Liberty Tire Recycling | 2022 Environmental, Social & Governance Report 15 Circular Rubber Technologies is excited to continue to strengthen our partnership with Liberty Tire in the years to come and lead the way in redefining the tire industry by embracing circularity, driving positive change, and leaving a legacy of environmental stewardship.” MAARTJE VAN DER SANDE - CEO, CIRCULAR RUBBER TECHNOLOGIES ADVANCING SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTS Partnerships Achieving circularity of tires requires partnerships and collaboration across many industries. Liberty Tire works together with other businesses and organizations to collectively improve the circularity of tires. Liberty Tire places a high priority on providing excellent service to our customers and helping them create value through our service offerings. In 2022, we successfully completed several initiatives, resulting in a 6% improvement in On Time percentage for our direct-served National customers. Circular Rubber Technologies is a Canadian Waste to Value company who strives for the infinite reuse of the world’s rubber. Their rubber devulcanization technology converts end-of-life tires into a material suitable for the use in new tires; a tire-totire solution. During 2023, the world’s first rubber devulcanization facility specifically for end-of-life mining tires will be built in Red Deer, Alberta and Liberty Tire will provide the required feedstock. Through this joint effort, Liberty Tire and Circular Rubber Technologies expect to divert thousands of end-of-life mining tires from being buried at the mining sites and employ state-of-theart devulcanization recycling processes to transform discarded rubber into valuable resources. This partnership will foster the development of groundbreaking products that exemplify the principles of circular economy and is planned to be the first of many future facilities to serve the fast growing global demand for sustainable rubber products.
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy NzU3OTQ=