How The World's Largest Tire Graveyard Vanished
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- Опубликовано: 2 мар 2023
- What happens when you dump 50 million tires in one area over the span of 20 years? You get the largest tire graveyard in the world. But how Kuwait dealt with its tire problem, why Chinese cities developed massive bicycle graveyards, and how poor Vietnamese villagers could afford to turn one of their graveyards into a huge tourist attraction, is #NotWhatYouThink #NWYT #longs
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The tires did not catch on fire by themselves due to the high temperatures. It’s just that the high temperatures didn’t help. Tire fires are typically a result of arson, or initiated by lightning.
They absolutely combust themselves that's why they are handled in the way they are at that site.
@@shaynejenkins446ope. They're handled in a way to prevent the (arson) fire from getting out of control. They do not just self combust. Have you ever tried to ignite a tire? My guess is, NO. Because if you had then you'd know that it's not easy. You have to have a real hot flame and even then it takes a while to get it to burn on its own. When it finally does ignite it burns real hot and is very difficult to extinguish.
Large quantities of tires can self-combust. They give off volatile gases (like benzene) with low flashpoints that can build up and spontaneously ignite. Add the insane temperatures of Kuwait, plus sunlight further heating black tires, and you have a recipe for fire
@@shaynejenkins446 I don't know if you have ever picked up a tire that's been laying outside, but there's enough water in one to keep it from getting too hot.
Arson or insurance fraud
I graduated in '02 and my middle/high school (same building) had a track made of recycled tires.....and it was suuuch a comfortable surface to run on!
Same, our was painted red, but it was awesome. IF you tripped it would hurt but not like asphalt. I kinda miss it.
Those are epic!@
There were a couple different types locally. Ours, I loved running barefooted on it. 😄 actually did better on the 1600 without shoes.
....but my Sauconys stuck to the track! ...spikes were even better!
yourr absolutely right though, tears you up when you fall... but it's much nicer than other types of tracks I've raced on.
One meet, we ran a dirt track and the 1600m run hads two heats of 40 runners per heat, waterfall start. It rained a bit...and not even 40m in, the runner in 5th or so slipped. A waterfall start, however, is a cluster****, so nobody could see the fallen runner. I mean....I did and jumped over him, but the rest of the field fell, more or less. 😆 I slipped later in the race (I was a horrible distance runner. the type that gets clapped in after ever race 😄)
.....I was also lucky enough to (as an adult) live across the street from the Nike Complex, which is a runner's paradise! mostly bark trails, but nice to run in without causing shin splints.
Until you run across that wire from the steel belts that they missed pulling out 😖😵
i can still feel the sting from the turf burn i got on that kinda surface
If you are going to have a landfill, it makes sense to have it full of a homogeneous material. This increases the potential utility of the landfill in the future, since the homogenous material could be processed relatively easily (compared with a typical landfill filled with a mix of material).
Yep.
A good example of how important homogeny is, is in plastic recycling. It's insanity. Plastics can't be mixed, but it all comes mixed. Fixing this causes the energy cost of plastic recycling to be far higher than the energy cost of just making new plastic.
In other words, it's all a scam right now. And until people are educated on different basic types of plastics in school, recycling plastic is going to continue to be more detrimental than it is beneficial.
Put the burden on the corporations, they'll figure out how to package everything in HDPE if that's all they're permitted to use. The adhesives are also a problem, most of the time different plastics are stuck to each other in such a way that none of it can be economically recycled.
Not to mention the environmental cost of shipping the waste to a third world country for processing.
Great point, I never thought of it that way for some reason.
A landfill full of "home-ohs"? 😄
@Travis Ryno I think the easiest way would be making stuff like disposable bottles out of the same plastic like oh no milk jugs are shaped different but they're not made out of one of the hardest to recycle plastics anymore
That tire graveyard is insane
Don't judge. You don't know what it's been through.
@@positivelynegative9149 what
@@danthepaninjapancq it was a joke, i laughed
@@davidlabossiere1905 ik, ik.
Figured it would be bigger
Tires are absolutely wonderful material. I worked at a place that sold stall mats made of recycled tires, those things will last for pretty much ever. Constantly stepped on by large hooved animals and never really showing much wear. They are expensive though, and weigh 80lbs for a 4x8' sheet about an inch thick.
