Now that legislation has passed in the UK making it illegal to scrap bike tires, Velorim has set out to help retailers and riders in disposing of their unwanted rubber.
The law is set to come into place at the end of the year and Velorim has opened up its recycling scheme to allow shops, workshops, hire schemes and refurbishment centers the opportunity to become local collection centers. Velorim will then collect the waste tires and inners tubes and process them into new materials or reuse them in other ways. This means nothing will go to landfill or be exported to other countries. Currently, an overwhelming majority of the 30,500,000 used tires and 152,500,000 tubes head to landfill each year.
 | Cycling is a superb sport, great for fitness and superb for the environment. But, there is a literal black mark against cycling. In the UK, over 44,000 tonnes of tires and inner tubes go to landfill, each and every year. This is a major issue. The cycling industry is not being complacent. Retailers, service engineers, hire schemes and third sector groups are all working together to bring an end to the scrapping of tyres and inner tubes, once and for all. Velorim has been set up to manage the collection and recycling of inner tubes and tyres on a national basis. You simply need to take your tyres and tubes to your local Velorim Centre where, for a small contribution, they will be disposed of ecologically. Cycling should be the greenest, most ecologically friendly mode of transport, let’s work together to make this so. |
Once Velorim has your old tires they are shredded and granulated before separating the materials into their rubber, steel and fibre components. Each of these materials will then be separated and used for different purposes, Velorim say this could be for construction, safety flooring or insulation. The most useful output from the process is the rubber, this is reprocessed by Velorim into viable new raw materials such as Velo-Butylene™ and Velo-SBR™, both of can be used to manufacture new products.
To help get the scheme out to more shops in the UK, Velorim has now signed a deal with Madison that will now offer its retailers a channel to remove all of their rubber waste. Velorim currently does charge for their pickup service which will cost each collection center £90 per tyre cage collection, £16.50 per tyre bag collection and £20 per tube box collection. Velorim says that collection centers could offset this cost by charging customers a small share such as "50p per tyre and 20p per inner tube." Also earlier this year, Schwalbe launched its own inner tube recycling scheme where it will be recycling the old tubes to create new ones.
You can find out more about Velorim and its recycling scheme here.
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However without seeing this article how are we supposed to know this law has been implemented. There's millions of bike owners in the UK that will throw away without even knowing. Poor communication as per normal.
Article is also misleading. "Velorim Sets Up UK Tire Recycling Scheme BEFORE Scrapping Becomes Illegal" v
"Now that legislation has passed in the UK making it illegal to scrap bike tires"
So which is it? A link to this recently passed law please.
www.gov.uk/government/publications/environment-bill-2020
it's still in committee and is not yet scheduled for votes in the commons yet so i doubt it will become law before the end of the year.
I have a limited understanding of it but i believe it mainly gives DEFRA powers to impose 'extended producer responsibility' on tyre manufacturers to deal with them at end of life. which doesn't necessarily make it illegal for a person to put their tyre in the bin.
i could be completely wrong. somebody please put me right if i am
also, i'm in favour of things that enable easier recycling of my tyres and will make use of this Velorim scheme.
Been putting tyres in the recycle bin ever since we've had recycle bins.
Which is the more serious?
No licence, no insurance and... ok, maybe not the shitting everywhere part. But there's room enough for everyone on the roads.
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