what do you do with your no good tires (dry rot, worn out, etc) ?
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I’m trying to figure this same thing out. We have a bunch now collected from overhauled and recycled bikes. Right now the tires are getting thrown out in the garbage. Doesn’t seem to be any tea options here in Ontario.
Gerald Pyjor Bike Brampton.
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Hi Andrew (nice name!)
At Common Cycle in Ann Arbor, Michigan, I saved up the discarded tires for the summer season and then dropped them off at the recycling center. There was a fee per car-tire unit, so the staff eyeballed my stack and estimated a conversion to car tires, and I paid that amount for the disposal. It was not wildly expensive but I imagine it would add up over time, especially if you have a high volume.
Andrew
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Our local Les Schwab tire store takes them as part of their recycling program.
Kristin Kinnamon
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At the AMS Bike Co-op in Vancouver for a while we had to personally deliver the tires to an industrial recycler in a really bike-unfriendly part of town. We would borrow the student society's pickup truck to do a delivery a few times per year. They charged by the ton. IIRC we also co-operated with other community bike shops to aggregate all our tires for a single delivery.
Whether they take bicycle tires is really up to the individual recyclers, you have to call and ask for specifics. Unfortunately the volumes are usually so low a lot of companies won't think it's worth the hassle - even if you pay a fee.
At smaller shops where I've volunteered the tires just end up in the trash.
Jean-François
On 2019-10-11 12:22 p.m., Kristin Kinnamon wrote:
Our local Les Schwab tire store takes them as part of their recycling program.
Kristin Kinnamon
Sharing Wheels Community Bike Shop
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They make good bungee cords for hauling things on touring racks...
As shims, anti-twist, rub, etc for stuff on handlebars like camera, light, etc mounts...
I've seen a co-op wrap handlebars with them..
Phoenix made bow ties out of some...
Just sayin, get creative...
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At the AMS Bike Co-op in Vancouver for a while we had to personally deliver the tires to an industrial recycler in a really bike-unfriendly part of town. We would borrow the student society's pickup truck to do a delivery a few times per year. They charged by the ton. IIRC we also co-operated with other community bike shops to aggregate all our tires for a single delivery.
Whether they take bicycle tires is really up to the individual recyclers, you have to call and ask for specifics. Unfortunately the volumes are usually so low a lot of companies won't think it's worth the hassle - even if you pay a fee.
At smaller shops where I've volunteered the tires just end up in the trash.
Jean-François On 2019-10-11 12:22 p.m., Kristin Kinnamon wrote:
Our local Les Schwab tire store takes them as part of their recycling program.
Kristin Kinnamon
Sharing Wheels Community Bike Shop
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Dear Think Tank Supporters,
There are things that can be done with used tires. This image was of an old rack that we updated and made a little bit more secure.
To add to the recycling idea. We reuse inner tubes for tie wraps. The wraps are used to tie matched parts together, tie parts onto a bike during an extended repair process, and just an easy to use and reuse organizer tool. I like these over the plastic tie wraps because I can untie them without a tool to cut them off.
Eric Brozell Bike Erie and Pedal Mettle Erie
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They make good bungee cords for hauling things on touring racks...
As shims, anti-twist, rub, etc for stuff on handlebars like camera, light, etc mounts...
I've seen a co-op wrap handlebars with them..
Phoenix made bow ties out of some...
Just sayin, get creative...
On Fri, Oct 11, 2019, 19:02 Jean-François Caron <jfcaron3@gmail.com mailto:jfcaron3@gmail.com> wrote: At the AMS Bike Co-op in Vancouver for a while we had to personally deliver the tires to an industrial recycler in a really bike-unfriendly part of town. We would borrow the student society's pickup truck to do a delivery a few times per year. They charged by the ton. IIRC we also co-operated with other community bike shops to aggregate all our tires for a single delivery.
Whether they take bicycle tires is really up to the individual recyclers, you have to call and ask for specifics. Unfortunately the volumes are usually so low a lot of companies won't think it's worth the hassle - even if you pay a fee.
