What you get
- Every tyre we take off leaves with us on the same visit
- Sent on for licensed recycling, never landfill or a skip
- Covered in the price you are quoted on the phone, no extras added after
- Cars, SUVs, 4x4s, EVs and vans
- Also when we fit tyres you bought online yourself
- Same rate at 3am, Sundays and bank holidays
Tyre disposal near me: the three real options
Old car tyres cannot go in a household bin, and since 16 July 2003 whole used tyres have been banned from landfill in England and Wales, with shredded tyres following on 16 July 2006. That leaves three sensible routes, and which one suits you depends on whether you are replacing the tyre anyway.
1. Hand it to whoever fits the new one. This is how most tyres are disposed of, and it is what happens on every job we do. The tyre comes off your wheel, the new one goes on and is balanced on the van, and the old casing is loaded up before we leave. You never touch it, store it or transport it. If you are due new rubber, our mobile tyre fitting service covers the disposal as part of the job.
2. Take it to a council reuse and recycling centre. Some London sites take tyres from residents and some do not, and the conditions differ. In North London, the NLWA lists Summers Lane in Barnet as its site for tyres and asks for them to be off the rim first. Western Riverside residents can take tyres to Smugglers Way, where the steel rim goes in the scrap metal container. Tower Hamlets' reuse and recycling centre does not accept tyres at all. Numbers, proof of address and any charge are set by each authority, so check your council's page before loading the car.
3. Use a registered tyre collector. Specialist recyclers mostly serve garages and trade customers, though some will collect from households. If you go this way, check their registration first (see below).
Your duty of care, and why it matters with tyres
The law puts responsibility on the person getting rid of the waste as well as the person who dumps it. Under the waste duty of care, a householder must take reasonable steps to make sure their waste only goes to someone authorised to take it. Paying cash to a man with a van who turns up after a leaflet drop does not pass that responsibility on. If your tyres are found dumped, you can be issued a fixed penalty notice.
Checking takes a minute. A registered waste carrier in England has a registration number that usually begins CBDU, and you can look it up on the Environment Agency's public register of waste carriers. Ask where the tyres are going. A genuine collector will tell you without hesitating.
When the tyre comes off your car during a fitting, it simply goes with the fitter, which keeps the chain short and clear.
What happens to an old tyre after we take it
A licensed route sends tyres to be processed rather than buried. Typically the rubber is shredded or granulated for products such as sports and play surfaces and moulded rubber goods, some is recovered as fuel, and the steel wire in the bead and belts is separated for scrap.
Is it time to replace, or just to clear the garage?
A lot of people search for tyre disposal because they have a pile of old tyres from a previous car, or a set of winter tyres that have aged out. If any of those are still on a car, check them before you bin them: our guides on the legal tread depth in the UK and when a tyre is too old to trust will tell you whether they have life left. If they need replacing, tyre replacement near you sorts the fitting and the disposal in one visit.
Bought your tyres online to save money? We fit those too, at your address, and the old ones still leave with us. Fitting tyres you bought online explains how to get the order right before you book.
Got loose tyres with nothing to fit? Ring us and ask. We will tell you straight on the call whether we can help and what it involves, rather than promise it here.
How it works
Call with your size
Read the size off the sidewall, tell us where the car is and we quote the job on the phone, with the old tyre going away included in that quote.
Fitted where it is parked
Typically with you in 30 to 60 minutes. The new tyre goes on in 20 to 30 minutes and is balanced on the van before the wheel goes back on.
The old one leaves with us
The worn tyre goes in the van, not on your drive or in your boot, and on for licensed recycling.
Tyre Disposal Near Me: frequently asked
The easiest way is to let the fitter who replaces them take them away, which is what happens on every job we do. Otherwise, take them to a council reuse and recycling centre that accepts tyres, or use a registered waste carrier. Never put them in a household bin or hand them to an unregistered collector.
It depends on your borough. Some reuse and recycling centres accept tyres from residents and some do not: in North London the NLWA lists Summers Lane in Barnet for tyres, Western Riverside residents can use Smugglers Way, and Tower Hamlets' centre does not take them. Check your council's website first. If you are replacing the tyre, having it fitted at home means the old one leaves with the fitter.
When we fit a new tyre, taking the old one away is part of the price quoted on the phone before anyone sets off, with no hidden extras and no out-of-hours surcharge. Council sites set their own rules and charges, so check with your borough.
That is for Halfords to answer for their own branches. As a rule, any fitter replacing a tyre takes the old one away, and we do the same, the difference being we come to the car rather than you driving it to a branch.
Ring us and ask. We will tell you on the call whether we can help with what you have, rather than promise it on this page.
Yes. We fit tyres you have bought online or elsewhere, and the old tyres go away with us for licensed recycling in the same way.
No. Whole and shredded tyres are banned from landfill, so they need to go through a route that recycles or recovers them.
You can be. The waste duty of care means you must take reasonable steps to give your waste only to someone authorised to take it. Check a collector's registration on the Environment Agency public register before you hand anything over, or you risk a fixed penalty.
Yes. We fit tyres on vans as well as cars, SUVs, 4x4s and EVs, and the old tyres go with us. We do not handle lorry, trailer, caravan or motorbike tyres.
Nothing beyond having the locking wheel nut key to hand if the car has one. We bring the tyre, remove the old one, balance the wheel on the van and leave with the old tyre.