Ludicrously heavy, incredibly durable, and great traction for walking on.
name of company and product please?
How much do those mats go for?
We have a picnic table made out of tires works great I’m sure it’ll be around longer then me lol
probably truck or mining machine tires
Off gassing?
Actually back in the 70s they ground up tires and added the ground up rubber/steel tire to asphalt and tested it on the interstate highways in different areas always about a 3 mile stretch and it showed no wear after 5 years then it was a patented process was bought and never was used again.
Tires are used in riyadh king abdullah road
Sounds like it was the asphalt/concrete industry that did the test. They patent a way to make it so you don't need to rebuild and never use it or allow others to use the patent so they can keep resurfacing roads to make continuous profit. It is planned obsolescence.
@@toolbaggers Exactly
Big Asphalt
@@toolbaggers Considering how stingy cities and governments are, I doubt they'd ever choose something like that. What it is is probably slightly more expensive, and that makes them ignore it.
It's nice to see the channel expanding beyond military content. I do enjoy the military stuff, but variety is very refreshing!
we need to update the phrase " can be seen from space" because my house can be seen from space at this point lol
My dog is a big consumer of used tires😂😆
You shouldn't let your dog eat tires man
@@MoeHasubandoAbsolver gonna take a wild guess here and say that this man does not intentially allow his dogs to scran bare tyres.
That's one way to recycle them I guess!
@@MoeHasubandoAbsolver you need to clean all that poop tires
Your dog knows what to do when he gets the car?
*checks user name*
Yeah, that checks out.
Yep, those are tires.
This is one of the comments of all time.
Springfield has one that has been burning for 33 years
The military analysis is interesting, but I'm really liking seeing you explore other topics
Somebody was like:
“Pile em up boys”
Is there another graveyard that we should be covering in a follow-up video?
I forgot where its located or what its called but I suggest the graveyard where the US nuclear reactors are stored
USAF Graveyard
Area 51
All of them plEAsE
Flight 17
Meanwhile here in the Philippines, the old tires here was just recapped the threads if possible. If no longer possible to rethread, it ended up as roof weight or artificial reefs
"Artificial reefs" what a funny way of saying you dump your shit into the ocean
@@Rig0r_M0rtis well, at first glance, people might think it's a good idea 😅 …until they realize tire actually get brittle overtime when soaked in saltwater.
@@Rig0r_M0rtis Tired no pun of having their shacks wiped out cause of the stormsurge.apparently, over time, they'll become inert and encrusted.
I worked at a tire recycling plant for 7 years. We made mulch, tire derived fuel, and had a mill for aggregate and the like for roads and shoes and whatnot. The wire, much of it stainless, goes to the foundry and is recycled as well. Awfully dirty work and pretty dangerous. Definitely had to be careful around all the shredders and conveyors.
Factorio of doom
Worked at one myself absolute nightmare, the fibres from the mills were constantly starting fires in the fibre collection system. Seen some nasty things dine to the environment there.
6:21 I love how like 100 bikes take the same space as 8 cars.
All the more reasons cities need a huge redesign and make cars redundant there.
Love your content as well as your sense of humor. Thanks.
Such a random topic, covered so well
This video went from tires, to bicycles to cemeterys🤯
It's about Graveyards, all types of them!
Very observant.
Yet it’s called what happens to used tires… and he talks about Vietnamese tombs. Bit of a joke to be honest.
Like the Fluctus channel - really fricking annoying.
@@NotWhatYouThink could've fooled me
If anyone's curious the youths that were involved with the Hagersville fire in Canada only received light sentences of mischief from what I could dig up. The cost of the fire was like 15m dollars but they received sentences of 1-4 months in jail with one youth having charges against him dropped when he turned witness to prosecution. Bet those kids had a fun talk with their parents when they got back home.
In Canada if any teenager under age eighteen kill you, he will get only three years prison time because he is minor. So what is arson nothing.
Im sorry I'm not doing anything about the government in Canada... Yet.
I've driven past this place on my last deployment. It's insane!
I bet it was an improvement over the miles of sand and burnt out cars left on the side of the highway.
