Correction at 1:56 The tires did not catch on fire by themselves due to the high temperatures. It’s just that the high temperatures didn’t help. Tire fires are typically a result of arson, or initiated by lightning.

@shaynejenkins446

Жыл бұрын

They absolutely combust themselves that's why they are handled in the way they are at that site.

@travisyayes6343

Жыл бұрын

​​@@shaynejenkins446ope. They're handled in a way to prevent the (arson) fire from getting out of control. They do not just self combust. Have you ever tried to ignite a tire? My guess is, NO. Because if you had then you'd know that it's not easy. You have to have a real hot flame and even then it takes a while to get it to burn on its own. When it finally does ignite it burns real hot and is very difficult to extinguish.

@femanvate

Жыл бұрын

Large quantities of tires can self-combust. They give off volatile gases (like benzene) with low flashpoints that can build up and spontaneously ignite. Add the insane temperatures of Kuwait, plus sunlight further heating black tires, and you have a recipe for fire

@kennyparis8742

Жыл бұрын

@@shaynejenkins446 I don't know if you have ever picked up a tire that's been laying outside, but there's enough water in one to keep it from getting too hot.

@homezmaker6925

Жыл бұрын

Arson or insurance fraud

I graduated in '02 and my middle/high school (same building) had a track made of recycled tires.....and it was suuuch a comfortable surface to run on!

@Treekicker

Жыл бұрын

Same, our was painted red, but it was awesome. IF you tripped it would hurt but not like asphalt. I kinda miss it.

@hitchhikersguidetotheusael967

Жыл бұрын

Those are epic!@

@evilpandakillabzonattkoccu4879

Жыл бұрын

There were a couple different types locally. Ours, I loved running barefooted on it. 😄 actually did better on the 1600 without shoes. ....but my Sauconys stuck to the track! ...spikes were even better! yourr absolutely right though, tears you up when you fall... but it's much nicer than other types of tracks I've raced on. One meet, we ran a dirt track and the 1600m run hads two heats of 40 runners per heat, waterfall start. It rained a bit...and not even 40m in, the runner in 5th or so slipped. A waterfall start, however, is a cluster****, so nobody could see the fallen runner. I mean....I did and jumped over him, but the rest of the field fell, more or less. 😆 I slipped later in the race (I was a horrible distance runner. the type that gets clapped in after ever race 😄) .....I was also lucky enough to (as an adult) live across the street from the Nike Complex, which is a runner's paradise! mostly bark trails, but nice to run in without causing shin splints.

@petevenuti7355

Жыл бұрын

Until you run across that wire from the steel belts that they missed pulling out 😖😵

@umucci

Жыл бұрын

i can still feel the sting from the turf burn i got on that kinda surface

That tire graveyard is insane

@positivelynegative9149

Жыл бұрын

Don't judge. You don't know what it's been through.

@danthepaninjapancq

Жыл бұрын

@@positivelynegative9149 what

@davidlabossiere1905

Жыл бұрын

@@danthepaninjapancq it was a joke, i laughed

@danthepaninjapancq

Жыл бұрын

@@davidlabossiere1905 ik, ik.

@RotGodKing

Жыл бұрын

Figured it would be bigger

If you are going to have a landfill, it makes sense to have it full of a homogeneous material. This increases the potential utility of the landfill in the future, since the homogenous material could be processed relatively easily (compared with a typical landfill filled with a mix of material).

@SuperPhunThyme9

Жыл бұрын

Yep. A good example of how important homogeny is, is in plastic recycling. It's insanity. Plastics can't be mixed, but it all comes mixed. Fixing this causes the energy cost of plastic recycling to be far higher than the energy cost of just making new plastic. In other words, it's all a scam right now. And until people are educated on different basic types of plastics in school, recycling plastic is going to continue to be more detrimental than it is beneficial.

@netyr4554

Жыл бұрын

Put the burden on the corporations, they'll figure out how to package everything in HDPE if that's all they're permitted to use. The adhesives are also a problem, most of the time different plastics are stuck to each other in such a way that none of it can be economically recycled. Not to mention the environmental cost of shipping the waste to a third world country for processing.

@ared4108

Жыл бұрын

Great point, I never thought of it that way for some reason.

