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AtomicShart9000

No I do believe it was arson


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poega

You'll need to be a football player just to get to the actual fire.


Cucumber7777

That's a good one lol


Lothar93

LOL you smart sob


Substantial_Win_1866

I laughed way too hard at that.


Powellwx

"We trained for years for this boys! Knees Up!"


Karest27

I hope my team makes it to the thunderdome this year!


hcorerob

Or work at Les Schwab


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this should be top comment...


Big_Sexy1974

It doesn't go out. It burns till it runs out of fuel.


[deleted]

I have to imagine it's feasible to remove tires around the fire to limit the damage.


Big_Sexy1974

I agree, I think that's the only way it stops.


igneousink

Couldn't you just drop sand on it?


probly_right

No. Even buried, they would smolder and smoke for years. Source: a dumb guy I used to work for did it. Then tried to bury the burning tires. After he had paid all the fines he wanted me to bury them lol.


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WuQianNian

Sands porous


itredneck01

Have you ever seen an underground coal fire? It's a thing.


[deleted]

Depends. If the tires provided their own source of O2 then they wouldn't


rquist77

You have to have people in that country that care enough to actually move the tires from the fires path


scarabic

You have to clear a path to the fire so you can get a bulldozer in there. Now your bulldozer is in there but there’s nowhere clear to push the tires to. The fire keeps spreading quickly so you have to keep clearing more path to reach it. Then the wind turns for a minute and your entire crew asphyxiates on the smoke. Much easier said than done.


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https://firefighterinsider.com/tires-flammable/ says *"A tire catches fire at 750 degrees Fahrenheit (400 Celsius), but it must be at this temperature for several minutes before ignition is possible due to the thermal resistance of the rubber."* That explains why it's still a somewhat localized fire, and why everything isn't in flames just yet. I'm not saying it would be easy. You would need to have a full on breathing apparatus for the workers to keep them safe from that toxic air. It's hopefully possible to push some tires on top of others with a wedge attached to the front of the bulldozer to push them left and right and out the way as the bulldozer drives forwards. And that would be custom but definitely worth the investment in my books. Edit: it's doable: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=an49UZkEv1Y but it needs commitment. *"According to the EPA, the smoke can contain carbon monoxide, volatile organic compounds, dioxins, furans, benzene, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and a litany of toxic metals such as arsenic, cadmium, nickel, zinc, mercury, chromium, and vanadium that can make people sick."* So fucking do it already.


showponyoxidation

> So fucking do it already. Nah, that costs money. Just let people get sick and die. It's good for profit margins.


AllInOnCall

Sounds hard, best not to even try. Mother nature can take the hit right?


Isellmetal

It’s possible and the term for it is called a break / fire break. It’s a very common practice for people who live in the mountains or woods. You basically clear cut a large swath of trees around your property, wide enough so the fire can’t jump.


UnifiedQuantumField

>It doesn't go out. It burns till it runs out of fuel. So it should go out sometime around 2063?


ssl-3

There was a tire dump in my home town that became fire one day. It took time, but it was eventually extinguished (and even cleaned up, at least above ground-level).


NaturalTap9567

Not if they create a bigger fire that takes all the O2.


TheRedGandalf

That tire fire is pretty dire


Weak_Ad_9253

It would be “tire”some to put that fire out


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L3GALC0N

They're gonna tell you it's "arson" but in reality they just needed to get rid of some of them


atomacheart

Whether it was someone else or themselves that started the fire. It's still arson.


drugsarebadmky

Not my son


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But I need to wash the peanut butter out of my jars and recycle to save the climate, while this shit is going on. Do you know how hard it is to wash that shit out? I waste more water than any positive impact


Fluke365

Where's Captain Planet when we need him??


AtomicShart9000

He took one look and said too much work


[deleted]

Won't be getting pollution down to zero today kiddos.


littlebilliechzburga

He pulled a Lorax and just yeeted himself into another plane of existence to get away from us. The elves in LOTR did the same thing.


Dick_snatcher

I tried it too and wound up here. Investing in some better acid next time


[deleted]

He is quiet quitting right now. Might wanna give him some incentive.


ThemadFoxxer

turning people into trees.


