Tires

• Car & passenger truck tires – $1.00 per tire for residents, $4.00 per tire for businesses
• Semi-truck and trailer tires – $5.00 per tire (residents & businesses)

Tires By the Numbers

Over 242 million passenger and truck tires are discarded annually in the United States. Additionally, approximately 32 million tires are re-treaded and an estimated 10 million are reused each year. It is estimated that 7 percent of the discarded tires are currently being recycled into new products, 11 percent are converted to energy, and nearly 78 percent are being landfilled, stockpiled, or illegally dumped, with the remainder being exported.

Don’t Toss Your Tires!

Landfilling is a poor management option for scrap tires. Whole tires take up large amounts of valuable space and may float or rise in a landfill, coming to the surface and puncturing the landfill cover. Many landfills ban whole tires or require shredding prior to disposal.

Stockpiled scrap tires, estimated at two to three billion tires nationally, pose potentially serious health and safety problems. Whole tires serve as breeding grounds for disease carrying mosquitoes and rodents. Uncontrolled tire piles are fire hazards. Once ignited, tire piles can burn out of control for months, producing acrid black smoke and a hazardous oily residue.

Widespread illegal dumping poses the same problems associated with stockpiling. Millions of abandoned scrap tires are found in streams and rivers, ravines and roadsides throughout the United States.