Burning rubber is a quick way to create junk. When it's time to buy new tires, your old tires quickly turn from useful car parts to giant, piles of rubber junk.
Although old tires can be reused as swings, gardening planters, and construction project materials, most people tend to stuff old tires into a corner of their garage or leave them by the trash bins. However, old and waste tires are usually not accepted in regular waste services - meaning you may never even see them leave your yard. Luckily, 1-800-GOT-JUNK? is happy to help you with old and used tire disposal in your city.
Please note that not all locations are able to accept tires, due to differences in local regulations. Give us a call to see how best your local team can help!
No matter where you live, tires shouldn't go to the dump. If you need old tires removed, 1-800-GOT-JUNK? can help with tire recycling near you.
Don't let those waste and scrap tires get in your way or become an environmental hazard! We pick up all kinds of tires from cars, bikes, trucks, and construction equipment. We’re in your neighborhood, call us today to see if your local team can accept tires and handle all the heavy lifting for you!
You control the price—it’s based on how much space your junk takes up in the truck. It starts from our minimum charge of 1/8th of a truck all the way up to a full truckload. Since the price is based on volume, we need to see your items in person to give you an exact price. Call or book your free no-obligation estimate today! For more information on our pricing, visit our pricing page.
Unlike your other household waste, tires are made from non-biodegradable, flammable material that make leaving them in a landfill dangerous to the environment.
Recycling is the most proper way to dispose of your tires.
Here are some of the best ways to handle used tire disposal:
Don’t waste time looking for a recycling facility or opportunity to get rid of your rubber junk. 1-800-GOT-JUNK? will help you to get rid of old tires and make sure they get to the right recycling facility. Together, we make sure tires don’t stay in your backyard or end up in the landfill.
Please note that not all locations are able to accept tires, so give us a call to see how best we can help.
Don’t waste time looking for a recycling facility or opportunity to get rid of your rubber junk.
1-800-GOT-JUNK? will help you to get rid of old tires and make sure they get to the right recycling facility. Together, we make sure tires don’t stay in your backyard or end up in the landfill.
However, there are several other places to throw away and recycle your old tires:
Not sure how to handle old tires on your own? Let 1-800-GOT-JUNK? take care of it for you. We’ll remove unwanted tires from wherever they’re located, load them into our truck, and then make sure to dispose your tires responsibly. Give us a call to see if your local team can help remove tires.
Tires can - and should - be recycled. Tires are made of synthetic and non-synthetic rubber, wires, and fabric that cannot decompose on their own. When sent to a landfill, tire piles can build up over time, taking up space and resources.
And when they’re burned, the materials in old tires release harmful toxins into the environment.
The safest way to handle old tires is to recycle them. You can recycle old tires and reuse them as construction material or as upcycled household items. If you don’t have the space for used tires, recycling facilities can break down the materials for other purposes.
If you have a pile of used tires that you want to remove, our friendly 1-800-GOT-JUNK? crew is in your neighborhood and happy to help! Call today to see if we are able to remove tires in your location, and for a no-obligation estimate.
To recycle a used tire, the entire tire must first be taken apart. The rubber, steel, wires, and fabric, are each removed. They are then reused or undergo their own separate recycling process.
Recycled rubber is used to create things like construction materials, playground equipment, and athletic tracks. The rest of the scrap parts are used as fuel supplements in different cement and pulp industries.
If you have a pile of old tires lying around your house, consider calling our professional crew at 1-800-GOT-JUNK? to take it away for you. We make sure to dispose of tires in an environmentally-friendly way after hauling them away from your house. All you have to do is point!
Old tires don’t have to be thrown away. Reusing old tires is one of the best ways to decorate your home, create something new, and keep the environment safe!
Some of the most popular things to do with old tires include:
DIY projects are a fun way to make use of your old rubber junk. If you would rather just get those old tires out of your way altogether, call 1-800-GOT-JUNK?. Schedule your no-obligation estimate today!
Waste tires present environmental, health, and safety hazards.
Rainwater accumulates in tire piles creating an ideal environment for mosquitoes, which are known to transmit West Nile Virus. A massive tire fire under a major highway in Philadelphia cost millions of dollars in damage and affected commuters and businesses in the region over several months. Large tire piles can burn for weeks causing the rubber to decompose into oil, which can pollute ground and surface water.
