Waste Silage Tyre Disposal - Costs?

Rowley Birkin QC

Afternoon all. There's a mix of car and truck waste tyres at home that were previously used for covering pits. They're no longer needed and a bit of an eyesore, especially after the covid cleanup that has has happened!

I'm trying to get a handle on costs but no websites seem to give detail on same. If I had to estimate, there's probably 200-230 car tyres and 100-120 truck tyes. We're based in North Cork and don't have means to transport the tyres ourselves for any of the bring days. I've seen options for collection, shredding on site etc. without any costs attached.

Just wondering how others have fared when looking into sorting this out. The oul lad has a bit of a "wait and see" attitude in hopes of a scheme being funded but from what I've read (https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2021-03-31/227/#pq-answers-227), this wouldn't seem to cover old waste tyres.

Cheers.

mallowgarry

There was a subsidised bring scheme a few years ago, and the entire nation is holding its breath waiting for the next one. The big switch from pit to bales, and from car to lorry tyres has left everyone with some sort of pile of mixed rubber lying about. There was talks of another scheme, but Covid has set the entire programme back, although circular economy etc. might accelerate things.

For a commercial premises, the charge is about €10 for a lorry tyre, and maybe €2 per car tyre. Some of the collectors will turn up with a grab lorry. It may be a per-weight basis for farmyard collections.

Ireland generates about 7 million waste tyres per year, AES Bord na Mona have started crumbing them, and Irish Cement just got permission to burn 1 million tyres per year in the Mungret Cement plant. But there is still an unmerciful glut of them lying around farmyards.

I thought they would last forever, but I saw a pile last week where the tyres have all started to come apart, chunks of rubber and shedding wire.

Whatever you do, use a Registered Collector from the list here - https://repakelt.ie/membership/collector-list/

I'll PM you the name of the collector I would use

Maxxx17

Thank you for the information. It was very helpful for me.

Bog Man 1

I went to O Tolle skip Hire and he charged me around €215/tonne . There were quite a lot of tyres and there was not even a tonne in it .

https://www.otooleskiphire.ie/

wrangler

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117778330#Comment_117778330

That sounds very cheap, Crumb rubber collected mine years ago when recycling wasn't all the go , they charge €2 at the time, cost me about 2500

patsy_mccabe

Any update on this? Tidied up a pile of old silage pit tyres today. Would love to get rid of them.

Good loser

Could you bury them?

wrangler

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121572669#Comment_121572669

I'm sure that's illegal dumping nowadays.

You could try these guys, it won't be cheap.

https://www.crossmoretyres.com/contact/

Wildsurfer

Same here have an ever growing pile of bad quality tyres I'm separating out as I strip pits, was hoping there'd be a recycling facility for them at some stage.

patsy_mccabe

It's typical Ireland. You can't burn, bury or dump them yet none of the local municipal waste centres will take them.

ruwithme

Next time there's a digger on site. A BIG hole in the ground. Surrounded by channel, they'll never move & no one need ever know. Recycling old tyres, whatever that might mean, will be a far greater burden on the climate & environment. Imagine if all the pit tyres in Ireland had to " recycled "

We'd all feel like we'd " done the right thing" fluffy thoughts

Good loser

My silage is so scarce this year I may have to feed them to the cattle. Start with the fresh car tyres, I suppose, and work up to the lorry ones?

Lime Tree Farm

Don't the cement factories in EU burn tyres, where do they source shredded tyres from, couldn't we ship them off to them.

https://wastemanagementreview.com.au/turning-tyre-waste-into-fuel/

Cavanjack

I’d imagine there will be another scheme where we can drop them off. There was one years ago and a huge number were collected. There is unused money from the department of agriculture returned every year, pity it couldn’t be used for something like this but that would be thinking.

roosterman71

Don't most "recycled" tyres end up in some massive dump in Africa somewhere?

Rowley Birkin QC

Is there any campaign from the IFA to get another scheme up and running?

(3 years later the tyre pile remains at home 😑)

ABitofsense

"There is also a move to hold tyre collection events for farmers, where surplus car tyres from silage pits can be taken for free disposal.

Details will be announced when dates and venues have been finalised."

Hopefully something comes out of this as ive 300+ tyres to get rid off that now part of a ditch their stack there so long!

Wildsurfer

Brilliant, I got tired of waiting for this scheme to arrive, spent €800 to get them taken away this summer! Where did you see that published?

ABitofsense

Bloody link didnt attach. Its up on Agriland today

patsy_mccabe

https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/dublin-based-company-to-introduce-tyre-recycling-scheme/

Rowley Birkin QC

That'd be great if it came to pass. 🤞