2006-07-05 08:34:33 · 15 answers · asked by boysy 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
It goes into your lungs. And mine.
2006-07-05 08:47:24 · answer #1 · answered by R.I.P. 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
An attempted answer to that question was published in "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise? : An Imponderables Book" by David Feldman.
Apparently studies have been done by tire manufacturing companies to figure out this question. After all, we wouldn't want to be accidentally posioning the environment with the dust that rubbs off automotive tires onto the roads everyday. It appears that no one really knows. Maybe the rubber dust breaks down into something else, or mabe it just washes away. Or maybe there is a highway troll that gathers the dust and takes it into another dimension ...
2006-07-05 08:45:17 · answer #2 · answered by Randy G 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tires are recycled to form all kinds of new rubber products. It is often mixed with asphalt and used to pave the road because it enhances the grip of the road, thus enabling your car to stop faster. It is also process into "crumb rubber" to make synthetic running tracks around fields. The rubber track is actually better on runner's knees and joints than that standard sand because it provides better shock absorption.
Other products include floor mats, rubber mulch, landscape material, office supplies, sound barriers, speed bumps, traffic cones, etc.
2006-07-05 08:48:17 · answer #3 · answered by Drew 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The rubber is removed on a tiny scale with each rotation of the wheel, you cannot see it, because the pieces which wear off are too small for the naked eye to observe.
As with all small particulate matter, the weather moves it until it finds some resting spot and merges with all the detritus of life, eventually becoming new layers of the earths surface.
2006-07-05 08:41:19 · answer #4 · answered by ogenglishman 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you're driving, the friction between the tire and the road burns up the rubber on your tires (which is why you have to buy new ones).
Tires then get recycled when you buy new ones. The old tires may go to trash dumps, but often they're made into new things. For example, I own some pens made out of old tires!
2006-07-05 11:12:57 · answer #5 · answered by jlo5616 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The particles worn away are minuscule in size. The "tire dust" enters the environment - washed into the soils by run-off, into the air as smog or embedded into the pavement.
2006-07-05 08:41:37 · answer #6 · answered by ilonaloisa 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its recycled and used to make new tyres, under lay and other rubbery stuff
2006-07-05 08:38:13 · answer #7 · answered by Pound Shop Price List 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dust that settles on the washing I hang out to dry! :<
2006-07-05 08:37:56 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's sold as toys to the poor children in Africa
2006-07-05 09:03:21 · answer #9 · answered by nobody 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
melted in to the ground or on the roads, im sure you ave seen your share of skid marks the rain usely washes it away
2006-07-05 08:39:00 · answer #10 · answered by jackpack 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its chewed up and recycled and laid in the childrens play grounds in the uk so if kids fall off swings they have a safer landing
2006-07-09 08:05:39 · answer #11 · answered by bojomarriott 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