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Can any of us really imagine the amount of tires that are used and then discarded on a daily basis?

When you think of the amount of cars, airplanes, trucks and other types of vehicles on our planet today, then you should be quite astounded when you think of the amount of the tires used on these vehicles.

Thank goodness that we don’t all have a pile of them in our towns like they do in the Simpsons, alight and pumping fumes into the atmosphere.

In the US alone 290 million tires are scraped annually, so the recycling business is a big one.

Tires where originally made from natural rubber, but as the growth of the motor trade grew, then so did the amount of tires needed. After the Second World War tires were being produced by artificial means.

Soon after we learnt to recycle them and re-use them to make more tires. However, in the sixties there was a big market already for using recycled tires to make other tires, but as oil prices fell then so did the recycled tire market.

In the 1990’s state and provincial governments in the US and Canada led the charge in bringing back recycling to the tire world. Nowadays recycled tires are used for everyday items and items that I’m sure would surprise even the most general of thinkers.

To recycle your own tires, take them to a recycle plant (be sure to find out if they will accept them first) or use them for something else yourself, for example, most children would love a tire swing in the garden

The fact that so many tires these days are being recycled can only be a good thing as the amount of vehicles being used is ever increasing.

Just think what the world would be like if we didn’t recycle these rubber menaces that make our lives so convenient and easy. The world would be a rubbish tip.

One surprising innovation rising from our use of recycled tires is rubber mulch. To find more on this ingenious use of old tires - see Rubber Mulch