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wrote:
"Tire parts can easily be placed into existing recycling-bins. Since
the
sidewalls don't contain embedded steel-belts, the sidwalls would be
valued by recycing industries. "

Every community that I'm aware of requires
recyclables to be seperated by type. And none of them accept tires or
tire parts as part of the std household recycling stream.

Here in CA, most types of clean waste (styrofoam one of the exceptions)
can be placed (and mixed-in) the recycling bins e.g., all the different
types of paper, plastics, metals, etc. Nothing has been said about
rubber or tire-parts.

Some will
take tires as part of a seperate special program, typically for a fee
and at a drop off location that is entirely seperate from the std
recycling pick up.

When new tires are put on cars, the tire-shops charge an extra-fee to
customers who opt not to deal with the old tires.

And those are a headache to get rid of too. In
fact, here in NJ, the state recently instituted a tax on tires to
help
pay for getting rid of them, because no one wants them.

Crumb-rubber is increasingly valued as a road-paving additive.
Steel-belts in tires may damage even the industrial-standard equipment
that grinds tires into crumb-rubber; another reason for tire-recycling
industries to consider the tire-parts free of steel-belts!