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Have you not seen the pictures of giant tire dumps? They exist. They also occasionally catch fire and blot out the sun.
by mrguyorama 2y ago
Have you not seen the pictures of giant tire dumps? They exist. They also occasionally catch fire and blot out the sun.
- Scoundreller 2y agoThere's wayyyyy fewer than there used to be. Now they get carved into coal-like pieces and burned for the most part. More heat value per pound than coal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tire-derived_fuel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tire-derived_fuel > In the United States in 2017, about 43% of scrap tires (1,736,340 tons or 106 million tires) were burnt as tire-derived fuel. Cement manufacturing was the largest user of TDF, at 46%, pulp and paper manufacturing used 29% and electric utilities used 25%. Another 25% of scrap tires were used to make ground rubber, 17% were disposed of in landfills and 16% had other uses It's usually collecting them all in one place that's the hard part nowadays (and if you've managed to create a tire dump, you've done the hard work)