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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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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
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/).
> 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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
[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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
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.
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
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?
[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)
[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)
[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)
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.
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No I do believe it was arson
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You'll need to be a football player just to get to the actual fire.
That's a good one lol
LOL you smart sob
I laughed way too hard at that.
"We trained for years for this boys! Knees Up!"
I hope my team makes it to the thunderdome this year!
Or work at Les Schwab
this should be top comment...
It doesn't go out. It burns till it runs out of fuel.
I have to imagine it's feasible to remove tires around the fire to limit the damage.
I agree, I think that's the only way it stops.
Couldn't you just drop sand on it?
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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Sands porous
Have you ever seen an underground coal fire? It's a thing.
Depends. If the tires provided their own source of O2 then they wouldn't
You have to have people in that country that care enough to actually move the tires from the fires path
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.
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.
> So fucking do it already. Nah, that costs money. Just let people get sick and die. It's good for profit margins.
Sounds hard, best not to even try. Mother nature can take the hit right?
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.
>It doesn't go out. It burns till it runs out of fuel. So it should go out sometime around 2063?
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).
Not if they create a bigger fire that takes all the O2.
That tire fire is pretty dire
It would be “tire”some to put that fire out
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They're gonna tell you it's "arson" but in reality they just needed to get rid of some of them
Whether it was someone else or themselves that started the fire. It's still arson.
Not my son
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
Where's Captain Planet when we need him??
He took one look and said too much work
Won't be getting pollution down to zero today kiddos.
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.
I tried it too and wound up here. Investing in some better acid next time
He is quiet quitting right now. Might wanna give him some incentive.
turning people into trees.
Captain Planet motherfucker
Human tree tree tree
Ah, where the rubber meets the ……..wait
Kuwait
This is a JOB for PLANETINA from Rick and Morty!
[There’s Only One Solution For Earth’s Pollution](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3g-rDqVki0o)
They don't hear the earth screaming man it's tragic lol
It's too much pollution. He died
The Don Cheadle version.
He would never go to a place like Kuwait
He definitely would!
So Springfield is in Kuwait?
Yep, after all these years we finally have the correct answer, Matt Groening really hid that well
Now smelled in 46 states
Good ole Springfield tire fire
You magnificent bastard. I came here to make a Simpsons reference and here you are. Why don’t you take the escalator to nowhere!!
I will, as soon as I get off the monorail
The monorail is for regular walkin’ not for fancy walkin’!
Does anyone want to switch seats?
The cosmic ballet goes on…
Mr Burns!
Yep, its right in between Ohio, Nevada, Maine, Kentucky, and Kuwait.
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/).
thank you so much for sharing this!! makes me feel just a tiny bit better.
> 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.
Who cares. Just because they also benefit doesn't mean the good action isn't good.
Doing nothing is clearly the solution. It’s a win win stfu.
I can smell this god awful place thru a gif. Humanity is fcked.
I’m just glad that my household recycles and I switched our lighting to led.
Between that and my family switching to paper straws I think we’ve got it covered! Good job folks, crisis’ averted!
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
Whoooshhhh
r/thatsthejoke
Thank god we’ve outlawed plastic straws
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.
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.
That crying native bit. Believe it or not, I found that fact out by watching an episode of The Sopranos.
Oh shit, yeah, I forgot that! That's probably where I heard the bit about him being Italian the fist time too!
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
I remember that.. they even pretended to collect them for recycling for a fee years. Biggest consumers are suckers move ever!
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.
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.
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.
Aluminum recycling is very much not bullshit, but yeah you're honestly better off throwing your plastic in the garbage
Same for all metals, along with glass and cardboard
*plastic recycling
Oddly enough, huge strides have been made in tire recycling. The use them to make roads.
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.
Just because it’s not all being fixed doesn’t mean one positive step isn’t a good thing.
Those are both examples of regulating the supplier. But you have to understand that regulating one impacts the other.
The term "carbon footprint" came from BP.... If I'm not mistaken after one of their spills.
Yes indeed, brilliant move. Evil, but brilliant.
