Monbiot has an anguished article in today's Guardian about exporting car and lorry tyres to be burnt in India. And I recall reading about a huge tyre dump fire somewhere in Canada, which seems to be perpetual. So why don't we just bury the things in land fill sites and put them to the useful purpose of locking the carbon underground?
Do tyres decompose over time and release all kinds of unpleasant stuff into our aquifers? One would not have thought that carbon and hydrogen by themselves would cause a lot of bother.
The quick response from Bing is that it takes tyres around 50 years to decompose, but nothing about what they decompose to.
Maybe I will get bored later this afternoon and have a proper dig. Maybe even ask Google.
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