A Sustainable Life: Check your tyres – you might be adding unnecessary microplastics to the environment
SAMANTHA GARRARD, a marine ecosystem services researcher at Plymouth Marine Laboratory, explains why maintaining optimal tyre pressure is important…
Kuwait starts to recycle massive tyre graveyard
KuwaitReuters More than 42 million old vehicle tyres dumped in Kuwait’s sands have started to be recycled, as the Gulf state tackles a waste problem that created one of the world’s largest tyre graveyards. The massive dump site was a mere seven kilometres from a residential suburb. Residents were bothered by periodic large fires releasing noxious […]
WOW! TYRE MANUFACTURERS PROMISE TO PUT THE BRAKES ON DEFORESTATION
MICHAEL TAYLOR, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on a new initiative aimed at stopping the destruction of forests to make way for rubber plantations…