Thread: Tyre Disposal

I have quite a few tyres lying around the place and yesterday decided to get rid of a few - I ended up with 6 medium to small car tyres and one old 9.00x16 off the 101.

Our local tip advertises that they will take "car" tyres for a cost of $4 each - sounded fine by me.

I turn up at the tip, money in hand and the response was -"we cannot take the tractor tyre" (meaning the 9.00x16) - I indicated that it wasn't a tractor tyre but a 4wd tyre - after a bit of argie bargie he relucatntly accepted the tyre making the point it was outside their policy guidelines which I now understand.

So how do an individual dispose of 4wd tyres when the tip will not take them. My experience is that tyre dealers will only take tyres that are taken in as part of the process of buying new tyres.

If the tip had not taken the tyre I did threaten to dump it in the bush but would have never done it (but it did help in the discussion) - I would have cut it into pieces that would have fitted into the garbage bin and over a couple of weeks sent it to the tip that way.

So where do you get rid of these things - I can understand why people who want to do the right thing often do not.

Garry

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.

I can understand why bogans have created a tire pile at menai, although I will never contribute to it myself.

I wonder what the possibilities are for a chopped-rubber, powered electricity generator.... (I should stop publisising my ideas...).

(Our tyre all go to the tip, the scratch their heads when they see and 880x120 veteran car skinny though!)

Cheers
Will