Kuwait aims to transform 'tyre graveyard' into new cityKuwaiti firemen fight a massive blaze in a dump of more than five million used tyres in Kuwait on April 17, 2012KUWAIT CITY - Kuwait on Sunday announced plans to transform what was once a mammoth "tyre graveyard" to a new residential city. Seventeen years of tyre dumping and three massive fires between 2012 and 2020 sparked environmental concerns, prompting the authorities to shut it down for good. "Today the area is clean and all tyres have been removed to begin the launch of the project of Saad Al-Abdullah city." According to Sheikh Abdullah Al-Sabah, director general of the Environment Public Authority, Kuwait plans to recycle all the tyres and avoid the need for another landfill. She said EPSCO has the capacity to cut or repurpose approximately two millions tyres a year, in cooperation with other factories.

Source: Bangkok Post August 29, 2021 14:48 UTC