Tire Recycling in Opelika, AL

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Checked October 26, 2026

• Full Service Recycling Centers (opens in new tab) · City of Opelika
  • 8th Avenue Center (600 8th Avenue) is open 8 a.m. Friday to 8 a.m. Tuesday; Jeter Avenue Center (675 Jeter Avenue) is open 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Monday-Friday. Checked October 26, 2026.
  • Tires are accepted only from residents, limit 8. Checked October 26, 2026.
• Recycling Services (opens in new tab) · City of Opelika
  • Tires are taken from Opelika residents only (limit 8), not businesses. Checked October 26, 2026.
• Garbage Collection Services (opens in new tab) · City of Opelika
  • Residents may bring 1-gallon paint cans to a recycling center; no 5-gallon cans and no businesses. Checked October 26, 2026.
  • OES does not pick up tires at the roadside, but they may be brought to the Jeter or 8th Avenue Recycling Centers. Checked October 26, 2026.
• Environmental Services FAQs (opens in new tab) · City of Opelika
  • Opelika defines trash as limbs, grass clippings, furniture, appliances, metal objects and other non-hazardous materials. Checked October 26, 2026.
• Alabama Department of Revenue: Scrap Tire Environmental Fee (opens in new tab) · Alabama Department of Revenue
  • Alabama charges a $1 Scrap Tire Environmental Fee per replacement tire (new, used or retread), collected from the consumer at the point of sale. Checked October 26, 2026.
• ADEM: Scrap Tire Program (opens in new tab) · Alabama Department of Environmental Management
  • The Alabama Scrap Tire Environmental Quality Act of 2003 put a $1.00 per tire fee on replacement tires to fund a state scrap tire fund. Checked October 26, 2026.
  • ADEM uses the $1 per tire fee to pay contractors to clean up illegal scrap tire sites. Checked October 26, 2026.
• ADEM: Scrap Tire Receiver fact sheet (PDF, revised March 2025) (opens in new tab) · Alabama Department of Environmental Management
  • Businesses that sell new, used or retreaded tires must collect the $1.00 fee on each replacement tire sold and send it to the Alabama Department of Revenue. Checked October 26, 2026.
  • Retail tire dealers, retreaders and used tire dealers are Class One scrap tire receivers under ADEM rules. Checked October 26, 2026.
• ADEM Administrative Code Division 4: Scrap Tire Program (PDF) (opens in new tab) · Alabama Department of Environmental Management
  • A person hauling fewer than eight scrap tires at a time to a registered receiver, permitted processor or permitted landfill does not need a scrap tire transporter permit. Checked October 26, 2026.
  • A permitted landfill may take an individual's own scrap tires without a manifest when the person delivers no more than eight tires at a time. Checked October 26, 2026.
  • Permitted scrap tire processors may also take up to eight of an individual's own tires at a time without a manifest. Checked October 26, 2026.
• ADEM: Scrap Tires and Landfills fact sheet (PDF, revised April 2019) (opens in new tab) · Alabama Department of Environmental Management
  • A landfill may dispose of scrap tires only if tires are an approved waste stream for it; ADEM publishes a list of landfills approved to accept scrap tires. Checked October 26, 2026.
• ADEM: Alabama Landfills Approved to Accept Scrap Tires (PDF, May 29, 2026) (opens in new tab) · Alabama Department of Environmental Management
  • ADEM publishes a county-by-county list of Alabama landfills approved to accept scrap tires; the current list is dated May 29, 2026. Checked October 26, 2026.
• ADEM: Unauthorized Waste Dump and Scrap Tire Sites fact sheet (PDF, September 2021) (opens in new tab) · Alabama Department of Environmental Management
  • Storing more than 100 scrap tires on a property needs ADEM approval, and dumping solid waste anywhere other than a permitted landfill is not allowed. Checked October 26, 2026.
  • Depending on the county, residents may be able to take scrap tires to a county location for recycling or disposal; ADEM says to ask local and county solid waste and scrap tire right-of-way contacts. Checked October 26, 2026.
  • ADEM says that where curbside pickup is offered, waste too large for the regular trash container can be set at the curb for disposal; services vary by city and county. Checked October 26, 2026.
• ADEM: Recycling Program (opens in new tab) · Alabama Department of Environmental Management
  • Alabama's 2008 Solid Wastes and Recyclable Materials Management Act set a statewide disposal fee of $1 per ton (or $0.25 per cubic yard) on all solid waste landfilled in the state. Checked October 26, 2026.
  • The 2008 act set a statewide solid waste reduction goal of 25%. Checked October 26, 2026.
  • ADEM's Alabama Recycling Fund Grants reimburse local governments to start and improve recycling programs; recycling services themselves are run locally. Checked October 26, 2026.
• ADEM: Solid Waste Disposal in Alabama fact sheet (PDF, January 2008) (opens in new tab) · Alabama Department of Environmental Management
  • ADEM does not site landfills; locating a landfill is a local decision approved by local government. Checked October 26, 2026.
• ADEM: Household Hazardous Waste - Management of used oil (PDF, May 2018) (opens in new tab) · Alabama Department of Environmental Management
  • In Alabama, waste generated by a household is exempt from regulation as hazardous waste. Checked October 26, 2026.
  • ADEM points residents to reuse, recycling and household hazardous waste collection programs as alternatives to landfill disposal. Checked October 26, 2026.

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