• kubica@fedia.io
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    20 hours ago

    Conservatives, horrified, are now thinking on making it illegal to remove the tires from the rivers.

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    I take a lot of photographs in abandoned industrial sites. Tires are the most common thing I run across, by far. Besides being a source of pollution they make excellent mosquito breeding grounds after it rains. We really need to make recycling them a lot easier than it seems to be currently.

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      Considering how reusable tires are, I’m shocked that companies don’t pay for them like aluminum cans and glass bottles

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      18 hours ago

      Id be surprised if they don’t already have serial numbers somewhere on the tires but the registration thing would be impossible. Tires are bought in bulk by tire shops not custom ordered per car, my local tire shop orders entire shipping containers at a time for their most purchased tires so it’s not like they can predict which car a tire is going to be put on when it’s still in the factory.

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    When I was a kid, it was a fairly common practice to “recycle” tires into fish habitats. I know at least a couple who did their eagle scout community service project doing this