More than 1,000 scrap tires are piled at this Toronto auto shop. No recyclers will take them, owner says

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A Scarborough auto repair shop owner says he has been told by the city to clear more than a thousand scrap tires from his business, but he cannot get anyone to pick them up following changes to provincial tire recycling rules.