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Where can you sell old tires for money? Where to put old tires and how to use them in the garden. Accepting rubber for recycling for money is a business that promises good dividends

Most of our compatriots still do not know the answer to this question.

And this is not surprising - environmental thinking is not instilled in our country, and the authorities do not pay much attention to the problem of waste disposal (although there are exceptions). Meanwhile, you must understand that you cannot simply throw tires into a vacant lot or into the forest. CATEGORICALLY. And not only because it is uncivilized. Remember - a car tire will decompose (and release harmful substances into the soil and atmosphere) for 100-120 years! That is, your great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren may suffer from a discarded tire...

Besides:

  • Mosquitoes love to live in old tires (yes, the same ones that will bite you later). Rats also love old tire dumps.
  • If a tire dump catches fire, the ground and air in the area instantly become poisoned.
  • To make one tire for a passenger car, on average, 35 liters of oil are required.
  • When recycling 1 ton of old tires, 600 kg of material is obtained, which can then be used to make new wheels.

And one more thing to think about. Every year, about 7 million tons of car tires fall into disrepair around the world. So - only 23% of them are recycled. Where do the rest go? They remain on the earth and pollute it (to say the least).

And here is an extract from the Russian “Code of the Russian Federation on Administrative Offences” (Article 8.2). Failure to comply with environmental and sanitary-epidemiological requirements when handling production and consumption waste, substances that destroy the ozone layer, or other hazardous substances entails a fine on citizens in the amount of 1-2 thousand rubles; for officials - 10-30 thousand rubles; for persons carrying out entrepreneurial activities without forming a legal entity - 30-50 thousand rubles or suspension of activities for up to 90 days; for legal entities - 100-250 thousand rubles or suspension of activities for up to 90 days.

Paying for consciousness

Where to put the old “rubber”? Just 10-15 years ago, getting an answer to this question was not easy. But an investigation by Auto Mail.Ru showed that now in large Russian cities it is possible to “culturally” get rid of car tires without any problems. In most cases, however, it is not the state that should be thanked for this, but private business that builds recycling plants. There are several ways to get rid of tires, but in most cases they are converted into so-called crumb rubber. Which can then be used in the production of the same wheels. Rubber-bitumen mastics, special slabs for railway crossings, and paving slabs are also made from the crumbs. Do you like modern playgrounds with “soft” surfaces that protect kids from injury? They are also from “wheels”.

As a rule, city authorities do not pay attention to the problem of waste disposal. A pleasant exception is St. Petersburg. In the Northern capital there is a whole network of so-called “Ecomobiles” that accept old tires, batteries, batteries, and so on. And completely free. Five collection points are stationary, plus mobile “dumpsters” run around the city. In addition, in St. Petersburg you can take old tires to large retail chains that sell car wheels. Moreover, we repeat once again, in most cases they will be accepted absolutely free of charge.

There are no problems with getting rid of “rubber” in Moscow either - tires are accepted by more or less large sellers and “network” tire workshops. True, this is for money - for each wheel the owner will be asked for 50-100 rubles. Well, what do you want - this is Moscow, the capital... True, store employees assure that they do not make money from this (hard to believe), and they only take money for the “delivery” of old tires to the disposal site. And if you have studded tires, you will have to pay 150-200 rubles! It turns out that Russian tire processing plants really don’t like to accept studded wheels. Indeed, in this case, before disposal it is necessary... to remove all the “studs”. Manually.

In fact, the need to pay for recycling is what angers many motorists. Why, since I can throw them away completely free of charge? Alas, the Moscow authorities (unlike those in St. Petersburg) do not answer this question. Although the capital has its own “Ecomobiles”, which belong to the non-profit “Fund for Rational Use of Natural Resources”. But they come out for free only if you have accumulated at least a thousand (!) old tires, and besides, the reception is paid - 30 rubles per wheel (“tire loading by the customer”). You can, of course, come to the processing plant yourself (there are several of them in the Moscow region), but for most residents of the capital this is, to put it mildly, inconvenient. So all that remains is to appeal to the conscience of Moscow drivers, because throwing tires into a trash bin does not solve the problem of disposal.

