MONTREAL, June 16 – Residents of the Montreal area who own a 1995 model year or older vehicle can now have it recycled in an environmentally responsible manner and get six months of public transit passes, a credit towards the purchase of a bicycle, an electric bicycle or an electric scooter, and a discount on the Communauto car-sharing service.
Clear The Air!, a partner of the national Retire Your Ride car recycling program, is back. The program will run in the Montreal area until March 31, 2011, thanks to support from the City of Montreal and the main public transit systems in the metropolitan area: Agence métropolitaine de transport (AMT), Société de transport de Montreal (STM), Société de transport de Laval (STL), Réseau de transport de Longueuil (RTL) and Association des Conseils intermunicipaux de transport (ACIT).
The Communauto car-sharing service and bicycle and electric scooter retailers are also participating in the program. Car-owners can register for the program by visiting www.faitesdelair.org or dialling 1 888 819-7330.
I’ll recycle my still-excellent 1995 car when the gov’t offers me $3500, and not a day sooner or a dollar less.
Wake up people: the creation of a new car’s steel, glass, fabric, etc creates much more pollution than comes out the exhaust pipe from just keep running the old car a few more years.
The real solution is that we need modular cars where we can swap old major components with newer ones (like engines).
JayBee – the solution is to replace cars with public transportation and dense walkable, urban landscapes..
Awesome! Meanwhile, here in the U.S. we have “cash for clunkers” – an ineffective federal program to subsidize the car finance industry (and to a much lesser extent, auto manufacturers), and get consumers into even more debt.