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Waterloo Chronicle (Waterloo, On1868), 6 Jan 2010, p. 13

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It will take full-scale plants operating in chat. So we're building a dynamic landfill. But new Tytomer technol- “Retmad tires in North America about six months to build the Ontario over the next three years. network for you." ogy means the rubber can meet alone is 500 million pounds ofrub~ devulcanization machine. followed by plants across North DossierView has eight employ- the road again. bera year,"Visaisouk said. “So by November. we hope to America that will be located near ees and Wetrieve is currently in the The process. called de-vulcanâ€" The pilot plant will get under» flip the switch and start making the rubber crumb producers. testing phase ofdevelopment. _-~ _1_4_Liiiig "iv! ”pi . - _ ‘ m tiff . - ' - - - ;. 2 if)? ’ S‘i‘“'“h ”Meat/z . . ' u as" E lzzabeth Wztmer, MPP \ we“ “pow . cf . 7 M” i " . K ztcbenerâ€"Waterloo a 3 = ( z 1/ I 1 7 i l . 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