By Cheryl Jahn

City uses rubber tires on Kin Centre floors

Jul 16, 2024 | 3:04 PM

PRINCE GEORGE – The smell hits you square in the face when you walk between the Kin Centres.The prevailing smell of rubber. That’s because these floors were just recently laid, all made of recycled tires.

“The tires all come down into Delta from all over the province and they’re recycled by the Trinity Tire,” explains Rosemary Sutton, Executive Director for the Tire Stewardship Program. “And then what happens is Liberty Tire removes the steel and fiber and they are left with just these little tiny particles of black repellents from rubber that that material is sold to different markets.”

In this case, the floors that adorn the connecting hallways and the change rooms. For the City, there were plenty of reasons for going with this option when it csme to replace the floors in the halls and in the dressing rooms.

“The benefits of this definitely non-slip easy for skates,” says Debbie Heywood, Manager, Event Services. “You don’t ruin your skates. And yeah that little bit of a spring to it as well.” These products, like the tiles in the Kins Centres connector, keep thousands of tires from piling up and creating an environmental nightmare.

“In British Columbia alone, we have the equivalent of about five and a half million car tires that are recycled every year. And so at the end of 2023, the program, in total, had recycled about 150 million car tire equivalents. So these are big, big numbers,” says Sutton.

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The Tire Stewardship program will be in Prince George this September if anyone has a tire or two they’d like to pass on for a good cause.