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How to make money recycling old tires?

Feb 09, 2026

In our daily lives, we often see people recycling old tires. So how profitable is a waste tire recycling project? As long as there is a sufficient supply of tires, earning hundreds of thousands to over a million yuan a year is quite feasible.

One common way to process recycled tires is by crushing them. The requirements for a processing site are not high; a factory area of a few hundred square meters is sufficient. Crushing waste tires involves first breaking the tires into rubber blocks while extracting the coarse steel wires from the bead. Extracting the steel wire from a single tire only takes about a minute. The remaining rubber blocks are easier to crush. Once fed into a tire crusher for grinding, the finer the rubber particles, the higher the selling price.

However, there are some issues to be aware of when running a waste tire recycling project.

1. Supply: It's crucial to investigate whether there is a sufficient local supply of tires. This is important because waste tires have low value and are not suitable for long-distance transportation.

2. Sales channels: Check the downstream sales channels-whether you plan to sell rubber powder or granules, the fineness of the finished product, and the market demand. Additionally, the extracted bead steel wire is high-carbon steel, which has a slightly higher selling price than ordinary steel wire. It can also be further processed into sandblasting steel shot for sale.

Xinxiang Xinyutian Rubber & Plastic Machinery Co., Ltd. is a leading manufacturer of waste tire recycling and processing equipment. They not only provide warranty and maintenance services for their equipment and guidance from an engineer team for installation and commissioning, but also offer free technical training, addressing all of your concerns.

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