Corey is right , relationships are the key. It's critical for us at Re-Bicycle Lenawee as we are a small county.
Jim
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On Jan 9, 2012, at 7:05 PM, "Doug Franz" doug@coatesvillebikeworks.org wrote:
<Snicker>
Josh, you just weren’t thinking large enough. BP and Halliburton have both made ecodisasters a profitable line of business. They key is you need to attract enough attention to get the government involved, then you need to make it ugly enough that they just want it to go away. They pay you to stop doing nasty things, and then clean up the mess you made because you’re obviously incompetent.
I’m kinda kidding, but not really.
-Doug
From: thethinktank-bounces@lists.bikecollectives.org [mailto:thethinktank-bounces@lists.bikecollectives.org] On Behalf Of veganboyjosh@gmail.com Sent: Monday, January 09, 2012 1:31 PM To: The Think Tank Subject: Re: [TheThinkTank] Thethinktank Digest, Vol 65, Issue 9
you joke, but burning bicycle (and car) tires was actually part of the business plan for a company i tried to get going.
we would do environmentally destructive things like pour oil into creeks, mountain top strip mines, tire fires, etc, all in an effort to counteract all the carbon credits people were buying.
turns out carbon offset offsets just aren't profitable.
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Reno Bikes renobikeproject@gmail.com wrote: I have said it before, but in case you forgot,
TIRE FIRE!!
On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 3:53 PM, Corey Grazul corey@fitnesscouncil.org wrote: Here in Jackson, MI, we've developed a good relationship with a local auto shop. They throw our old tires with their old tires for no charge. I estimate recycling a couple hundred per year. The relationship was they key.
Corey Grazul Armory Bike Union Jackson, MI
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Message: 1 Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2012 13:37:31 -0500 From: Mark Rehder mark@re-cycles.ca To: The Think Tank thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org Subject: [TheThinkTank] tire recycling Message-ID: 596674C4-FF44-43C0-9275-2033B427F140@re-cycles.ca Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes
Here in Ontario there is a tire recycling program:
https://www.ontariots.ca/sp/index.html
But they won't take bike tires.
For the past five years we've been paying $1 per tire to have our dead ones properly recycled. All of the regular retail shops aside from MEC just throw theirs out (to the best of my knowledge). I'd really like the OTS to include bike tires, and our shop is willing to be a drop- off point. I've written to my MPP but no action from him as of yet (only an acknowledgment by his staff that my email was received).
Then I was informed that the BC program is now taking bike tires.
http://www.tirestewardshipbc.ca/bike.php
Is there anyone on this list with info as to how they got this happening? I guess some sort of critical mass had to be achieved by contacting as many bike stores as possible?
Thanks,
Mark Rehder - Coordinator re-Cycles Community Bike Shop http://re-cycles.ca
Message: 2 Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2012 14:25:11 -0500 From: Andrew Hibma andrewhibma@gmail.com To: The Think Tank thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org Subject: Re: [TheThinkTank] tire recycling Message-ID: CAFpcgBfaDACjQWqpXhhWoWvJUcLn2Jj_rfa-h3ORx5W_jyvZXw@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
We Take ours to the transfer station (Hamilton), and have been able to recycle them there. Depending on the staff member present they can be lenient on the "4 tires per load, per day" rule, especially when we argued that a bike tire does not equal one bike tire. We are trying to make a connection at the city level to make this process less luck based and consistent.
This certainly can be a difficult challenge. At the transfer station we were told that we couldn't throw them out as garbage either, so if they wouldn't take them to recycle we were stuck with a couple hundred tires and no where to put them.
Andrew Hibma New Hope Bike Co-op
www.newhopebikecoop.ca
On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Mark Rehder mark@re-cycles.ca wrote:
Here in Ontario there is a tire recycling program:
https://www.ontariots.ca/sp/**index.htmlhttps://www.ontariots.ca/sp/index.html
But they won't take bike tires.
For the past five years we've been paying $1 per tire to have our dead ones properly recycled. All of the regular retail shops aside from MEC just throw theirs out (to the best of my knowledge). I'd really like the OTS to include bike tires, and our shop is willing to be a drop-off point. I've written to my MPP but no action from him as of yet (only an acknowledgment by his staff that my email was received).
Then I was informed that the BC program is now taking bike tires.
http://www.tirestewardshipbc.**ca/bike.phphttp://www.tirestewardshipbc.ca/bike.php
Is there anyone on this list with info as to how they got this happening? I guess some sort of critical mass had to be achieved by contacting as many bike stores as possible?
Thanks,
Mark Rehder - Coordinator re-Cycles Community Bike Shop http://re-cycles.ca
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