According to a report by Spain's El Pais newspaper on June 10, Salmi, near the border with Saudi Arabia in Kuwait, has accumulated over 42 million discarded tires, making it one of the world's largest "tire cemeteries". The report says that Kuwait produces about 3 million discarded tires per year. Although Kuwait's population is only about 4.27 million, its per capita waste generation is twice the world average.
Kuwait produces about 3 million discarded tires per year. As early as 2012, Kuwait was plagued by the problem of discarded tires. The landfills where discarded tires were stored frequently caught fire, and some experts believed that they would become breeding grounds for pests and pose a serious threat to public health. Therefore, the local government decided in 2021 to transfer the waste to Salmi.
Although the government had tried to alleviate the problem by transferring waste and setting up recycling facilities, only 21% of solid waste was successfully recycled by 2022, and the rest was still buried. After the waste was transferred to Salmi, the landfill there caught fire again this year and last year, causing thousands of square meters of tires to be burned.
To solve the "tire crisis," the Kuwaiti government plans to accelerate the construction of more recycling and processing facilities. However, local recycling companies have already begun turning used tires into carpets, flower pots, and rubber granules, among other products. If we could turn this black pollution into gold, it would be a never-ending source of wealth.
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