Moral dilemma

[sailaboutvic]

Ok T so what's did you do ?
I know you found the Tyres I dump in 1999 .
It had A GPS tag and it went off the other day .

 

[Resolution]

Surely you just tie a string around the tyre and add it to your collection of various fenders?

 

[mainsail1]

Of course, you take it away and dump it in a skip or UK recycling place. They then dump it back in Chinese waters.

 

[[70521]]

I should email the Seahorse Trust pronto and request instructions.

 

[RichardS]

Of course, you take it away and dump it in a skip or UK recycling place. They then dump it back in Chinese waters.

Most UK recycling centres will not take used tyres and neither will commercial skip hire firms.

You can, of course, dump the tyre in someone else's skip but best do this under cover of darkness because otherwise you might well be observed and subsequently fall foul of Environment Agency regulations.

Richard

 

[Kelpie]

Last week as I was at anchor a large tangled mass of heavy rope slowly drifted through the anchorage. A really nasty thing just waiting to entangle a prop. It drifted within boathook range so I snagged it, but discovered it was too heavy to lift aboard, and would have filled the cockpit. I had an early start and a long passage planned for the following day- towing it was out of the question. I'd already deflated and stowed our tender. Having taken possession of it, I didn't really feel that I could just let it go...

Fortunately there was another yacht in the anchorage, and they were more than happy to pop over in their tender and together we took the offending article ashore, dumping it above the HW line. It was a good excuse to meet the neighbours, who turned out to be very nice.

 

[mainsail1]

Most UK recycling centres will not take used tyres and neither will commercial skip hire firms.

You can, of course, dump the tyre in someone else's skip but best do this under cover of darkness because otherwise you might well be observed and subsequently fall foul of Environment Agency regulations.

Richard

Interesting, our local Veola site will take tyres.

 

[MedinaView]

Depends how much tread was left on it

+2

 

[Tomahawk]

Send it to the Seahorse Trust saying is shows how responsible boaters help care for seagrass.

 

[JumbleDuck]

Most UK recycling centres will not take used tyres and neither will commercial skip hire firms.

I was quite surprised to find that our local tip (run by Shanks for D&G Council) will take tyres,but you're limited to four per year. Luckily they control this by the registration number of the car bringing them in, and we have four cars on the road at the moment ...

Otherwise the local tyre centre get rid of them for me at £1.50 a pop.

 

[DJE]

Before putting it back attach a length of rope and a small buoy marked E.F.M.

 

[OceanSprint]

as jumbleducks says, it is a legal dilemma as well as a moral one. once on board I think it would be illegal to throw it back in.

 

[Daydream believer]

If one put it back what damage would it actually do to the marine life?
In its current state it would not be digested but presumably one day it might decompose, but how & what would it decompose into.
The point being that by leaving it where it is what actual harm is one doing to the marine environment?
In parts of the world I believe that tyres have been strategically placed to encourage the growth of marine life , ie coral etc
So is a tyre one of the less dangerous items?
Not that I am suggesting we start chucking lorry loads into the sea of course.
There are probably enough attached to submerged cars already