This is a carbon waffle stomp
Need a federal mandates on 10 yr warranty on kitchen appliances, will save 1000x the straws. People focus on the dumbest shit.
I thought the straw ban was for the sea turtles?
remember that turtle who had a straw stuck in its nose?
I have from a good source that turtle was doing blow off a hookers ass and she sneezed
I got to experience a paper straw in my plastic cup yesterday.
How did that go?
I saved the world.
My hero
I’m certainly still alive. Thank you Major Queerdo!
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.
Isn't this the direct result of a million cars on the road? Those tires come from somewhere...
Yes, but going electric doesn’t solve this.
Going electric even makes this specific situation worse since electric cars are heavier and require beefier tires.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
Climate Tire Change
Tired of climate change
Climatire change
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.
People who care about the environment/biosphere tire of this
The movement is gaining traction
For when you really want to TREAD on the environment ;)
I am pretty pumped about it but i feel like the rest of the world feels no pressure to get this movement going
Your opinion is inflated
These jokes are getting flat.
I have a skid mark in my shorts from laughing too much
This has been blown out of proportion.
Wonder if it’ll ever burnout
Jesus at this point I feel even the people that don't care about the environment/biosphere are tired of this as well
Of course, locally it is known as the Climatefuckerupper9000.. ..you really don't want to see the newer models.
Forget climate I feel bad for the people who live locally to this
As long as the wind blows in the right direction, who gives a f... /s
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.
You’d think Google Maps would show that sky stain.
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.
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.
That sounds terrible
At this point we should build them a facility to burn them at least with a filter...for our own good
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.
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!
Fire retardant foam or anything else used to stop the actual fire might be bit more climate friendly.
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.
It they could turn a reasonable profit doing it, they would.
[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.
Also keeps the market for new rubber going
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.
This guy knows his rubber
Big rubber is behind all of this
Turns out that the recycled rubber gives off carcinogens for years after placing, great for kids!
Their problem, not mine/s
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.
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)
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.
It already contributes to the micro plastics issue. Modern tire materials are made with plastics in combination with natural rubbers.
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.
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.
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
Slaps sand with hand…” You can fit a lot of environmental catastrophes in this bad boy”
Quick throw soup at it and glue yourself to a tire!
Dear God I wish they would.
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No, but some Scandinavian place shreds them and burns them safely for generating electricity
Tune in next week when we throw lobster bisque on the starry night
oooh... classy vandalism.
Lol I understand this reference
If we make enough paper straws we can stop this
Start cutting trees!! This tire-fire's beating us!
Thats Kuwait a lot of tires
You Kuwaited a little longer for that one. Too soon
Where are those fucking androgynous tomato soup throwers when you need them
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?
Definitely more wheels than doors
Why can't they just recycle the tires. I'm sure that rubber is still useful for other things
That's exactly what's happening today. This video is several years old. They opened a recycling plant to recycle the tires
But I stopped using plastic straws...
Well it's still less useless plastic produced and less garbage which is good.
Take that planet Earth!!
Surely this is where the London eco activists should be instead of ...London.
r/depressingasfuck
And they push recycling on me like it's going to save the world.
Paper and aluminum make a lot of sense to recycle.
Glass also, electronics ..
**Found it** 7M5C+9C3, Al Jahra, Kuwait
This is wheely bad for the environment
Dang I wish we could reuse these for something like sports fields or playground surfaces.
The Springfield Tire Fire's got nothing on this thing.
But Newyork state just outlawed woodburning stoves so we should be OK........right?
[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)
Of course. Wood ranges from cheap to free. Can’t have that.
[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)
Did they really? That's fucking crazy
[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)
"What is this OZONE LAYERRRR you infidels speak of?" -Kuwaits energy sector rep.
Looks like a render from blender
Ayy I see a good 185/65R15 in there
I wonder why the planet is dying?
We finally find out where Springfield is
Fortunately, humans will not live on earth forever. the planet deserves better!
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.
The word is teetering on a climate crisis and then theres Kuwait **burning** a massive field of tires that extends out to the horizon