Kuwait’s tyre graveyard was relocated earlier in 2022 through a massive transport operation. The tyres were taken to a new recycling base at Al-Salmi.
The site of the original dump was earmarked for a new housing development and there was a pressing need to deal with the estimated 42 million tyres dumped in the desert.
Competition to win the contract to recycle the tyres was fierce, and one of the winners was EPSCO.At a plant run by the EPSCO Global General Trading recycling company, employees sort and shred scrap tyres, before pressing the particles into flooring tiles.
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