（ National Engineering Research Center for Advanced Tire Equipment and Key Materials, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266061, China ）
China has a large population, relatively poor resources and fragile ecological environment. With the continuous promotion of industrialization and urbanization, the contradiction between resource supply and demand and environmental pressure will become greater and greater. The contradiction between resource utilization and environmental protection is becoming more and more prominent. Developing circular economy has become an inevitable choice for China’s social and economic development. Rubber products such as tires are essential bulk products in the process of China’s national economic development, which will cause serious “black” pollution after being discarded. How to turn waste into treasure and realize the resource utilization of waste is an important topic, which is of great significance to realize “carbon peak” and “carbon neutralization”. After years of research and development, China’s waste tire recycling and resource utilization industry has formed a complete industrial chain of four business segments: tire remanufacturing, recycled rubber, rubber powder and waste tire cracking, which has greatly alleviated the plight of the shortage of rubber resources in China and formed a unique road of waste tire recycling. On this basis, this paper systematically summarizes the current situation and development trend of waste tire recycling and resource utilization in China, as well as the main existing problems, hoping to provide reference for the research and development of related fields.