About rubber & tyres scrap
Used tyres are a genuine environmental problem — they trap water, breed mosquitoes and burn badly — which is why disposal is regulated and why open burning is an offence. Depending on condition and volume, a tyre lot may earn a small amount, break even, or carry a disposal charge. We tell you which before collecting rather than after.
Industrial rubber is often more useful: conveyor belting, rubber sheet, moulding waste and gaskets from manufacturing can be granulated into crumb rubber for flooring, mats and road surfacing. Clean, single-type rubber waste from a factory is worth more than a mixed pile of worn tyres.
Steel-belted truck tyres contain recoverable steel wire, which is separated during processing. That is handled by the recycler, not on your site.