permaculture

[Bela Beke <beke@primus.com.au>]

Hi,Cheryl.
Our little town had a wild fire going trough it recently(and other towns)

http://www.abc.net.au/news/events/bushfire-recovery/

At a friends property we used lot of tyres  in a retaining wall/ fill 
and to  hold soil in place..These tyres had as much as 3ft of soil 
covering them.
During the fire what we asume happened is that a lot of the constituent 
parts of the tyres vaporised  and the wapour burned above
ground in explosions-google - http://www.energyjustice.net/tires/
Please see this page for tyre recycling:
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/newinventors/txt/s1509854.htm
I have in the past harbored a desire to use tyres in different 
projects,now i'm reassessing this desire.
We could invest in the above tyre recyling idea.You may also want to 
google -
"chemicals leaching from tyres"
Regards,Bela

> --- On Wed, 5/20/09, Cheryl Landgren <cherylann@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> From: Cheryl Landgren <cherylann@earthlink.net>
> Subject: [permaculture] uses for old tires?
> To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Wednesday, May 20, 2009, 7:21 AM
>
> Does anyone know of any uses for old tires (besides earthships)? Our small 
> town has an old gas station that has quite a collection.
> Thanks,
> Cheryl
>