Bales of tyres from Australia and New Zealand are dumped at a compound next to the living quarters of the workers at a tyre pyrolysis plant in Kulai, Johor, Malaysia August 7,2019. Picture taken August 7,2019. REUTERS/Edgar Su
NABIPUR, India/KULAI, Malaysia (Reuters): When night falls in the Indian village of Nabipur, the backyard furnaces come to life, burning waste tyres from the West, making the air thick with acrid smoke and the soil black with soot.
Not long ago, Nabipur was a quiet farming village in northern India. Now the village is home to at least a dozen furnaces burning a steady stream of tyres to make low-quality oil in a process known as pyrolysis.
