Tires that have reached the end of their lifetime are usually recycled, but in Kuwait, they are dumped into one of the biggest landfills on earth in Sulaibiya area near Kuwait City. Every year gigantic holes are dug out in the desert and filled with old tyres. There are already seven million tires out there.From Amusing Planet (ground-level photos at the link).
thank goodness those piles are not on fire!
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"Visible from space" doesn't carry as much weight as it once did.
ReplyDeleteEven my car is visible from space, I've seen it on Google maps.
You point is well-taken, anon. I've deleted that sentence. Tx.
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