Why Kuwait Stores 7 Million Tires!

Did you know there's a massive tire graveyard so large it can be seen from space? Welcome to Kuwait’s Al Jahra tire dump, the world’s largest tire graveyard, home to over 7 million discarded tires! For over 20 years, tires from all over the world have been transported to Kuwait, creating a mountain of waste. This incredible tire dump, the size of a small city, symbolizes an environmental challenge in one of the wealthiest countries on Earth.

So why would a country as rich as Kuwait allow this dump to grow for decades? The answer is simple: cheap storage costs. For years, it was a low-cost solution to dispose of tires, and no one seemed to care about the environmental consequences. It wasn’t until 2021, after several massive fires broke out at the dump, that Kuwait was forced to take action. These fires sent plumes of toxic smoke into the sky, prompting an urgent need for change.

Now, Kuwait is transforming this tire graveyard into something much more useful. Recycling efforts have begun, and millions of tires are being repurposed into valuable products like fuel, construction materials, and even playground surfaces. What started as an environmental nightmare has now turned into a global recycling effort. This story highlights the challenges of waste management and how innovative solutions can emerge from dire situations.

Join us as we dive deep into the fascinating history of Kuwait’s tire dump, the fires that sparked global attention, and the innovative recycling efforts that are turning waste into something useful. Could this be the future of tire waste management worldwide?

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[theadventuresofbrockinthai]

Good to hear they are starting to recycle them.

[ginanjarpratama]

It's been a goodyear when the tire finally recycled

[peterburkey]

My brother works at a tire recycling facility in North Central Indiana. From playgrounds and football fields, to building materials and a thousand other ingenius things, it's AMAZING what they make with used tire material. Even the metal is completely separated from the rubber, melted down and sold for raw material in many other manufacturing processes.

[shashwatshrey]

Every country should have such recycling facilities.

[jordyb]

Seeing something from space doesn’t have the significance it used to … you can see a tree from space now

[ikeskifan]

In Indiana, my brother had a recycling business and the federal EPA shut them down. He was trying to do a good thing, but as you all know, our government stops a lot of good stuff.

[xx]

Respect to Kuwait for putting efforts to recycling waste meterials

[kingk]

You can use them to build your house . It is a prime material in term of strength and insulation even just used like that covered with clay . Saw a house that looked like a typical French provençal cottage built by a Dutch architect using tyres .

[reynaldocardenas]

Since the early 90's I have always said we can recycle used tires to make more tires or pavement or other things like some insulation in Adobe houses. And I'm 47.

[DarkArmedWagon]

This is awesome. They have all the desert space and can create streams accepting tires, repurposing, and recycling

[DrDabb]

They make good walls and can be used to help build roads as filler .

[richardwakelin]

I have seen park benches, railings & flooring made of this stuff & it seems really good

[albinklein]

7 million tires are absolutely nothing. Get your facts straight, for Christ's sake! 7 million tires are trashed in Europe in approximately one week!

[terryhopper]

I heard of a Dutch study into increased cancer in young footballers, particularly goalkeepers. Apparently, the rubber crumb, used on artificial pitches, is carcinogenic.

[thelife]

Seeing from sky doesn't mean seeing from space

[OutThere]

One thing they are using the recycled material for is playground surfaces. They add Color to the material.
We have a new one in my town and it’s 10 x better than pea stone. It’s very durable and after 6-7 years I noticed a hole forming from wear underneath a swing. it was easily repaired and restored back to looking very new again. They patch it by heating and fusing the material back together. You can barely notice the patch.
The surface has held up well through Canada’s winter, kept its Color and still looks new.

[mohamede.]

An inconvenience turned into a blessing mashALLAH

[patriciatardugno]

It's a smart use of barren desert, & they have the money to recycle them. Great ideas.

[edwardharlem]

let's store in Kuwait, to Wait..

[mihaiatka]

In some countries they burn a WHOLE LOT MORE than that...out in the open on pirpose