Florida dumped millions of tyres into the ocean to build a reef. More than 50 years later, it is still cleaning them up
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August 9, 2026
In the early 1970s, state officials and the US Army Corps of Engineers approved the dumping of vast numbers of used tyres into the Atlantic Ocean off Broward County, Florida. The idea was simple: create cheap, abundant artificial reef habitat to boost…