The correct way to dispose of tyres ?

Clive

Staff Member
Moderator
Location
Lichfield
We have a bit of a pile building up that needs getting rid of ? (properly)

what do you pay to disposed of old farm tyres ? are there places you can take them yourself to keep costs down ?
 

Derrick Hughes

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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.
 

gorgous

Member
Location
Bucks
We have a bit of a pile building up that needs getting rid of ? (properly)

what do you pay to disposed of old farm tyres ? are there places you can take them yourself to keep costs down ?
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
 

bovrill

Member
Mixed Farmer
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!
 
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thesilentone

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Livestock Farmer
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.
 

Phil P

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Arable Farmer
Location
North West
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Al R

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
West Wales
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.
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?
 

Matt77

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
East Sussex
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
I’ll second kitson recycling, been using for quite a few years, no problems and correct paperwork.
 

Farmer_Joe

Member
Livestock Farmer
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 :confused:
 

spin cycle

Member
Location
north norfolk
We have a bit of a pile building up that needs getting rid of ? (properly)

what do you pay to disposed of old farm tyres ? are there places you can take them yourself to keep costs down ?

judging by some of the replies in the 'plastic thread' it would appear burning them is still acceptable :rolleyes: ...i suppose you could wait til they bring back straw burning and tow them burning round the stubble field?
 

bovrill

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
East Essexshire
If they're tractor tyres, fitness types always want them for flipping over and hitting with a sledgehammer :scratchhead:
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.
 

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