Logistics and Transportation in the US Tire Recycling Industry: Costs, Challenges, and Why Digitization Matters (2026)
Logistics and transportation are among the most overlooked yet critical factors impacting the U.S. tire recycling industry.
While much of the industry discussion focuses on recycling technologies and sustainability, the reality is that tire recycling is fundamentally a logistics driven business. Tires must be collected, transported, sorted, tracked, processed, and delivered efficiently for operations to remain profitable.
And because tires are bulky, heavy, difficult to compress, and expensive to move, transportation inefficiencies can quickly destroy margins.
As the industry grows, logistics is becoming one of the biggest differentiators between scalable recycling operations and struggling ones.
Written by Stacy Duty, Founder & CEO, The WeighPay Group — Building hybrid-cloud scale & POS software for the recycling and waste industry since 2011. Reviewed by WeighPay Operations Review. Last reviewed .
<p Logistics and transportation are among the most overlooked yet critical factors impacting the U.S. tire recycling industry.</p <p While much of the industry discussion focuses on recycling technologies and sustainability, the reality is that tire recycling is fundamentally a logistics driven business. Tires must be collected, transported, sorted, tracked, processed, and delivered efficiently for operations to remain profitable.</p <p And because tires are bulky, heavy, difficult to compress, and expensive to move, transportation inefficiencies can quickly destroy margins.</p <p As the indus
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Stacy Duty is the founder and CEO of The WeighPay Group. Since 2011 he has led the development of WeighPay's hybrid-cloud scale and POS platform for scrap metal, recycling, and waste-management operators. About Stacy Duty · Connect on LinkedIn