What happens to used car tyres?
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some used tires are being used as alternative fuel, but a lot of them are being ground up and used as coating on our roadways and also as mulch on playgrounds and around plants and trees.here in ohio you can buy a 50 pound bag of this tire mulch for about 10 or 15 dollars and it comes in a variety of colors.one of our local churches has it in the play area for the children and it is a bright blue in color...it inhibits the growth of weeds...bugs don't seem to like it..and as with rugular tree mulch, cats don't use it as a bothroom...one added bonus is that is is softer than mulch.
recycle into new tires
recycle. this was done on Dirty Jobs by Mike Rowe. Very interesting what they do with the old tires and how they are used for different things.
They learn how to spell after they're made into a tire swing for children.
Ive used 6 stacked for a compost bin.
I have a mouse mat and pencil case made from recycled tyres.
My dad used to turn them into patio planters.
They can be used for the foundations of strawbales houses.
They can be used to build homes, see Brightons Earthship.
Farmers use them to block gaps in fences and hold down the polythene on their silage.
I use them whole and fill with earth and plants, if large enough they can be made into a sandpit for the children (ie tractor tyres) or lined and used as a paddling pool.
They can be made into swings and stepps for childrens play areas.
It seems that around here people throw them in the creeks and lakes
One of the big things going now with used tires is grinding them up and using them in pavement. One of the things people aorund here use them for it to fill in the low places on their drives. You know those pesty places that seem to keep washing out all the time no matter what you fill them with.
Quite a few would be recycled, here in Spain they are used to mark out go kart tracks ,of which there are many, the rest appear to be used for decorating the landscape (or maybe I mean for being dumped all around the landscape)probably the same in every country.
I know they use old used tires for tire walls at race tracks.
Lots of things. Here are some links.
http://www.michelin.com/corporate/front/...
http://www.epa.gov/garbage/tires/science...
http://www.4entech.com/productstdf.htm...
some parts can be recycled and some are just land fell
it depends on how the tyres are when they are handed over
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