We make nearly 2 billion tires every year, while old ones continue to pile up. They can act as breeding grounds for mosquitoes and cause hardtoputout fires. Some countries recycle a majority of them, and one Nigerian entrepreneur is aiming to get hers to do the same.

0:00 Intro
1:06 Roadside Tire Collectors
1:46 A New Nigerian Tire Recycler
2:45 History of Rubber
3:44 Waste Tires and Fires
4:28 US Tire Recycling
4:41 Tire Recycling Process
5:54 Making Rubber Bricks
7:24 A $12 Billion Recycling Industry
8:16 From Waste Tires to Playgrounds
8:50 Family and Future

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One Nigerian Entrepreneur's Solution For Millions of Old Tires