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They use shredded tires in children’s playgrounds as artificial turf. A few years ago a soccer coach made the connection between that turf and children getting weird cancers and has been campaigning against them ever since.

It looks like tires are much more toxic than we thought and we should reconsider their composition quickly.

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As a kid, I remember playing at playgrounds made entirely of old tires. Shedded tires on the ground, big farm tractor tires to climb on. Car tires stacked up to form towers. I wonder what impact that had on the thousands of kids that passed through there.

and we were so proud of using all that recycled material too.

Seems the problem is not the recycling, but the composition of the items being recycled.

I feel like the best option is to recycle the tires into tarmac and reuse as much into new tires as well. The other thing is to live far away from major roads.

Recycling into roads sort of sucks for people who live near roads already (among all the other stuff they have to breathe in from car exhaust).

Most of it is already tire particulate matter. The only upside is that it makes the roads quieter... but I think the main problem with noise is that most vehicles are misaligned and out of balance.

Do you have a link for this?

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-usa-health-turf-idUSKCN0V...

Yeah a couple of professional goalies got lymphoma too.

That's terrible! All the salmon in the playground will die!

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