Recycling a massive graveyard of scrap car tires in Kuwait (photos)
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Kuwait has started recycling more than 42 million scrap tires, which have accumulated in the desert over 17 years, forming one of the largest used tire cemeteries in the world.
This site remained in the area of Arhiya, about 35 kilometers from the capital, Kuwait, and only about seven kilometers from the residential areas, a source of inconvenience to the residents due to successive fires that broke out from time to time in this huge amount of tires, causing clouds of black smoke harmful to the environment and the population.
The Environment Public Authority announced that it had completed the process of transferring all tires from the area of Arhiya to the Al-Salmi area near the border with Saudi Arabia, within six months, through companies led by initiators, where recycling efforts began, without any cost to the government.
The government wants to build a housing project comprising about 25,000 homes in the area, after it was liberated from the tire problem, which was the biggest obstacle facing the project.
In a recycling factory run by the International General Trading Company "Ebisco" in the Salmi area, workers sort and cut scrap tires to produce various products, some of which are used as fuel for cement factories, and materials that are pressed to make colored rubber floor tiles and artificial turf, some of which are even used in children's play areas.
The partner and CEO of Ebisco, Engineer Alaa Hassan, said that the goal of the factory "is to preserve the environment and radically dispose of waste, by using these tires as raw materials to produce beautiful materials with bright colors that can also be used in the aesthetic, not just industrial."
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