@thereignofthezero225

Жыл бұрын

A landfill full of "home-ohs"? 😄

@cameronvandygriff7048

Жыл бұрын

​@Travis Ryno I think the easiest way would be making stuff like disposable bottles out of the same plastic like oh no milk jugs are shaped different but they're not made out of one of the hardest to recycle plastics anymore

Tires are absolutely wonderful material. I worked at a place that sold stall mats made of recycled tires, those things will last for pretty much ever. Constantly stepped on by large hooved animals and never really showing much wear. They are expensive though, and weigh 80lbs for a 4x8' sheet about an inch thick. Ludicrously heavy, incredibly durable, and great traction for walking on.

@damoos3.

Жыл бұрын

name of company and product please?

@danielwurmer2266

Жыл бұрын

How much do those mats go for?

@truebluebluetick

Жыл бұрын

We have a picnic table made out of tires works great I’m sure it’ll be around longer then me lol

@dergunter1237

Жыл бұрын

probably truck or mining machine tires

@anthonyman8008

Жыл бұрын

Off gassing?

Is there another graveyard that we should be covering in a follow-up video?

@theshinywaffle

Жыл бұрын

I forgot where its located or what its called but I suggest the graveyard where the US nuclear reactors are stored

@amirthavallymahendran4753

Жыл бұрын

USAF Graveyard

@theandroidguy6032

Жыл бұрын

Area 51

@jlc88cowan88

Жыл бұрын

All of them plEAsE

@clan_houltz

Жыл бұрын

Flight 17

It's nice to see the channel expanding beyond military content. I do enjoy the military stuff, but variety is very refreshing!

Actually back in the 70s they ground up tires and added the ground up rubber/steel tire to asphalt and tested it on the interstate highways in different areas always about a 3 mile stretch and it showed no wear after 5 years then it was a patented process was bought and never was used again.

@fahad8059

Жыл бұрын

Tires are used in riyadh king abdullah road

@toolbaggers

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like it was the asphalt/concrete industry that did the test. They patent a way to make it so you don't need to rebuild and never use it or allow others to use the patent so they can keep resurfacing roads to make continuous profit. It is planned obsolescence.

@judyleitner3475

Жыл бұрын

@@toolbaggers Exactly

@heintz256

Жыл бұрын

Big Asphalt

@midgetman4206

Жыл бұрын

​@@toolbaggers Considering how stingy cities and governments are, I doubt they'd ever choose something like that. What it is is probably slightly more expensive, and that makes them ignore it.

My dog is a big consumer of used tires😂😆

@MoeHasubandoAbsolver

Жыл бұрын

You shouldn't let your dog eat tires man

@goosemang114

Жыл бұрын

@@MoeHasubandoAbsolver gonna take a wild guess here and say that this man does not intentially allow his dogs to scran bare tyres.

@NotWhatYouThink

Жыл бұрын

That's one way to recycle them I guess!

@jesusfernandez931

Жыл бұрын

​​@@MoeHasubandoAbsolver you need to clean all that poop tires

@coolidgp

Жыл бұрын

Your dog knows what to do when he gets the car? *checks user name* Yeah, that checks out.

Yep, those are tires.

@mathewjones7663

11 ай бұрын

This is one of the comments of all time.

The military analysis is interesting, but I'm really liking seeing you explore other topics

Love your content as well as your sense of humor. Thanks.

Somebody was like: “Pile em up boys”

The waste is shocking. There are countless people here in South Africa that need bicycles. We must set up a program to upcycle and donate to those in need Edit: Talking about the bicycles at the end of the video

@Cristian88.

Жыл бұрын

No one will ever do that.

@Star-ge9fo

Жыл бұрын

You'd have to rework them into bike tires tho, those are all car tires so they cant just be fit onto a bike

@trailfork7815

Жыл бұрын

the logistics cost of shipping used tires across the world will be insane, much cheaper to just buy new

@youzhou3001

Жыл бұрын

They’re talking about the bicycle graveyards

@TheRavens77

Жыл бұрын

Sure, when you guys stop the white genocide. Until then your on your own

Such a random topic, covered so well

6:21 I love how like 100 bikes take the same space as 8 cars.

@iCore7Gaming

Жыл бұрын

All the more reasons cities need a huge redesign and make cars redundant there.

