Despite the development of recycling plants in Kuwait, tyre dumping remains an issue, according to Chairperson of the Environmental Affairs Committee in the Municipal Council Alia Al-Farsi
Kuwait has often been held up as an example of how failure to recycle tyres can lead to large waste tyre stockpiles. After a series of fires and a great deal of unwanted media attention, Kuwait made moves to deal with its waste tyre mountain. An estimated 52 million tyres were removed from a site at Saad Al- Abdullah in 2021 to a recycling estate near Salmi.
Now, used tyres are still dumped randomly...
