From Permacltur@aol.com Sat Apr 10 14:56:38 1999 Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 08:39:24 EDT From: Permacltur@aol.com To: fronsk@cats.ucsc.edu, owner-permaculture@envirolink.org, permaculture@envirolink.org Subject: Re: Tires In a message dated 4/10/99 2:14:44 AM, fronsk@cats.ucsc.edu wrote: <> Tires are a notorious source of cadmium and are very dangerous to use in gardens or as structures in water supply. I tried to get Bill to back off on that one in 1981, but he had already published the idea and just dug in. He didn't want to hear it. Well, we all have our quirks. Hopefully, mine and yours won't poison anyone. DO NOT USE TIRES AROUND FOOD AND WATER. Cadmium is extremely toxic. Since tires are made of volatile organics, one assumes that other nasties are released too, but the cadmium is definite, unless tire manufacturing has changed in recent years. It is added to the tire as part of measures to make the tire resist wearing out--last longer. So if it weren't so toxic, it would be a good thing. Ah, well.... For Mother Earth, Dan Hemenway, Yankee Permaculture Publications (since 1982), Elfin Permaculture workshops, lectures, Permaculture Design Courses, consulting and permaculture designs (since 1981), and annual correspondence courses via email. Copyright, 1998, Dan & Cynthia Hemenway, P.O. Box 52, Sparr FL 32192 USA Internships. YankeePerm@aol.com We don't have time to rush. A list by topic of all Yankee Permaculture titles may be found at http://csf.colorado.edu/perma/ypc_catalog.html Elfin Permaculture programs are listed at the Eastern Permaculture Teachers assn home page: http://home.ptd.net/~artrod/epta/eptahmp.html