“There really is a problem with recycling tires in Moscow. There are no clear formulations regarding such disposal in the law. And now almost anyone can leave their tires in the middle of the road. And at best he will get off with a fine. A small part reaches the factories,” independent ecologist Nina Dolgikh told an Auto Mail.Ru correspondent.

But we hope the situation will change soon. “We have already adopted a law that introduces a number of mandatory payments allocated for disposal. As soon as the corresponding government decree is adopted, the cost of tires will also include the cost of disposal. And specialized organizations that will recycle tires will receive money from the federal budget. In this case, self-regulation will arise. Everyone will start chasing tires. And we will calmly leave them at the point where they were exchanged for me, and the companies will pick them up. This is the optimal solution. I don’t see any point in increasing fines for throwing tires away. This is a dubious proposal. We should not impose additional fines, we should create conditions where it is profitable to take this tire,” says Deputy Chairman of the Russian State Duma Committee on Natural Resources Maxim Shingarkin.

Some of the collection points for old tires in Moscow:

SEAD
Shop-service in Zhulebino st. Privolnaya, 70, building 1
Shop-service in Vykhino st. Veshnyakovskaya, 20B (free recycling when purchasing wheels and tire fitting)

JSC
Warehouse store on Mozhaiskoe highway st. Vitebskaya, 9
Shop-service on Rublevskoe highway st. Krylatskaya, 35

SZAO
Shop-service in Mitino st. Generala Beloborodova, building 40, building 2
Tire center in Tushino Pokhodny proezd, 1 (tire purchase possible)

NEAD
Shop-service on Yaroslavskoe highway Yaroslavskoe highway, 59
Tire center on Alekseevskaya Prospekt Mira, 95, building 4 (purchase of tires possible)
Tire center on Alekseevskaya street. Olminskogo, building 6 (tire purchase possible)

SAO
Shop-service on Leningradskoye Shosse st. Belomorskaya, 40
Shop-service on the street. Dubninskaya st. Dubninskaya, 83a, building 1
Shop-service on Altufevskoye highway Altufevskoye highway, 19

VAO
Shop-service on the street. Preobrazhensky Val st. Preobrazhensky Val, 25A

If the tires have served their useful life and it has become unsafe to drive on them, the owner replaces them with a new set. Removed tires are no longer needed, and they also take up a lot of space in the garage, not to mention the apartment. They need to go somewhere. Recycling costs money, sending them to nature or burning them costs even more money in the form of a fine. And the owner wants to find better options.

Reception of old tires

A good option is to place an unnecessary set of tires at a collection point for old car tires. And if you manage to sell them, it will be a double success: getting rid of garbage and earning money for beer.

Where can I return it for free?

In cities there are collection points for old tires. The official addresses of points providing such services, even in Moscow, are no more than one and a half dozen. In cities with a population of 200-500 thousand inhabitants there will be no more than two or three of them. There are options for free collection of tires at tire shops.

Tire collection is often organized by recycling plants, if there are any in the city. This service is free for car enthusiasts. Transport and other organizations with the formation of a legal entity will have to pay.

Where can I sell it for money?

It’s unlikely that you’ll be able to turn in your tires and get a couple of hundred rubles for it. There are no such points in the country. The option with rubber processing enterprises that pay is not a “passable” option for the car enthusiast. There are two reasons for this.

  • The company accepts tires only in large quantities from any suppliers.
  • Any batches of rubber are accepted, but by agreement with interested persons and enterprises (tire workshops, car services and unofficial tire collection points).

You can hand over your tires and pay money for it to the same tire repair shops and unofficial collection points. Tires are also handed over to recycling points, where there are tariffs for services.

IMPORTANT! You should not get rid of tires by transporting them “out of sight”: to the nearest forest belt, to a garbage container, to a landfill behind garages. This garbage takes hundreds of years to decompose, and the decomposition products are toxic. We need to think about our health and the health of future generations.