@@atoms2242 it's in a empty desert in Kuwait
In western Canada we experimented with shredded tires. A university took a stretch of road, layed down the tires then paved over. The theory was the temperature changes would not affect the road with the tires acting as a shock absorber thus increasing the life of the road.
The steel residue looks like a giant Brillo pad.
This is such a great channel, keep up the great work!
Seeing all those tyres burning makes my recycling seem useless.
It is, pretty much. But it's trendy and therefore the authorities promote it because it makes them look good (despite the fact much of what you put out for recycling ends up in landfill anyway!).
lmao after living in kwt for 6 years, i can safely say you need a gas mask, a hazmat suit and ofc a litre bottle of cold water while venturing out of your air conditioned apartment.
You weak
Agreed. If there was no oil it would be ignored by the entire world. And let's not talk about the slavery
I heard that used tires were ground up to nugget size pieces and used as gravel or mulch.
Ground up tires are used as filler on some types of astroturf athletics fields, and for the rubberized track and field areas that often surround them at many high school and university stadiums. The same rubberized surfaces are often found at local neighborhood playgrounds to soften the fall for the children.
Using tires as a construction material is actually just as bad as burning them, they still leach harmful substances into their surroundings and may even be responsible for certain heath conditions. The best option is to recycle them and repurpose that material as tires again or some material that isn't in constant contact with people.
They said kids get sick at play grounds from the chemicals from the rubber. 🤷♂️
@@iliketocomment8144 Oh, please. Evidence? Proof? Tire allergies? No such thing.
@@frequentlycynical642 Do your own research because it’s out there.
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I just wanted to tell you that you're an absolute legend for putting the song names in your description
Thank you so so so much !!!
At cement production facilities, they often burn tires because of the high temperatures needed to make Portland cement. They do have filters and such for reduction of toxic/harmful emissions. Saves burning more fossil fuels to keep that needed high temperatures.
Don’t forget the perennial Springfield tire dump fire on The Simpson.
Recycled tire mats make great shop floor surfaces and outdoor ground mats for construction or (my use) pavers. I've an area where water pipes run beneath so paving conventionally would be foolish. I used recycled rubber horse stall matts instead and a year later it was easy to peel them back when the pipe required repair. Too bad the stuff is heavy which affects shipping costs or I'd buy many, many more.
the hagersville tire firefighting was a huge success. before that all the " experts " said it would burn for a year. they used excavators to dig into the burning pile and put out the fire in small batches. it only took 17 days. in the southern us there was a tire fire that was burning for many months . they said it was hopeless and had to burn itself out.
Ah yes the best way for the environment.
So so stupid we humans are and most of us don't care about it at all, which that's sad af.
20 years age we tried to set up Fuel production facilities in three countries... Government red tape and fees on top of fees just stopped us in our tracks... We calculated we would have processed about 10 million tires a year producing around 150 million litres of bio fuel.
Do you still have the plans and business case? I can get you in touch with local authorities in France , I mean if it is a "green" solution that is
@@manhoosnick Well, It was a green solution back then. Back then they went to landfill or just got piled up and burnt... To my understanding Tire Pyrolysis plants are all over the world now. And theres dozens of manufacturers making the equipment.
Seriously QUALITY video this was... Thanks
Such a nice video thx you for uploading 👍
Thank you for not Copyrighting me. I share your videos in my environmental groups to help teach people about our waste problem.✌🇺🇦
Don't worry, sharing a public RUclips video should not be a copyright issue, as long as you don't say that you made it - which you obviously don't.
The thumbnail is pretty crazy ngl.
I have been watching you for so long these videos make my day
Glad to see a proper video on this finally.
The turf at my old high school we played on was recycled tires, the little rubber beads that are basically between the fake grass
we used to have a tire graveyard that took tires for money around here. It mysteriously caught on fire and all the tires burnt a few weeks after it filled up.
If you can check the old newspaper archives, you will find that similar or even larger tire fires have occurred here in the USA... in the 1950's through the 1990's or so... I remember reading the stories or watching the news reports when they happened... it was before they started recycling them, but after they quit using them for making the walls for water reservoirs like they did south of Akron...
I need to look more of the actual cemetery, it’s beautiful!
That graveyard in VN is now on my bucket list to visit. That is amazing and beautiful. Thanks for the show on Tires.
