Eco Green Equipment, LLC has announced the sale and installation of a complete tyre recycling line to Reeves County, Texas, including the Eco Giant primary shredder, the Eco Grater granulator and the Eco Granulator crumb rubber mill, giving the county a full processing line capable of converting whole passenger, truck, and off-road tyres into tyre-derived fuel (TDF), rubber mulch and crumb rubber
Reeves County sits in the Trans-Pecos region of Southwest Texas, about 74 miles southwest of Odessa along Interstate 20 and the local economy has long run on cattle ranching, cotton and cantaloupe farming, and oil and gas production.
That mix of industries has also created a persistent tyre waste problem. Heavy equipment fleets, agricultural operations and oilfield vehicles generate large volumes of scrap tyres faster than existing disposal options can absorb them, and hauling that material to distant processors has grown increasingly expensive.
The new equipment for Reeves County converts collected tyres into three products: TDF for cement kilns and industrial boilers, rubber mulch for landscaping and equestrian use and crumb rubber for athletic surfaces and rubberised asphalt. All three have buyers within the regional economy, giving the county a path to offsetting the programme’s operating costs.
“Reeves County is exactly the kind of customer this equipment was built for,” said Brad Swenson, CEO of Eco Green Equipment. “They’re dealing with a real volume problem from oilfield and agricultural tyres, and they needed a system that county staff could operate and that could handle the full range of material. We’re proud of this installation and look forward to seeing the county put it to work.”
Curtis Wilson of Reeves County said the decision came down to finding a system suited to a county government rather than a large municipal recycling department. “We needed a line that our staff could run, that would handle the tyres we have on the ground here in West Texas, and that would produce something we could sell locally,” Wilson said.
The county plans to accept tyres from residents, hauliers and local businesses, closing off a waste stream that has typically meant long hauls to outside processors or stockpiling on county land. For Eco Green Equipment, the project is part of a broader pattern of municipalities across North America and Latin America choosing to process tyre waste locally.
