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not resolvedHello,
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 :)
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.
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?
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.
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.
The bike station took in mine this weekend
Thanks amir, unfortunately I've just discovered/remembered that they are closed on a Monday so I'll have to go another time.
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.
I think I saw a sign in the Edinburgh Alpkit shop saying they took tyres (and tubes?) for recycling.
Anyone got any recent experience of recycling either tubes or tyres?
Pretty sure Bike Station still does.
I was in Decathlon a couple of weeks ago and they had a big receptacle for inner tubes.
It was full at the time.
If you are looking for places that take tyres and tubes, then the Velorim website is a good place to start https://velorim-group.com/
They list quite a few bike shops in Edinburgh who they collect from.
It is also worth noting that there is a cost to the bike shops for the recycling efforts (https://velorim-group.com/what-we-do/).
Also, that for many years it has been illegal to landfill motor vehicle tyres, but only recently the law has changed to include a ban on bicycle tyres in landfill.
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