Having just done 12000+ very enjoyable miles since May on my TDM900, and lots more miles on my other bikes, I get through quite a few tyres in all year round riding. To keep costs down, I buy mail order then fit and balance them myself, no problem-----untill I find out that my local council recycling centre [re -Tip] want to charge me £4.00 per tyre to dispose of my old tyres commencing from the 1st of November. Diabolical liberty, it used to be £1.00 at a tyre fitting depot. When I questioned a council 'spokesman', he said that it was to discourage people bringing in their old tyres. Its a Tip FFS.
£4.00 Per Tyre?
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Kenyun
, Oct 20 2016 09:00 pm
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Kenyun
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Posted 20 October 2016 - 09:00 pm
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Posted 20 October 2016 - 09:05 pm
Start up a business recycling tyres for £1.
The shread them, and sell them to the people that use them for that playground bouncy surfacing...??
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Posted 20 October 2016 - 09:13 pm
Discourage them from bringing them to the tip ... ie encourage them to dump em in a field/layby/hedge. Brilliant!
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If you want to mark your location on the Carpe map: http://www.carpe-tdm...opic.php?t=5117
Doin valve clearances? Use dappers valve shim exchange program and the job will be carroty - Free (other than you postin me yer shims) for sporting members.
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Posted 21 October 2016 - 06:52 am
A lot of council tips have started charging for all sorts of stuff now. In theory they've always been just for household waste, but have accepted lots of other stuff as well so long as it's not blatantly commercial waste. Now they're starting to charge for anything they don't consider to be household waste. Fair enough councils are short of cash but they're going to spend a shit load more clearing up all the fly tipping than they'll make from the dumps. That's probably a different budget though.
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Posted 21 October 2016 - 08:09 am
From what I see at my local tip (West Lothian Council)...they subcontract collections for waste oil, cardboard, glass bottles, batteries and possibly other waste groups
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These are things which the subcontractor pays the council for, they pay to leave their containers on site and they pay the council by the ton for the waste.
I guess there isn't a subby willing to pay good enough money for waste tyres yet......This suggests there's a goldmine of wealth waiting for anyone who can come up with a product, based on old tyres. I know they crumb them down for playground surfaces....and every racetrack uses tons of them.
Perhaps more racetracks is the answer ? The track surface also made of tyre crumb ?
Edited by fixitsan, 21 October 2016 - 08:13 am.
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Posted 21 October 2016 - 08:20 am
From what I see at my local tip (West Lothian Council)...they subcontract collections for waste oil, cardboard, glass bottles, batteries and possibly other waste groups
.
These are things which the subcontractor pays the council for, they pay to leave their containers on site and they pay the council by the ton for the waste.
I guess there isn't a subby willing to pay good enough money for waste tyres yet......This suggests there's a goldmine of wealth waiting for anyone who can come up with a product, based on old tyres. I know they crumb them down for playground surfaces....and every racetrack uses tons of them.
Perhaps more racetracks is the answer ? The track surface also made of tyre crumb ?
Shouldn't we line motorway central reservations with tyres instead of an exposed concrete wall???
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Posted 21 October 2016 - 11:27 am
I don't have to pay to dump tyres at my local tip.
I asked what happened to the tyres a good while ago and.......... The tyres are collected by an unnamed PLC, frozen with liquid nitrogen, shredded and the steel separated from the nylon/rubber whatever and the resultant products are re-used. Wot for sez I, FIIK sez he. How true? I dunno cos I can remember the news story about how the UK was reycling fridges n freezers properly and in an environmentally friendly way, except we were shipping them to Holland where they went into landfill. Ho hum they all be liars and bollockx merchants who will never have your best interests at heart.
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Posted 21 October 2016 - 12:56 pm
I do know that all rubber products eventually return to a more rubbery state then when made.....and the addition of something chemically can bring the rubber back out......... maybe they're making a huge profit already and just telling everyone there's no money in it !
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Posted 21 October 2016 - 01:25 pm
Knew i had seen this before, here's one of the vids others as well.
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Posted 24 October 2016 - 06:16 am
Where I live, an environmental tax is paid on tire purchase, funding scrap tire handling later on....
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