27-06-2021 - Escondida, New Mexico - Painted tires hung on a homeowner's fence in the New Mexico desert. © Jim West

10-05-2021 - Detroit, USA: Uniroyal Giant tire on Interstate 94. The 80 foot tall tire was built by the United States Rubber Company as a Ferris wheel for the 1964 New York World's Fair; it was converted to advert... © Jim West

03-07-2020 - Colorado, USA. Piles of stored tires, CH2E Tire Recycling Facility northeast of Denver. The waste tires are recycled into a variety of end user materials including tire derived fuel, tire derived aggr... © Jim West

03-07-2020 - Colorado, USA. Piles of stored tires, CH2E Tire Recycling Facility northeast of Denver. The waste tires are recycled into a variety of end user materials including tire derived fuel, tire derived aggr... © Jim West

03-07-2020 - Colorado, USA. Piles of stored tires, CH2E Tire Recycling Facility northeast of Denver. The waste tires are recycled into a variety of end user materials including tire derived fuel, tire derived aggr... © Jim West

03-07-2020 - Colorado, USA. Piles of stored tires, CH2E Tire Recycling Facility northeast of Denver. The waste tires are recycled into a variety of end user materials including tire derived fuel, tire derived aggr... © Jim West

03-07-2020 - Colorado, USA. Piles of stored tires, CH2E Tire Recycling Facility northeast of Denver. The waste tires are recycled into a variety of end user materials including tire derived fuel, tire derived aggr... © Jim West

03-07-2020 - Colorado, USA. Piles of stored tires, CH2E Tire Recycling Facility northeast of Denver. The waste tires are recycled into a variety of end user materials including tire derived fuel, tire derived aggr... © Jim West

23-01-2020 - Michigan, USA, tyre tracks in the snow of an empty parking lot, closed KMart store, one of many that have closed under competition from online retailers and as a result of declining incomes © Jim West

11-01-2020 - Highways Agency Traffic Officers, M40 motorway lane closure for lorry tyre changing © John Harris

02-10-2017 - London Police Officers laying out a Talon spiked net outside Parliament to prevent vehicle terror attacks against crowds attending major events. The nets are capable of stopping lorries weighing up to... © Stefano Cagnoni

02-10-2017 - London Police Officers laying out a Talon spiked net outside Parliament to prevent vehicle terror attacks against crowds attending major events. The nets are capable of stopping lorries weighing up to... © Stefano Cagnoni

02-10-2017 - London Police Officers laying out a Talon spiked net outside Parliament to prevent vehicle terror attacks against crowds attending major events. The nets are capable of stopping lorries weighing up to... © Stefano Cagnoni

02-10-2017 - London Police Officers laying out a Talon spiked net outside Parliament to prevent vehicle terror attacks against crowds attending major events. The nets are capable of stopping lorries weighing up to... © Stefano Cagnoni

02-10-2017 - London Police Officers laying out a Talon spiked net outside Parliament to prevent vehicle terror attacks against crowds attending major events. The nets are capable of stopping lorries weighing up to... © Stefano Cagnoni

02-10-2017 - London Police Officers laying out a Talon spiked net outside Parliament to prevent vehicle terror attacks against crowds attending major events. The nets are capable of stopping lorries weighing up to... © Stefano Cagnoni

15-09-2017 - Windsor, Ontario, Canada, Old tires dumped at Peche Island, a wetland park in the Detroit River © Jim West

29-08-2017 - Denver, Colorado, USA Used tires piled up at Colorado Tire Recycling Centre © Jim West

29-08-2017 - Denver, Colorado, USA Used tires piled up at Colorado Tire Recycling Centre © Jim West

15-08-2017 - Coachella Valley, California, USA Irrigation ditch carrying runoff from nearby fields and date orchard into the Salton Sea © David Bacon

15-08-2017 - Coachella Valley, California, USA Irrigation ditch carrying runoff from nearby fields and date orchard into the Salton Sea © David Bacon

05-06-2017 - Worker, Michelin Tyres retread factory, Stoke on Trent. Retreading lorry tyres © John Harris

05-06-2017 - Worker, Michelin Tyres retread factory, Stoke on Trent. Retreading lorry tyres © John Harris

05-06-2017 - Worker, Michelin Tyres retread factory, Stoke on Trent. Retreading lorry tyres © John Harris

05-06-2017 - Worker laughing, Michelin Tyres retread factory, Stoke on Trent. Retreading lorry tyres © John Harris

05-06-2017 - Worker, Michelin Tyres retread factory, Stoke on Trent. Retreading lorry tyres © John Harris

