Kuwait to transform ‘tyre graveyard’ into new city ...Qatar

Kuwait yesterday announced plans to transform what was once a mammoth “tyre graveyard” to a new residential city. The 2sq km (0.7sq mile) dump in the north of the oil-rich Gulf country was where tyres went to die - a total of more than 40mn at the end. Seventeen years of tyre dumping and three massive fires between 2012 and 2020 sparked environmental concerns, prompting the authorities to shut it down for good. “We have moved from a difficult stage that was characterised by great environmental risk,” Oil Minister Mohamed al-Fares said at the now empty landfill some 5km (three miles) from Al-Jahra province. “Today the area is clean and all tyres have been removed to begin the launch of the

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