Where does all the rubber go???

CheapJ7 · Feb 8, 2008

A few years back my co-pilot Chase Chambless and I were out in my CJ cruisin the creek and talking about lifes mysteries..
Mind you.. these were the high-school days and i'm sure we were in a very "open minded" state.. But he posed this question to me and now i pass it on to you guys...

There is an enourmous number of cars on the road each day...
So that's an enormous amount of tire wear each year...
Everyone's tires start out at full tread then wear down to nothing...
Tires are changed and the process is repeated..

Now there's not thick pads of rubber on the roads nor is there huge piles of worn rubber on the sides of the roads...
And you know tires can survive in the woods for Years, so they do not decompose quickly..

So where does all the rubber go dunno

bigsilly · Feb 8, 2008

Passing the bong around I see... :spin:

race_jeep · Feb 8, 2008

bigsilly said:
Passing the bong around I see...

and by high school days, he means yesterday laughing

John Galbreath Jr. · Feb 8, 2008

The rubber is next to the erased chalkboard words. :fish:

CheapJ7 · Feb 9, 2008

race_jeep said:
and by high school days, he means yesterday laughing

Haha.. Not quite yesterday...

Nobody's even got a theory????

vanguard · Feb 9, 2008

CheapJ7 said:
Nobody's even got a theory????

I assume it just washes away like any other dirt. I bet the rubber content in the dirt next to the interstate is pretty high.

bigsilly · Feb 9, 2008

I would assume most of it grinds into the asphalt itself. Thus the reason when it does not rain for a while and when it finally does the roads can be very slick at first. dunno