How to Start a Tire Shredding Business From Scratch?

According to data from the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, over 1 billion tires reach the end of their service life globally each year. This equates to nearly 3 million waste tires requiring proper disposal daily. Without adequate management, these tires accumulate in landfills, causing environmental pollution, fire hazards, and a host of other issues. Against this backdrop, tire shredding not only solves the waste tire disposal challenge but also generates substantial economic returns, making it an entrepreneurial choice with both environmental value and commercial potential. This article provides a detailed breakdown of the entire process for starting a tire shredding business from scratch, covering foundational knowledge, preliminary preparations, operational practices, equipment maintenance, and business expansion. What is tire shredding and recycling? Tire shredding is a volume reduction technique primarily applied to end-of-life tires (ELTs) with tread depths below 1.6 cm (or 2/32 inch). Specialized equipment cuts these tires into smaller rubber fragments. This process effectively separates rubber, steel cords, fibers, and other components, laying the groundwork for subsequent recycling or reprocessing. Currently, the combined shredding and grinding process is the most widely adopted method in tire recycling, handling 87.5% of the world’s end-of-life tires. This approach efficiently processes...

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What is Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Recycling?

What is it? From Ancient Waste Paper to Modern Environmentalism: Why Recycling Remains an Eternal Challenge? Recycling Wisdom Hidden in History As early as the Song Dynasty, China developed a mature waste paper recycling system. During the Northern Song period, scholars and literati repurposed discarded book pages into pulp for papermaking. The “recycling paper method” documented in The Book of Crafts involved reusing old documents and ledgers. By the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Jiangnan region had developed a complete waste recycling industry chain. Merchants roamed streets and alleys collecting rags and scrap paper, processing them into recycled textiles and paper. This millennia-spanning cyclical wisdom resonates with modern environmental principles, reflecting the Chinese nation’s enduring pursuit of “making full use of resources.” The Essence of Recycling: The Three-Step Method That Never Changes Regardless of technological evolution, recycling consistently follows three core steps: first, collecting and separating recyclables from waste; second, converting them into raw materials through specific processes; and finally, processing them into new products. Based on the “degree of transformation,” this process gives rise to three core forms: Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Recycling. What Are the Three Types of Recycling?   Primary Primary recycling refers to a circular model...

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How to Start a Tire Recycling Business?

China discards over 290 million tires annually. These “black rubber giants” removed from their rims pile up in mountains, not only occupying vast amounts of land resources but also posing environmental challenges due to their difficulty in natural degradation. However, driven by environmental pressure and circular economy policies, this massive figure hides a trillion-dollar blue ocean market opportunity. Looking back at the industry’s development trajectory, from the late 1980s to the early 1990s, due to outdated recycling technology and limited environmental awareness, China’s tire recycling rate remained stagnant at a low 11%. At that time, most waste tires were either left exposed outdoors or simply buried, not only breeding mosquitoes and spreading pathogens but also causing residual chemicals to continuously pollute soil and groundwater. It wasn’t until after the year 2000, with breakthroughs in key technologies such as thermal cracking and fine rubber powder production, along with the introduction of policies like the “Guidelines for the Comprehensive Utilization of Waste Tires,” that the industry experienced explosive growth. By 2017, the recycling rate of waste tires had surged to 81.4%, successfully transforming “black pollution” into high-value-added products such as recycled rubber, rubber powder, and tire-derived fuel. Despite significant progress, the industry...

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What is crumb rubber used for?

What is Crumb Rubber? Crumb rubber is a finely ground material produced from end-of-life tyres, typically less than 1mm in size. This high-quality tyre-derived material (TDM) retains the resilience, elasticity and durability of the original rubber, making it ideal for a wide range of advanced industrial and infrastructure applications. Crumb rubber is made of recycled tires that are cleaned, ground into smaller pieces and screened to obtain uniform sizes. Crumb ranges from particles so tiny they resemble dust to pieces about one-half inch long, or a little smaller than a dime. Crumb rubber is the name given to any material derived by reducing scrap tires or other rubber into uniform granules with the inherent reinforcing materials such as steel and fiber removed along with any other type of inert contaminants such as dust, glass, or rock.      How is Crumb Rubber Produced Crumb rubber is manufactured from two primary feedstocks: tire buffings, a byproduct of tire retreading and scrap tire rubber. Scrap tire rubber comes from three types of tires: passenger car tires, which represent about 84 percent of units or approximately 65 percent of the total weight of U.S. scrap tires; truck tires, which constitute 15 percent of units,...

