Presence Established October 1997

Beginning in July of 1998, Waste Recovery West, Inc (WRW).  purchased Waste Recovery, Inc.'s (WRI) California and Southern Oregon operations. Together, the operations have recycled, recovered and/or properly disposed of over 33 million scrap tires.   Included in these numbers are approximately 1.5 million scrap tires from stockpile cleanups where the team was contracted to remove, transport, and recycle or dispose of the tires from at least 13 previously permitted, illegal, and/or indiscriminate piles in California and Southern Oregon.

WRW provides scrap tire collection and processing services throughout California and Southern Oregon.  WRW's management team offers 26 years of pioneering waste tire collection, processing, and market development.

Tire Disposal & Recycling, Inc.

Presence Established October 1982

Beginning in July of 1998, Tire Disposal and Recycling, Inc (TDR). purchased Waste Recovery, Inc.'s (WRI) Western tire collection operations. Waste Recovery had begun operating on a small Portland, Oregon industrial site in 1982 and grew to include collection activities in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho.

TDR opened a Clackamas, Oregon process site in 1998 to serve its’ newly acquired collection activities. In 2004, TDR moved to a permanent location in North Portland called the Rivergate District. The Rivergate District is a Port of Portland industrial park complex serving major Northwest distribution centers by providing great access to rail, truck, and marine services.

Together, the old WRI operations and the now TDR operations have recycled and/or properly disposed of over 136 million scrap tires since January of 1983. That amount is an equivalent of nearly 75% of the Northwest's regional scrap tire generation for the last 20 years, or the equivalent of more than 38 years total generation for the state of Oregon. Included in these numbers are approximately 10 million scrap tires from stockpile cleanups where the team was contracted to remove, transport, and recycle or dispose of the tires from at least 137 previously permitted, illegal, and/or indiscriminate piles in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. The Northwest's largest public liability cleanup of