Liberty Tire Increases Capacity At North Carolina Facility

Equipment and processing upgrades are expected to create an additional 3,300 tons of recycled product

Pittsburgh-based Liberty Tire Recycling has announced a $1.4 million equipment upgrade at its facility in Cameron, North Carolina.

The company says the state’s commitment to sustainability fund its scrap tire program made this investment possible.

The new equipment will increase the amount of material the facility can process, creating an additional 3,300 tons of recycled product, the equivalent of nearly 300,000 passenger tires.

The new equipment  will also increase the number of truck tires the facility will be able to process.

Liberty Tire says recycled rubber from truck tires is in high demand, but because of their size and stronger steel wire, they’re more difficult to process than a standard passenger tire.

The rubber from these tires will be turned into crumb rubber and used primarily to supply floor mat manufacturers who use 100 percent recycled rubber for the bottoms of floor mats and rubber tiles.

Crumb rubber also is used in walking trails and running tracks, synthetic turf fields, rubberized asphalt and molded goods.

This investment comes in response to North Carolina’s passage of Senate Bill 706. The legislation, approved by Governor Josh Stein on July 7, 2025 became effective October 1, 2025 increases re-establishes the Scrap Tire Disposal Account within the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ). This account will receive 30 percent of the net proceeds from the scrap tire disposal tax, with funds exceeding $300,000 at the end of a fiscal year being transferred to the Highway Fund.

Funds from the account can be used by the DEQ for grants to local governments for scrap tire disposal (75%), grants promoting processed scrap tire materials (15%), up to $175,000 for DEQ administrative costs, and cleanup of illegal scrap tire sites. Additional funding under the new law will reimburse counties for costs related to collecting and recycling scrap tires.

© Scrap Tire News, January 2026