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Title: Tire Disposal Options?
Post by: topher0268 on February 15, 2012, 05:17:18 PM

Any of you change your own tires? What do you do with the disposed ones? I seem to be gathering an ever growing collection of old tires and tire shops of course want to charge a heavy fee for each to dispose. Any ideas? What do you do?

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Post by: Rocinante on February 15, 2012, 05:19:24 PM

My local garbage plant has a container for just that.

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Post by: cosmo on February 15, 2012, 08:04:39 PM

I work at a car dealership. I just drop 'em off.

Cosmo

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Post by: MarkShelley on February 15, 2012, 08:16:50 PM

In the UK we also have this problem.
Our domestic waste sites will not take them and consequently they get dumped in the countryside. I phoned my local Council to ask what I should do and they were not very helpful. As luck would have it, there is a tyre recycling company not far from me who was willing to take them for a small fee. It seems rediculous that the local domestic waste recycling sites do not do the same.

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Post by: Nick Calne on February 15, 2012, 09:14:31 PM

put them on a speed camera, fill with petrol and well.... become a folk hero.

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Post by: robxxxx on February 16, 2012, 01:59:51 AM

Somewhere, I still have one of those awful plastic Bridgestone's came off a 250N in 1980something.
I was gonna stick it on ebay, still got loads of tread on it. :wink:

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Post by: Sin_Tiger on February 16, 2012, 02:15:52 AM

Quote from: "nickcalne"put them on a speed camera, fill with petrol and well.... become a folk hero.

:ImaPoser :ImaPoser

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Post by: Yankee Dog on February 16, 2012, 02:27:23 PM

put them in a big black plastic trash bag and throw them out with the rest of your garbage.

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Post by: daveb on February 16, 2012, 04:34:24 PM

I heard they were using old tyres reground to make road surfaces, children soft surfaces around parks etc.

but you need to find your local tyre recycling centre

new it was somewhere
http://www.tyrerecyclingsuccess.com/ (http://www.tyrerecyclingsuccess.com/)

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Post by: Mustang on February 16, 2012, 04:49:00 PM

(http://www.psdgraphics.com/file/green-recycling-icon.jpg)

SERIUOSLY.................

why would you do anything else ?

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Post by: Spud on February 16, 2012, 10:07:37 PM

Use them to grow Bonsi trees cheers Spud :wink:

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Post by: topher0268 on February 16, 2012, 11:07:56 PM

Quote from: "daveb"I heard they were using old tyres reground to make road surfaces, children soft surfaces around parks etc.

but you need to find your local tyre recycling centre

new it was somewhere
http://www.tyrerecyclingsuccess.com/ (http://www.tyrerecyclingsuccess.com/)

YES that's what I'm looking for. I'm no tree hugger but to be honest I certainly don't mind shrinking my environmental footprint. HECK I think we'd all do it if ...

1. They had places we could take stuff
2. They didn't CHARGE us to take stuff they're going to make money on.

Make this stuff accessible and reasonable and people will use it ...

TigerTriple.com

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