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Why not drop them in the pile at your local tire shop? My local place takes them. Or call your area disposal/sanitation and see if they'll accept them. CA tacks on a couple buck "tire disposal fee" with every new tire sale.
They get recycled, such as shredded for landscape use, and filler pellets on synthetic grass athletic fields, etc. Big concern with tire dumps is the standing water becomes a breeding ground for mosquitoes.

 

Here they will not take paint at all. Even the cans themselves need to be lidless. They tell you to lay out cardboard or plywood scraps and pour the paint out and let it dry completely. Paint thinner as such they tell you to let it evaporate. The auto stores that sell oil, antifreeze and batteries are required by law to accept used liquid returns. But not old oil filters.

 

Our municipal dump doesn't allow shopping anymore, there was an attendant that used to put stuff aside if it looked good, but that's stopped. There is a hazardous drop area for oils, paints electronics, but no shopping there either.
Some of the rural dumps in our area, have started "Share Sheds" where you can put items for someone else to use. A small donation is required to buy the items, but it helps maintain the site.
A few years back I bought a bicycle, 2 Torq Thrust clone rims, and two 57-59 Ford 9" rear ends. For a real good price.

 

I remember doing that. Always find old bikes dumped in the Mersey.


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When I moved to Arkansas we bought a house had all kinds of nasty looking cans in a shed. Lead paint, penta, maybe even chlordane or DDT. Took a load to the transfer station and asked. Guy says,"Yes, anything we can read the label or somehow tell what's in the container goes over there in the hazardous waste shed."

I says what about these rusty leaking, glow in the dark cans? He says, "Oh, we just throw them in the trash."

 

Our local dump used to allow you to take paint away, but only the few that the attendant put on one shelf. So there would be hundreds in big bins, which invariably contained the "good ones", but they were off limits. I suggested taking one of those and substituting a shelf one, but the attendant wouldn't agree.
So I gave up going there.

Our old tires are reputed to go to a nearby cement plant and get incinerated as fuel for roasting lime, luckily the general public hasn't found out about it.

 

Pickin' and Grinnin'...

 

The last time I went to the local dump a friend that works there loaded 3 5 gallon buckets of lino type metal on my truck for me..Came to 200 lbs worth.That will come in handy for casting bullets when alloyed with the plumbers lead that I have.That linotype metal is going for about $3.50 per pound.Was a great day.
Good luck.Have fun.Be safe.
Leo

 

So some guy went over the wall to get a lawnmower to rebuild. Cut himself and sued the County. Now cameras up since the county sells the metal to a scrapper. I did help a guy unload a rolling toolbox from his truck to mine and a 60 gal. vertical compressor that would only go to 65 psi. Donated that to a compressor mechanic friend. But for the most part, no scavenging. Does irritate me when someone flips a riding mower over the wall cuz the carb is gummed up. Might suggest a swap shed to help each other out. And I do drag my feet when I'm unloading at the metal wall, in case another toolbox comes along.

 

Yeah, they charge $5 to $10 bucks disposal unless you take them with you. I usually save one or two for a spare, then never use them. There are tires on my property from before I got there, 40 years ago. Some of them probably date back to the 40’s and 50’s. They were put in a wash to stop erosion. I don’t burn many, 4-5 a year when we burn brush piles.