One of the things I've learned on SMF is that people will try to recycle about anything to make some coin. I think scrappers do a great service to society. And, yet, a major discard of our modern society, vehicle tires, seem like such a PIA to get rid of and recycle. My question is why...?



I would think instead of various scales of governments worrying about and having many tough regulations on tire disposal, you'd think (and maybe there is some of this going on), the US EPA, Dept. of Energy, big state environmental protection agencies, would be fostering research on how best to reuse material from old tires. It makes no sense to me to see (and probably there are a lot of fewer of these nowadays) piles of hundreds of thousands of tires laying around being wonderful vermin and vector breeding grounds and just waiting to catch on fire. Sort of mind blowing. These are some of the problems that our elected leaders and the media should work on instead of wondering if The Donald paid some prostitutes to p*** on a bed that BO supposedly slept in the past...