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Doesn't seem to be anything on here about this and it seemed to me to be a really positive thing.
I for one have a stack of tyres from the 90s that'll never get used again (panaracer spikes in white, anyone?) and must confess to having stuck a few in the black bin. Hopefully, no longer...
Some tyres are very sought after by the retro crowd.
Take Onza Porcupines in white. By all accounts utterly shite, but the last I saw sell, admittedly during the height of retroness, was £80 each and they were in pretty poor condition.
Sounds like a good idea since I imagine most just get chucked in the bin, though I'm not sure charging the consumer even a small amount is going to wash, sadly.
I just take mine to the tip and put them with the car tyres, which I presume is ok. Perhaps councils need to encourage people to do this (poster in LBSs?).
Does anyone actually throw tyres out? I've got 15 year old tyres still lying round in a pile.
In the UK, over 44,000 tonnes of tires and inner tubes go to landfill, each and every year.
I think that from most of the posts on this forum, this statement is not true, they are in the back of people's garages 😁 never to be discarded.
Most 'waste' statistics are made up. I assume it is derived from ### tonnes of tyres / inner tubes are sold each year so by default they must be landfilled (regardless of whether your residual waste is incinerated).
Anyhow, good to see a recycling solution, if you can prise people's used tyres out of the garages 😁. Not going to admit how many spare tyres I have (lockdown spare aside). My dry weather tyres are stored in hope, getting quite old now 🤔.
Don't start me with the inner tubes in trees either 😤
I've always just left mine in the tyres heap at the council tip. Or put them in the tyre vault of course.
binman
Full MemberDon’t start me with the inner tubes in trees either 😤
Where else would I get new inner tubes if not for the Inner Tube Tree halfway down caddon bank?
The scheme website says how they process the tyres: "Bicycle tyres are shredded and granulated to separate them into their constituent: rubber, steel and fibre"
But I bought expensive Schwalbe SuperGravity tyres and they are happily doing this all by themselves as I ride them! Amazing! I only need to remember to collect all the bits.
I only need to remember to collect all the bits
Would be interesting to weigh a tyre when new then again before disposing of it (after cleaning inside and out), see how much rubber it's deposited on the trails.