Ahh,
economy,
environment - where the two meet it's rarely
pretty. After certain of their
Ford Explorer tires were found to
fall to shreds at
high speed,
Bridgestone/Firestone tire manufacturers had to
recall 6.5 million of them. Obviously they're useless at
fulfilling the
purpose they were produced for. B/F can hardly
abandon the tires by the
old swimming hole either - 6.5 million would form a wall 50 feet high, 50 feet thick and half a mile long.* The tires need to
become something else.
Here are a bunch of ways old (or new and useless) tires can be recycled:
* "How to Make 200 Million Flip-Flops", The New York Times Week in Review p. 2, Sunday, August 27 2000