True tire recycling here in the US is not a business that will have a positive cash flow. It needs to be subsidized. The equipment is expensive and you need to process a lot of tires through the equipment. In the USA you pay a "tipping fee" for tire recycling when you have new tires put on your rims. SXM really doesn't have enough tires to justify on island recycling and no tire "tipping fee" charge. So the option is to pick up and transport the tires to a facility somewhere else to do this which isn't cheap. So there the tires lay.

Wendell