Old tyre disposal

Sam Russell

How do I get rid of a few old tyres I have had knocking about for ages?

The local tyre place will not take them.

two wheels good

When I'm buying new tyres I ask the supplier to dispose of any old tyres I may have hanging about at home. But I expect to have to pay him per tyre - four or five Euro each maybe.
I don't know whether local rubbish dumps will accept them. You could phone your local council to ask.

Sh1tbag OToole

Sometimes farmers take them for silage pits. The recycling industry seems to have it all sewn up by enforcing a fairly high negative price for them. 4 or 5 seems expensive, I heard of 2.50 each and one tyre place I go to takes them for free

tom_k

Farmers making pit silage are allowed to keep old tyres to secure silage pits, I think these tyres are to be obtained from licenced waste permit holders but a farmer may take a small quantity off your hands if he/she needed them.

tom_k

Sh1tbag OToole wrote: »

Sometimes farmers take them for silage pits. The recycling industry seems to have it all sewn up by enforcing a fairly high negative price for them. 4 or 5 seems expensive, I heard of 2.50 each and one tyre place I go to takes them for free

Snap! :pac:

Sam Russell

Thanks for the information.

I asked a relative who is a farmer with silage and was immediately told - NO, not since we started wrapping the silage and also - disposal is expensive - particularly tractor tyres.

I also found out disposal runs at €2 + vat for car tyres.

So I must pay.

Sh1tbag OToole

Isn't there a power station up in one of the Nordic countries that uses old tyres as a fuel? Maybe there is a few bob to be made from chartering a ship and brimming the hold with old tyres because people here must pay to get rid of them and that power station might possibly pay some small amount for its fuel

littleredspot

I've been told by 2 tyre companies that it costs them €1 per tyre to get them recycled. Most of them get shipped to Spain to fuel a tyre factory. Try a local community garden they can use them as planters.

Mech1

i gave 4 away free on adverts, paint them white and you could get a few quid.

Advertised them as a Potato growing tower, gone in 2 hours!

Steve

Mech1 wrote: »

i gave 4 away free on adverts, paint them white and you could get a few quid.

Advertised them as a Potato growing tower, gone in 2 hours!

Awesome!

racersedge

Another suggestion to go along with offering them as planters. Your local creche if you have one might take a fancy to them either. We have about eight in our garden and the kids love them - between building towers; rolling them; hiding in them or given that we have a few wide ones - sitting in them. Amazing how interested the kids are in them. Such a setting may even be able use them for planters in their garden or small gravel pits for the kids to play in.

Stigura

Old car tyre makes a brilliant rat baiting station.

Lay tyre down. Put a bit of baton under it, to let them find easy entry. Put bait inside rim. Board over the hole and a breeze block on that. Keeps the bait secure and covered.

Rats get in. Plenty of grub. And they can sit upright, eating it, as they like to do.

Rats are used to old tyres, see? Encounter them all the time.

I mean; I know it's not exactly getting rid of the things. But, it's a bloody good reuse of one or two.

Sam Russell

Stigura wrote: »

Old car tyre makes a brilliant rat baiting station.

Lay tyre down. Put a bit of baton under it, to let them find easy entry. Put bait inside rim. Board over the hole and a breeze block on that. Keeps the bait secure and covered.

Rats get in. Plenty of grub. And they can sit upright, eating it, as they like to do.

Rats are used to old tyres, see? Encounter them all the time.

I mean; I know it's not exactly getting rid of the things. But, it's a bloody good reuse of one or two.

Would you like a few? - for free?

Stigura

'Unfortunately', Sam, I'm retired now. I leave people to deal with their own rats

Put the word about though. Know anyone keeping chickens? Rat magnets they are. Tyre trick's ideal for that situation.

Here's a posh version ~ priced accordingly, I assure ye! :eek:

http://www.killgerm.com/onlinecatalogue/rodent-vertebrate-control/rat-bait-stations/af-tyre-baiter