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

On Jan 7, 2012, at 4:40 PM, thethinktank-request@lists.bikecollectives.org wrote:

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> Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2012 13:37:31 -0500
> From: Mark Rehder <mark@re-cycles.ca>
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> Subject: [TheThinkTank] tire recycling
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> 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
>
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> 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
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> 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
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>
> 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.html<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<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
>>
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> what about recycling them inshop and selling products made from them?
> http://www.uncommongoods.com/product/bike-tread-belt
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> On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Andrew Hibma <andrewhibma@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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.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
>>>
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