County Recycling Programs and Recycling Coordinators
Search for Drop-Off Locations:
This table contains a list of ongoing waste tire collection programs sponsored by counties, municipalities or county/municipal authorities.
| Locality / Sponsor | Collection Days | Location | Contact / Details |
| Allegheny County City of Pittsburgh Department of Public Works DPW, Environmental Services, Recycling 412-255-2631 | Monday-Friday 8AM-2PM Some Saturdays (call) | East End Drop-Off Center 6814 Hamilton Ave Pittsburgh, PA 15208 | 412-665-3609 |
| Hazelwood Drop-Off Center 40 Melanchton St Pittsburgh, PA 15207 | 412-422-6545 | ||
| West End Drop-Off Center 1330 Hassler St Pittsburgh, PA 15220 | 412-937-3054 | ||
| Limited to Pittsburgh residents, two tires per day | |||
| Berks County Solid Waste Authority Recycling Office | Tuesday, Thursday, & Saturday 8AM-12PM | Berks County Recycling Center 1316 Hill Top Road Leesport, PA 19533 | Berks County Recycling Center 610-478-6362 swa@countyofberks.  com |
| Elk County | Monday-Friday 6AM-4PM Saturday 9AM-12PM | Advanced Disposal Greentree Landfill 635 Toby Rd. Kersey, PA 15846 | Elk County Tire Recycling 814-776-5373 [email protected] Contact Elk Co. SWA for manifest prior to drop-off |
| Mercer County City of Hermitage | Friday 7AM-12PM | Hermitage City Garage 5250 Virginia Rd Hermitage, PA 16148 | Hermitage Recycling / Solid Waste 724-981-0800 Please call ahead Residents only |
| Monroe County Municipal Waste Management Authority | Monday-Friday 8:30AM-4PM | 183 Commercial Blvd Blakeslee, PA 18610 | TheWasteAuthority. com570-643-6100 [email protected] Residents only |
| Philadelphia County City of Philadelphia Streets Department | From October 1 to March 31: Monday – Saturday 8AM-6PM From April 1 to September 30: Monday – Saturday 6AM-8PM | Sanitation Convenience Centers Multiple locations, see link | Philadelphia Streets Sanitation 215-686-5560 [email protected] Residents only |
This table contains a list of one-time waste tire collection events sponsored by counties, municipalities or county/municipal authorities.
| County / Operator | Date(s) | Location | Contact |
| Crawford County French Creek Council of G | 9/24/22 | Crawford County Fairgrounds | |
| Erie County Girard Township | 9/10/22 | 10411 Route 98 Edinboro, PA 16412 | |
| Huntingdon County Keep PA Beautiful | 9/17/22 | Huntingdon County Fairgrounds Fairgrounds Rd.  Huntingdon, PA 16652 | 814-627-1626 |
| Luzerne County Luzerne County | 10/8/22 | Hanover Area School District Junior Senior High School | |
| Luzerne County Luzerne County | 10/1/22 | Hazelton Area School District Drums Elementary/Middle School Parking Lot | |
List of Waste Tire Processors
Recycling Markets Search - Locate outlets for various recyclable materials. Under material type, select "Rubber (Tires)", then click on search.
Waste tire recycling report from the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Joint State Government Commission: Waste Tire Recycling and Reuse in Pennsylvania: An Analysis of the Industry, Markets and State Use, Including Rubber Modified Asphalt (PDF, 2007)
Note - No grants are available at this time.
For additional information on waste tires, contact DEP at 717-787-7381 or EP, Waste.
Tires are one of the main and most obvious "consumables" of any car. At the same time, there are more than 42 million cars in Russia alone. With trucks and special equipment - about 59.7 million. This means that at least a million tons of used car tires are thrown into landfills every year. In this context, it is no longer a means of ensuring contact with the surface, but simply hazardous waste.
Formally, automobile tires belong to IV hazard class waste, that is, low-hazard waste.
But do not underestimate their danger - improperly disposed tires cause significant damage to the environment.
Under natural conditions, a discarded or buried tire takes hundreds of years to decompose. Upon contact with moisture, toxic organic compounds are washed out of them. Tires partially filled with water become breeding grounds for rats and blood-sucking insects. Millions of tires thrown into landfills are an environmental disaster in itself, even without taking into account the area occupied, therefore, over a good hundred years, mankind has developed several ways to dispose of this type of waste.
The first method involves the use of whole car tires - for example, to protect slopes from erosion, soundproof barriers along highways, and safety barriers for auto racing tracks. In the seventies of the last century, even artificial reefs were made from used tires! So, in 1972, the so-called Osborne Reef was created off the coast of Florida by the BARINC (Broward Artificial Reef) group with the support of Goodyear.
