Recycling Bike Tires and tubes
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Recycling bicycle tires is not something that has been covered much. The various recycling sites I checked had no information including Earth911. We found that our local Costco would take bike tires to recycle. You should also try your local bicycle and tire stores and ask them. Specialized had a tire recycling program but discontinued it. This area needs to be addressed by the big bike tire companies pushing such an eco friendly transportation means.
Kenda has a list of companies that recycle bike tubes.
Try to buy more durable bike tires. Racing oriented tires wear out fastest. We have had good luck with Kenda bike tires.
Flat tire? Be sure to try to patch your bicycle tube instead of just replacing it with a new bicycle tube.
If you cycle in a big city, try to avoid busy streets has exposure to air pollutants in heavy traffic can cause heart health risks.
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Filed under: Conservation, Easy, Effort, Green, Recycling | Tags: Bicycle, Bike Tires, Bike Tube
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September 10th, 2010 at 10:28 am
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September 8th, 2011 at 2:58 pm
Yeah the industry ought to figure out some infrastructure to recycle bicycle tires. EPA ought to come pick them up from bike shops or pay me to do it on a bicycle and then we use the rubber to payback the EPA. I don’t know. I have spent half a day riding my bike around looking for a recycler to take my tire and I have called @ 6 bike kitchen’s in my local area as well as the local costco and nothing. I got some leads but they did not pan out. Resource revival only wants chains. An local artist who makes things out of rubber may be an idea but yeah I need to find an industrial infrastructure to recycle my tire. It is a shame that bike shops don’t just eat the expense of accepting tires and then hold them in storage until a recycler can pick them up, say twice a year. I guess there is no money in it.