The correct way to dispose of tyres ?
- Thread starter Clive
- Start date
- Location
- Ceredigion
Western Tyres Ltd produce tyre bales to the PAS 108 standard.
Tyre bales are used in many major projects involving landfill engineering including road construction, land erosion, wall construction, roads for wind farms, riverbanks, ponds and dam construction.
Tyre bales are used in many major projects involving landfill engineering including road construction, land erosion, wall construction, roads for wind farms, riverbanks, ponds and dam construction.
- Location
- Ceredigion
I have seen them used for Drainage as well but not sure if that's allowed ,as in Bales that is
- Location
- East Essexshire
Get some cows, and have a heap of silage for them.
Yes you can take them yourself just need a waste license is free. Youll need to ring round your local recycle'rs to see wholl take them at what price. I rang round a week ago wasn't much of a saving compared to getting them collected. Couple of specialist firms for you to try fraser evans & sons ltd 01993700887, kitson recycling ltd 01264736733
Steevo
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- Location
- Gloucestershire
£1 per car tyre, hopefully less, free collection over a certain amount which I'm sure you'll pass.
They aren't too expensive to get rid of.
Local waste firm here wanted to do it per tonne, minimum 2t charge etc. Worked out mega money their way, better to use NTR or similar:
They aren't too expensive to get rid of.
Local waste firm here wanted to do it per tonne, minimum 2t charge etc. Worked out mega money their way, better to use NTR or similar:
- Location
- East Essexshire
I had a new pair of tyres put on the truck last week, and they charged me something like £2.50 a tyre for disposal of the old ones.
With a muddy truck, with a new silage sheet fairly prominent in the open back, I was going to ask how many I'd need to take off their hands to get my new ones for free, but they seemed a bit cheesed off at having to balance AT tyres, without me winding them up about disposal costs!
With a muddy truck, with a new silage sheet fairly prominent in the open back, I was going to ask how many I'd need to take off their hands to get my new ones for free, but they seemed a bit cheesed off at having to balance AT tyres, without me winding them up about disposal costs!
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- Location
- Cumbria
When I was a child, a field nearby had a very large hole in the middle, which I think was the result of a mine collapse. The hole was about 100m dia by 20-30m deep.
It was filled with tyres by a local tyre disposal company, and top-soiled, you would not know where it was today. Don't know if there was/is any environmental damage, nothing has ever been reported.
It often makes me wonder what would happen if future generations ever dig it up, and how many other's are like it in the UK.
It was filled with tyres by a local tyre disposal company, and top-soiled, you would not know where it was today. Don't know if there was/is any environmental damage, nothing has ever been reported.
It often makes me wonder what would happen if future generations ever dig it up, and how many other's are like it in the UK.
- Location
- North West
- Location
- Ceredigion
Mobile Baler would be the answer. I tried to buy some Bales but haulage made them to expensive as they weigh a lot
Chae1
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
5th November
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
Probably. What do you think happened with all the black plastic we sent to China for years...
- Location
- West Wales
A lot as I know a few farms that got rid of their old tyres by digging massive holes, I know 1 had someone out from EA asking what the heat was from underground a field of corn a few years after a big pile of tyres were put in.
I give the odd 1 to schools for children to sit around when I’m asked for tyres.
they can make a good windbreak if stacked correctly and others grow potatoes in them in the garden as a tower? Maybe sell them on FB as 5’a for people’s garden potato project?
Cab-over Pete
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- Location
- Kenilworth, Warwickshire
Load them up in the dark and take them to tip in a layby.
That’s what some buggers seem to find acceptable anyway.
That’s what some buggers seem to find acceptable anyway.
- Location
- East Sussex
I’ll second kitson recycling, been using for quite a few years, no problems and correct paperwork.
- Location
- The North
tricky with this as you will pay a company with all the correct paperwork and if you ask them what happens to them, you are then enlightened to the fact they are bailed and sent to India for 'recycling'
does that make it ok that ive used this company?
Some local authorities send their rubbish to incinerators, begs the question are they better off in a wheelie bin at least you know there not been dumped in india? and actually end up making power...
without being a pr*ck i really struggle with this, sending rubbish abroad to pollute foreign countries is not ok regardless of what paperwork you get
does that make it ok that ive used this company?
Some local authorities send their rubbish to incinerators, begs the question are they better off in a wheelie bin at least you know there not been dumped in india? and actually end up making power...
without being a pr*ck i really struggle with this, sending rubbish abroad to pollute foreign countries is not ok regardless of what paperwork you get
spin cycle
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- Location
- north norfolk
judging by some of the replies in the 'plastic thread' it would appear burning them is still acceptable
...i suppose you could wait til they bring back straw burning and tow them burning round the stubble field?
- Location
- East Essexshire
If they're tractor tyres, fitness types always want them for flipping over and hitting with a sledgehammer 
In all seriousness, you could charge decent money to deliver a clean tyre to these people, or matched pairs or sets to people running these boot camp fitness things.
In all seriousness, you could charge decent money to deliver a clean tyre to these people, or matched pairs or sets to people running these boot camp fitness things.