Thread: Tyre Disposal

North Korea uses old tyres to fuel their steam trains

North-Korean Steam locomotive 5 - Narrow gauge - YouTube

Originally Posted by MR LR

The issue is, there is no simple way to dispose of rubber, being a thermo-set polymer, it can only be cured once, and there is only so many children's swing sets needing a base. Rubber chipping is the only means that cured rubber can actually be recycled, unfortunately, the applications are not broad, making it a disposable material.
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Cheers
Will

Hi Will

There are tyre recycling plants that grind the tyres into a powder and that in turn is added back into unprocessed rubber to make a bulking agent for re-processed mining and industrial tyre cases.

I rather suspect there are far more used tyres out there than are currently recycled back into new tyres or new tread on used cases.

Hi Diana,

Yes that's the way in which the rubber can be recycled, as an aggregate in a composite material, the issue is breaking it up, because of the steel belts in modern tyres.

It's actually an area I take great interest, and have an aim to investigate it in my later university years. It's a great aggregate due to it's flexibility, in certain applications!

Cheers
Will

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Tire Recycling

Originally Posted by bee utey

My local Bridgestone shop happily takes all tyres at the going rate, a contractor carts them all away regardless. His only request was that they not be delivered full of soil!

Now as you are living in the ACT I googled "tyre recycling canberra" which came up with:

Recycling services ACT

I have been here for nearly 25 years and never heard of them until now - never googled it either as the ACT Govt claimed to recycle tyres. Begs the question though that if the Govt will only take car tyres, the customer focussed response for the tip attendant should have been to suggest that oversize tyres be taken to the above organisation rather than basically saying not their issue - dear public sort it yourself.

Thanks for the heads up.

Garry

While living on the mid north coast of NSW about three years ago I noticed the local tyre dealer ( with three stores in the region ) had a bloke cutting all the tyres in two with a band saw. The company I worked for also had issues with disposing old tyres so I asked why go to all this effort. Apparently once the tyre is cut into pieces it is no longer considered a tyre & could be disposed of at the local tip without the usual costs pending. This may have changed now but it begs the question, "when is a tyre not a tyre ?"
Cheers Chris.

I stack em up in the middle of the trailer when I fill it for a load to go to the tip. They can't see em when you pull in, and then I chuck em out when they aren't looking - if I drag out a bit of steel or an old telly, they jump on that and while they cart that off to their truck, I chuck the tyres out - never been sprung.

I read an article some time back where tyres were being shredded and used as
road base US I think.Maybe we can run round on just the rim then