Dumping 2 Million Tires In The Ocean To 'Help' Fish

In the depths of the ocean, off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, lies a haunting testament to what happens when good people make terrible decisions: The Osborne Tire Reef Environmental Disaster.

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[moonasha]

the fact they didnt do a pilot program with a few hundred tires, before dumping millions, is just mind boggling.

[richardsousa]

“Environmentalists and entrepreneurs came up with the idea” is a terrifying statement

[Noxis]

Honestly, I doubt the intention behind this disaster was ever "Noble."
Sounds to me like whoever came up with this awful idea just wanted to find a shortcut to the tire waste issue at any cost.

[Anon_Spartan]

As someone who throws his old car batteries into the ocean to make reefs where the fishes can have electricity for their smartphones, even I think this is insane.

[drewtree]

As a fish living in this area, I can attest this has not helped me or my friends and has driven the property value of my house down

[lunatik]

It is hard to believe no one ever considered this might not be a good idea.
It is more like someone found an innovative way to dump toxic materials.

[zacharyvogel]

I can't be the only one that is pretty confident these big companies knew exactly how this was going to go and just didn't care. Because it was a way for them to get rid of their tires and look like they cared about the environment and then if something goes wrong they could just " blame the scientists"

[aceremis]

This is how you create a problem that doesn't exist

[gmfan]

Who could have possibly known that steel belts would rust away in saltwater?!

[HybridPrime_Creative]

I find it very odd how this plan can be made with the very obvious (to me at least) issue of toxic pollutants inevitably leaking out of the tires and harming life in a wide area around them.

[TK-tcbk]

Growing up not far from a Goodyear tire factory, I could’ve told them as a child that this was a bad idea. The smell alone from that factory left no doubt about the toxicity of tires.

[burrdaddy]

I struggle to believe that anyone with good intentions and a bit of knowledge actually thought this was a good idea. What an incredible epic scale disaster.

[twerkingfish]

To me it just sounds like someone wanted to dump millions of tires into the ocean rather than recycle or landfill them.

[sean_miller]

I have really hard time believing that no one knew this would become a problem. It seems like an instinctively bad idea even without knowing exactly why.

[stevenytx]

They didn't think it was a good idea. They pretended they thought it was a good idea because they wanted rid of the tyres.

[UtoniumJock]

I love the fact that the ocean spat up the tire waste on the beach a couple of times.

[stsis]

in what world does someone think to dump 2 million tires in an ocean to "help ecosystems"

[HeisenbergFam]

Dumping 2 mil tires into ocean to help fish is the type of shenanigans you would see in GTA parody world

[whitecompany]

I worked in the tyre industry for years, ( Kwik-fit UK ) and we used to charge people £1 per tyre for "green disposal" and when people asked where they went we happily explained "they are all chained together and placed in the sea to make artificial reefs to save wildlife" 🤦 Kwik fit made millions making people think the environment is being "saved" when it was the complete opposite... Just remember that people, it's still going on today with electric cars, it's a narrative being pushed for corporations to make money, in twenty years you will be looking at video's of lithium batteries in places they shouldn't be and that the mining for lithium and shale gas ruined the planet ...and they'll blame you, again, and charge you, again!

[mikebesoyan]

This is why we have YouTube. So we all can learn about stuff like this. I never heard about this before.