Re: Cadmium and Recycled Tires (update request)

I have always been against them--not only cadmium, but zinc, oil and gas resides, they're made from petroleum...and they're just plain unnecessary in a garden. The only reason people keep foisting them on gardeners is they have to pay to throw them away otherwise. (Why do gardens always seem to come up when people have to dispose of toxic wastes???)
---Mike McG

----- Original Message ----- From: "Deborah Mills" <deborah@greencure.org>
To: <community_garden@mallorn.com>; "Allan Balliett" <igg@igg.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 3:10 PM
Subject: Re: [cg] Cadmium and Recycled Tires (update request)


For myself personally I would not use them. They are also highly flammable
too. When I moved into my new home, in the backyard they had placed used
tires in the soil to reinforce a slope. I ended up pulling out 125 tires out
of my garden and had them properly disposed of.
Just my thoughts not too scientific.
Deborah Mills
Green Cure

----- Original Message ----- From: "Allan Balliett" <igg@igg.com>
To: <community_garden@mallorn.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 11:41 AM
Subject: [cg] Cadmium and Recycled Tires (update request)


Hi!

Can someone bring me up to date on the situation with the
appropriateness of using recycled tires as planters in community
gardens and in low income food projects?

I know at some time in the 90's it seemed pretty clear that tires
presented a threat to health but it appears in my recent Google
search that many gardens now allow them.

Can someone help?

Thanks -Allan


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