Could i put old tires out to the curb?

[The motor guy]

Dont you think its a tad ridiculous to not pay $5 to not have to try to figure out what do with a stack of rotten tires sitting around nobody wants? Pick your battles... this is a strange one to wage. If your neighbor came over with a worn out tire and handed you a $5 bill and said here you take this tire, I dont want it, would you do it? And do what with it? Thats what you're doing to yourself.

Idk, it's kind of a pet peeve I have. People complain about tires in the ditch. Everything else is free to recycle. Tires should be too.

 

[Fitter30]

Im very rural about a hear ago went to town 18 miles away for 15 miles both sides of the road were litter with tires counted at least 100. Called Modot 4 men, 2 dump trucks w/ drivers spent at least picking them up. Bottom line we in Mo payed for the disposal. Just hope they caught them.

 

[TheOilWizard]

Same here - you pay up front on the new tire, even if your keeping the old. Its only $2 - needs to be raised, hasn't in a long time. The county recycling will also take the old tires - its next to the oil recycling casks.

Why other states haven't figured this out is beyond me. It proves there really not working for us. Better to have tires in the ditch and oil down the storm drain. SMH.

Why should the recycling costs of tires need to be increased? The idea behind recycling fees is to keep them at he absolute minimum to offset some of the backend costs. Start charging more and it's counterproductive (ie, people won't do it...)

 

[SC Maintenance]

Why should the recycling costs of tires need to be increased? The idea behind recycling fees is to keep them at he absolute minimum to offset some of the backend costs. Start charging more and it's counterproductive (ie, people won't do it...)

If the $2 covers the cost to recycle the tire than I agree with you. Its been $2 here for as long as I can remember, so I made an assumption it no longer covers the cost to deal with them properly and there being funded with other tax dollars. If they can dispose of them for $2 all the better.

As for people not doing it - you have no choice here. You buy a new tire, you pay the $2.00 up front. Dropping off at the recycling center is always free.

 

[Big E]

$5 is cheap. The local garbage company here wants $20 each, $35 if it has a rim. And you have to bring them to the transfer station yourself.

 

[camrydriver111]

Idk, it's kind of a pet peeve I have. People complain about tires in the ditch. Everything else is free to recycle. Tires should be too.

Are refrigerated appliances also free?

It depends on your local laws but in my experience you usually have to pay for those.

 

[Astro14]

Idk, it's kind of a pet peeve I have. People complain about tires in the ditch. Everything else is free to recycle. Tires should be too.

So, is this post about your pet peeves, then?

Because the answer to your question depends on where you live, and since you haven’t shared that, there’s no way that anybody can answer whether or not tires will be picked up at your curbside.

Nobody wants junk tires, if you put them curbside for your trash collection, and they don’t pick them up, they’re just gonna sit there.

So, this really is about your pet peeve, isn’t it?

 

[nomas]

We can put tires out for the trash guy but you are limited to just a couple of tires every once a week pickup .

 

[DemoFly]

The time you've spent thinking about this has been higher in cost than $5 a tire.

 

[ripcord]

Our county transfer station/dump will allow you to bring 5 tires per trip. It's $20 for a pickup truck load of trash.

 

[zzyzzx]

Cut the tires into pieces small enough to fit into your trash can.

 

[Astro14]

Cut the tires into pieces small enough to fit into your trash can.

How?

 

[dadto2]

Cut the tires into pieces small enough to fit into your trash can.

I was about to ask if disposal was worth the cost of a sawzall blade. I manage to fit a lot of oversized items into my toter for curbside pickup...

 

[userfriendly]

Several tires might be an issue, but whenever I have a random tire that I need to get rid of, whenever I take my used oil to Walmart I'll ask if I can toss the tire on their old tire cart. Never been a problem since I don't do it that often.

Easier yet, just leave the tire in a shopping cart along with your used oil.

 

[chainblu]

Easier yet, just leave the tire in a shopping cart along with your used oil.

I've seen that, too. Happens more than you would think.

 

[02SE]

Cut the tires into pieces small enough to fit into your trash can.

Yeah, my time is more valuable to me than the nominal disposal fee tire retailers charge to handle getting rid of my old tires.

 

[CKN]

This is a thread about $20.00/ set......

 

[NormanBuntz]

I guess I'm fortunate. I can take used tires to my county's local transfer station for recycling, along with used motor oil, oil filters, antifreeze, brake fluid and batteries.

 

[2strokeNorthstar]

Stick a sign up next to the tires saying $100 for the set and someone will probably steal them.

I did that with a futon. Worked overnight

 

[zzyzzx]

How?

Angle grinder, sawzall, circular saw.