why ‘tire graveyards’ are a thing and not just recycled or broke down and reused?
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Tire distributor here in Canada
So there are many ways to reuse a tire especially big commercial tires. Typically people will retread a good casing and reuse it. If properly taken care of you can technically retread is a few times each time getting less and less kmz but still it’s easily possible to reach a few hundred thousand kmz on a first time retread.
If a tire is doomed to the graveyard (in Canada atleast) importers such as myself pay a tariff based on the size of the tire upon import. There are government sanctioned recycling facilities that pick up for free and will take the tire to a recycling facility which pulverizes the tire into a carbon powder and strips the steel bands away. They melt the steel obviously and the little black bits are made into everything from playground matting to astroturf to hockey pucks (Canadians duh).
However there are technologies based out of Europe that are making there way into North America (slowly) that convert any carbon based material into water, electricity and a desired fuel, these facilities cost hundreds of millions but truly remarkable what they can do with a 0 carbon footprint.
Sorry I didn’t explain like ur five.
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