USED TIRES AN ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER.

Old Tires have been a massive problem for decades and when ever you see demonstrations there always seems to be men piling old tires on fires. Or when ever you drive around there is always a pile of them dumped without any concern for the environment. During the 1970s, between 1 million and 2 million tires were put in the ocean off Broward County Florida in an effort to create additional fish habitat. Over the years, many of the tires were mobilized by tropical storms and hurricanes, the movement of which caused damage to nearby existing coral reefs. The threat is serious, but the complexity and magnitude of the challenge of removing these tires has prevented any individual government agency from doing so.

In 2021 it was reported about the battle of Kuwait authorities with illegal tire dumping site in a desert, the Al Sulaibiya. This is the largest tire dump in the world. The tire crisis has been ongoing for over 30 years. The Environment Public Authority (EPA) in Kuwait was able, according to an official in the authority, to remove 95% of the tires. An EPA official revealed that a big amount of tires has been transferred to alternative lands in Salmi.

Recently, a massive fire broke out at the famous tire dump in the Al Sulaibiya, 7 million tires were engulfed in flames of a massive fire at the world’s largest tire dump at the Al Sulaibiya in Kuwait. It was possible to see the blaze from the satellite images shared via Twitter accounts. Fires at Kuwait’s tire dumps take place quite often, that’s why it is sometimes challenging to identify the exact location of a tire incident shared in an image or video. Some social media users commented that the site from the video could actually be shot from the world’s famous tire graveyard. Maybe when you buy news tires they can only be supplied when the old ones are taken and recycled. Seems simple and would give old tires a value.