Recycling : The Best Ways to Recycle Tires

Recycling tires keeps litter out of the road, and recycled tires can be mulched up or used as boiler fuel at manufacturing plants. Learn about the value of incinerating tires with help from a solid waste planning engineer and recycling program coordinator in this free video on recycling tires.

Expert: Lynn Bestul
Bio: Lynn Bestul is the solid waste planning engineer and recycling program coordinator for the New Hanover Department of Environmental Management in Wilmington, N.C.
Filmmaker: Reel Media LLC

[lakeyshacoles]

Will a waste centers pay someone for the tires? How can I find the facilities that do this?

[tangoinasia]

we recicle tires to fuel oil using pyrolysis system. prity good and gov. environmentalists are very happy with us too. 20t of tire a day...
Next year we have to double the production.

[mfumich]

If the rubber from old tires can be used to make new tires and it takes less energy to do so, why aren’t ALL old tires recycled into new tires? The demand for new tires is not going to decrease anytime soon.

[mibars]

There must be a mistake he probably wanted to say thousands not hundereds, taht would make 14.000 BTU / pound... That's 32, 6 MJ/kg (diesel fuel is 43 MJ/kg, so that's A LOT)

[GrandiFloraRo]

garbage 4500btu
tires 1400btu ???
is there any mistake? that's what i hear...

[tshorse]

yeah, they charge u up the ass to get rid of used ones when you buy new ones. we always get screwed. they should use a diff product than rubber. rubber on hiways get to the water source after it rains and causes more hazard to environment

[charliewood]

This guy talks out of both sides of his face a tire laying on the side of the road leaks oil into the ground but grind them up and you can use them for mulch WHAT

[ner]

Tire recyclers are paid to take scrap tires.