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How does burning tires affect the environment?

Waste tires pose a significant environmental problem due to their non-biodegradable nature, large volume, and flammability. According to data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, approximately 300 million tires are discarded annually in the United States alone, with only about 15% being recycled. The remaining tires are either sent to landfills, illegally dumped, or incinerated for energy recovery, which inevitably leads to air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. Overall, tire burning is considered an unsustainable and potentially hazardous method of waste tire disposal. It poses numerous environmental threats and various risks to public health. However, in certain circumstances, burning tires can also help manage this type of waste to some extent. This article will delve into the risks associated with tire burning and explore alternative disposal options for the 1.5 billion discarded tires produced globally each year. What happens if you burn your tires? Air pollution  The air pollution caused by tire burning kilns is extremely significant. Burning tires releases large amounts of toxic pollutants into the air, including sulfur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen oxides (NOx), carbon monoxide (CO), volatile organic compounds (VOCs), and particulate matter (PM), including fine particulate matter known as PM2.5. The heavy metals and other harmful pollutants...

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1T/H Tire Rubber Powder Plant In Hungary

In May, 2024, an Hungary company wants to start their business in tire recycling plant, this is a new business for this client.

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1T/H Tire Rubber Crumb Plant In Mexico

After months of in-depth exchanges and detailed communication, we finally reached a 1t/h rubber crumb plant procurement agreement with a company in Mexico.

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6T/H Tire Rubber Crumb Plant Malaysia

We have a long term client from Malaysia, who purchased two sets of tire recycling plant from our company.

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Turkey Client Ordered 5t/h Biomass Pellet Plant

In Feb. 2024, HVST GROUP sold a 5t/h biomass pellet line to a Turkish Customer, who wants to process different types of agriculture material, such as hay, saw dust, rice husk, and so on.

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2T/H Tire Mulch Recycling Plant In Senegal

In year 2023, we got an inquiry from Senegal, who are looking for tire recycling plant for their pyrolysis plant. Our engineer designed the solution according to the capacity of their pyrolysis plant, and the customer is very interested.

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XKP-610 Tire Recycling Plant In Kazakhstan

In April, 2023, just after the covid restriction is released, we got many customers visiting from all over the world. Among them, a Kazakhstan customer showed great interest in our XKP-610 tire recycling plant. But their desired capacity is very high.

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6T/H Tire Crushing Line in Oman

In March 2023, 3 lines of tyre recycling machine designed and manufactured by Zhengzhou Harvest Machinery Co., Ltd. was successfully shipped to Oman.

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15 Ton Batch Tire Pyrolysis Plant Sold To Brazil

In January, 2023, a Brazil customer found our company, looking for solution of tire pyrolysis plant. They are a logistic company who has a vast quantity of waste tires each month.

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20 TPD Continuous Pyrolysis Plant Shipped to Indonesia

In Summer 2022, an Indonesia customer purchased the 20 ton/day continuous tire pyrolysis plant from Zhengzhou Harvest Machinery Co., ltd.

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Pakistan Customer Purchased 2T/H Biomass Pellet Machines

Pakistan customer purchased 2t/h biomass pellet machines from Zhengzhou Harvest Machinery Co., Ltd. on March, 2022. This customer got a lot of pine trees and agriculture wastes waiting to be processed into biomass pellets.

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15 TPD Distillation Plant Sold To Algeria

Algeria is a big market for tire recycling and tire pyrolysis equipment. There was a customer who’s already running a pyrolysis plant to process tires and plastics.

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2T/H Tire Rubber Crumb Plant In Russia

In September 2019, a customer from Russia purchased 2ton/h rubber crumb line from HVST GROUP.

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10 T/D Pyrolysis Plant Sold To Kenya

On 12nd, July, 2018, a group of people from Kenya came to ZHENGZHOU HARVEST MACHINERY CO.,LTD, for the procure of tire pyrolysis line to be installed in Kenya.

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3T/H Tire Rubber Crumb Plant In U.S.

In 2017 August, 2 U.S. customers visited our company to check our tire recycling plant. They compared several suppliers, and decided to choose our machines, because they feel that our machines are higher quality and more reasonable price.

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