HIGHLAND Council’s transport chief has welcomed a businessman’s offer to supply recycled tyres for a range of uses including road building and flood defences.
John Laing, chairman of the transport, environmental and community services committee, said he would encourage the use of the spent rubber if the demand is there.
Dennis Scott of Lodgehill Park, Nairn, who runs Northern Tyre Recycling at Evanton Industrial Estate in Ross-shire, currently has about 2,000 old tyres in his yard ready for use.
Mr Laing, who has forwarded the proposal to the authority’s roads officials, said: “They are well aware of the myriad of uses that baled tyres can be put to.
“It is an ideal use of a waste product. If there was the opportunity to use them we would certainly be doing so.” Tyre bales have already been used in the north on a stretch of the B871 road between Kinbrace and Syre in Sutherland, which Mr Scott supplied in 2002, and in the foundations of a house built at nearby Skerray, which features in a recently published book by photographer Mike McCartney. The recycling process involves compressing the tyres in bales, each weighing about a tonne, which can then be used in many ways, including the construction of waterways, riverbanks and culverts.
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