Tire Disposal

Bird

Does anyone know where to dispose tires in Metro Detroit.
Does anyone know how much companies charge per tire to dispose of them?

mickeyco

How many tire do you have? 1,2,5, 100?

If it's just a few, a tire store will usually take them for a few bucks. Out here we have a yearly hazardous waste drop off and they take them.

If it's many, I have no idea, make tire swings and sell them?

Try calling some dumps.

Glue pine needles on them and sell them as Christmas wreathes?

Start building houses out of tires?
http://www.touchtheearthranch.com/Rhome.htm

State of Michigan Scrap Tire Information Sheet & Contact Information
http://www.michigan.gov (search for used tire disposal)
http://www.deq.state.mi.us/documents...tp-InfoSht.pdf


EPA's Quick Reference Guide to State Scrap Tire Programs
http://www.epa.gov/reg5rcra/wptdiv/s...ires/index.htm
http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/non-hw/m...es/scrapti.pdf

RobertCDF

Burn them.

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mdshunk

I save mine until my annual Earth Day bonfire celebration.

mickeyco

I like posts that make me laugh out loud, but you owe me part of a donut.

mdshunk

In all seriousness, can anyone explain exactly how ordinary folks end up with old tires to get rid of? When I buy tires, the tire shop gets rid of them, and there's a couple of bucks per tire on the bill for disposal. If they're larger tires, and the casings are still good, they take them to send to the recap shop, and I don't pay anything to get rid of them. I never really understood how a guy ends up with old tires.

mickeyco

I have no idea, but every week on trash day, someone has tires out, the trash guys don't pick them up and they eventually disappear, to where I don't know. It might be the few dollar fee that cheapos don't want to pay.

Bird has hauling listed as his trade so I'm guessing it's probably a big load, I know out here when they went to expand Palwaukee airport they found loads and loads of buried tires, I'm guessing it's something like that.

Teetorbilt

md, I was wondering the same thing. I kept an old spare wheel&tire from a totaled truck, it fits one of my boat trailers. That's the only one and it's mounted.

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dougchips

Around here everyone uses the parking lot at Home Creapo to get rid of the tires, old tv's and computer monitors.

slickshift

Which one?
I've got a more than a few gallons of paint I could drop off

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dougchips

All of them have nice parking lots! I don't do it but I find i funny when I am in the parking lot and see carts with old tv's and air conditioners.

I once had a large porch remodel and once I loaded my box truck I found that I had a few items that would not fit in the truck. Since the items might be of use to someone else, I left them on a cart at Lowes. In my heart I was helping the less fortunate? Mostly old windows and cardboard. Luckly, the store manager who was a friend of mine called to see if "I forgot anythig in his parking lot". I felt like a real ass and vowed not to litter again.

Glasshousebltr

I think we're asking the wrong question here.......just the other day I was thinking......How much heat does it take to liquify a tire?......maybe there's something else we could do with them.

Bob

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dougchips

I was at a home show a few years ago and they were chipping them up and using them for mulch for play yards. They had a really nice feel when you walked on them. We could mulch the earth with them....only if they came in cool colors.

slickshift

They do
Actually, that black rubber mulch is pretty popular out here
I've also seen red too
And I've heard it comes in green

100% recycled tires

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mdshunk

Now you're on the right track. If we could liquify them, we could just pour our old tires down the drain. That's good thinking!

K2

Tires make great temporary retaining walls or can reduce the equivlent liquid pressure as secondary retainage for a finished retaining wall. Cable them up and they make great deadmen for a number of applications. They can also hold down your concrete blankets in 80mph wind and tie down tents for the brickies/ concrete guys in subfreezing weather.

Tscarborough

Just don't try using them as artifical reefs. That "great idea" didn't work. Around here they burn them in the cement plant incinerators.