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What Happens To Rubber That Wears Off Auto Tires
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| 11-28-2002
Posted on 11/28/2002 12:08:56 PM PST by blam
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To: Captainpaintball
When tires were a brand new invention, Michelin used natural rubber, which is white, to make it's tires.
Later, they added carbon black to the rubber mix, but by that time, the white Michelin Man was already out there.
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posted on
11/28/2002 12:54:49 PM PST
by
spoiler2
To: blam
Your tax dollars at work...
To: VMI70
Well, maybe you remember the source and can post it. It makes sense that tire dust decomposes, but I'd like to document it, and cannot remember the link. If you remember, it would be a public service.
To: truth_seeker
Tire diapers.
To: sinkspur
Why do I suddenly smell trial lawyers?Q. What's the difference between a roadkill skunk and a roadkill lawyer?
A. There's skid marks in front of the skunk!
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11/28/2002 12:57:33 PM PST
by
stboz
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Banned for emitting splinters!
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
So dirt roads would be better and also steel wheels, like the pioneers used to settle the west. Steel wheels on steel rails work pretty well. And they're non-polluting, unless you use wooden ties with wood preservatives.
Actually, concrete roads may be environmentally preferable to asphalt. It would be interesting to compare cancer, asthma, and other disease rates in cities that use mainly concrete paving versus areas that use mainly asphalt.
However, the refineries have to get rid of the asphalt, so I don't expect we'll stop using it on our streets any time soon.
To: blam
We are doomed!!
Outlaw tires!!
Global Warming!
or is it cooling?
I always forget the disaster du jour.
To: South40
You can all start walking...leaving those cars at home!Yeah, well what about all that rubber on the soles of your shoes, where does THAT go?
And if we take off our shoes, then where does all that skin go on the soles of your feet? Hmmm?
To: blam
Wind, sand and dust storms create more air pollution than humans could ever hope to produce.
To: South40
You can all start walking...leaving those cars at home! Oh no you don't. If everyone starts walking we will have tennis shoe and other shoe materiels and particulates being put into the air.
Maybe we all should just stay in bed everyday.
To: blam
When I was a child, we used to live on a dirt and gravel road. The state would come out every so often and spray it down with used motor oil to keep the dust settled.
To: EggsAckley
Food for thought! Only for the starving.
Or the paranoid.
100 years after rubber was introduced? Right.
To: EggsAckley
I hope all your damn trees die off, I hope the tires fall off your car while your driving, I hope all your vegetables contain heavy metals like metallica and black sabbath. Any
body worried about the damn trees doesnt deserve to use air
on the North American continent, the best thing about trees
is that they can be cut down and turned into baseball bats
which can then be used to beat Anti american enviro nuts and
nazi Islamists to death with! Sorry about the rant your are probably a nice guy but ive had it with the enviro stuff!
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11/28/2002 1:19:20 PM PST
by
claptrap
To: sheik yerbouty
LOL!
To: claptrap
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To: blam
If you live near an Interstate or freeway, some of it ends up as dust on your porch.
To: blam
That article is tripe without knowing the amount of water, tire rubber, and concentration eventually mixed with organisms in water.
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