Under the Tires Regulation, tire producers are required to register with RPRA within 30 days of:

• selling new tires, or
• selling a vehicle on which new tires are provide

Have questions about registration? View the resources below:

• Am I a tire producer?
• How do I determine if I am an exempt tire producer?
• What information is required for producers of tires to register with RPRA?
• Review our Supply Data Reporting Guide to learn how to register
• FAQs

Register

As of January 1, 2019, producers are required to establish and operate a collection system for tires in Ontario.

Collection Sites

Producers must ensure that consumers can drop off tires free of charge at each site that is part of their collection system and satisfy the following requirements:

• If the tire collection site is not a municipality, First Nation or Crown site, it must accept, at a minimum:
  • Tires that are of a similar rim size and calculated weight as those supplied or provided at the site, and
  • Up to 10 tires per day from any person that are of a similar rim size and calculated weight as those supplied or provided at the site
• If the tire collection site is a municipality, First Nation or Crown site, it must accept, at a minimum:
  • Passenger and light truck tires, and
  • Up to 10 passenger and light truck tires per day from any person.
• The tire collection site must be readily accessible to the public.
• If the tire collection site is not a municipality or First Nation, it must be operated and accept tires during normal business hours throughout the performance year.
• Municipal and First Nation collection sites are permitted to operate seasonally or for a limited number of days per week.
• The tire collection site must accept tires that are still attached to rims.
• The tires collection site must accept small tires.

Producers can reduce their accessibility requirements by providing options such as curbside collection or collection events.

Call-in collection

All First Nation communities can contact a large producer or PRO to arrange a pickup once they collect more than 200 tires. Large producers or PROs must collect the tires from First Nation reserves south of the Far North within one year from the time the request is made. Large producers or PROs must make reasonable efforts to pickup tires within one year from First Nation reserves in the Far North.

Ontario crown sites, municipalities, and local services boards south of the Far North can contact a large producer or a PRO to arrange a pickup once they collect more than 200 tires. The large producer or PRO must collect the tires within one year from the time the request is made.

Management Requirements

Producers must ensure that all tires picked up from a collection site, regardless of whether it is part of the producer’s collection system, are managed (reused, retreaded or processed) and reported by March 31 of the following calendar year.

As of January 1, 2025, there are no longer specific collection targets, but producers must still meet management requirements.

For the 2025 performance year, every obligated producer shall ensure that at least 65% of the tires they supplied into Ontario are reused, retreaded or processed.

Producers of large tires (weighing more than 700 kg) shall ensure that the amount of large tires reused, retreaded, or processed in a calendar year equals at least 60% of the producer’s average weight of large tires supplied or provided on vehicles supplied to consumers in Ontario in that calendar year.

The amount of recovered resources should meet or exceed a producer’s management requirement, which is calculated based on the average of tires supplied over three years. For more information on minimum management requirements for future years, review this FAQ: How are my tire collection and resource recovery requirements determined?

Producers, or PROs on their behalf, can work with registered tires processors and retreaders to meet their management requirements. View the list of tires processors and retreaders here.

Recovered resources are:

• materials used or destined to be used by a person for the making of new products or packaging
• materials reused for the same or a new purpose
• materials repaired or retreaded for the same purpose
• aggregate from tires (up to 20% of management requirement)

Materials that are not considered recovered (cannot count toward performance) include:

• materials that are land disposed
• materials that are incinerated or used as fuel or a fuel supplement
• materials that are stored, stockpiled, used as a daily landfill cover or otherwise deposited on land (unless they enrich soil or as aggregate within allowable limits)
• aggregate over the allowed limits

Working with PROs

Producers have the choice of establishing and operating their own collection and management systems or working with one or more producer responsibility organizations (PROs) registered with RPRA to meet their obligations.

A PRO is a business established to contract with producers to provide collection and management and administrative services to help producers meet their regulatory obligations under the Tires Regulation, including:

• Arranging the establishment or operation of tires collection and management systems (hauling, retreading, reuse, or processing services)
• Establishing or operating a collection or management system
• Preparing and submitting reports and payment

PROs operate in a competitive market and producers can choose the PRO (or PROs) they want to work with. The terms and conditions of each contract with a PRO may vary. Registered PROs are listed here.

Collection activity reporting

As of August 1, 2024, collection activities must be regularly updated in the Registry. For more information and step-by-step instructions on how to report collection activities, read our guide.

Annual Supply Reporting

Each year, tire producers must submit the following information in RPRA’s Registry about the tires they supplied into Ontario:

• The weight of tires they supplied into Ontario in the calendar year, two years prior

Supply data must be submitted in accordance with the Registry Procedure – Audit. Verification of supply data is only required for medium and large producers, as defined in the Registry Procedure – Audit. Small producers are not required to submit a verification report but will be subject to inspections. Verification requirements are outlined in Appendix A – Tires Supply Data Verification.

Have questions about supply data reporting? View the following resources:

• Review RPRA’s Supply Data Reporting Guide to learn how to report your data

Deadline: Tire supply reporting is due May 31 each year.

Annual Performance Reporting

For the 2025 performance period, producers are required to ensure that at least 65% of the tires supplied into Ontario, are reused, retreaded or processed. For more information on minimum management requirements for future years, review this FAQ.

Each year, producers, or PROs on their behalf, will have to report on the extent to which they were able to achieve their management requirement.

Producers, or PROs on their behalf, are required to report the following information annually in the Registry:

• number and calculated weight of tires used and collected in Ontario
• number and calculated weight of tires sent for reuse on a vehicle
• number and calculated weight of tires sent for reuse for a new purpose
• number and calculated weight of tires retreaded
• actual weight of processed tire materials, by material type

Most producers will work with a PRO to meet their mandatory collection and management requirements. If you have not yet contracted with a PRO, it is important that you do so as soon as possible to ensure that you can meet your obligations. In order for a PRO to report on your behalf, you must identify them in RPRA’s Registry. Learn more about PROs here.

A PRO may submit the performance report on your behalf, but it remains the producer’s responsibility to ensure their report is submitted by the deadline.

Tire Performance Audits

Starting in 2024, and every three years thereafter (2027, 2030, 2033, etc.), producers, or PROs reporting on their behalf, are required to submit a report auditing their performance from the three previous years. This report should be uploaded to the Registry along with the annual performance report. While the annual performance report reflects performance activity for the previous calendar year, the audit report must cover the three preceding years.

More information about tire audit requirements can be found in Appendix B of the Registry Procedure – Audit.

Regulatory deadline for Tire Performance Audit Reporting: October 31, 2027.