build a mold, stack them up and pour in a binder of some sort to make planters for someone's garden! we don't have pics yet but this project is in the works at bike saviours. i forget what the binder is made out of.
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Jim Sheehan sheehan.jim@gmail.com wrote:
Once a year there is a big River Sweephttp://www.ohiocanal.org/riversweep.htmclean-up here, and we have a deal with the County to take our bike tires with the dumped car tires they collect -- we tie them in bunches with tubes and their vols pick them up. If we miss that, a call to the County has gotten us into the collection center for free -- the one time I neglected to call (on a day I had the U-haul anyway) they charged me $77 for 3/4 ton.
We scrap about 1 1/2 ton per year, but we have pretty high standards for used tires, and pretty high prices for our sale bikes (about half of which get new tires), compared to most co-ops -- a few too many tire failures came back for us to take chances.
So try calling the Solid Waste District and plead non-profit: the amount of rubber you would add to what they dispose of already is tiny, and when you figure in all the bikes you're keeping out of the wastestream... Jim
Jim Sheehan Director, Ohio City Bicycle Co-op 1823 Columbus Rd Cleveland, Ohio 44113 216 830 2667 OhioCityCycles.org
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 9:19 PM, Jonathan Morrison < jonathan@slcbikecollective.org> wrote:
We take it to the local car tire recycler and they do it for free...
http://www.bikecollectives.org/wiki/index.php?title=SLC_Bicycle_Collective_V...
Sincerely,
Jonathan Morrison Executive Director Salt Lake City Bicycle Collective 2312 S. West Temple Salt Lake City, UT 84115 w: 801-328-2453 c: 801-688-0183 f: 801-466-3856 www.slcbikecollective.org
The mission of the Salt Lake City Bicycle Collective is to promote cycling as an effective and sustainable form of transportation and as a cornerstone of a cleaner, healthier, and safer society. The Bicycle Collective provides refurbished bicycles and educational programs to the community, focusing on children and lower income households.
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 7:12 PM, Maryalice Walker maryalice.walker@gmail.com wrote:
Are the tires still safe to ride on? We could use tires out here in
Maine
:-)
Maryalice
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 4:24 PM, chris turner <chris.0.turner@gmail.com
wrote:
Hey, gang.
At Off the Chain, in Anchorage, we have piles and piles of used tires.
We
can't use all of them, are tired of paying to store them, and don't
want to
throw so much rubber into a landfill. What are other shops doing with
all of
their extra, un-useable tires?
-Chris Off the Chain www.offthechainak.org
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