So a retired guy gets tired from all the tires
Conservatives, horrified, are now thinking on making it illegal to remove the tires from the rivers.
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.
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.
