Archive for September 18th, 2012

There’s dirty manufacturing, there’s dirtier manufacturing and then there’s vehicle tire production. The manufacturing process releases toxic emissions into the air, including volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and soot, discharges toxins into water treatment plants and produces large amounts of waste products that contain solvents and other harmful substances. After a tire’s useful life is over, it is sent to a toxic landfill. Used tires produce a landfill blight like few other products. Read the rest of this entry »