As tires are not desired at landfills, tire recycling is one of the most valuable process to keep tires waste out of those areas. To do tires recycling, valuable space at landfills can be saved from the large number of tires. Once you want to recycle your tires, you can take them to tire retailer or local recycling center but you have to make sure that those tires are in the limitations of the recycling center. However, you can also reuse them. Here are five ideas to reuse the tires.
1. Planters for the garden: Tires can be adapted into containers for the plants in your garden. It can be wide and low containers as well as put on top of each other for forming higher planters.
2. Cold frames: Tires can be made as cold frames to protect young seedlings so that plants will not be on the cold earth.
3. Kids’ entertainment: Used tires can be adapted to entertain kids by making tire swings, obstacle courses & sandpits. It is very easy to make these stuffs. To do tire swing, you just need to add strong branch, rope or chain as concern of safety and make sure that you clean tires properly. To do obstacle courses is also a good idea to practice kids. For making sandpits, it would be good if you have big tires like lorry/tractor.
4. Trug: Handy trugs can be made from tires for carrying your produce around the garden. To do handy trugs from tires, it is such a basic idea. You just have to cut the tire into sections and add handles.
5. Rugged sandals or knee pads: If you have already made trugs as in the fourth idea above, you can use some left over tire to make rugged sandals. Moreover, protective knees pads can also be made from used tires. It will be used when you have to kneel in the garden and planting all seedlings from the tire cold frames.
A tire recycling is not difficult to follow. There are the alternatives which can suit your convenient. Let’s start recycling.