Tire Recycling

In the fall of 2013, the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe awarded the Isabella Conservation District the funding to organize and hold the first tire recycling collection.  To date the Tribal Community and the governmental service area has recycled approximately 64,000 tires.

Tires can be very costly to recycle.  Each person that owns a vehicle can generate 1 to 4 tires per year.  Before we had an established Tire Recycling Program, tires were stock piled, discarded in our water bodies, forests, and empty lots.  Landowners throughout the county were finding tires dumped on their property.  Once this happens it becomes the landowner’s responsibility to dispose of the illegally dumped tires.  The cost can amount to hundreds or thousands of dollars to clean up.

This program has helped in eliminating future health and safety risks to our environment.  Tires that are stock piled are a fire hazard.  They can literally burn for…