I was selling tires at my shop when this first started taking place in
Louisiana. A State Trouper came around and set us up with all the
bureaucracy required paper work, signage, etc. His expiation was, the old
tires needed to have a value placed on them to keep them out of the ditches
etc, as he said; "kind of like the old pop bottle deposit". Where the amount
of $2.00 per tire came from I'm not sure. Anyway, as a dealer I had to pay
the $2.00 per, up front when I bought the tires from my wholesale supplier.
That was shown on the invoice as a State mandated environmental fee. So I
passed it on to the customer. Ok, $2.00 isn't much when you sell a set of
tires at $300.00, plus any front end/brake work you may get. (which BTW you
don't get much of from tire sales. Seems most folks think of tires as a
necessary evil only and any spin off work is gouging)! Another thing, we had
to pay $00.50 per to dispose of them. No one was buying them at that time, I
don't know about now.
    Anyway Don I don't know your State laws, but you might make an anonymous
call and ask permission to do this Heinous act you are perpetrating :^)
    Also, be damn sure to not get caught burning a tire in Louisiana. I
think it can get you a $20.000.00 per tire fine!!! That will keep them out
of the ditches for sure.

Subject: Re: [VANAGON] Tires

>They have a semi-trailer there that they put customer's take-offs
> in, probably when it gets  full,  they haul it away and sell em to someone
> who reclaims the rubber for something...Anyhow, Sundays the tire store is
> closed but the tire trailer sits there, open with lots and lots of dead
> tires in it...So, thinking I probably have given them thousands in profits
> anyhow, I don't feel bad about sticking one or two more in that Take-off
> trailer  on a Sunday when nobody is around.  If I got caught I'd probably
> do more jail time than the head of Bear-Stearns Derivitive fault swap