Ditching old car tyres, HOW??

[CortinaDave]

one of the local tyre places has a big pile of scrap tyres lying out the back of their garage. i simply nip round and add any duffers i have to their pile when theyre shut

[Lankytim]

  On 31/01/2017 at 06:28, Cavcraft said:

Please take them to Bumpers Lane council tip in Chester. The trick is to start taking things out slowly and put them into the correct bin, then as you get to you last ten items play 'wrong skip roulette' with the miserable old bastard who works there. Award yourself 5 points for each piece of cardboard you put in 'non-recycle', 10 points for chipboard in 'waste wood only' and 20 points for tyres in the metal skip. The rules state you have to dump the lot before he shouts 'OI!' and starts moaning at you, and you have to wheel spin off with your boot still open.

 

I regularly do this with other crap like black bin bags of rubbish (which for some reason they won't take). I'm well practiced with the lines "you what mate?" and "sorry mate, what was that?" as he shouts at me and I speed-walk over to the packer with 8 black bin bags in each arm, dumping over the side just before saying "oh sorry, mate, I didn't hear you".

 

When I picked up the LDV it had a load of old crap in the back, carpet offcuts and an old mattress. There's a tip in Bolsover which was on my way home so I A framed the van in to try and dump the rubbish. The hi-viz jacket brigade literally sprinted over to the sign written van and I was soon having a 4 way conversation, trying to explain the situation to them. Eventually they let me dump the mattress as it wasn't trade waste and the carpet obviously was, as it was a sign written van.

 

Anyway, this tip takes tyres, they had a couple of huge bins full of them. Don't fancy an hours drive to dump tyres though.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Board game or X-Box?

[Cavcraft]

The next time I buy a car that contains bin bags of the previous owner's rubbish, I'm going to go back at 3.00am and lob them in their neighbour's garden. 

[oldcars]

  On 31/01/2017 at 17:24, Cavcraft said:

The next time I buy a car that contains bin bags of the previous owner's rubbish, I'm going to go back at 3.00am and lob them in their neighbour's garden. 

The car or there rubbish? 

[cobblers]

  On 31/01/2017 at 17:09, Lankytim said:

When I picked up the LDV it had a load of old crap in the back, carpet offcuts and an old mattress. There's a tip in Bolsover which was on my way home so I A framed the van in to try and dump the rubbish. The hi-viz jacket brigade literally sprinted over 

 

 

 

They must have "gentlemans agreements" to turn a blind eye, I always see flippin plasterers and whatnot in their vans offloading stuff there, they seem well slack. Unless you get one of the young lads, he seems quite keen.

 

In one day I did something like 15-20 trips with 3 big tubs of hardcore and plasterboard and they didn't say owt even though you're only allowed two tubs a week.

I was driving a Fiat 500 though, but you'd have though they'd have caught on as I was doing constant round trips for hours (I only live about 3 or 4 minutes away)

[Lankytim]

Apparently the boss was about, so they had to be careful.

 

Just googled Bolsover tip and they take 4x car tyres at a time FOR FREE, as do all Household waste facilities in Derbyshire. Nearest to me would be Buxton.

[greengartside]

 

This bloke used to put old tyres on his bonfires, which had some dead people in them.

 

This helps in no way whatsoever.

[blackboilersuit]

South Lanarkshire Council, North Lanarkshire Council and Glasgow District Council (the 3 around me) all say no to tyres. The official line is take your old tyres to the same place you bought your new ones from for disposal. Well I buy my bike tyres from a warehouse 300 miles away so that's no good to me. 

I cut the sidewalls out with a stanley knife and then use cable ties to bundle up the 3 parts small enough to go in a bin bag. I then drop the said bin bag in the bin and let the council take it all to landfill. Fuck the environment and the polar bears! 

Car tyres I don't change myself so just pay the disposal fee at the fitting station.

[stephen01]

Find the LDV up with them and I'll collect both the tyres and the LDV and dispose of them both for you. ðŸ˜

[DodgeRover]

  On 31/01/2017 at 17:09, Lankytim said:

I regularly do this with other crap like black bin bags of rubbish (which for some reason they won't take). I'm well practiced with the lines "you what mate?" and "sorry mate, what was that?" as he shouts at me and I speed-walk over to the packer with 8 black bin bags in each arm, dumping over the side just before saying "oh sorry, mate, I didn't hear you".

