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29-DEC-2007	Jason Daniel Anderson

making a home

North Providence, RI

Used tires take roughly 800 years to decompose; in the meantime they retain stagnant water and create ideal breeding grounds for mosquitoes. In the Northeast, like many other places, mosquitoes carrying West Nile virus and Easters Equine Encephalitis are a growing concern. The problem? Properly disposing of used tires requires effort and/or a fee.

Sony DSC-F828
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mathilda williams		30-Mar-2008 18:05
still, no matter how many years it will take for this tyre to break down and decompose, there has to be a better way of disposing of it than ot just dump it somewhere in nature. there are actually many ways of recycling used tyres, it is simply not cheap to do so. mathilda

Jason Anderson		20-Feb-2008 02:38
John, these are the same scientists who tell us the half-life of Plutonium-239 is roughly 24,000 years, yet can produce no proof from direct observation since the half-life of a scientist is roughly 50 years. In addition, my manual clearly suggests I replace the tires every 60,000 miles, which means either they last significantly less than 800 years or someone is having a hell of a joke, all the way to the bank.

John Cooper		19-Feb-2008 13:15
Seeing as tyres were only invented and made about 150 years ago, how would anybody know that they take 800 years to decompose. I think somebody has been making illegal trips in my Herbert George Wells chariot (time machine).

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