This is such a great channel, keep up the great work!

we need to update the phrase " can be seen from space" because my house can be seen from space at this point lol

Springfield has one that has been burning for 33 years

lmao after living in kwt for 6 years, i can safely say you need a gas mask, a hazmat suit and ofc a litre bottle of cold water while venturing out of your air conditioned apartment.

@Isqpo2

Жыл бұрын

You weak

@zspud21

Жыл бұрын

Agreed. If there was no oil it would be ignored by the entire world. And let's not talk about the slavery

Seriously QUALITY video this was... Thanks

Hey I just wanted to tell you that you're an absolute legend for putting the song names in your description Thank you so so so much !!!

This video went from tires, to bicycles to cemeterys🤯

@NotWhatYouThink

Жыл бұрын

It's about Graveyards, all types of them!

@frequentlycynical642

Жыл бұрын

Very observant.

@giggleigloos

Жыл бұрын

Yet it’s called what happens to used tires… and he talks about Vietnamese tombs. Bit of a joke to be honest.

@DavidBcc

Жыл бұрын

Like the Fluctus channel - really fricking annoying.

@user-ov2fc5sd1e

Жыл бұрын

@@NotWhatYouThink could've fooled me

If anyone's curious the youths that were involved with the Hagersville fire in Canada only received light sentences of mischief from what I could dig up. The cost of the fire was like 15m dollars but they received sentences of 1-4 months in jail with one youth having charges against him dropped when he turned witness to prosecution. Bet those kids had a fun talk with their parents when they got back home.

@Hazara26

Жыл бұрын

In Canada if any teenager under age eighteen kill you, he will get only three years prison time because he is minor. So what is arson nothing.

@RobzdaBlade

11 ай бұрын

Im sorry I'm not doing anything about the government in Canada... Yet.

I've driven past this place on my last deployment. It's insane!

@wyomins

Жыл бұрын

I bet it was an improvement over the miles of sand and burnt out cars left on the side of the highway.

@babagandu

Жыл бұрын

@@atoms2242 it's in a empty desert in Kuwait

I worked at a tire recycling plant for 7 years. We made mulch, tire derived fuel, and had a mill for aggregate and the like for roads and shoes and whatnot. The wire, much of it stainless, goes to the foundry and is recycled as well. Awfully dirty work and pretty dangerous. Definitely had to be careful around all the shredders and conveyors.

@trazyntheinfinite9895

8 ай бұрын

Factorio of doom

@Hackinheadz

7 ай бұрын

Worked at one myself absolute nightmare, the fibres from the mills were constantly starting fires in the fibre collection system. Seen some nasty things dine to the environment there.

Meanwhile here in the Philippines, the old tires here was just recapped the threads if possible. If no longer possible to rethread, it ended up as roof weight or artificial reefs

@Rig0r_M0rtis

Жыл бұрын

"Artificial reefs" what a funny way of saying you dump your shit into the ocean

@souffle420

Жыл бұрын

@@Rig0r_M0rtis well, at first glance, people might think it's a good idea 😅 …until they realize tire actually get brittle overtime when soaked in saltwater.

@philipkeeler9997

Жыл бұрын

@@Rig0r_M0rtis Tired no pun of having their shacks wiped out cause of the stormsurge.apparently, over time, they'll become inert and encrusted.

Many years ago I lived in Kuwait for two years. I lived in Vietnam recently for a year, taught English. I've visited a huge cemetery about 45 minutes away from Ho Chi Minh city (Saigon). I have a lot of respect the way Asian culture remembers and honors their parents and grandparents. Some of that is from Buddhist teachings as well. I learned and adopted some of their cultural ideals. The only thing I left Kuwait with was a little sand in my shoes.

@theodoreolson8529

Жыл бұрын

@Ithecastic Yea, that ditty didn't age well.

Seeing all those tyres burning makes my recycling seem useless.

@robertstallard7836

Жыл бұрын

It is, pretty much. But it's trendy and therefore the authorities promote it because it makes them look good (despite the fact much of what you put out for recycling ends up in landfill anyway!).

Such a nice video thx you for uploading 👍

In western Canada we experimented with shredded tires. A university took a stretch of road, layed down the tires then paved over. The theory was the temperature changes would not affect the road with the tires acting as a shock absorber thus increasing the life of the road.

