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How can the World's Biggest Tire Graveyard hold only 7 million tires? Presumably they go through that many tires roughly every every year or two in Kuwait.
by flerchin 5y ago
How can the World's Biggest Tire Graveyard hold only 7 million tires? Presumably they go through that many tires roughly every every year or two in Kuwait.
- flerchin 5y agoLet alone the entire world.
- kube-system 5y agoEither there are many tire dumps, many are recycled, or a combination of both.
- traeregan 5y agoGreat question. TIL that most disposed tires, in the US at least, are used for all sorts of things; some are even burned intentionally for "pyrolysis". See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tire_recycling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tire_recycling
- tpmx 5y agohttps://www.treehugger.com/americas-tire-mountains-percent-are-gone-thanks-to-recycling-programs-4868546 https://www.treehugger.com/americas-tire-mountains-percent-a... Excuse the source, but it seems factually correct. It's a problem that was solved 30+ years ago in relatively high-functioning countries.