Old Tires Don’t Simply Fade Away

Your Regional Recycling District is also in the waste tire recycling business. Waste tires are old tires that can no longer be safely used on vehicles. The district’s contract for waste tire loading, transporting, and process recycling is with Davis Rubber Co., a company that has been in business in Arkansas since 1924.

Waste-tire recycling is a major business in the state, and a major business opportunity. The opportunity exists in the solving of the problem of illegal tire dumping and waste-tire collection from individuals, business, and industry. Agri business, trucking, heavy machinery, timber, and passenger tire use is growing in Arkansas as our state grows. And with that comes the need to safely and continuously collect, transport, and process waste tires for recycling. Without adequate funding, waste tires stack up causing public health hazards. Tire dumps and waste-tire facilities unable to properly process old tires can catch fire. Plus, they breed disease-carrying mosquitoes and attract rats. Waste-tire recycling, if properly funded, can provide recycled tire material for steel manufacturing, manufacturing fuel, architectural mulch, construction embankments, and even rubber-modified asphalt.

We’ll tell you more in the coming weeks about waste tires in Arkansas.