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What happens to your car’s tires when you’re through with them? They might end up in Africa, which has become a dumping ground for waste of all kinds from Europe and America. This low-value trade is often justified as a form of recycling, but Africa is already besieged by millions of its own waste tires, and its relatively small number of industrial processing facilities can’t keep up. The result is an avalanche of rubber. Huge piles of tires sit by the roadsides, collecting water where malarial mosquitoes breed. Eventually, many tires are simply burned, sending choking smoke and pollutants into the atmosphere.
