Recycled-Tire Art

Recycling your tires doesn’t have to be only for the environment’s sake; you can do it for art’s sake, too! Dependable water tanks are great and all, but tire recycling can be artistic as well! Whether you’re interested in an ...

Creative Tire Recycling Ideas

Do you have some old worn out tires to get rid of? Instead of just throwing out your old tires and making them sit in landfills for centuries, why not recycle them? Just dumping your tires into landfills will create ...

Top 3 Pros and Cons of Recycling

For years we’ve heard “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle!” and many people do recycle some things but some people neglect to remember that tires can (and should) be recycled. You might be wondering, “why should I recycle my tires?” (or anything else ...

Our Accomplishments

Western Tire Recyclers was founded in 2009 by owners Rob Stokes and Ryan Trapp with a heavy focus on OTR tire recycling. We're currently serving customers in 6 states throughout the US. We offer full service tire recycling for mining ...

A Closer Look Inside Western Tire Recyclers

We at Western Tire Recyclers offer such a great service to mining companies across the globe. Rather than having to throw their scrap tires in some junkyard onsite, we are able to take those tires from them and use them ...

Recycling Mining Tires: A Practical Solution to a Giant Problem

The largest mining tires are nearly 14 feet tall and 5 feet wide. Not only would it dwarf a human being, it wouldn’t even fit in a living room. Even mining tires of a more modest variety are typically 9 ...

Why We Recycle OTR Tires

With no one providing OTR recycling service to the level that small tires are being recycled, we could see opportunity to work hard, innovate with our equipment and methods to create a successful business. OTR tires present a variety of problems ...

The Tire Recycling Process: From the Field to the Facility

The first step for us to recycle OTR tires is to transport them from the mine site to our Northern Utah facility. We realize this is a large expense, but with customers in six states, our central location makes sense ...

Mining Tire Recycling

Some of our biggest contracts here at Western Tire Recyclers are from the mining industry. Not only does our state-of-the-art tire recycling equipment appeal to the mines. Our understanding of how the industry functions has been a key factor in ...

Tire Pollution is a Big Problem Today

Tires have helped us travel from place to place for hundreds of years. Without them, life would be a lot more difficult. But once we wear those tires out, what do we do with them? Are we turning them in ...