Ah yes the best way for the environment. So so stupid we humans are and most of us don't care about it at all, which that's sad af.

I have been watching you for so long these videos make my day

Glad to see a proper video on this finally.

great video man!!

The steel residue looks like a giant Brillo pad.

the hagersville tire firefighting was a huge success. before that all the " experts " said it would burn for a year. they used excavators to dig into the burning pile and put out the fire in small batches. it only took 17 days. in the southern us there was a tire fire that was burning for many months . they said it was hopeless and had to burn itself out.

I need to look more of the actual cemetery, it’s beautiful!

we used to have a tire graveyard that took tires for money around here. It mysteriously caught on fire and all the tires burnt a few weeks after it filled up.

The turf at my old high school we played on was recycled tires, the little rubber beads that are basically between the fake grass

i love ur vids bro thanks

That graveyard in VN is now on my bucket list to visit. That is amazing and beautiful. Thanks for the show on Tires.

I heard that used tires were ground up to nugget size pieces and used as gravel or mulch.

@cabsbass

Жыл бұрын

Ground up tires are used as filler on some types of astroturf athletics fields, and for the rubberized track and field areas that often surround them at many high school and university stadiums. The same rubberized surfaces are often found at local neighborhood playgrounds to soften the fall for the children.

@kehreazerith3016

Жыл бұрын

Using tires as a construction material is actually just as bad as burning them, they still leach harmful substances into their surroundings and may even be responsible for certain heath conditions. The best option is to recycle them and repurpose that material as tires again or some material that isn't in constant contact with people.

@iliketocomment8144

Жыл бұрын

They said kids get sick at play grounds from the chemicals from the rubber. 🤷‍♂️

@frequentlycynical642

Жыл бұрын

@@iliketocomment8144 Oh, please. Evidence? Proof? Tire allergies? No such thing.

@iliketocomment8144

Жыл бұрын

@@frequentlycynical642 Do your own research because it’s out there.

Thank you for not Copyrighting me. I share your videos in my environmental groups to help teach people about our waste problem.✌🇺🇦

@murmenaattori6

Жыл бұрын

Don't worry, sharing a public KZread video should not be a copyright issue, as long as you don't say that you made it - which you obviously don't.

That was mostly interesting, thanks for sharing.

At cement production facilities, they often burn tires because of the high temperatures needed to make Portland cement. They do have filters and such for reduction of toxic/harmful emissions. Saves burning more fossil fuels to keep that needed high temperatures.

20 years age we tried to set up Fuel production facilities in three countries... Government red tape and fees on top of fees just stopped us in our tracks... We calculated we would have processed about 10 million tires a year producing around 150 million litres of bio fuel.

@manhoosnick

Жыл бұрын

Do you still have the plans and business case? I can get you in touch with local authorities in France , I mean if it is a "green" solution that is

@HebrewHammerArmsCo

Жыл бұрын

@@manhoosnick Well, It was a green solution back then. Back then they went to landfill or just got piled up and burnt... To my understanding Tire Pyrolysis plants are all over the world now. And theres dozens of manufacturers making the equipment.

Don’t forget the perennial Springfield tire dump fire on The Simpson.

Dong, glad you clarified that one.

Great Interesting Stories 👍

If you can check the old newspaper archives, you will find that similar or even larger tire fires have occurred here in the USA... in the 1950's through the 1990's or so... I remember reading the stories or watching the news reports when they happened... it was before they started recycling them, but after they quit using them for making the walls for water reservoirs like they did south of Akron...

"Solid wastes are only raw materials we’re too stupid to use." - Arthur C Clarke. I'm reminded of the fact that electronic waste contains more gold per ton than gold ore. But we destroy the environment by dumping millions of tons of the stuff. we do even more damage by digging up millions of tons of ore to make new gold. Instead of recycling the waste. Madness utter madness.

@A_barrel

Жыл бұрын

You also gotta account for the processing. Gold ore is simple crushing and making a slurry. Electronics, its harder but mostly due to the fact there's glass, plastics and other metals, but impossible in some locals cause of environmental regulations themselves

@dannyzero692

Жыл бұрын

@@A_barrel this is true, smelting ore is cheaper and simpler to get gold than melting down electronics. We can’t just tell poor countries to stop extracting cheap gold and extract expensive gold from electronics instead.