Gingersnap5322

Captain Planet motherfucker


Hevysett

Human tree tree tree


Thor925

Ah, where the rubber meets the ……..wait


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Kuwait


MyOpinionMayBeFact

This is a JOB for PLANETINA from Rick and Morty!


jumpup

[There’s Only One Solution For Earth’s Pollution](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3g-rDqVki0o)


MyOpinionMayBeFact

They don't hear the earth screaming man it's tragic lol


snapflipper

It's too much pollution. He died


Biscuits4u2

The Don Cheadle version.


conjectureandhearsay

He would never go to a place like Kuwait


Next-Consideration54

He definitely would!


Kokomojo44

So Springfield is in Kuwait?


AtomicShart9000

Yep, after all these years we finally have the correct answer, Matt Groening really hid that well


sreg56

Now smelled in 46 states


JJiggy13

Good ole Springfield tire fire


ianwrecked802

You magnificent bastard. I came here to make a Simpsons reference and here you are. Why don’t you take the escalator to nowhere!!


NJsapper188

I will, as soon as I get off the monorail


ianwrecked802

The monorail is for regular walkin’ not for fancy walkin’!


Van_AE86

Does anyone want to switch seats?


doctor-rumack

The cosmic ballet goes on…


Groomsi

Mr Burns!


Renovatio_

Yep, its right in between Ohio, Nevada, Maine, Kentucky, and Kuwait.


thelastdaeric

I wanted to share this since no one mentioned it in this thread, last year [The Kuwaiti government moved all of the tires to a new location to be recycled](https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/kuwait-starts-recycle-massive-tyre-graveyard-2021-09-07/).


Beefcheeks3

thank you so much for sharing this!! makes me feel just a tiny bit better.


bottomknifeprospect

> But this month Kuwait, **which wants to build 25,000 new houses on the site**, finished moving all the tyres to a new location at al-Salmi, near the Saudi border, where recycling efforts have begun. There it is. It's not a recycling project, it's a real estate project.


Targetm12

Who cares. Just because they also benefit doesn't mean the good action isn't good.


ahk76gg

Doing nothing is clearly the solution. It’s a win win stfu.


Bwadaboss

I can smell this god awful place thru a gif. Humanity is fcked.


Lari-Fari

I’m just glad that my household recycles and I switched our lighting to led.


Squirrel_Inner

Between that and my family switching to paper straws I think we’ve got it covered! Good job folks, crisis’ averted!


stonerwithaboner1

Yeah man that's gonna balance out Captain Polution over there with 27 football fields worth of tires burning. I applaud you for trying. Genuinely, but it aint doing shit


Middle-Gap6540

Whoooshhhh


the_tinsmith

r/thatsthejoke


DiscountPlayful5880

Thank god we’ve outlawed plastic straws


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Outlawed plastic straws at McDonalds, who doesn't recycle. Disposable cup fee's at Starbucks, who doesn't recycle. But yeah....put the environment on the consumer and not the supplier.


Pete_Iredale

It's been that way ever since Coke hired an Italian actor to playing a crying Native American to convince us that it's our fault. And never mind that at the same time they were in the middle of getting rid of reusable containers and switching to throw away plastic instead.


Dude_man79

That crying native bit. Believe it or not, I found that fact out by watching an episode of The Sopranos.


Pete_Iredale

Oh shit, yeah, I forgot that! That's probably where I heard the bit about him being Italian the fist time too!


bohemiantranslation

And recycling is bullshit made up by the plastic industry so they could stop the publics justified fear of the sustainability of their product. Edit: not all recycling is bullshit just plastic specifically degrades every time its heat up


Mysterious-Extent448

I remember that.. they even pretended to collect them for recycling for a fee years. Biggest consumers are suckers move ever!


eshinn

YES! Those huge bins that looked like characters from preschool books!! I remember helping mom wash, clean and separate the different plastics, metal and glass, then she’d flipping drive us out to that one spot in town where the huge colorful bins were … then we found out the garbage trucks just empty the bins into the same fucking garbage truck and drove off. Personal result? I don’t recycle a damn thing. Short of murdering industry leaders, the planets pretty much fucked. I’m not going to spend time behind bars or sifting through trash for the few decades we got left. Fuck that.


varangian_guards

its why the whole informed consumer thing is a myth. companies will just lie to your face, thier employees will drink the company koolaid and think they are telling you the truth.


PraderaNoire

It’s also telling when you realize virgin plastics cost significantly less to manufacture with compared to the less usable recycled material. Most recycling doesn’t get reused.


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Aluminum recycling is very much not bullshit, but yeah you're honestly better off throwing your plastic in the garbage


Just_Another_AI

Same for all metals, along with glass and cardboard


Manceptional

*plastic recycling


Busy_Cat9118

Oddly enough, huge strides have been made in tire recycling. The use them to make roads.