At smaller shops where I've volunteered the tires just end up in the trash.
Jean-François
On 2019-10-11 12:22 p.m., Kristin Kinnamon wrote:
Our local Les Schwab tire store takes them as part of their recycling program.
Kristin Kinnamon
Sharing Wheels Community Bike Shop
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Tires might be the one bike item typically destined for the landfill.
They are likely toxic, and should not be reused. (maybe repaired, maybe light re use). Schools, for instance, are rethinking the mulching of tires for playground fall areas.
Let's rethink bike tires!
from a 2016 article:
"First off, Continental Tires reports they’ve managed to construct and have successfully tested the first-ever set of tires in which the tread is made from 100 percent dandelion natural rubber used as a polymer. That’s right – dandelions – the scourge of a million lawns.
The official name for the substance is Taraxagum, and it was developed in conjunction with the The Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology, Julius Kuehn-Institute, and EKUSA, Continental says it could put dandelion-based tires into production within the next five to 10 years."
from: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimgorzelany/2016/06/03/tires-made-from-weeds-a...
Grips can be cork, housing can be metal, seats leather, and all sorts of other non/less toxic materials.
Heck, we have a dream to 'grow our own bicycles' here on our free cycles property, fitting with a theme of permaculture.
Bob Giordano, director, free cycles missoula missoula institute for sustainable transportation http://www.freecycles.org/
Just to recommend a book that starts with car tire disposal in san diego and ends with bicycles https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25690420-the-coyote-s-bicycle
On Sat, Oct 12, 2019 at 7:18 AM Eric Brozell eric@bikeerie.org wrote:
Dear Think Tank Supporters,
There are things that can be done with used tires. This image was of an old rack that we updated and made a little bit more secure.
To add to the recycling idea. We reuse inner tubes for tie wraps. The wraps are used to tie matched parts together, tie parts onto a bike during an extended repair process, and just an easy to use and reuse organizer tool. I like these over the plastic tie wraps because I can untie them without a tool to cut them off.
Eric Brozell Bike Erie and Pedal Mettle Erie
On Oct 12, 2019, at 2:33 AM, DancesWithCars danceswithcars@gmail.com wrote:
They make good bungee cords for hauling things on touring racks...
As shims, anti-twist, rub, etc for stuff on handlebars like camera, light, etc mounts...
I've seen a co-op wrap handlebars with them..
Phoenix made bow ties out of some...
Just sayin, get creative...
On Fri, Oct 11, 2019, 19:02 Jean-François Caron jfcaron3@gmail.com wrote:
At the AMS Bike Co-op in Vancouver for a while we had to personally deliver the tires to an industrial recycler in a really bike-unfriendly part of town. We would borrow the student society's pickup truck to do a delivery a few times per year. They charged by the ton. IIRC we also co-operated with other community bike shops to aggregate all our tires for a single delivery.
Whether they take bicycle tires is really up to the individual recyclers, you have to call and ask for specifics. Unfortunately the volumes are usually so low a lot of companies won't think it's worth the hassle - even if you pay a fee.
At smaller shops where I've volunteered the tires just end up in the trash.
Jean-François On 2019-10-11 12:22 p.m., Kristin Kinnamon wrote:
Our local Les Schwab tire store takes them as part of their recycling program.
Kristin Kinnamon
Sharing Wheels Community Bike Shop
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Just to add to what JF said re the Bike Kitchen in Vancouver - we combine tire loads with 2 other community bike shops in town and drive them to a tire processor in a Modo (car share) pickup truck. We don't pay to recycle them anymore, they just take them for free and throw them into a pile of what is mostly semi truck tires. We do have to weigh in/out. They get chipped on site and used for asphalt production (and probably other things I don't know about!)
There used to be a second recycler in town and we had tried for several years to combine tire runs with other bike shops but that never quite got off the ground for a number of reasons.
Thinking about it makes me tired!
