Where does all the rubber go that wears off tires?

MadSci Network: Environment & Ecology

Subject: Where does all the rubber go that wears off tires?

Date: Mon Aug 30 21:03:16 1999
Posted by Robert Maynard
Grade level: nonaligned School: No school entered.
City: Tyler State/Province: Texas Country: No country entered.
Area of science: Environment & Ecology
ID: 936061396.En

Message:


We have billions of tires in use and they are constantly wearing out. Where 
does all that rubber end up? There should be piles of it along every 
highway in America. But there isnt. So where is it?

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