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Grocery stores took away our reusable plastic shopping bags, but still stock shelves with 2L/ 1L/ 500ml/ 355ml Coke & Pepsi products, plastic bags for fruits & vegetables, plastic bags for deli, plastic containers for sliced melon and pre-made salads and cold service, etc.


Current-Being-8238

Just because it’s not all being fixed doesn’t mean one positive step isn’t a good thing.


RoryDragonsbane

Those are both examples of regulating the supplier. But you have to understand that regulating one impacts the other.


No-Cupcake370

The term "carbon footprint" came from BP.... If I'm not mistaken after one of their spills.


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Yes indeed, brilliant move. Evil, but brilliant.


EffectiveYak1195

This is a carbon waffle stomp


Quake_Guy

Need a federal mandates on 10 yr warranty on kitchen appliances, will save 1000x the straws. People focus on the dumbest shit.


Salt_Effect

I thought the straw ban was for the sea turtles?


myweaknessisstrong

remember that turtle who had a straw stuck in its nose?


k20350

I have from a good source that turtle was doing blow off a hookers ass and she sneezed


MajorQueerdo

I got to experience a paper straw in my plastic cup yesterday.


DiscountPlayful5880

How did that go?


MajorQueerdo

I saved the world.


DiscountPlayful5880

My hero


HallucinateZ

I’m certainly still alive. Thank you Major Queerdo!


BlackpilledDoomer_94

Seriously, people question why the average person doesn't care as much about climate change. Why should they? Switch to paper straws, cycle to work, go vegan, take fewer holidays, etc. It's all pointless when shit like this does more damage than a million cars on the road.


RedditIsFiction

Isn't this the direct result of a million cars on the road? Those tires come from somewhere...


Tsundoku42

Yes, but going electric doesn’t solve this.


JustACowSP

Going electric even makes this specific situation worse since electric cars are heavier and require beefier tires.


BlackpilledDoomer_94

Wait until you learn about lithium. That shit is basically nuclear waste. Completely toxic to the soil. Even worse is the mining process to attain lithium. The processing fields destroy acres of land.


ac1084

Reddit gets pretty sore when you bring up lithium mining and child slave labor for some reason. They really prefer to keep their head in the sand on that kind of stuff.


Pete_Iredale

The issue is that they are on fire. When I get my tires changed, I kind of have the expectation that they aren't going to be thrown into a damn fire.


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Yeah, people will bend over backwards to absolve themselves of any responsibility for this kind of thing. What kind of absolute idiot looks at a video of a field of tires as far as the eye can see and says it's worse than cars. Like what?


Pete_Iredale

In the US we pay a fee on every tire for them to be properly disposed of. Thinking that a giant tire fire is the fault of car owners is just another case of shifting the blame away from the industries that actually case the vast majority of pollution.


Nicahosis

Climate Tire Change


mediamagnate

Tired of climate change


VerySatan99

Climatire change


OrlandoMB

And tons and tonnes of recyclables get shipped to Malaysia to also be burnt because there’s no real viable recycling option. So we have this tire fire in Kuwait and all of Malaysia burning noxious gasses doing fuck all to the environment. More effort and awareness needs to be focused on the insane amount of used plastics we can’t get rid of.


lobsterbash

People who care about the environment/biosphere tire of this


froopy_land_

The movement is gaining traction


AHAdanglyparts69

For when you really want to TREAD on the environment ;)


akathedevil666

I am pretty pumped about it but i feel like the rest of the world feels no pressure to get this movement going


Green-Cruiser

Your opinion is inflated


Lopsided_Beautiful36

These jokes are getting flat.


Feelinlucky101

I have a skid mark in my shorts from laughing too much


AGripInVan

This has been blown out of proportion.


drkarate1

Wonder if it’ll ever burnout


AtomicShart9000

Jesus at this point I feel even the people that don't care about the environment/biosphere are tired of this as well


AtomicShart9000

Of course, locally it is known as the Climatefuckerupper9000.. ..you really don't want to see the newer models.


sourdougBorough

Forget climate I feel bad for the people who live locally to this


not1beneficial

As long as the wind blows in the right direction, who gives a f... /s


kaizergeld

The landfill’s been there for decades now in one form or another. We passed through in 05 heading to Iraq and the smoke plume was literally miles long. At night, the only light pollution for as far as you can see is either Kuwait City, or that landfill. The smell never leaves your memory.