*Sunny Nestler*, *Programs Manager* AMS Bike Co-op + Bike Kitchen University of British Columbia 604-822-2453 | thebikekitchen.ca http://thebikekitchen.ca| @BikeKitchenUBC
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Just to recommend a book that starts with car tire disposal in san diego and ends with bicycles https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25690420-the-coyote-s-bicycle
On Sat, Oct 12, 2019 at 7:18 AM Eric Brozell eric@bikeerie.org wrote:
Dear Think Tank Supporters,
There are things that can be done with used tires. This image was of an old rack that we updated and made a little bit more secure.
To add to the recycling idea. We reuse inner tubes for tie wraps. The wraps are used to tie matched parts together, tie parts onto a bike during an extended repair process, and just an easy to use and reuse organizer tool. I like these over the plastic tie wraps because I can untie them without a tool to cut them off.
Eric Brozell Bike Erie and Pedal Mettle Erie
On Oct 12, 2019, at 2:33 AM, DancesWithCars danceswithcars@gmail.com wrote:
They make good bungee cords for hauling things on touring racks...
As shims, anti-twist, rub, etc for stuff on handlebars like camera, light, etc mounts...
I've seen a co-op wrap handlebars with them..
Phoenix made bow ties out of some...
Just sayin, get creative...
On Fri, Oct 11, 2019, 19:02 Jean-François Caron jfcaron3@gmail.com wrote:
At the AMS Bike Co-op in Vancouver for a while we had to personally deliver the tires to an industrial recycler in a really bike-unfriendly part of town. We would borrow the student society's pickup truck to do a delivery a few times per year. They charged by the ton. IIRC we also co-operated with other community bike shops to aggregate all our tires for a single delivery.
Whether they take bicycle tires is really up to the individual recyclers, you have to call and ask for specifics. Unfortunately the volumes are usually so low a lot of companies won't think it's worth the hassle - even if you pay a fee.
At smaller shops where I've volunteered the tires just end up in the trash.
Jean-François On 2019-10-11 12:22 p.m., Kristin Kinnamon wrote:
Our local Les Schwab tire store takes them as part of their recycling program.
Kristin Kinnamon
Sharing Wheels Community Bike Shop
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Speed misreading tires as tubes
On Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 02:33 DancesWithCars danceswithcars@gmail.com wrote:
They make good bungee cords for hauling things on touring racks...
As shims, anti-twist, rub, etc for stuff on handlebars like camera, light, etc mounts...
I've seen a co-op wrap handlebars with them..
Phoenix made bow ties out of some...
Just sayin, get creative...
On Fri, Oct 11, 2019, 19:02 Jean-François Caron jfcaron3@gmail.com wrote:
At the AMS Bike Co-op in Vancouver for a while we had to personally deliver the tires to an industrial recycler in a really bike-unfriendly part of town. We would borrow the student society's pickup truck to do a delivery a few times per year. They charged by the ton. IIRC we also co-operated with other community bike shops to aggregate all our tires for a single delivery.
Whether they take bicycle tires is really up to the individual recyclers, you have to call and ask for specifics. Unfortunately the volumes are usually so low a lot of companies won't think it's worth the hassle - even if you pay a fee.
At smaller shops where I've volunteered the tires just end up in the trash.
Jean-François On 2019-10-11 12:22 p.m., Kristin Kinnamon wrote:
Our local Les Schwab tire store takes them as part of their recycling program.
Kristin Kinnamon
Sharing Wheels Community Bike Shop
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Hey TBR! Once a year our city has a river sweep event where the community comes out and helps clean the banks of the Cuyahoga river. Our co-op is situated along that river, so we collect them through the year, and they let us add to their tire dumpster. From their, I think it gets recycled into playground mulch or something.
Short answer, find some neighborhood clean up event and see if they will partner up with you. Hope that helps!
P.S. I loved your ACE's workshop at NE!
Always, Erik Anderson Volunteer coordinator Ohio City Bicycle Co-op http://ohiocitycycles.org
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