More than two million tires were sunk to create breeding grounds for fish and oysters. The effect, unfortunately, turned out to be the opposite - the steel straps that fix the tires quickly rotted. Tires began to be thrown onto the beaches, they began to destroy neighboring coral reefs. For the last fifteen years, tires have been taken back - including with the use of army divers.
The second popular way to dispose of tires is incineration (including for energy purposes). In most cases, it is such disposal that causes maximum damage to nature and human health. The fact is that during combustion, not only zinc and sulfur oxides are emitted into the atmosphere, but also dioxins, which are classified as superecotoxicants of the 1st hazard class. These substances have mutagenic, carcinogenic and cumulative properties. In terms of toxicity, dioxins surpass almost any known poison, and, moreover, they do not decompose for decades, accumulating in the upper soil layer, as well as in all environmental objects, including plants and animals.
Burning tires in high-temperature (1200-2800 degrees Celsius) furnaces of modern cement or pulp and paper plants is also not a panacea - according to many experts, with this method of disposal, dioxin emissions into the atmosphere are also present, albeit to a lesser extent. Installing highly efficient cleaning systems to trap harmful gases makes burning tires for energy unprofitable.
Another method of recycling used tires is pyrolysis. Tires are loaded into special reactors, where at high temperature in the absence of oxygen the product decomposes into components (carbon black, pyrolysis gas, as well as liquid fractions suitable for use as heating oil). The gas released during the process can also be used to produce fuel. This technology is demanding on equipment, and until recently was considered insufficiently effective. However, modern pyrolysis plants are already devoid of such shortcomings.
The most cost-effective is the mechanical grinding of tires.
When using this method, rubber and other polymers that make up the tire are obtained in the form of dispersed materials. The resulting crumb rubber takes on a new life in the form of various rubber products, such as car mats, speed bumps, playground surfaces, and so on. The most finely dispersed rubber crumb is used as an additive (from 5 to 20%) in the rubber compound in the production of new tires. There are several ways to mechanically shred tires based on different physical principles, such as using high impact velocities, low temperatures, or high pressures.
Despite the fact that in Russia today there are at least several large and a large number of small plants for recycling car tires using one of the listed industrial methods, these industries are far from being fully loaded. The reason is simple - most tires are disposed of in a simple and illegal way - throwing them into a landfill or burning them.
That's why the correct disposal and recycling of tires is one of the most important priorities in protecting human health and the environment.
A new project from Nokian Tires, the Nokian Eco Challenge, serves this very purpose. As part of the project, the company assumes obligations to eliminate illegal tire dumps.
The mechanics is simple - anyone can submit an application for the liquidation of a landfill, on their own behalf or from an organization. As part of the project, tire dumps with a volume of at least 10 tons are eliminated, which, in terms of tires, is about 250 truck or 1,000 passenger tires. All collected tires will be recycled.
By the way, the Yaroslavl authorities came up with a similar initiative almost simultaneously. So, at the Skokovo landfill near Yaroslavl, a plant for crushing waste and recycling old tires is to be built this year. We believe that this is the right approach - without competent sorting and recycling of waste, there is no need to talk about protecting the environment and our health!
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How to dispose of unwanted tires Modern tire recycling methods are really very good and presented in a rather pleasant variety. Immediately it is worth noting three categories of recycling, which are the most popular and justified:
Buying tires is quite simple and it is being done in increasing volumes, which also makes the issue of recycling more developed. Summer tires, even tires and rims do not just disappear.
Buying summer tires is quite easy for everyone, so you need to understand that their proper disposal allows you to use their elements to create tennis courts, helipads, playgrounds for children, and so on. As has been repeatedly noted, even a small layer of rubber significantly improves the properties of the coating, and also protects against injuries, which is not superfluous on various playgrounds.
Note that the harm of rubber is difficult to overestimate, therefore it is difficult to overestimate the benefits of recycling tires. The point is the chemical composition, as well as the fact that tires will decompose in nature for more than a hundred years, which is just a colossal time for such a dangerous material. Usually, when tires end up in landfills, they can catch fire, stay there for too long, end up in unnecessary disposal lots, and be incinerated in the wrong way. Tire recycling is a complex process that must take into account the requirements of the most complex scientific developments .
If this was not done, the results of the creation of tires will turn out to be very harmful for the Earth. There should be no reason for you to ignore the need to dispose of tires correctly, as it is too dangerous for the environment, regardless of the volumes of those lots that are disposed of incorrectly.
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