Liverpool Council uses scrap tyres for horticulture

ERJ staff report (DS)

Liverpool, UK -- Fly-tipped tyres have been retrieved from a stream in Liverpool by council staff and are now being used to help grow vegetables.

Twenty tyres were removed from the Deysbrook stream in Yew Tree by members of the Liverpool East neighbourhood services team and taken to community allotments on the site of St Albert's Primary school in Stockbridge Village where they can be usefully put to good use. In total 18 tons of rubbish was removed from the sites.

Andy Hubbard, Chair of the Community Allotments scheme, said: “With a little ingenuity and creative thinking something like fly-tipped tyres can become a mobile wind-brake, or a series of stackable towers for raising crops of potatoes.”

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Press release from Liverpool Council