Do tips take old tyres?

[stripped fred]

As above really? I have a vague recollection that they might not but can anyone confirm for me? Ta

[MarvinsMom]

i have a feeling that the ones near me don't, sorry!!

[KruJoe]

We take ours to a local farmer - he chucks them on his silo to weigh the plastic down.

[beko1987]

My local does, but I had to fill a Form out (Wycombe council)

[Skizzer]

Depends on the local authority.  Ours won't take them but some do.  There's normally a charge for disposal (£1 or £2 per tyre) - I think they're required to charge something under the terms of the disposal licence.  As Beko says, there's paperwork to sign as well.

 

In the past I've taken them to a private contractor near Bridgend, Rob Morris Environmental.  They make them into blocks used in the construction industry.  They charged £1 per tyre, rather apologetically.

[stripped fred]

I wouldn't mind but some local youth thought it would be funny to throw it over the parking sign at the front of our house and now I've got to get rid of it! Just wait till i catch the little hoodlum...

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Ours take tyres. No charge, no paperwork. It's so variable up and down the country you really have to go and see.

[Lankytim]

Wheelie bin it.

 

I'm quite fortunate as I make regular collections of scrap from EMR and I take any unwanted tyres on a little one way holiday when I visit. (EMR don't know what though).

[Noel Tidybeard]

I wouldn't mind but some local youth thought it would be funny to throw it over the parking sign at the front of our house and now I've got to get rid of it! Just wait till i catch the little hoodlum...

report it to council or local mp who will be looking for votes- give them something to brag about that they did for the local community

[Pillock]

Depends if it's in a van.

[derskine]

Mine take two per day.

The lady that works there said "two per car" so I asked "can I bring more in my other car".

Needless to say, I had to go back the next day.

[Twiggy]

If your local tip doesn`t take tyres, then report it to the local council as illegal fly tipping. I understand that they then have to collect and dispose of the offending articles, tyres or otherwise.  Some obnoxious sod has just dumped 7 x  4 x 4 tyres just up the road. Reported a week ago and this afternoon they were still there.

 

£50,000 fine, up to 5 years as a guest of Her Majesty. Unlimited fine if the case gets to the Crown Court.

[Junkman]

My local tip takes almost new ones, as the rear ones on the haunted Rover prove.

[barmatt]

our local tip charges £2.50 per tyre, robbin barstewards, I'm waiting till bonfire night

[cobblers]

Depends on the local authority. Rotherham does, Bolsover don't, but if you just sling them near the gates at 10pm you've done what you can I suppose.

[PiperCub]

My local preferred tyre shop takes them for £1 a time, never tried my local tip (sorry, Recycling Facility......) but imagine they don't as it's very small.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I take my unwanted tyres round to a local garage and chuck them on their pile of used tyres while theyre shut

[sierraman]

Say you did hoy the old tyres over the Tip gate after hours, they'd be obliged to dispose of them.

[Honey Badger]

Say you did hoy the old tyres over the Tip gate after hours, they'd be obliged to dispose of them.

Most local tips here have more CCTV than the local bank, you get classed as a fly tipper if you dump anything near them.

[CortinaDave]

I take my unwanted tyres round to a local garage and chuck them on their pile of used tyres while theyre shut

 

This. its the most painless way

[stripped fred]

I take my unwanted tyres round to a local garage and chuck them on their pile of used tyres while theyre shut

That sounds like a plan!

[Jezzerh]

Chuck them down the lane near my house. That seems to be the accepted practice around here anyway.

[Taff]

I take mine to my local tyre fitter, along with a large jar of Nescafé.

I don't think he puts the Nescafé on his tax returns, mind you

 

 

tapped on the radiator using morse code

[overrun]

Burn them.

Fires solve everything.

[overrun]

This one in Newcastle should be investigated,

 

 

for taking Clover Leaf wheels.

[Vince70]

I would just burn them in the front garden or in the middle of the road Then all your neighbours that didn't witness the eclipse the other day will get to see what one looks like a second time round in the middle of a busy day and be very appreciative (make sure the neighbours washing is out first).

 

Even better still would be if the tyres were still attached to a Laguna II as you could then do everyone a favour and get rid of a horrible mouldy garden ornament in the process that pretends to be a car.

 

Or you could cut them up and put them in little bits down the petrol filler cap and in the dipstick tube of a car your about to weigh in.

That way it's win win as you get more money for the car when it goes over the bridge and less tyres knocking around the place (that can also apply for asbestos sheeting or nuclear waste).

 

Or if none of the above works try selling them as racing slicks on Gumtree to some dubber or chavved corsa owner who hasn't an idea about cars that wears a 3 foot high baseball cap.

 

All of the above will be easier than taking the tyres down my local council tip, as I think it's the only tip in the country that turns you away if you've actually got any rubbish lol.

[strangeangel]

Our local authority takes them, no questions asked & no charge.

 

Failing this, saw them in half and shove them in the wheelie bin.

[D Spares & Tyres]

put them in a black bag then take them down the tip.... you have to pretend to play the game.....

[beko1987]

This! When I was younger I took a load of plastic display signs out if a skip and used them for various things. Cleared out the garage, and had about 100 left...

 

Nah mate, sorry, it looks commercial (I was in the xm with a seats down load of garage shit...)

But they've been in the garage 10 years, surely not?

No

 

Fine...

 

Took them home, put 10 at a time into a binbag and took them down the next day (being careful to not split the bags) and lobbed them all...

[New POD]

The question is : Does your local council want to discourage fly tipping or not ?  Our tip takes anything and everything, as far as I can tell. I once put a polo1.0  short engine into the metal skip, but needed some help.  I have taken tyres there, along with asbestos, in bags, and fridges and nobody bats an eye lid.

 

I have poured brake fluid into the oil collection on the grounds that technically it is, plus once I took 9 x 5 litre containers of old oil (2 years servicing of 3 cars at once as they were never going to get mixed with creosote and painted on the fence.