[Community_garden] old tires

[Mike McGrath]

your friends may well be right--that ain't my specialty. But clean plants can be done (vote Democratic--no matter who wins the nomination! And remember: Friends don't let friends vote Republican!) and those old essentially oil-filled tires could replace a lot of other fuels.
    and we have to do something with them!
                                                            ---McG
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Vicki Garrett 
  To: Mike McGrath 
  Cc: Linda Casto ; community_garden at list.communitygarden.org 
  Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 12:42 PM
  Subject: Re: [Community_garden] growing potatoes in old tires


  Hey Mike, 
  I almost always agree with everything you say, but . . . I have friends working hard to keep toxic waste incinerators out of low-income and minority communities. As much as you work to keep toxic petrochemicals and metals out of our garden soil, they're working to keep them out of our lungs. They would argue that there aren't sophisticated enough processes to eliminate all those toxins, and combustion often creates more (dioxins, etc.). Waste-to-energy sounds like a great idea, but until we quit using toxic stuff, we're stuck with toxic waste.
  But I agree with everything else ;-).   ---Vicki



  On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Mike McGrath <MikeMcG at ptd.net> wrote:

    Zinc and cadmium are the big contaminants that leach out in high amounts;
    but I just find the whole idea repulsive, period. They're old, dirty and
    made with toxic petrochemicals and metals.
    Tires can--and should--be recycled professionally and burned for fuel in
    clean plants; its the perfect way to dispose of them.

    And hey--how about growing potatoes in DIRT?! There's an idea!

                                                           ---McG

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Linda Casto" <lindacasto7430 at sbcglobal.net>
    To: <community_garden at list.communitygarden.org>
    Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 11:07 AM
    Subject: [Community_garden] growing potatoes in old tires


    >A member on a garden website I belong to is recommending growing potatoes
    >in old tires.
    >
    >  I know there are contaminants that come from old tires but I don't
    > remember what. (This was in a discussion in the last week or so).
    >
    >  I'd like to be able to post something in response to this recommendation
    > letting folks know what kind of contaminants they are turning loose in
    > their gardens.
    >
    >  Thanks
    >
    >  Linda Casto
    >  Glenwood UMC community garden
    >  Columbus, Ohio
    >
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