 

When I picked up the LDV it had a load of old crap in the back, carpet offcuts and an old mattress. There's a tip in Bolsover which was on my way home so I A framed the van in to try and dump the rubbish. The hi-viz jacket brigade literally sprinted over to the sign written van and I was soon having a 4 way conversation, trying to explain the situation to them. Eventually they let me dump the mattress as it wasn't trade waste and the carpet obviously was, as it was a sign written van.

 

Anyway, this tip takes tyres, they had a couple of huge bins full of them. Don't fancy an hours drive to dump tyres though.

They must have been having a bad day, I've cleared a load of stuff out of the garden and taken it in with the transit and they've helped me unload. They aren't happy about you trying to take anything away though

[gm]

  On 31/01/2017 at 17:47, blackboilersuit said:

South Lanarkshire Council, North Lanarkshire Council and Glasgow District Council (the 3 around me) all say no to tyres. The official line is take your old tyres to the same place you bought your new ones from for disposal. Well I buy my bike tyres from a warehouse 300 miles away so that's no good to me.

I cut the sidewalls out with a stanley knife and then use cable ties to bundle up the 3 parts small enough to go in a bin bag. I then drop the said bin bag in the bin and let the council take it all to landfill. Fuck the environment and the polar bears!

Car tyres I don't change myself so just pay the disposal fee at the fitting station.

nip along the m8 to west lothian tip in the deans ind est, they took a bunch of car tyres for free a couple of years back. I have no idea how I ended up with loose tyres, I usually just pay the fitters to get rid.

[blackboilersuit]

  On 31/01/2017 at 19:41, gm said:

nip along the m8 to west lothian tip in the deans ind est, they took a bunch of car tyres for free a couple of years back. I have no idea how I ended up with loose tyres, I usually just pay the fitters to get rid.  

 

Thanks for the tip (pun intended). I've just checked the website and West Lothian Council do indeed take tyres at the Deans Depot only. Up to 5 per visit.

 

The polar bears will be over the moon the next time my bike needs tyres  

[New POD]

I have taken tyres to my local tip. they seem to have a special skip for them.

 

But recently I have put them in the back garden and grown tomato plants in them.  The snails and slugs don't like the rubber, and if you get the soil level right, you can hide slug pellets in the tyre on top of the soil, where the dog can not reach.

[twosmoke300]

I've got 130 being collected on Thursday . Managed to find somewhere for a £1 plus vat per tyre . ( some places are 1.50 + )

Waste transfer note too

[roygill]

£1 per tyre, where you located ?

 

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[SiC]

... which are then later found abandoned floating down a river.

[twosmoke300]

Cornwall

[Captain Furious]

A friend of mine uses them for starting bonfires, I was skeptical to say the least, but after seeing it in action I can testify that they're really, really good at starting fires!

 

It's no wonder it's the weapon of choice for nefarious types to torch speed cameras, which I don't* condone* in the slightest.

[inconsistant]

Paint them white and wear them.

[castros_bro]

[sierraman]

If you live near a harbour, someone with a boat might make use of them for bufffers. Really scraping the barrel for suggestions now.

[gm]

take them to Driftland and make your fortune

[Lankytim]

  On 01/02/2017 at 11:05, castros_bro said:

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What the hell are they doing with them if they're collecting them for 60p each??

[Bobthebeard]

  On 01/02/2017 at 13:23, Lankytim said:

What the hell are they doing with them if they're collecting them for 60p each??

Seems to be 80p each....

Probably selling them to the NHS for £5 each. The NHS have no use for them at all, but buy them anyway. Check out " completewasteofcashnhs.com" for details.

[castros_bro]

  On 01/02/2017 at 13:23, Lankytim said:

What the hell are they doing with them if they're collecting them for 60p each??

 

Oh look!  They even include their website name so you can check out he type of things  they do with the tyres they collect.

 

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[Lankytim]

I remember a guy in Brum set up a business collecting scrap tyres for a quid each or something , he rented a large warehouse from the council but didn't pay any rent. By the time the council repossessed the warehouse he was long gone and had left them a few thousand tyres as a present.

[xkjagnz]

The recycling thing is genius really .......... some one pays you to take the raw materials off their hands and then you process it and sell it. WIN WIN!!!

[twosmoke300]

Apart from the thousands of pounds worth of equipment , staff , waste licences , vehicles insurance etc etc etc

[DodgeRover]

I was thinking a sea wall made of old tyres would probably work quite well, enough give in the rubber to absorb a little of the impact. I'm surprised nobody has tried them as coastal defences.