Here is the question that NOONE has asked: where have 500,000,000,000,000 tires gone?

Question

People buy a new vehicle, it has new tires. 20,30,40,000 miles later, they put on a new pair. what happened to ALL of the old tire tread, and where did it literally disappear to?

Or, are we literally breathing the dust of 500,000,000,000,000+++ tires?

These tires all lost 1/2 of tread over the last 75 years and its gone somewhere, is it in the earth, the air or...our lungs?

Answer 1

They haven't been made yet.

500 TRILLON tires? LOL.

But all that dust just gets dispersed into the soil. You're not breathng it, you're eating it!

Answer 2

Most of the worn tread is found along the side of our roads as microspheres of rubber. These break down with time.

As for breathing rubber dust - well most dust is human skin, so you're really sucking in all your friends and relatives, one cell at a time.

Answer 3

most tires get reused or melted to make new tires, the lose tread that is visable on the highways gets picked up and taken to the city landfills.