Greenshire Recycling Centre
in Leeds: Reduce Tyre Pollution
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Recycling Tyres For A Greener Future

Tyre Collection

About Us

Greenshire Recycling Centre: Tyre Collection, Disposal & Recycling in Leeds & York

Greenshire is a UK-based tyre collection, disposal and tyre recycling company located in Leeds. We have a fully-serviced recycling centre ready to take in scrape and end-of-life tyres and recycle them into raw materials.

We aspire to leave a green and eco-friendly impact on the planet. We focus our efforts on tyre recycling to reduce pollution and promote the sustainability of the planet’s finite materials by recycling rubber back to raw materials that can be used for plenty of other products.

Mission

Each year, around 1 billion tyres are being scraped and gathered in huge landfills that attract mosquitoes and snakes, pose a big risk of fire, and other hazards that hinder the quality of life for those who work on-site and those who live nearby.

Shockingly, out of those 1 billion, 130 million tyres are produced in the GCC area and only 4% of that total is recycled. Additionally, another 50 million are produced in the UK annually, and while the recycling number is 34% we still believe we can do better.

By providing a comprehensive tyre recycling solution and putting our recycling centre in Leeds in service of the public, we aim to leverage those recycling percentages and contribute to the cycle of sustainability.

Recycling Services

Recycling A New Life For Tyres

Tyre Collection & Disposal

We can help you reduce the waste, cost, pollution and health hazards by taking the end-of-life and scrap tyres off your hands. We can collect tyres from your facility or landfill, and manage their disposal and recycling in our recycling centre. We collect and recycle tyres from the commercial and industrial sectors in Leeds, Harrogate, Selby, Kirklees, Wakefield, York, Sheffield, Bradford and other Yorkshire areas.

We operate under a fully licenced waste management and disposal service that is efficient and environmentally safe for both carrying the tyres off your grounds and recycling them later on.

Your scrap tyres are no longer a problem. Give us a call, send us an email, or fill out our form below to book a date for collection, and leave the rest to us.

Please note that we can’t accept buried tyres or tyres mixed with general waste at the moment.

Tyre Recycling: Raw Materials for Industry

Our recycling service includes taking the tyres for disposal and recycling them into raw materials. Tyres scraped and shredded can be used as fuel for a lot of industries. They can also be used for a variety of raw materials such as rubber, cement, garden mulch, landfills building materials, pulps and paper mills materials, electric utilities, industrial boilers, and other useful materials for various applications.

The Recycling Process

1. Shredding

We start by loading the tyres into our shredders and cutting them into pieces We’re able to process car, truck, and OTR tires into rough shreds for disposal. This leaves us with a lot of pieces that are afterwards sorted into groups and used for different processes.

2. Grinding (Liberation)

This process separates usable fractions from commingled materials. We can use it to recycle tires, wires, cable, and electronic waste. We start by shredding the desired material into small pieces then leaving them to float in a vat of heated water. The water causes the pieces to swell and float. The usable fractions will rise to the surface and can be skimmed off to be taken to the next phase for processing.

3. Granulation

This is the third phase, and probably the largest. Granulation, in general, is the process of breaking down a large piece of material into smaller pieces. For tyres, this means we’re taking the resulting rubber, heating it up, putting it under large pressure, and breaking it down into smaller pieces that are easier to handle and use for creating new tyres or be used as fuel or rubber products.

4. Fine Processing

We take the larger pieces of tyres (around 6-8 mm) and turn them into an even finer mesh of around 177 microns. This means that no matter how small the pieces are we can recycle them to ensure we’re not leaving any leftovers behind on our way to achieve zero waste from our own recycling. It’s a cost-effective and environmentally friendly way to process and use all the rubber fines without letting anything go to waste.

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