Recycling hazardous wastes to value-added products is becoming essential for the sustainable progress of our society. Herein, highly porous carbon (1625 m2/g) is synthesized using waste tires as the precursor and demonstrated its use as supercapacitor electrodes. The narrow pore size distribution (PSD) and high surface area led to a good charge storage capacity, especially when used as three-dimensional nanoscaffold to polymerize polyaniline (PANl/TC). The composite film was highly flexible, conductive and exhibited a capacitance of 480 F/g at 1 mV/s with excellent capacitance retention up to 98% after 10,000 charge/discharge cycles. The -high capacitance and long cycle life were ascribed to the short diffusional paths, uniform PANI coating and tight confinement of the PANI in the inner pores of the tire-derived carbon via TI-TI interactions, which minimized the degradation of the PANI upon cycling. We anticipate that the same strategy can be applied to deposit other pseudocapacitive materials with low-cost TC to achieve even higher electrochemical performance and longer cycle life, a key challenge for redox active polymers.