@hazardeur

Жыл бұрын

this is BS. it's way cheaper for some natives in africa to dig out that gold by hand and for a almost nonexistent pay. as long as that doesn't change, nobody will do recycling that costs way more. if you think that's madness, you just don't understand capitalism or didn't think your thought through. if it would be a viable alternative, it would be done

Beautiful... A gift from us to this environment that nutrish us and gave us birth.

Very informative and well made documentary! 👍

as a man in his 60's with multiple college degrees, 2 different IT certifications, and even a former USN enlistee, I continue to learn something new each time I watch many of yours well done presentations !!!!!

Recycled tire mats make great shop floor surfaces and outdoor ground mats for construction or (my use) pavers. I've an area where water pipes run beneath so paving conventionally would be foolish. I used recycled rubber horse stall matts instead and a year later it was easy to peel them back when the pipe required repair. Too bad the stuff is heavy which affects shipping costs or I'd buy many, many more.

The thumbnail is pretty crazy ngl.

AMAZING THANK YOU 4 RECYCLING

and yet here i am, thinking about showering for a minute less a day🤦‍♂️

NWYT making a video not about the military is like Wendover making a video not about logistics

never in my life expecting to hear the COOLEST GRAVEYARD

Finally..a cemetery whom im not afraid to pass through at night

Fun fact, LEGO is the world’s biggest tire manufacturer

@iloveallthepeople

Жыл бұрын

3 people didn't know that. Frankly, im_tirednof crappy facts that are common knowledge.

Poor tires

@supahfly_uk

Жыл бұрын

poor earth

@polymetrusornate3204

Жыл бұрын

@@supahfly_uk poor humanity

The same thing happened in silicone valley in the 70s, right next to where Google is now. There was a football field full of tires that burned for weeks. I grew up there, i watched it. I am sure it happens everwhere.

Amazing!

I was riding a motorcycle between Hue and Hoi An when the cemetery came into the distance. This was definitely one of my strangest traveling encounter. The tombs mix Taoism, Buddhism, and Catholicism, just like the local religion they are part of. Seeing a marble statue of Mary next to the carved roof of a Taoist temple is uncanny, especially as I'm involved in both religions. It is worth a detour.

I visited in Vietnam. Spent about a month traveling the country and learned about its people and it’s culture. Highly recommend!

I like this channel.

I enjoyed your content

What happens to used tires? They get retired.

Im vietnamese, but not living in Hue or An Bang Village. This is the first time in my life knowing that ridiculous cemetery

@user-ov2fc5sd1e

Жыл бұрын

I'm Kuwaiti and live a 15 kilometers from the tire graveyard and have never heard of it 😂

Awesome Graveyard!

Watching from Greece.hi everybody. Great video.(you can't see pyramids from space)

This whole tyre problem does not include the toxic spillage from tyre wear on roads which creates damaging airborne pollution which damages lungs.

I should be getting to sleep for my shift in less than 7 hours. Good thing I found a nice vid to keep me up at 3am

"We're not going to make are we? People I mean"

id love to see the bikes be bought and shipped to other places in the world that need cheap bikes

@philipkeeler9997

Жыл бұрын

Very poorly built disposables, they don't even fix them. Kinda like shopping carts. Not worth maintanance. Or worth stealing. lol They got Bubbles collecting them for ,10 cents a piece mostly for the bit of lead in the bells hammer.

BRO, why is your videos always like a my childhood memories watching WW2 documentaries. The random but most needed facts. you speak like someone who reads a book to me! I stopped drinking years ago and this channel kept me busy during the first stages of struggling!!!

My brother and me built the only tire home in California it is been there for over 30 years I believe there was over 3,500 tires used.

That bike land fill honestly seems like a gold mine.

The things we learn on youtube. I'm glad that they got rid of that unsightly tire graveyard in an ecological manner.

I think it would be really funny if this channel went from covering military topics to industrial topics like a KZread Modern Marvels.

@NotWhatYouThink

Жыл бұрын

What's funny about that? X-D

It can almost put the tire graveyard in The Simpsons intro to shame.

