SCRAP TIRE PILE VISIBLE FROM SPACE AFTER SASK. PARTY HANDS CONTRACTS TO OUT-OF-PROVINCE COMPANIES

TIRES PILED UP ONE YEAR AFTER SHERCOM LAYOFFS

SASKATOON – One year after Shercom Industries was forced to lay off nearly 100 workers, tires that the Saskatoon company once recycled are now piled up so high at a government facility north of Clavet that they can be seen from space.

“It’s the job of the provincial government to put Saskatchewan workers and Saskatchewan businesses first,” said Kim Breckner, Saskatchewan NDP Shadow Minister for Trade and Export Development.

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“The decision to push Shercom out of the tire recycling market was bad for jobs, bad for the environment, bad for our economy, bad for the future growth and prosperity of our communities.”

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In 2022, Tire Stewardship of Saskatchewan – a government agency overseen by the Ministry of Environment – stripped Shercom’s recycling contract and awarded it to Crumb Rubber Manufacturing (CRM) of Newport Beach, California.

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Shercom continues to produce value-added products like playground surfaces and hockey rink flooring made from recycled tires but at a reduced capacity and, after being shut out of Saskatchewan’s tire recycling market, with imported crumb rubber.

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“Tires are piled up and Saskatchewan people are out of work,” said Breckner. “Whatever the Sask. Party and the TSS was trying to do giving this contract to an American company clearly failed.

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“It’s been a long, frustrating 18 years of Sask. Party failures to protect jobs and create new ones.

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“It’s time to restore the province’s tire recycling contracts to Shercom, bring these jobs back to Saskatchewan, and clean up the massive tire piles north of Clavet.”

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