We literally could not produce enough natural rubber to meet demand. The people who tried ended up just spreading around blight with a bunch of infected fields. You just can’t grow rubber trees like a crop.
Natural rubber does kinda grow in trees, but in very few places and it's considered a scarce resource. Planes tires are made of rubber and there's no alternative there. It's a shame that car tyres produce like 30 % of all microplastics...
Proof of how much damage only 1 tire is, if you watched the whole thing (you didn't) at the end it says to support proper disposal of tires instead of burning them.
Use public transport. Yes you're so proud of your car and doesn't it look soo pretty and go sooo fast, like the 100s of millions of other cars. Organise your life in a way that doesn't ruin the lives of our grand kids. It's not that hard, you make a few sacrifices.
Just Amtrack and Greyhound - many years ago. Clearly America needs to at least consider improving it public transport system. The new guy in NY was saying how it has helped his city.
That law doesn't get enforced pretty much anywhere that allows burn pits and burning of trash. There was a crackhead down the road who regularly burned tires, plastics, and stolen cables for getting rid of the insulation. He only stopped because he burned down his house after years of doing it. The police & EPA did not care at all, never investigated, never showed up, nothing. Didn't matter the photos, evidence, fact it would go on for more than 6 hours at a time.
They don't prosecute individuals. The laws are to make sure that companies don't do it. I know some farmers that use tires to burn brush piles in the winter.
No, I saw that part, but I figured we were all on the same page about how this works. _Some_ and not all companies recycle their waste. And _some_ of the stuff submitted for recycling actually gets it, while _some_ of it gets disposed of as cheaply as possible. I'm ready to believe that NY has tire recycling plants, but that every tire is recycled is an immensely different claim.
The EPA is a very powerful organization that will fuck your world up if you break the law...lol. I own an auto repair shop that does state inspections here in NY. There were two shops in NYC that figured out a way to circumvent the emissions testing. They were caught and arrested on EPA regulation violations. They had to pay $950,000 in fines. NY sent every inspection station a message thru our inspection machines.
BeTheFirstToComment
Many used tires are used to make rubberized asphalt, helping to reduce noise pollution
ElbowDeepInAHorse
If Hexus got into hot air ballooning
ThrockmortonTheSkateboarder
Dencerger
They haven't given this one much thought, have they?
Yasashii93
This problem could be at least reduced if tires were made completely out of natural rubber.
A typical modern tire is about 1/4 synthetic rubber, which pollutes more when it’s burned and is not bio degradable.
DiracsDelta
We literally could not produce enough natural rubber to meet demand. The people who tried ended up just spreading around blight with a bunch of infected fields. You just can’t grow rubber trees like a crop.
Cashmoneybadger
Natural rubber does kinda grow in trees, but in very few places and it's considered a scarce resource. Planes tires are made of rubber and there's no alternative there. It's a shame that car tyres produce like 30 % of all microplastics...
Chooseausernameandyoureallset
Discarded does not mean burnt. How many tires are burnt?
pullingsixty
This is a good read, 14 million tires burned. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagersville_Tire_Fire
LjubljanaJeNajlepseMestoNaSvetu
Most ima gues, since the 'responsibly restored' ones have to go someplace. Like for example Salonit Anhovo, they burn them in cement production.
WeatherWiz
Is this being done as a proof of concept? Why is a large plastic balloon type covering being filled with rubber smoke?
TinaEveFox
Proof of how much damage only 1 tire is, if you watched the whole thing (you didn't) at the end it says to support proper disposal of tires instead of burning them.
whoatherebigfella
After your public shaming, I went back and finished the video. I now wonder what they did with that bag full of disgusting matter?
TinaEveFox
I honestly wondered that myself like after they just had to open it up and let the smoke out like what else could they have done?
Elliotblet
What did they do with the pollution they collected in the balloon when they were done?
LjubljanaJeNajlepseMestoNaSvetu
They burned it and the baloon
Mjaubiz
They planted a tree and thus solved it by making the venture carbon neutral.
kathlTvVillain
Yes good question, I'd like to know too. 🤔
TheRedBaron8
Sold it on the black market.
FuckmotheringxVampire
So that's what a carbon credit looks like 🤔
SwissScars
Use public transport. Yes you're so proud of your car and doesn't it look soo pretty and go sooo fast, like the 100s of millions of other cars. Organise your life in a way that doesn't ruin the lives of our grand kids. It's not that hard, you make a few sacrifices.
TheMaestro66
Lost me at “it’s not that hard”. You’ve clearly never taken mass transit in the states.
SwissScars
Just Amtrack and Greyhound - many years ago. Clearly America needs to at least consider improving it public transport system. The new guy in NY was saying how it has helped his city.
TheMaestro66
100%
WellThatsOriginal
We dispose of around 300 million a year in the USA. In NY we have recycling plants and it is illegal to burn them.
SomeDumbBug
That law doesn't get enforced pretty much anywhere that allows burn pits and burning of trash. There was a crackhead down the road who regularly burned tires, plastics, and stolen cables for getting rid of the insulation. He only stopped because he burned down his house after years of doing it. The police & EPA did not care at all, never investigated, never showed up, nothing. Didn't matter the photos, evidence, fact it would go on for more than 6 hours at a time.
WellThatsOriginal
They don't prosecute individuals. The laws are to make sure that companies don't do it. I know some farmers that use tires to burn brush piles in the winter.
Corrodias
So what state do they get shipped to to be burned in, instead?
WellThatsOriginal
Let me yell it for you. WE HAVE TIRE RECYCLING PLANTS! I didn't want to yell, but you didn't hear me the first time.
Corrodias
No, I saw that part, but I figured we were all on the same page about how this works. _Some_ and not all companies recycle their waste. And _some_ of the stuff submitted for recycling actually gets it, while _some_ of it gets disposed of as cheaply as possible. I'm ready to believe that NY has tire recycling plants, but that every tire is recycled is an immensely different claim.
WellThatsOriginal
The EPA is a very powerful organization that will fuck your world up if you break the law...lol. I own an auto repair shop that does state inspections here in NY. There were two shops in NYC that figured out a way to circumvent the emissions testing. They were caught and arrested on EPA regulation violations. They had to pay $950,000 in fines. NY sent every inspection station a message thru our inspection machines.
WellThatsOriginal
Here is a link to a story I found.
Four New York Motor Vehicle Inspectors Face Felony Charges - Safety - Automotive Fleet https://share.google/NNhdrtQSgjqRZ3tiC