Once a year there is a big River Sweep clean-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_Volunteer_Manual#Rubber_Tubes_and_Tires
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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