Disposal methods

Tires are disposed of in the following ways:

  • burial;
  • burning;
  • crushing and crumbling.

IMPORTANT! Tires must be burned in furnaces, and “burial grounds” must be established in places permitted by law.

The process of crumb formation after crushing rubber occurs under the influence of high temperature. If powder is needed, then cryotechnology is used. Crumbs are used in the production of roofing materials, shoes, tires, and in road construction. A sorbent is produced from coarse crumbs that absorbs oil products from the water surface and soil.

Options for use on the farm

For those living in a village or having a farm outside the city, old tires can serve as:

  • bird drinkers;
  • a swimming pool for ducks and geese;
  • flower beds;
  • water barrels;
  • benches in the garden;
  • swings for children;
  • garden furniture.

If you use your imagination, a lot is possible.

Is it possible to create a recycling plant: new life for old rubber

For those looking for a niche business, setting up a tire recycling plant is a win-win idea. If there is enough capital for large-scale production with a cycle from processing raw materials to obtaining new rubber products, then such a business will never fail.

People shouldn't be thinking about how to solve issues like selling their own tires. The main task is to preserve nature. There is no need to carry tires further into the forest so that they poison the soil and air in it. It would be better if they were recycled and given a new life.

In the capital, it is impossible to hand over used car tires for free. There is only one collection point for used tires in the whole of Moscow, which does not serve its customers free of charge. You can also leave old wheels for money at a tire shop, but not every establishment provides such a service.

An attempt to hand over worn-out car tires in a civilized manner brought Muscovite Vladimir Kuznetsov to journalists. He told MN that it is impossible to do this in a metropolis for free. “I honestly wanted to recycle my old tires, but it turned out that this was a big problem,” admitted Vladimir Kuznetsov, owner of Nissan. First, the car enthusiast turned to a tire shop located in his area, but they refused to accept the tires. In the second tire service - too. In the third, it turned out that you need to pay 280 rubles for each.

In theory, tires can be taken to plants that recycle them. In Moscow, this is done by the Tushinsky Machine-Building Plant (TMZ). However, MN was informed there that they only accept tires in large quantities, several tens of tons.

There is only one tire collection point in Moscow; it is located at Ostapovsky Proezd, building 10, in Tekstilshchiki. They charge about 130 rubles for one passenger car tire. Mikhail Vinogradov, deputy director for the operation of the special base of the Moscow State Unitary Enterprise Promotkhody, which owns this point, said that the institution is forced to charge clients a fee in order to cover transportation costs, because processing plants, where the tires are then sent, accept tires for free at best. “As long as the rubber market is not developed, no one wants to buy it. Tires can now be called waste rather than recyclables,” complained Vinogradov.

It is interesting that the TMZ website published a whole series of tiles that are made from crumb rubber obtained from tire recycling - these are paving, stair and floor tiles, lining of sewer manholes, tram and railway crossings. Crumb rubber is also added to asphalt; it is used to make surfaces for outdoor sports fields, speed bumps, etc.

Vinogradov noted that the main clients of the collection point are now transport companies that bring tires in large quantities, but these are rare guests. “Motorists prefer to throw tires in trash cans,” the deputy director believes. He explained that Promotkhody also cleans containers for bulky waste. Very often, among other rubbish, there are old tires. “Tires cannot be taken to regular landfills, so we have to collect and dispose of them at our own expense,” summed up Mikhail Vinogradov.

The words of the deputy director of the special base were confirmed by Vladimir Kuznetsov. “I drove them to the dealership for a week - smelly, rubbery, dead tires. I thought about welding them onto the roof, perhaps as a sign of protest, and then threw them in the trash heap,” he said.

Meanwhile, recycling tires into regular garbage containers is an administrative offense, which is punishable by a fine for individuals in the amount of 5 thousand rubles, for legal entities - in the amount of 20 thousand rubles.

