---- Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>   I've been known to drop off one or two at the same shop where I buy my
> tires...They have a semi-trailer there that they put customer's take-offs
> in, probably when it gets  full,  they haul it away and sell em to someone
> who reclaims the rubber for something...

I've been told that the dealers have to pay whomever reclaims the materials, as the cost of reclamation exceeds the money gotten for the stuff.  Hence, in most (all?) states, the disposal fee charged with each new tire sold.  Of course, if the real objective were to insure proper disposal of tires, then customers would get a credit for turning in an old tire.

mcneely