Tyre disposal

Hello Chris,I run a car workshop business in Southend Essex area and we use a tyre recycling company local to us.There must be someone similar like this that collects from your local independant tyre businesses.Perhaps they can advise who they use and if local to take them there direct.We pay £1.25 per casing to be taken away legally authorised and certificated.Hope this helps.

Previously Chris Grimmett wrote:

Here's a question aimed mainly at our UK Members, but overseas comments would be interesting.

We (I?) are amongst the very few these days who remove old tyres and replace them ourselves with new ones. The problem arises when it comes to disposal.

My street rubbish collection will not take them and they are on the list of unacceptable items at the local tip recycling centre along with solvents, WW11 UXBs and human remains.

As the pile is getting bigger, does anybody know a morally and legally OK method of getting rid of old tyres other than paying a tyre shop to take them?

Hello Chris well you need to go Tyrebin or phone 0870 446 5111 yours Anna J

Previously Chris Grimmett wrote:

Here's a question aimed mainly at our UK Members, but overseas comments would be interesting.

We (I?) are amongst the very few these days who remove old tyres and replace them ourselves with new ones. The problem arises when it comes to disposal.

My street rubbish collection will not take them and they are on the list of unacceptable items at the local tip recycling centre along with solvents, WW11 UXBs and human remains.

As the pile is getting bigger, does anybody know a morally and legally OK method of getting rid of old tyres other than paying a tyre shop to take them?

I'm in Canada so this won't help but since you invited overseas comments, we have recycling centers all over the place that take tires. It turns out the garage I've been dealing with for some 20 years is one of these. How handy! I also gave a set to friends on a lake to use as boat protection on the side of their dock. I told them they could boast as they were Pirellis....

Chris. I don't know where you live, but farmers use them to weight down sheeting on dungheaps. Race tracks, maybe kart tracks etc use them for tyre walls. They may be grateful of them if you have any such nearby. Or, take them to the tyre shop at £1.25 each!

Our tip takes them, but you have to pay a small fee.

In Sweden the local community recycling centres accept tyres and most other things free for ordinary people. Businesses have to pay. One of the things we get for our tax. The idea seems to be that no harmful stuff should be disposed of in the nature or in the normal garbage collecting.

Mike

Our local coup used (briefly) to take tyres and used oil. However, the local scallywags (call them what you like) took great pleasure setting either or both on fire sufficiently often that the councilstopped taking these items. So now the countryside is being littered with old tyres once more. We have builders in just now so I loaded the skip with my collection of worn out 3.50 X 19s. Not environmentally responsible but there aren't many options. What infuriates me is garages charging for disposal of used engine oil when they get paid bycompanies who collect andrecycle it.

when i rang the council to ask where to take the three tyres i had they abruptly said they are your tyres and your responsibility to dispose of in the correct manner. so that was me told then.

Faced with council unhelpfulness, I now hacksaw through a worn out tyre at one point, fold it as small as possible, secure it with gaffer tape, place it in a black bin bag and put it in the general waste wheelie bin.

Previously alan_dawes wrote:

Faced with council unhelpfulness, I now hacksaw through a worn out tyre at one point, fold it as small as possible, secure it with gaffer tape, place it in a black bin bag and put it in the general waste wheelie bin.

Devon charge £3.50 a tyre

http://www.devon.gov.uk/index/environmentplanning/recycling/recycling_centres/chargeablewaste.htm

The whole question of tyre recycling is a "Rip-off". Tyres CAN be recycled, to produce a cheap, and durable, floor covering. This is done, in Spain, to provide a safe surface in many children's play areas. The Spanish, at least in my province, do not charge for tyre disposal, because they realise they would be scattered all over the countryside.

Previously John Shorter wrote:

The whole question of tyre recycling is a "Rip-off". Tyres CAN be recycled, to produce a cheap, and durable, floor covering. This is done, in Spain, to provide a safe surface in many children's play areas. The Spanish, at least in my province, do not charge for tyre disposal, because they realise they would be scattered all over the countryside.

Or roofing tiles, a number of companies do that over here in N/A.