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This post isn’t as boring as it sounds, trust me I will do my best to keep it interesting!  Your car tyres are made out of rubber (Der!) and they most certainly don’t last forever, in fact on average we have to replace out tyres once every 10,000 miles.  So for some this could be between 6 months and 2 years.  The main problem is, what do we do with them when we are finished with them?

Each year we take about 40 million tyres off of our cars because they have become to worn, or are damaged because of other reasons.  That’s around 350,000 tonnes of Tyre rubber being taken off all the cars in the UK.  However only about 75% of this is recycled, the rest of it is sent to land fill around 85,000 tonnes of waste!

The tyres that are recycled can be used on Aircraft or Trucks and buses, where they are remoulded to be the right size and shape (and have the correct amount of tread).  On average each tyre has a diameter of 2 feet (cars and trucks) obviously not included busses and HGVs.  If you were to lay all 40 million of these tyres together side by side they would be about 15,000 miles long, which is just over half the circumference of the planet (at the equator).

The main problem that we face in the future is that if all these unused tyres keep on mounting up, landfills will become filled in no time at all, so we need a better solution for recycling.   When you think about the Car Tyre generally you don’t really consider what damage it does when it comes off your car.

Burning rubber is not an option either, so creating a perfect recycling program is the best thing for us to do!

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Marcus travels all over the world in search for any information, he is a contributor at Top Travel Blogs, and enjoys Thailand holidays.