When I've been driving around the local back roads there seems to be a lot more tyres being dumped than ever before.
Question for the builders on here is is there a reason that the construction industry as whole don't/can't use them for building houses?
Genuinely interested as I know that they use them in some third world countries for building houses.
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Thread: Question: Old car tyres
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22-03-2020 03:25 PM #1
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Question: Old car tyres
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25-03-2020 09:15 AM #2
I'd imagine the fumes would be toxic in a fire, so likely to be prevented by building regulations.
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25-03-2020 06:21 PM #3
It's chopped up old tyres that they use for the pellets on astroturf pitches is it not?
I think the UK standard ones don't have as much nasty stuff in them as exists elsewhere (the US for example) although that's them being chopped up and not burnt. I don't think I'd want to be anywhere in the vicinity if they were being burnt.
It would be surprising if the motor industry didn't have a protocol in place for the safe and environmentally friendly disposal of the millions of used tyres we inevitably get through every year.
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27-03-2020 07:45 PM #4
All garages have to pay for the removal of old tyres and it's not cheap. My old boss looked into a tyre shredding machine as a possible earner but the cheapest machine came in at about a quarter of a million so he's still thinking about it.
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