- Location
- Leicester/England
As long as they are produced to the PAS108 standard then they aren't a waste http://www.westerntyres.co.uk/assets/pdf/PAS108.pdf
Tyre disposal
- Thread starter Fiveospades
- Start date
As long as they are produced to the PAS108 standard then they aren't a waste http://www.westerntyres.co.uk/assets/pdf/PAS108.pdf
holywell farmer
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- Location
- holywell, north wales
think there machine on the market which can bale up tyres, tying them off with metal straps into a bundle.
- Location
- Acton Scott, South Shropshire
We were operating one up until 2012 (?) but that one went to Ireland - not sure if there is anyone operating one now
I send a load in now and again to tidy up. It isn't a whole lot of money, and it's better than the swan vesta option, which might (rightly) land you in hot water.
speaking of hot water...a case down here a few years ago centred on these bales being used in various situations to get around landfill/disposal tax.
(Horsey menage banks come to mind)
The EA got after the perpetrators in a big way, and chased em to court.
Fiveospades
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- Location
- Norfolk Broads
The Environment Agency used a number of used car tyres to combat erosion of the broads river banks caused by wash from boat traffic. Poles were driven in to the banks and the tyres placed over the poles and wired together, reeds soon colonised the tyres and were very successful in combatting the erosion. Pity the EA did not use this type of protection more as it would have been a cheap and plentiful way of flood protection. The trial lengths are still in place 30 or so years after placement.
We took an ifor Williams stock trailer with about 40 In ranging from car tyres to tractor rears cost about £80 for the lot, some were still on rims and got a discount for them for the scrap value
- Location
- Near Beeston Castle
Exactly.
If you can find a firm to take them to it doesn’t cost a great deal at all, plus you get the paperwork and it’s all above board.
- Location
- northumberland
was just thinking the other day why they don't use tyre to stop erosion or build flood defences
- Location
- northumberland
on a tyre disposal topic did anyone see the BBC program on wednesday night "Earth from space" can't remember where in the world it was but from space you could see a huge black patch, when zoomed in on it was waste tyres in a desert somewhere.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p072n8m0/earth-from-space-series-1-4-changing-planet
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p072n8m0/earth-from-space-series-1-4-changing-planet
ollie989898
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Burn them to make electricity.
Kuwait I think.
From the Mail.
There were 5 Million tyres estimated to be dumped in Hampole Quarry at one point.
- Location
- northumberland
that's the 1, makes our attempts at recycling look pathetic
- Location
- Near Beeston Castle
There’s a very good chance that it is our recycling!
- Location
- East Yorkshire
There was a plant in the uk designed to burn tyres, but I believe someone said it closed due to technical issues. You’d think it wouldn’t be beyond mankind’s ingenuity to make it work.
ollie989898
Member
Be fine with some natural gas supplied in to keep it red hot. Kuwait has a fair bit of natural gas from memory...
Something like 100k Tyres reach end of life every day in the UK.
Big scale Pyrolysis has been on the cards for years and multiple reinventing the wheel of shipping shredded tyres out to 3rd World and Desert Areas to burn and produce energy etc.
Plenty of used Complete Shredding/ Ganulator setups for sale where the reinvented wheel had square sides.
Big scale Pyrolysis has been on the cards for years and multiple reinventing the wheel of shipping shredded tyres out to 3rd World and Desert Areas to burn and produce energy etc.
Plenty of used Complete Shredding/ Ganulator setups for sale where the reinvented wheel had square sides.
- Location
- Central Scotland
That lot would cover quite a big silage pit
They used to burn them in our local cement works, odd time or two it went wrong and burnt too cool and produced lots of black smoke