County
- Asbestos
- Batteries
- Books
- Cardboard
- Chemicals and paints
- DIY waste, rubble and building materials
- Electronic and electrical equipment
- Flat glass (greenhouse. windows etc)
- Garden waste
- Gas bottles
- Glass bottles and jars
- Household and garden chemicals and paints
- Ink cartridges
- Items for reuse
- Light bulbs & flourescent lighting tubes
- Metals – Cans, Foil & Scrap
- Newspapers and magazines
- Oil - cooking oil
- Oil - waste engine oil
- Paper
- Plastic bottles
- Soil
- Textiles and clothes
- Tyres
- Wood and timber
Tyres
Where it is taken?
Sitr Midlands, Cheltenham
What happens to it?
After initial processing, the tyres are delivered to Sitr Midlands in Cheltenham who bales the tyres. The re-processor grades the tyres into high and low quality.
High quality tyres are processed into chippings for use in flooring production and equestrian arenas.
Low quality tyres are used in the UK cement industry with TDF for the kilns or exported to India for pyrolysis which is used to reprocess the tyres into fuel gas, oils, solid residue (char), and low-grade carbon black. These materials can then be reused in the production of other lower grade rubber materials.
End market
UK & India
End products
lower grade rubber materials and energy output