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Recycled Tires Could Filter Water

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the mmmmmm-tastes-like-firestone dept.

MattSparkes writes "According to New Scientist, water could be cleansed and filtered more easily and cheaply by using old tires. From the article: 'Rubber tires, the kind that lie at the bottom of rivers and at the back of junkyards the world over, could be ideal water filters says an environmental engineer at Penn State University in the US.'"

2 of 112 comments (clear)

  1. Duh! by Naughty+Bob · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's *why* we chuck them in the river....

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    "Be light, stinging, insolent and melancholy"
  2. Re:What about rubber allergies? by diersing · · Score: 5, Funny

    There we go again, caving to the cyclohexylthiopthalimide-phobic lobby. Honestly people, this here tire-filtration system is the best thing we got going, are we really going to abandon it for something that affects 10%^H^H^H 1% ^H, this guy?