Anyone building an Earthship?
Fifty or so tyres on offer.
Contact Martin on 07973661447.
He wants rid asap!
In/near Stroud Gloucestershire.

You sure.

http://www.mfe.govt.nz/publications/waste/end-of-life-tyre-management-jul04/html/page5.html
http://www.mfe.govt.nz/publications/waste/end-of-life-tyre-management-jul04/html/table5-1.html

I am sure we have very strict rules about tyre disposal. Makes me wonder what happens to all the bits that are left on the roads every year and where they go.

Just had quick look and tyres are covered by this:
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2008:312:0003:0030:EN:PDF

Seems you can't just give them away. Sorry to shatter the dream.

And old fridges, washing machines, asbestos, mattresses, CRT TVs, and for some unexplained reason men's magazines that are all wrinkled, actually the last one is in the local woods, why I don't wear flipflops when I am in them

Posted By: SteamyTeaYou sure.

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I am sure we have very strict rules about tyre disposal. Makes me wonder what happens to all the bits that are left on the roads every year and where they go.

Just had quick look and tyres are covered by this:
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2008:312:0003:0030:EN:PDF" rel="nofollow" >http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2008:312:0003:0030:EN:PDF

Seems you can't just give them away. Sorry to shatter the dream.

Yes I'm sure.
These reviews are all about tyres stood in water, which they wouldn't be ... and is only really critical of crumbing tyres that exposes the steel ... which they wouldn't be, so no dream.

Haven't got time at the moment to read through the European reference thoroughly, or find out what happens to tyres once they're "officially" handed over, but I'm guessing this paragraph is as relevant as any:

"The definitions of recovery and disposal need to be
modified in order to ensure a clear distinction between
the two concepts, based on a genuine difference in environmental
impact through the substitution of natural
resources in the economy and recognising the potential
benefits to the environment and human health of using
waste as a resource."

So which is worse,
tyres dry stacked and packed in a wall?
tyres burnt or chipped for re-use in an open environment?