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We just brought home some old tires to plant pineapples in. Maybe time for a rethink.

• friend_and_foe 3y ago
  The tires themselves are pretty inert, it's the constant road friction tearing off tiny little pieces of it and spewing it intot he air that's the problem. I wouldn't worry about using tires as building material.
  • _vertigo 3y ago
    That seems to be contradicted by the article
  • liquidpele 3y ago
    mmmm, wouldn’t say they’re inert… https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_Reef https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_Reef
    • GuB-42 3y ago
      The article doesn't say the tires are not inert. It says that the stuff they use to hold the tires in place didn't hold. So instead of a nice reef, you had thousands of lose tires smashing marine life that tried to settle there.
    • tzs 3y ago
      That looks like it failed because the bands that were supposed to keep the bundles of tires together corroded. The tires then were free to move around in the currents, which destroyed any life that had been growing on them and prevented any new life from attaching. It also let them collide with natural reefs and damage them.
      • liquidpele 3y ago
        Hmm, I remember reading about it leaching chemicals too, but guess that’s not in the wiki so maybe wasn’t sourced /shrug