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Conservatives, horrified, are now thinking on making it illegal to remove the tires from the rivers.
Legalize shooting tire removers!
I take a lot of photographs in abandoned industrial sites. Tires are the most common thing I run across, by far. Besides being a source of pollution they make excellent mosquito breeding grounds after it rains. We really need to make recycling them a lot easier than it seems to be currently.
Considering how reusable tires are, I'm shocked that companies don't pay for them like aluminum cans and glass bottles
A serial number on all tires, and registration. Can't have millions of tires a year just dumped.
Id be surprised if they don't already have serial numbers somewhere on the tires but the registration thing would be impossible. Tires are bought in bulk by tire shops not custom ordered per car, my local tire shop orders entire shipping containers at a time for their most purchased tires so it's not like they can predict which car a tire is going to be put on when it's still in the factory.
Let the tire shops register the serials for bulk orders?
They are most certainly using the new tires they buy as replacements. So make whoever buys in bulk have to present proof of destruction of as many tires?
On a Mad River Horse I Paddle, For Rubber Tread Wanted I Dive - Bon Joyage
So a retired guy gets tired from all the tires
Retired guy tires of retired tires.
When I was a kid, it was a fairly common practice to "recycle" tires into fish habitats. I know at least a couple who did their eagle scout community service project doing this
Which is one of those things that sounds great at first but after a few more decades of research we realize it's actually horrifically bad. Leached chemicals and microplastics are having such profound impacts on life that we're not even sure how bad it is yet, just that it's very VERY bad.
A few hundred years from now, if husband aren't extinct yet, they'll look back on this the way we look back on pre-modern societies using lead for everything, except the solution to lead was to simply stop using it while a solution for microplastics doesn't even exist yet. It's likely that, even after a solution has been found, microplastics will haunt all life on Earth until they get cycled out by geological processes.
The good news is with all the small plastic bits floating around the environment, it’s only a matter of time until something evolves to decompose it. Tons and tons of surface area in a wide variety of environments and exposed to a wide variety of microorganisms. I mean heck even our anaerobic gut microbes are getting a chance! And plastic is basically just energy in solid form, so it’ll happen sooner or later.
The bad news is if that happens while we still use plastics, we are going to have a bad time with it.
We probably won’t even know it’s happening until it’s spread far and wide.
It's already happening, but the issue is so big it'll take a lot more than this to even make a dent.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/28/plastic-eating-bacteria-enzyme-recycling-waste