Tyre Disposal And Recycling It is now standard practice for tyre retailers to impose a tyre disposal charge when you change your tyres, which tends typically to be about 1.00 a tyre. You may wonder why you have to pay this charge - after all tyre disposal charges have not always been the norm. The real answer to this question is that it is a simple case of economics - a case of supply and demand. Going back twenty years the scrap disposal scenario was totally different to the way it is today. It used to be the case that car tyre retreading companies would collect the majority of used tyres as the raw material for their production. They used to pick up the used tyres free of charge (or even pay for the privilege). However, that was when over 4 million retreaded car tyres were sold...