Greenshire Tyre Recycling Centre Services

Recycling A New Life For Tyres in Leeds & York

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.

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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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