Tire disposal across the Golden Isles.

Tires don't behave like the rest of a load, and that is the whole reason they get treated as their own category. They don't price by volume the way furniture does, they are regulated differently from ordinary waste, and where a load of them can go is a narrower question than where a load of household junk can go.

The thing worth knowing is that residential tire removal and commercial tire volume are two entirely different operational situations, not the same job at different scales. Four tires from a garage rides along with an appointment. Thousands of tires off a shop floor is a planned operation with its own equipment and its own schedule. We do a tremendous amount of the second kind, including regular tire-shop volume, which is unusual for a junk removal company and is the reason we are comfortable with the first kind.

We take them. The most common call is the homeowner with four to eight old tires sitting in the garage or behind the shed after a tire shop replaced their set and either didn’t take the old ones or charged extra to do it. The customer ends up holding the tires and looking for a way to make them go. Same scenario happens after a property cleanout when the previous occupants left tires behind, or after a flood when tires from the yard or shed need to be hauled along with everything else.

The reason tires cost what they cost, and the reason your tire shop wanted a fee to keep them, is that Georgia banned tires from landfills. That is the whole explanation, and it is a sensible ban: tires don't decompose, they hold standing water and breed mosquitoes, and a tire pile is a genuine fire hazard — a tire fire can burn for months and puts out smoke nobody wants downwind. So a tire cannot simply be buried. It has to go to a permitted processing facility, that facility has to shred and process it, and that processing costs money which travels down the chain to us and then to you. When somebody quotes tire disposal as though it were four bags of trash, they either don't know that or aren't telling you.

Where they go depends on the quantity and the condition. Processed tires generally come back as crumb rubber — playground surfacing, athletic tracks, construction fill — or go to tire-derived fuel. A tire in good enough shape can be retreaded, though that is rare in what we haul, because ours are at the end of their lives by the time anyone calls us. Georgia also puts real requirements around moving tires in quantity, including documenting where a large load came from and where it went, and around storing them. We stay on the right side of that, partly because the fines are real and mostly because the rules exist for good reasons. We will tell you what is happening with your tires when you ask.

Rims-on is fine and you don't need to dismount anything beforehand; it does affect the price, and we say so on the call rather than at the end.

Customers cleaning out a garage or running a property turnover shouldn’t have to find a separate solution for the six old tires sitting in the corner. We take them as part of the load.