Im vietnamese, but not living in Hue or An Bang Village. This is the first time in my life knowing that ridiculous cemetery
I'm Kuwaiti and live a 15 kilometers from the tire graveyard and have never heard of it 😂
NWYT making a video not about the military is like Wendover making a video not about logistics
i love ur vids bro thanks
That was mostly interesting, thanks for sharing.
The waste is shocking. There are countless people here in South Africa that need bicycles. We must set up a program to upcycle and donate to those in need
Edit: Talking about the bicycles at the end of the video
No one will ever do that.
You'd have to rework them into bike tires tho, those are all car tires so they cant just be fit onto a bike
the logistics cost of shipping used tires across the world will be insane, much cheaper to just buy new
They’re talking about the bicycle graveyards
Sure, when you guys stop the white genocide. Until then your on your own
I was riding a motorcycle between Hue and Hoi An when the cemetery came into the distance. This was definitely one of my strangest traveling encounter. The tombs mix Taoism, Buddhism, and Catholicism, just like the local religion they are part of. Seeing a marble statue of Mary next to the carved roof of a Taoist temple is uncanny, especially as I'm involved in both religions. It is worth a detour.
"We're not going to make are we? People I mean"
great video man!!
What happens to used tires? They get retired.
This whole tyre problem does not include the toxic spillage from tyre wear on roads which creates damaging airborne pollution which damages lungs.
Beautiful... A gift from us to this environment that nutrish us and gave us birth.
Fun fact, LEGO is the world’s biggest tire manufacturer
3 people didn't know that. Frankly, im_tirednof crappy facts that are common knowledge.
id love to see the bikes be bought and shipped to other places in the world that need cheap bikes
Very poorly built disposables, they don't even fix them. Kinda like shopping carts. Not worth maintanance. Or worth stealing. lol
They got Bubbles collecting them for ,10 cents a piece mostly for the bit of lead in the bells hammer.
Many years ago I lived in Kuwait for two years.
I lived in Vietnam recently for a year, taught English. I've visited a huge cemetery about 45 minutes away from Ho Chi Minh city (Saigon). I have a lot of respect the way Asian culture remembers and honors their parents and grandparents. Some of that is from Buddhist teachings as well.
I learned and adopted some of their cultural ideals.
The only thing I left Kuwait with was a little sand in my shoes.
@Ithecastic Yea, that ditty didn't age well.
Very informative and well made documentary! 👍
The Springfield tire fire has been burning for decades, and can be smelled all over the U.S.
Poor tires
poor earth
@@supahfly_uk poor humanity
and yet here i am, thinking about showering for a minute less a day🤦♂️
they should mix old tired into asphalt and turn them into a road surface
Dong, glad you clarified that one.
I visited in Vietnam. Spent about a month traveling the country and learned about its people and it’s culture. Highly recommend!
It can almost put the tire graveyard in The Simpsons intro to shame.
Cement works and other energy hungry industries have the ability to use tyres as fuel, and due to the high temperatures generated the risk of nasty pollutants is considerably reduced
Yes but still puts off mercury. We are seeing it now in Fl on the Ichnetucknee spring river that was pristine 😂
The same thing happened in silicone valley in the 70s, right next to where Google is now. There was a football field full of tires that burned for weeks. I grew up there, i watched it. I am sure it happens everwhere.
I think it would be really funny if this channel went from covering military topics to industrial topics like a RUclips Modern Marvels.
What's funny about that? X-D
BRO, why is your videos always like a my childhood memories watching WW2 documentaries. The random but most needed facts. you speak like someone who reads a book to me! I stopped drinking years ago and this channel kept me busy during the first stages of struggling!!!
as a man in his 60's with multiple college degrees, 2 different IT certifications, and even a former USN enlistee, I continue to learn something new each time I watch many of yours well done presentations !!!!!
Finally..a cemetery whom im not afraid to pass through at night
Tires can be made into fuel in a catalytic converter. These devices do not produce toxic emissions. One operation back in the sixties used cryogenic processes to render the tires brittle, then a high-speed conveyor belt was used to fling the frozen tires against a hard wall breaking the tires into small pieces.
