Assessing Your Local Tire Recycling Market

Commercial Space
Land use laws, environmental codes, and local zoning will impact your choice of locations. You will need to ensure that you have enough land to house your tire recycling equipment line and store waste tires and recycling end products. Commercial sites should have easy access for trucks that will not disturb neighboring areas.

On your property, you will need to develop a plan for managing and responding to environmental hazards. Anywhere tires are stockpiled, mosquitos can be a problem. Mosquitos often lay their eggs in the shady pools around the perimeter of tire piles. Storing tires in the sun and rotating them frequently can help minimize the problem. The use of recycled granule and powder has several application sectors.

Tire fires are difficult to extinguish and produce toxic chemicals that pollute the air, soil, and groundwater. They can burn for days, weeks, or even months. Minimizing the risk of tire fires starting and having a plan for putting them out as quickly as possible is imperative to stay in business. It may be necessary to coordinate efforts with local fire authorities and to have sand on hand to smother fires that do start.