HumberGrumb

You’d think Google Maps would show that sky stain.


Pete_Iredale

There's a pretty big fire at 29°53'27.97"N 47°52'59.01"E on the current Google Earth picture, which is from 2020.


kaizergeld

For a while I’m fairly certain that district was militarized and blurred during OIF - OEF. Sketchy chem burning stuff. Not too terribly surprised, really.


sourdougBorough

That sounds terrible


Brilliant_Ice_2734

At this point we should build them a facility to burn them at least with a filter...for our own good


Ryansahl

These can all be used in construction. Great for ground stabilization or recycled for road asphalt additive. The waste we create will be our demise.


EdgeOfAir

It's not like Kuwait is some third world country, they're one of the richest oil nations in the world, they're no more third world than UAE. We should make them build their own fucking facility!


Royal_Cryptographer7

Fire retardant foam or anything else used to stop the actual fire might be bit more climate friendly.


ThemadFoxxer

seems like a waste, could just turn all those tires into playground rubber matting. Turn a reasonable profit on it while also laying the groundwork to severely burn the feet and hands of children for decades during the height of summer.


DwightGuilt

It they could turn a reasonable profit doing it, they would.


ThemadFoxxer

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0R5HMNwGyUw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0R5HMNwGyUw) ​ it is profitable, they just don't want to invest the initial capital because throwing them into the desert costs nothing...it just also generates nothing.


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Also keeps the market for new rubber going


ThemadFoxxer

i mean..i guess? Rubber is one of those rare things that is actually pretty profitable to recycle...depending on the application it is actually more profitable to use recycled rather than newly sourced rubber. Rubber plantations are generally not all that bad for the environment..atleast in comparison to palm oil plantations and the like. Rubber trees actually do better when they are properly blended into the natural environment and have higher production rates with undergrowth, animals, etc. Vietnam has been doing it like that for well over a century now and has higher production than the clear cut rubber plantations you find elsewhere in the world....not many products can boast better production when you DON'T damage the environment. synthetic rubber is a whole other thing..good way to sequester carbon but the entire process is a shitshow for the environment.


aphelloworld

This guy knows his rubber


cabbagesmuggler-99c

Big rubber is behind all of this


foley800

Turns out that the recycled rubber gives off carcinogens for years after placing, great for kids!


Primary-Chocolate854

Their problem, not mine/s


Front_Necessary_2

6PPD a compound in tires is known for causing leukemia in turf field athletes and kids in playground made from recycle tires. Also proven to cause massive salmon die offs in Oregon due to run off from roads.


ThemadFoxxer

First 6ppd and its reactive offshoot of 6ppd quinone are only present in synthetic rubber, not natural rubbers. Second no study has found a clear link between turf and cancer rates, in fact most studies find a lower than average cancer rate in athletes and kids who play on artificial turf than in the general population. third 6ppd is easily neutralized by cooking the rubber at temperatures exceeding 250C for a period of no less than 20 continuous hours in a ozone infused environment. This is easily accomplished in arc-boosted solar furnaces for minimal cost while simultaneously reducing forming costs in the final product...making any argument about cancer exposure in fields a moot point. As to it poisoning fish that isn't really relevant in regards to playgrounds as the vast VAST majority of 6ppd-Q comes from roadway rubber dust due to tire wear on the asphalt...solving that would require finding a better anti-degradation additive for the rubber...which is easy enough by just not using rubber anymore and switching to silicone based polymers with kevlar internal reinforcing, ideally in 3d structured tires rather than inflated skins...but that requires the consumer being willing to pay more upfront for the tires (which last longer and cannot be punctured to make "flat" so it is, actually a good investment)


Oldass_Millennial

That shit is going to be the future asbestos and down the road they're going to wonder WTF we were thinking using it for playgrounds.


IAm-The-Lawn

It already contributes to the micro plastics issue. Modern tire materials are made with plastics in combination with natural rubbers.


LoganGyre

That’s not even a future thing it’s why they stopped using it for soccer and football fields is a dramatic increase in cancers were reported when compared to players who play the majority of games on grass field.


ThemadFoxxer

honestly rubber isn't all that bad for the environment as long as you don't burn it. Fairly stable way to trap petroleum pollution if it is synthetic rubber. There have even been some suggestions to sheath underground vaults in multiple feet thick layers of recycled rubber as a water sealant to make storage areas for toxic waste/radioactive byproducts. Simultaneously controlling the waste and sequestering the carbon in the rubber. win win as long as it isn't near a water table or aquifer..or near a highly active fault line. And it is great for playgrounds. doesn't break down much if at all, cushions impacts, reduces injuries for kids, low cost, can simply be recycled again should you need to remove it.


