Kuwait aims to transform ‘tyre graveyard’ into new city
By AFP
31 August 2021 |
2:21 pm
In the north of Kuwait, a 2-square-kilometre (0.7-square-mile) dump has become known as the place where tyres go to die, with some 40 million of them piling up. Now the oil-rich Gulf country has plans to transform the “tyre graveyard” into a site for residential properties.
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