Rco2 Material Reuse

Every Truck Tire Contains 22 Gallons of Oil

Those twenty-two gallons do not include the energy used in extraction, production, and shipping; meaning tires represent a significant carbon footprint. While tires are extremely durable and versatile they are primarily dumped in landfills, contributing to a growing waste problem, 300 million tires end up in landfills in the US every year. 

Rco² helps our customers manage their waste needs while pioneering the best methods for reuse and up-cycling, if you are a tire shop, fleet maintenance yard, or other business in need of waste truck tire disposal please contact us to schedule service. We firmly believe that all of our consumer products need to be reduced, reused, and then recycled. Tire reuse and retreading is always the most carbon efficient option. We serve  the largest tire market in the world, Southern California, with truck tire disposal and a quality resale selection.We offer wholesale only and we invite global buyers, local tire shops, and retreaders to explore our post-consumer truck tire selection.

When reuse is no longer viable, scrap and waste tires can be cut and molded into new products like marine & loading dock bumpers this model of up-cycling tires in their original form has a significantly lower carbon footprint than rubber crumb operations. Whole scrap tires can also be used for various engineering projects ranging from creative home design like earthships, to major civil engineering projects like the use of baled tires as subgrade for road construction. 

Advantages of Tire Recycling

Tire Up-Cycling

Transforming our consumer goods into products we already use is the best way to preserve resources for the future and reduce our waste today.

Tires are durable and versatile. Cut, punched, and modified tires have agricultural, marine, trucking and construction applications.

Rubber Chipping

When a tire is no longer suitable for reuse or up-cycling they can be chipped into rubber mulch.  The process requires no water and has no airborne particulate byproduct.

Chipped tires can be used for playground mulch or pressed into soft play surfaces, running tracks, and flooring tiles.

Playground and Athletic Fields

EPA studies have shown it to be non-toxic for children and the environment.

Unlike wood chips, rubber mulch cannot host bacteria and does not require maintenance or replacement.

Road Asphalt and Subgrade

Crumb rubber is now a mandated additive in regrading asphalt in California. It provides give and durability, reducing the cost and need for road maintenance.

Alternatively, whole baled tires are also used as a subgrade in road and bridge building.