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 submit 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.

Numerous transport companies, auto repair shops, garage cooperatives and car owners inevitably face the problem of disposing of used tires. Old tires are thrown into the nearest landfill or burned, releasing dangerous carcinogens into the atmosphere. The period of natural decomposition of a tire is at least 100 years, and in the places where they are burned, the soil does not bear fruit for another 10 years.

Used tires are classified as hazardous waste. But at the same time, they can be used as raw materials for the production of car mats, furniture wheels and wheelchairs, waterproofing and roofing materials, as well as many other products that accompany our everyday life. Recycled tires produce crumb rubber that has increased elasticity, abrasion resistance and chemical inertness. Also, do not forget that 80% of tires consist of specially processed oil, non-renewable natural resource. Therefore, for the purpose of recycling and proper disposal, a specialized collection of car tires has been organized in Moscow.

How to get rid of worn tires

At such points, worn-out tires of cars, tractors and other vehicles are accepted for disposal and recycling. Used tires can be recycled at tire service centers. For each wheel, the owner of a vehicle must pay 50-100 rubles. (depending on tire size). Tire workers earn practically nothing from this; the disposal fee covers transportation costs, since the accumulated tires then need to be transported to a tire recycling plant. There are two main waste tire recycling plants in the Moscow region.

Car tires

Where to take car tires for recycling in Moscow?

It is not easy to hand over tires for guaranteed recycling in the capital, but it is possible! The difficulty with tires is as follows:

• transporting tires over long distances to these very rare factories is unprofitable (tires weigh a lot, they are not packed tightly into transport, that is, partly air is transported)

Therefore, if a collection of tires is organized somewhere, it is usually for the money of the dealer (50-100 rubles/piece), which covers transportation costs. But there is another way to look at this: while we do not have a recycling tax in our country (that is, the price of a product does not include the cost of its further disposal), this amount can be considered a voluntary contribution from an environmentally responsible car owner.

Typically, large retailers and chain tire shops accept tires.

And if you have studded tires, you will have to pay 150-200 rubles! It turns out that Russian tire recycling factories really don’t like to accept studded tires, because in this case, all the “studs” must be removed before disposal. Manually.

Where can I recycle tires? Tire collection points in Moscow and the Moscow region:

• map of tire collection points in Russia from EcoTireSoyuz (association of tire recyclers). Some items are paid. The card is working in test mode.
• map of tire collection points in Moscow and the Moscow region for the Dmitrov RTI plant
• map of tire collection points in Moscow and the Moscow region for the Foundation for Rational Environmental Management (you can also call them hotline tel. 8 800 700-35-06)
• map of the Moscow Region Government for the acceptance of tires
• list for receiving tires from the company "Oris Prom"
• "Ekorezina", Moscow, Kashirskoe highway 17 k5 s3, contact number 89154804844

How to organize tire collection in your city?

Can be organized in any city thanks to the Environmental Management Fund. They will remove the tires themselves, the main thing is to collect at least 20 cubic meters of tires (the tires must be located at one site accessible to trucks).

If you know where else in Moscow and the Moscow region they accept tires, then let us know: [email protected]

Why recycle tires:

• a car tire will decompose for hundreds of years, releasing harmful substances into the soil, water and atmosphere;
• Mosquitoes love to live in old tires (yes, the same ones that will bite you later). And old tire dumps are also loved by rats;
• if a landfill with car tires catches fire, the ground and air in the area instantly become poisoned;
• for the production of one tire for passenger car On average, 35 liters of oil are required, and when recycled, 1 ton of old tires produces 600 kg of material, which can then be used to make new wheels.

Every year the order in the world falls into disrepair 7 million tons car tires. So - only 23% of them are recycled. Where do the rest go? They remain on the ground and poison it.

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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 MGUP Promotkhody, which owns this point, said that the institution is forced to take fees from clients in order to cover transportation costs, because processing plants, where tires are then sent, accept tires at best case scenario for free. “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 materials 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 in regular waste containers is an administrative offense that 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.