Where do you take your old rubber?

[bnschroder]

I have a set of worn out Battlewings in my garage since I mounted the Mitas E07, and I can't find a place to take them for recycling them properly.
Where do you take you old tires if you mail-ordered new ones?

 

[WJBertrand]

Our local recycler takes them for a fee of I think $5 each


-Jeff

 

[escapefjrtist]

Local tire shop, changes $2 each for disposal.

--G

 

[tomatocity]

Dealership where you bought your Tenere.

 

[Checkswrecks]

Look up your county govt web-site for recycling.

 

[fred-houston]

My county has a recycling center that take them for $5.00 a tire.

 

[Stoned]

Cut bead with bolt cutters and the rest of the tire with hack saw, into quarters and throw away in regular trash. Some tires are more difficult than others.

 

[limey]

Cut bead with bolt cutters and the rest of the tire with hack saw, into quarters and throw away in regular trash. Some tires are more difficult than others.

Maybe 20 years ago.

 

[RonH]

Not the enviroment friendly method, but just drop them in a dumpster nearby. Around here there are 500,000 "apartment homes" all of which have dumpsters. Once in a while the city has a special day dedicated to taking tires ect, so I try to use that method, but otherwise use the dumpster. I figure building an "apartment home" that houses 250 people on a parcel of land that previously was a field or a single family home does 100x more damage than I'm doing throwing away a piece of rubber. Heck with it at this point around here. City ruined beyond possible repair now.

 

[JimmyP]

Check with your local Garbage Transfer Station (dump).

Mine will take up to four tires (bicycle ~ semi) on any Saturday for free as long as you are a resident of the county.

 

[Stoned]

Maybe 20 years ago.

Could you elaborate. I actually thought this was a legitimate option.
Pm me if that would be better.

 

[OldRider]

Could you elaborate. I actually thought this was a legitimate option.
Pm me if that would be better.

I agree with you. A lot of landfills bury tires. They have to be cut into pieces or shredded in order to keep them from floating to the surface.

 

[limey]

Could you elaborate. I actually thought this was a legitimate option.
Pm me if that would be better.

Hope I didn't piss you off just saying that's somthing I would have done 20 years a go but now we have a recycling program in Ontario Canada.http://wdo.ca/Programs/used_tires

 

[Stoned]

Hope I didn't piss you off just saying that's somthing I would have done 20 years a go but now we have a recycling program in Ontario Canada.http://wdo.ca/Programs/used_tires

No, not at all, If we had something similar I would take advantage of it. I have taken my old tires to the dealer a couple of times, but they always charge me. Part of my doing my own tires is to save money, so that is a concern.

 

[Pterodactyl]

We live in a rural araea and have to take all our trash to a transfer point. They have a large container for tires of all sorts. No charge but the weight is charged to our 3000 lb yearly allocation. I change 20-25 tires a year.

 

[whisperquiet]

http://www.libertytire.com/

 

[Brick]

Burke county North Carolina has trash collection and the land fill has a couple of trailers for us residents to put old tires in. They have a contract with a company that gets them and recycles them.


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[bnschroder]

Update and recommendation: Took my tires to Walmart and they recycle them for $1.50 a piece. Not a bad price

 

[fredz43]

Update and recommendation: Took my tires to Walmart and they recycle them for $1.50 a piece. Not a bad price

My local Wal Mart wouldn't take mine for recycle. They said they only do that for tires they sell. That is in IL.

 

[OldRider]

The EPA considers tires to be municipal trash, not hazardous material. The OP is in Ga. and Ga. along with most other states allows tires to be buried if they are cut into pieces or shredded. It is against the law everywhere to bury a whole tire as they will float to the top of the ground over a twenty year peroid. Recycling is nice, but not given that option, get out the hacksaw, cut the tire into four pieces and throw it in the trash.

Here is the Ga. law.