My brother and me built the only tire home in California it is been there for over 30 years I believe there was over 3,500 tires used.
"Solid wastes are only raw materials we’re too stupid to use." - Arthur C Clarke.
I'm reminded of the fact that electronic waste contains more gold per ton than gold ore. But we destroy the environment by dumping millions of tons of the stuff. we do even more damage by digging up millions of tons of ore to make new gold. Instead of recycling the waste. Madness utter madness.
You also gotta account for the processing. Gold ore is simple crushing and making a slurry. Electronics, its harder but mostly due to the fact there's glass, plastics and other metals, but impossible in some locals cause of environmental regulations themselves
@@A_barrel this is true, smelting ore is cheaper and simpler to get gold than melting down electronics. We can’t just tell poor countries to stop extracting cheap gold and extract expensive gold from electronics instead.
this is BS. it's way cheaper for some natives in africa to dig out that gold by hand and for a almost nonexistent pay. as long as that doesn't change, nobody will do recycling that costs way more. if you think that's madness, you just don't understand capitalism or didn't think your thought through. if it would be a viable alternative, it would be done
love the little giggle of the narrator when they pulled the steel wires out of the chamber
AMAZING THANK YOU 4 RECYCLING
they should build a pyramid out of those tyres and make a tourist destination.... From trash to gold. There is a LOTS of usage to the used tires, you can even make a better asphalt with it.
I think tyres split to multiple pits for a reason - to not burn all at the same time from one spark. Imagine a huge pile of tires going up in flames that would be a disaster
ok but if that pyramid goes up in flames shits gonna burn for a month.
If they were made into full-size pyramid, what a tempting target!
Even I'd consider putting a match to it, just to see what it looked like.
What makes tires so flammable?
Well rubber burns, due to dry air the air can sometimes blow into eachother, making sparks, which lights tires on fire.
The fact that rubber and plastic burn like fuel
Synthetic rubber is a petroleum product. It's no surprise that it's flammable.
@@BentleyBohemian_96 because rubber and plastic is literally made form oil lmao
The things we learn on youtube. I'm glad that they got rid of that unsightly tire graveyard in an ecological manner.
Watching from Greece.hi everybody.
Great video.(you can't see pyramids from space)
bro im so tired of u telling me its not what i think
it's exactly what i think
You are the bes
Oh you so nic
Wt
Good day I live in Ont. 50 miles from Hagersville, yes very big fire. Thanks
This world will have a bad ending.
I hope I'm not around to see it.
Anicient world: Giza Plateau
Modern world: Millions of used tires in one spot
Great Interesting Stories 👍
I am surprised that China didn't try to capitalize and sell these bikes for cheap on Ali Express
Correct me if I'm wrong. Aren't tires excellent for certain marine animals? They create artificial reefs that's excellent for fish habitats? breeding/hiding/protection from dangerous predators I'd think so? Do tires leak dangerous chemicals slowly when soaked in salty water for years? Have any studies ever been done?
Surely don't they break down into micro-bits of rubber overtime?
@@Polska_Edits I know what u mean but tires are engineered to be virtually indestructible. But yes, we need a real marine biologist to answer these questions.
This was tried in Florida, Indonesia and Malaysia and it became a huge ecological disaster every time. Look up Osborne Reef
not remotely, they can destroy ecosystems, and its been done before
@@SpartanChiefNL Tk u. I will research it.
That tire graveyard gives them a huge resource of rubber if they ever need
never in my life expecting to hear the COOLEST GRAVEYARD
Electric cars are 100% Eco friendly! !!1!!!1!!11!
I enjoyed your content
I should be getting to sleep for my shift in less than 7 hours. Good thing I found a nice vid to keep me up at 3am
Imagine giving a tweeker all those bikes he would get them all home without riding a single one
Nice way to put all the tires together.
It's knot as overwhelming.
Those fires were a real bummer. We need treatments for those times mattered.
Let's look into a sprinkler system for future need sharings.
Unnumbing would be wiser.
"you sprayed drawings on a wall? oh please grand-kiddo, I started a fire that lasted 17 days! that's what you call vandalism"
I worked for a company that would grind them up mix in colored waste foam from the soles of tennis shoes and adhesive and make an alternative to mulch on playgrounds.