Alexey Kiselev, head of the toxic program of Greenpeace Russia, said that rubber recycling is a costly process that, as a rule, does not pay off. “It’s not very fair that the burden falls on a private individual,” Kiselev believes. He noted that in the European Union, motorists hand over tires absolutely free of charge. Tire manufacturers pay for recycling there. Perhaps such a rule will soon be introduced in Russia. In October 2011, the State Duma held the first reading of amendments to the federal law “On Production and Consumption Waste,” which provide for financing the recycling industry at the expense of product manufacturers.

Order

We offer our services for the removal and disposal of used car tires with their further processing. If you are an individual or a commercial enterprise and want to donate your used tires, contact our company. Our company has a network of enterprises operating our tire recycling equipment throughout the country. We provide the entire package of necessary documents for reporting, conclude contracts for work on a permanent basis, carry out removal (transportation) of tires, have licenses for processing and disposal of all types of tires and other products containing rubber.

The Alfa-SPK company is a manufacturer of equipment for the disposal and recycling of tires. Over the entire period of work, our company has supplied a large number of rubber waste recycling plants. In almost every region there are companies using our equipment that are ready to accept used tires for recycling. Contact our company and we will be able to provide you with contacts of tire recycling companies. Acceptance of tires for recycling is carried out both with individuals and with enterprises engaged in commercial activities. It doesn’t matter if you are in Moscow (Moscow region) or in another region of Russia, we work throughout the country with full provision of closing documents on tire disposal for regulatory authorities.

Price and conditions for accepting tires for recycling

Anyone can recycle tires. We work with companies engaged in commercial activities on the terms of concluding contracts and providing our services for the removal and transportation of waste tires. The price for tire recycling depends on the volume of tires returned, dimensions, collection services and other factors.

Tire recycling rates

If you are an individual or a company that has decided to independently bring used tires for recycling to our tire collection points, we are ready to accept your tires for free. For questions regarding free tire acceptance, please contact our managers.

Tire recycling

According to Federal Law No. 89 “on production and consumption waste,” all enterprises that generate rubber waste, as well as companies producing and importing tires, are required to pay an environmental fee to the federal budget at a rate of 7,109 rubles. per ton of tires. They can also take up the disposal of used tires themselves, including entrusting this to contractors or an established industry union. The model of independent provision of waste disposal by manufacturers and importers through the creation of an industry union has proven itself well abroad - when it was implemented in various countries, the share of recycled tires increased several times over several years.

Tire recycling

Today, recycling tires has a number of advantages as opposed to burying or neutralizing tires at landfills. The number of private and commercial vehicles in our country is growing rapidly from year to year, as a result of which the number of worn tires increases many times over. This problem is relevant and is under government control. For example, since 2018, it is completely prohibited to dispose of tires by burying them in the ground, and those enterprises that processed tires by pyrolysis were also banned. An exception is made only for those companies that have an environmental certificate for pyrolysis plants. Today, priority will be given to those companies that recycle tires mechanically. This method of tire recycling has proven itself throughout the world as the most effective and environmentally friendly method for recycling used automobile rubber. Accordingly, obtaining a license for the transportation, storage and processing of tires, if you have equipment for processing car tires mechanically, is much easier. Also, enterprises that process tires by mechanically crushing tires are exempt from paying taxes on harmful environmental impacts.

The result obtained from tire recycling and disposal

When we accept tires for recycling, we process them, obtaining secondary material in the form of: crumb rubber, metal cord and textile fiber. Each of the resulting products is reused, which is absolute confirmation that our tire processing (disposal) plants are environmentally friendly and do not cause any harm to the environment. By working with us and recycling your used tires (without throwing them away), you can be sure that you did the right thing and helped our planet be much cleaner!

  • Metal cord is used for steel production and smelting, adding to concrete, etc.
  • Textile cord is used for insulation of houses, garages, cellars, attics, as well as for plugging wells.
  • Crumb rubber is used to produce rubber floor coverings, underlay football fields, add to asphalt and many other purposes.

Process of recycling and disposal of tires and tires

Tire recycling equipment

For additional information, concluding an agreement for the disposal of used tires, rubber waste, as well as other questions that arise, fill out the request form or contact the company’s office for additional consultations. We hope for mutually beneficial and fruitful cooperation!