I want to recycle old car tyres and sell them on - can I make money? DAVE FISHWICK replies By DAVE FISHWICK FOR THIS IS MONEY Updated: 07:00 BST, 7 June 2024 e-mail View comments I'm currently unemployed and looking to hopefully start my own business, you said it's never too late. Can you imagine a business where businesses pay you for your raw materials? The very product you need to process through a plant that will then result in you having four products to sell back to the market. One of the four products will then enable you to be energy self-sufficient and to never rely on the national grid or to endure high energy costs.
This business is also incredibly beneficial to the environment and will reduce land fill tonnage. My idea is to start a tyre pyrolysis business, a method of melting down scrap tyres without oxygen, this results in four components that can be reused or sold on for future use. Tyred idea or money spinner? Dave Fishwick gives his verdict As you're probably aware, businesses have to pay to have their customers old tyres disposed of in a proper fashion, currently the price per tyre for disposal is between £1.
50 and £2 for a standard car tyre, and commercial tyres can be upwards of £10 per tyre. This in effect is them paying you for your raw materials. I currently run a classic commercial vehicle restoration group, we restore old buses to take to shows and I know how to pull together a team and manage it.
I'd like to know what you think of my idea. I do ha.
