Disposing of old tyres

[Cycling Naturalist]

Is there an enviromentally friendly way of disposing of old MTB tyres? The council won't accept them as waste and they've got wire in them.

 

[spen666]

Dump them in the English Waste Bin- I think its known cloqually as Wales

 

[chris42]

What a good question!
Maybe the same way as car tyres?

http://ims.npt.gov.uk/imsapps/waste/waste_tyre.aspx

 

[Elmer Fudd]

Round where I used to live the (I assume) kids play Hoop-La with them over the lamp posts. Impresses me !

 

[Tim Bennet.]

I give my old Mtb tyres to the urchins who ride around in our road. When I've finished with them, there's still plenty of life left in them for doing long skids up and down the pavement with the other kids on their Halfords bikes.

Surely your butler must have poor families living near him to whom he can give them on your behalf?

 

[Cycling Naturalist]

Surely your butler must have poor families living near him to whom he can give them on your behalf?

We're Guardian readers, so we pay our staff well enough for them not to have to live near poor families.

 

[John Ponting]

car tyre fitters seem to charge 50p per tyre for "environmental disposal" and I guess they'd be only too please to take 50p for bike tyres.

 

[zimzum42]

take them to a nature spot and burn them, seems to be the way in this country......

 

[Peyote]

Cut the beads off, stick a buckle on them and flog them to the public for £30!

It worked for Howies: http://www.howies.co.uk/product.php/493/18/

 

[Elmer Fudd]

We need Mrs. Mandela back. Now there was a woman who knew how to dispose of scrap tyres.
(ahem, allegedly)

 

[zimzum42]

We need Mrs. Mandela back. Now there was a woman who knew how to dispose of scrap tyres.
(ahem, allegedly)

Buju Banton came up with a use for them too.........

 

[Hugo15]

Our local tip has a container for tyres. I just chuck mine in there. Assume they just melt them down with the car tyres?

 

[gkerr4]

what do you mean when you say "your council won't accept them as waste"?

I just put the last set in the bin...

 

[asterix]

Yes and now they will be buried with huge quantities of plastic bottles, boxes and bags to reappear in people's gardens for thousands of years or the apocalypse, whichever is sooner.

 

[gkerr4]

So what?