All that rubber - where does it go?

Where does all that rubber go from your tires?

Actually an interesting question - and for the global warming set, they help.

Assume your tires last 30,000 km and it will wear 7mm of tread off the tire.  You are running off .2 nanometers of rubber for each meter you drive.  It adds up to about 10,000 tonnes of rubber deposited every year by all the cars in the UK.  In the US that number would be about 5X that number.

Most of the rubber is in the form of dust which washes off the roads into the lanes and ditches, to be washed away in the rains.  Some is filtered out in the water plants while most ends up in the rivers!!

Now, when you are driving around Los Angeles to meet your friends to decide what you will do to save the earth ... enjoy.



Focus Magazine, January 2011, page 30












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