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Recycle old tyres and inner tubes?

(10 posts)
  • Started 11 years ago by lionfish
  • Latest reply from urchaidh
  • This topic is not resolved

  1. lionfish
    Member

    Hello,
    I was wondering if there's somewhere I can take old tyres etc for recycling/disposal? The bike station? Or should I just bin them?

    (I remember when we scrapped our old car we had £5 taken off its value for each of the tyres that needed dealing with).

    Thanks :)

    Posted 11 years ago #

  2. kaputnik
    Moderator

    I think Arellcat previously mentioned that the council tip wouldn't take bicycle tyres? Something to do with lacking the scrap iron content of a car tyre?

    If you find out, let us know, I've a few years worth of dead Gatorksins accumulating in my attic.

    Posted 11 years ago #

  3. BikeFan
    Member

    Check out this site which makes belts from old tyres/tubes. Maybe start a new sideline if you have enough kicking around?

    Posted 11 years ago #

  4. SRD
    Moderator

    Those are nice! I got Mr SRD a wallet made out of recycled tyres a while ago from a fair-trade website and my main impression was that it was incredibly heavy. Don't know if bike tyre ones would be lighter?

    Posted 11 years ago #

  5. lionfish
    Member

    Thanks people. Although I could set up as a belt maker, I think I'll leave this as "not resolved" :P and continue stockpiling old tyres/tubes.

    Posted 11 years ago #

  6. acsimpson
    Member

    Does anyone know if ether the bike station or Bike Co-op are still collecting used inner tubes? I have a number of them waiting to go somewhere.

    Posted 2 years ago #

  7. amir
    Member

    The bike station took in mine this weekend

    Posted 2 years ago #

  8. acsimpson
    Member

    Thanks amir, unfortunately I've just discovered/remembered that they are closed on a Monday so I'll have to go another time.

    Posted 2 years ago #

  9. steveo
    Member

    the council tip wouldn't take bicycle tyres

    In the interest of closing a long unresolved topic, I had a couple of mtb tyres with me last time I was at the recycling centre and the dude there took them off me and put them with the other tyres.

    Posted 2 years ago #

  10. urchaidh
    Member

    I think I saw a sign in the Edinburgh Alpkit shop saying they took tyres (and tubes?) for recycling.

    Posted 2 years ago #

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