Recycling rubber

I've read that rubber tyres can be recycled, does anyone know where can i take some in birmingham?

or does anyone have any other uses of old bulging tyres? i know you can make belts out of inner tubes but dont know much about the (re)uses of tyres.

i was wondering this as well. feels so wrong chucking out so much rubber!

you can make belts out of tyres as well, just need to find somewhere that sells buckles.
http://velo-re.com
http://tyrebelt.co.uk

A road bike tyre doesnt contain enough rubber in it to make it worth recycling!

It will probably also contain a wire bead,synthetic fibre webbing and puncture proof layers.

Dont feel so bad about chucking stuff away. 70% of Birminghams refuse ends up in the Energy from Waste Incinerator at Tyseley.

Just buy tyres that last longer.

I have used an inner tube as bar tape, works ok

it unravels itself after a while as bar tape.

cut the bead off old tyres, and an inch out of the tread so you can fit it inside a tyre with tears in as puncture protection. works a treat

I was thinking the other day (while looking at the old tyres in my garden) that you could make mudguards from them? they are wire beaded so i could just fix them to the stays of my old (broken) mudguards? Anyone ever heard of this?

I don't know, I've never used mudguards,
I just carry a spare pair of pants

DFP is right on. The energy taken to recycle a bike tyre would be way more than is required to make a new one, and feck all would be reusable. Recycling always seems like a good idea but when you look at the process its not always suited to everything.

A road bike tyre doesnt contain enough rubber in it to make it worth recycling!

It will probably also contain a wire bead,synthetic fibre webbing and puncture proof layers.

Dont feel so bad about chucking stuff away. 70% of Birminghams refuse ends up in the Energy from Waste Incinerator at Tyseley.

Just buy tyres that last longer.

i hear raymond revue bar in soho is looking for rubber for a matinee show weds afternoons

you can make belts out of tyres as well, just need to find somewhere that sells buckles.
http://velo-re.com
http://tyrebelt.co.uk

have been thinking about doing this, you can get a job lot of buckles on e-bay, but you also need a way to rivet the belt to the buckle.

a rivetter ?

I've got one, its a bit like a hole punch