Where does all the rubber go?

ShawnOL
ShawnOL Posts: 13,548 ✭✭✭✭✭

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?

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  • FIRERAT
    FIRERAT Posts: 189 ✭✭✭✭

    @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.

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  • Vision
    Vision Posts: 10,079 ✭✭✭✭✭

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

  • rsherman24
    rsherman24 Posts: 7,769 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Flush them down the toilet

  • WaterNerd
    WaterNerd Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭✭✭

    "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"

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  • ShawnOL
    ShawnOL Posts: 13,548 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 2021

    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.

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  • Yakster
    Yakster Posts: 31,718 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Rubber's the name of a very interesting movie.

    https://youtu.be/hVKgY1ilx0Y

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  • TX98Z28
    TX98Z28 Posts: 2,448 ✭✭✭✭✭

    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 >:):D

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