. OTS reports that over 33 million tires have been recycled in Ontario since it started in 2009, achieving an average diversion rate of 96 per cent. 

Collecting used and scrap tires has an important positive impact on the environment. Not only is Emterra Tire Recycling helping to keep these on and off-road tires from being disposed of in landfill, littered on our landscape or burned, we also are contributing to closing the recycling loop. Many fantastic new products such as patio tiles and engine parts are produced from the rubber mulch/crumb rubber that comes from our rubber tire shredding process. In this sense, we are a leading Ontario supplier of crumb rubber.

Emterra Tire Recycling (formerly called Canadian Eco Rubber Ltd.) is located in Brampton, Ontario and accepts both used and scrap tires. Used tires have some life left in them and are often reused before reaching the end of their useful lives. Scrap tires go straight to recycling. Whether used or scrap, the tires that come to our facility are never stockpiled or landfilled.

Our Commitment to Innovative Tire Recycling

Our environmentally-responsible, innovative, proprietary technology shreds tires to separate the steel, fibre and rubber components. We recover 100% of each scrap tire collected and no emissions are produced during the recycling process.