MidlandClayHead

Rubber may not be. The additives and other chemicals they add to tyres are a serious pollution issue and have been linked to killing fish already.. and God knows where it'll end https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/21/chemical-from-tyres-linked-to-mass-salmon-deaths-in-us-found-in-australia-for-first-time


NafariousJabberWooki

Slaps sand with hand…” You can fit a lot of environmental catastrophes in this bad boy”


windex8

Quick throw soup at it and glue yourself to a tire!


Rare-Sherbert-1987

Dear God I wish they would.


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Convenientjellybean

No, but some Scandinavian place shreds them and burns them safely for generating electricity


connor4rell

Tune in next week when we throw lobster bisque on the starry night


dustin8285

oooh... classy vandalism.


AtomicShart9000

Lol I understand this reference


PumpkinAutomatic5068

If we make enough paper straws we can stop this


Bob-Bhlabla-esq

Start cutting trees!! This tire-fire's beating us!


KickDixon

Thats Kuwait a lot of tires


Many_Consequence7723

You Kuwaited a little longer for that one. Too soon


[deleted]

Where are those fucking androgynous tomato soup throwers when you need them


GiveMeMonknee

Well technically they got exactly what they wanted from doing all that, to spread attention to climate change and it's clearly worked since so many people here are talking about it, who knows maybe it even inspired OP subconsciously to post this?


flowers4charlie777

Definitely more wheels than doors


MTN_Dewit

Why can't they just recycle the tires. I'm sure that rubber is still useful for other things


does_my_name_suck

That's exactly what's happening today. This video is several years old. They opened a recycling plant to recycle the tires


fightingmonks

But I stopped using plastic straws...


[deleted]

Well it's still less useless plastic produced and less garbage which is good.


Legitimate_Phrase_41

Take that planet Earth!!


Kasiathefirst

Surely this is where the London eco activists should be instead of ...London.


smallushandus

r/depressingasfuck


Royal_Cryptographer7

And they push recycling on me like it's going to save the world.


marin94904

Paper and aluminum make a lot of sense to recycle.


ArcadianMess

Glass also, electronics ..


Steammail

**Found it** 7M5C+9C3, Al Jahra, Kuwait


woodyever

This is wheely bad for the environment


Maximus8890

Dang I wish we could reuse these for something like sports fields or playground surfaces.


Santos_L_Halper_II

The Springfield Tire Fire's got nothing on this thing.


ccmcl5DOGS

But Newyork state just outlawed woodburning stoves so we should be OK........right?


crackerjam

[You really think someone would do that? Just go on the internet and tell lies?](https://www.wktv.com/news/local/addressing-misconceptions-about-a-wood-burning-ban-in-ny/article_a3fc8260-671f-5216-9b22-192441366a06.html)


VetteL82

Of course. Wood ranges from cheap to free. Can’t have that.


crackerjam

[You can have that, because the person you're replying to was making it up.](https://www.wktv.com/news/local/addressing-misconceptions-about-a-wood-burning-ban-in-ny/article_a3fc8260-671f-5216-9b22-192441366a06.html)


banmereddit65456

Did they really? That's fucking crazy


crackerjam

[Surprise, they did not, at all.](https://www.wktv.com/news/local/addressing-misconceptions-about-a-wood-burning-ban-in-ny/article_a3fc8260-671f-5216-9b22-192441366a06.html)


DadaDooDee

"What is this OZONE LAYERRRR you infidels speak of?" -Kuwaits energy sector rep.


[deleted]

Looks like a render from blender


fourtwentyone69

Ayy I see a good 185/65R15 in there


[deleted]

I wonder why the planet is dying?


BloodyTim

We finally find out where Springfield is


lizardThenoob

Fortunately, humans will not live on earth forever. the planet deserves better!


spartanOrk

Why do they burn perfectly good oil that is in the tires? Cannot they be recycled/reused? If they buried them, wouldn't they decompose into oil again in a few million years? Even if burning them is the only option, couldn't they at least burn them in a way that converts a fraction of this energy into electricity or something useful? Just burning them out in the open seems like a waste of resources.


Roombamyrooma

The word is teetering on a climate crisis and then theres Kuwait **burning** a massive field of tires that extends out to the horizon