Tires


Scrap Tire Recycling

Tire Facts:

• Each year, Americans throw out over 240 million tires.
  
  
• These scrap tires end up in landfills, where they are a serious fire hazard and house mosquitoes and small diseased rodents.
  
  
• Now there are 2 billion tires in our landfills, which make up over 10% of the solid waste in the United States.
  
  
• In January of 1988, the Department of Energy and Air Products began research to discover new ways to recycle and reuse the rubber in scrap tires.
  
  
• Today, the recycled rubber is used to make many products, including the soles of tennis shoes and door mats. The biggest use of scrap tires is tire derived fuel, or TDF.
  
  
• Most tire retailers will collect and recycle your old tires for a minimal fee.