We don't charge our disposal fee if the customer keeps the tires. But we do still have to charge the EPA fee, which is $2 per tire. No way out of it. Now, if someone just bring a set of rims up and wants tires removed from them, then we only charge for the labor, about $6 a wheel. Since they're not buying new tires, there's no EPA fee. And even then, we'll go ahead and toss their old tires in the junk pit, no charge. I can say, in Illinois, it is illegal to put used tires in a landfill, cut or not. Most used tires here end up at ADM, where they make them into the playground bottom, asphault fillers, and other products, like garden hoses. In our case, a company from South America buys the usable cores from the company that takes our old tires. Anything any good gets retreaded and sold in S. America. Defects go back to the manufacturer, and anything not usable as a retread goes to ADM or another company that recycles the rubber.