Nice way to put all the tires together. It's knot as overwhelming. Those fires were a real bummer. We need treatments for those times mattered. Let's look into a sprinkler system for future need sharings. Unnumbing would be wiser.

Good day I live in Ont. 50 miles from Hagersville, yes very big fire. Thanks

You are the bes

@NotWhatYouThink

Жыл бұрын

Oh you so nic

@Baboi62182

Жыл бұрын

Wt

they should build a pyramid out of those tyres and make a tourist destination.... From trash to gold. There is a LOTS of usage to the used tires, you can even make a better asphalt with it.

@frogor308

Жыл бұрын

I think tyres split to multiple pits for a reason - to not burn all at the same time from one spark. Imagine a huge pile of tires going up in flames that would be a disaster

@Phantom-bh5ru

Жыл бұрын

ok but if that pyramid goes up in flames shits gonna burn for a month.

@robertstallard7836

Жыл бұрын

If they were made into full-size pyramid, what a tempting target! Even I'd consider putting a match to it, just to see what it looked like.

You killed me with the sink comment 😂

Tires can be made into fuel in a catalytic converter. These devices do not produce toxic emissions. One operation back in the sixties used cryogenic processes to render the tires brittle, then a high-speed conveyor belt was used to fling the frozen tires against a hard wall breaking the tires into small pieces.

bro im so tired of u telling me its not what i think it's exactly what i think

This world will have a bad ending. I hope I'm not around to see it.

FWIW: At one time a company {in Florida?} was casting tetrahedrons in molds for forming artificial reefs. They used shredded tires and concrete debris from construction sites, mixed with new concrete, to form the tetrahedrons. They included a loop of rebar {or something similar} on one face of the tetrahedron to facilitate picking them up with a crane. When dropped into the ocean, the tetrahedron shape caused them to sink more-or-less straight down to the bottom.

@MikeT-TheRetiredColonel

4 ай бұрын

Ya know? I remember that too :)

Perth has an excellent bike share culture. Thursday and Friday nites at most local pubs you'll find the regular boilers waiting for a good nite in 😂😂

What makes tires so flammable?

@pvt.potato1943

Жыл бұрын

Well rubber burns, due to dry air the air can sometimes blow into eachother, making sparks, which lights tires on fire.

@BentleyBohemian_96

Жыл бұрын

The fact that rubber and plastic burn like fuel

@gimmethegepgun

Жыл бұрын

Synthetic rubber is a petroleum product. It's no surprise that it's flammable.

@Phantom-bh5ru

Жыл бұрын

@@BentleyBohemian_96 because rubber and plastic is literally made form oil lmao

More vids like this!!!

Here's an idea: Use the sun/heat as a tool for processing the tires. Feed the tires onto a conveyor into a solar oven. Focus sunlight so that as the tires pass through the oven they become soft. After the oven, a machine mechanically strips the metal from the soft rubber. While the tire is still hot, separate the tire layers as needed. Now you have a product that can be used in asphalt roads, walking paths, landscaping mulch, ect. I'm sure there is a logical flaw in my idea or else this would have been done long ago

@tedhardulak7698

Жыл бұрын

Probably no profit in it. But a great idea! I agree.

I am surprised that China didn't try to capitalize and sell these bikes for cheap on Ali Express

Correct me if I'm wrong. Aren't tires excellent for certain marine animals? They create artificial reefs that's excellent for fish habitats? breeding/hiding/protection from dangerous predators I'd think so? Do tires leak dangerous chemicals slowly when soaked in salty water for years? Have any studies ever been done?

@Polska_Edits

Жыл бұрын

Surely don't they break down into micro-bits of rubber overtime?

@lil----lil

Жыл бұрын

@@Polska_Edits I know what u mean but tires are engineered to be virtually indestructible. But yes, we need a real marine biologist to answer these questions.

@SpartanChiefNL

Жыл бұрын

This was tried in Florida, Indonesia and Malaysia and it became a huge ecological disaster every time. Look up Osborne Reef

@clayel1

Жыл бұрын

not remotely, they can destroy ecosystems, and its been done before

@lil----lil

Жыл бұрын

@@SpartanChiefNL Tk u. I will research it.

The Springfield tire fire has been burning for decades, and can be smelled all over the U.S.