The invention discloses a slope protection or flood control dam using discarded tyres. The slope protection or flood control dam is built by superposing multiple layers of discarded tyre prestressed mesh plates; the discarded tyre prestressed mesh plates are formed by combining multiple discarded tyre prestressed straps; and the discarded tyre prestressed straps are formed by penetrating parallel steel strands through the discarded tyres, prestressing the steel strands, and fixing two ends of the steel strands on outer edges of outmost tyres on two sides. The slope protection or flood control dam using the discarded tyres realizes recycling of wastes at a low cost, and has the advantages of high processing speed, low cost, high transportation speed, rapidness and flexibility in combination and detachment, less resource consumption, capability of regulating the height, the length and other sizes freely, and the like; and the slope protection or flood control dam using the discarded tyres is applicable to on-site quick processing, can meet an emergency requirement, is high in strength, high in impact resistance, high in self-supporting strength, stable and unloose in structure and durable, and is also applicable to manual filling of concrete or stones or filling of gaps between the discarded tyres by using naturally silting sands, stones and the like so as to improve the self weight and the stability and firmness.