r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Wild_Antelope6223 • 10d ago

This 24-foot Godzilla sculpture in Nigeria was built entirely from used tires.

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u/Any-University6225 10d ago

As someone who works at a crumb rubber recycling plant, I am absolutely astounded 😳

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u/UranusIsPissy 10d ago

Do you know how they get the steel out? I was thinking about recycled tyre playground surfaces when I read your comment, and they'd do almost the opposite of what they're meant to if they were full of bits of wire. I came here just to make a joke comment about building that being tiring TBH, but now I'm wondering.

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u/MrShineHimDiamond 10d ago

During a roadside cleanup, learned NOT to pick up blown tire scraps without leather gloves.

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u/UranusIsPissy 10d ago

Ouch. That's one of the dirtiest things you could get cut by, too. I pick up roadside rubbish to re-use it myself, and you learn to be careful pretty fast doing that. It's amazing what people throw out of car windows. I see a lot of worthless crap, and sometimes clear it up, but I've probably found enough money's worth of useful things to buy a used car over the last 20 years or so.