An average automobile tire can travel around30,000 kilometersbefore they need to be replaced.
Every year gigantic holes are dug out in the desert and filled with old tyres.
There are already seven million tires out there.
The expanse of rubber is so vast that they are now visible from space.
The tires arrive from both Kuwait and other countries.
Satellite picture of the tire dump in Sulaibiya, Kuwait.
During the 1980s and 1990s,259 million tireswere discarded annually.
One-fourth of these end up in landfills.
The U.S. state of Florida once attempted to createan artificial reef out of discarded tires.
The project failed terribly and has since become an environmental nightmare that will cost millions of dollars to rectify.
Tires can also be usefully recycled and re-purposed into flood defences.
A large percentage of disused tires are simply burnt for fuel.
Landfilling is probably the least desired because they occupy large space.
Tires can also trap methane gases posing serious fire hazards.
In fact, fires outbreaks in tire landfills are common occurrences.
