What's the actual cost of tyre disposal?

[Bill]

Just thinking, as you do when you've got a load of old tyres to get rid of...

The tip charges £5 a tyre, the local tyre place £1.50 (ish iirc...) So what's the actual cost?

[Dog Star]

Go to a tip that doesn’t charge.

[paradigital]

Find a local karting/destruction derby/motorcross/etc track that uses them for barriers?

[InitialDave]

Absolutely nothing if they fit in a wheelie bin in a black bag.

[normalbloke]

Isn’t tyre disposal the reason a sawzall was invented?

[The spinner of plates]

Just burn them in the front garden.

[rxe]

normalbloke said:

Isn’t tyre disposal the reason a sawzall was invented?

Sthil saw. Takes 30 sec to slice them into quarters.

[Bill]

Dog Star said:

Go to a tip that doesn’t charge.

I'm not prepared to travel that far!

Likewise to all the chopping suggestions (and the comedy burning one...) I CBA with the hassle. I'll just take them back to the local tyre place where they came from when they do my new tyres.

I was just curious to see if anyone knew the actual cost.

[bluezedd]

I just use a knife to cut the tyre where the tread meets the sidewall so you end up with 2 doughnuts and a floppy tread. The bin men do the rest.

If the tyre can go in whole without getting stuck to th sides then it'll leave that way

EDIT: I remember in a documentary they mentioned 80p cost that I saw a while back. The documentary was about criminal folk renting big units, filling them with used tyres then leaving the landlord with the mess

I agree with you that its probably not worth the savings if you're willing to pay for fitting the tyres.

Edited by bluezedd on Friday 11th June 12:21

[gazza285]

I don't know about the cost, but I am at the Cemex plant in Rugby, the tyres are chipped and burned in the furnace here, along with a great deal of plastic waste.

[Cold]

There's a lane near me that seems to be a regular drop-off and collect area for used tyres. It appears to be a free service.

[Pica-Pica]

This is where they go.

[s p a c e m a n]

gazza285 said:

I don't know about the cost, but I am at the Cemex plant in Rugby, the tyres are chipped and burned in the furnace here, along with a great deal of plastic waste.

From a Tilbury tanker driver.

It can't be that cheap because people dump scrap 40ft trailers around here filled with tyres on a regular basis.

[stevemcs]

It used to cost us just under £1 per tyre but after other countries stopped taking them its gone up to just under £2 per tyre. Cost of import has also gone up and for us added £5 per tyre.