British Columbia Tire Recycling Tonnage Data from 1991 to 2006

Financial Incentives for Recycling Scrap Tires (FIRST) program collection and recycling data in tonnes from 1991 to 2006. The data was produced by the Government of British Columbia and covers the period before the program transitioned to Tire Stewardship BC in 2007. It is available in CSV and HTML formats under the OGL-CA-2.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyze the effectiveness of financial incentives on recycling volumes based on the program's tonnage data.
• Model time-series trends in scrap tire collection and recycling based on the 15-year coverage.
• Compare government-run recycling program performance with subsequent non-profit stewardship models based on the program transition described.
• Assess provincial waste management policy impacts based on the British Columbia-specific data.

Strengths

• Data covers a 15-year time range from 1991 to 2006.
• The dataset is part of a documented program transition from a government-run to a non-profit stewardship model.
• It is published under the open OGL-CA-2.0 license.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect temporal bias inherent to the specific government-run program period.

Provenance

Source

Government of British Columbia

Collection Method

Collection and reporting from the Financial Incentives for Recycling Scrap Tires (FIRST) program.

Time Range

1991 to 2006

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-17 15:33:59.130909; freshness should be verified.

Geography

British Columbia, Canada