Where does all the rubber go?

ShawnOL

Ok, I've thought about this long and hard but have been unable to come up with a satisfactory answer. Here goes....

Where does the rubber from worn off tire tread go?

FIRERAT

@ShawnOL said:
Ok, I've thought about this long and hard but have been unable to come up with a satisfactory answer. Here goes....

Where does the rubber from worn off tire tread go?

To tire heaven.

deadman

Mount Everest with the micro plastics

Vision

I thought this was a PSA on safe sex..... thank God I was wrong.

rsherman24

Flush them down the toilet

WaterNerd

"A little rubber becomes chemically incorporated into asphalt roads because asphalt and rubber both are made of petroleum oils. But the vast majority wears off as small particles that are rinsed off the road by rain, or blown off by the wind, ending up in the soil, on plants, and in lakes, rivers and streams"

ShawnOL

Shouldn't it become built up enough to see it by now? We've been using rubber tires for close to a century. It just seems to me that it's a LOT of rubber worn off over the years.

Yakster

Rubber's the name of a very interesting movie.

https://youtu.be/hVKgY1ilx0Y

TX98Z28

On the road, or it can be laid on the road or you can always light the tires up in smoke, which makes for beautiful sunsets