22-06-2016 - Las Vegas, Nevada drought. The water level in Lake Mead has fallen 150 feet and is now at 37% of capacity due to drought in the West. Truck tires were a breakwater for the Echo Bay marina which is now... © Jim West

10-09-2015 - Old motorcycle buried beneath clothes shoes, inner tubes and lots of keys Kunming, Yunnan Province, China. © Connor Matheson

06-03-2015 - Trucks pulled over as part of the regular roadside checks by DVSA staff to ensure that HGVs are safe to drive on British roads. A vehicle inspector with many years experience inspects a vehicle. © Stefano Cagnoni

06-03-2015 - Trucks pulled over as part of the regular roadside checks by DVSA staff to ensure that HGVs are safe to drive on British roads. A vehicle inspector with many years experience inspects worn tyres on an... © Stefano Cagnoni

06-03-2015 - Trucks pulled over as part of the regular roadside checks by DVSA staff to ensure that HGVs are safe to drive on British roads. A vehicle inspector with many years experience shines a light on damaged... © Stefano Cagnoni

06-03-2015 - Trucks pulled over as part of the regular roadside checks by DVSA staff to ensure that HGVs are safe to drive on British roads. A vehicle inspector with many years experience inspects a vehicle. © Stefano Cagnoni

06-03-2015 - Trucks pulled over as part of the regular roadside checks by DVSA staff to ensure that HGVs are safe to drive on British roads. A vehicle inspector with many years experience writes up a report as evi... © Stefano Cagnoni

29-10-2014 - Tyre fitters taking a break. The community of Scunthorpe. Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire. © Connor Matheson

16-10-2014 - Free bike air pump installed at @Bristol, Bristol. © Paul Box

03-02-2012 - Burning rubber. Doing a wheel spin on a Suzuki GSX-R 600 motorcycle at the abandoned Heygate Estate. London © Connor Matheson

20-11-2011 - A taxi driver changing a flat tyre, replacing it with a spare. London. © Timm Sonnenschein

07-11-2011 - A Motor Vehicle Service and Repair apprentice at Airedale Motors, a business run by social enterprise Chrysalis, Castleford, South Yorkshire. © Philip Wolmuth

07-11-2011 - A Motor Vehicle Service and Repair apprentice at Airedale Motors, a business run by social enterprise Chrysalis, Castleford, South Yorkshire. © Philip Wolmuth

13-07-2011 - Detroit, Michigan - The abandoned Packard plant. Opened in 1903, the 3.5 million square foot plant employed 40,000 workers before closing in 1958. It has been left to decay. © Jim West

05-12-2010 - The Algodones Sand Dunes or dune sea are the largest mass of sand dunes in California. This dune system or Erg extends for more than 40 miles (60 km) along the eastern edge of the Imperial Valley, jus... © David Bacon

05-12-2010 - The Algodones Sand Dunes or dune sea are the largest mass of sand dunes in California. This dune system or Erg extends for more than 40 miles (60 km) along the eastern edge of the Imperial Valley, jus... © David Bacon

24-11-2010 - Woman storekeeper, Ford dealership, Herouville Saint Clair, France © Benoit Decout

24-11-2010 - Woman storekeeper, Ford dealership, Herouville Saint Clair, France © Benoit Decout

27-09-2010 - A cow drinking at a water tank made of an old tyre on the Bohart Ranch. Bohart is a working cattle ranch that is managed in partnership with the Nature Conservancy to maintain the ranch's prairie ecos... © Jim West

03-07-2010 - Colombia, internally displaced child playing with a tyre in their poor neighbourhood. Coastal communities who live along the Pacific coast near the city of Buenaventura are in threat of further displa... © Boris Heger

18-05-2009 - Fly-tipping, Norfolk. © Paul Box

18-05-2009 - Fly-tipping, Norfolk. © Paul Box

18-05-2009 - Fly-tipping, Norfolk. © Paul Box

18-05-2009 - Fly-tipping, Norfolk. © Paul Box

18-05-2009 - Fly-tipping, Norfolk. © Paul Box

01-04-2009 - New Orleans, Louisiana - Young people create a community garden in the lower ninth ward. They are placing soil in old tires where they will grow potatoes. Their hope is to turn vacant lots devastated... © Jim West

17-01-2009 - Fiona Lindsay is planning to be the first woman to make a crossing of the Antarctic in November 2009. She training by dragging old tyres on the Edinburgh's Salisbury Crags. © Gerry McCann

17-01-2009 - Fiona Lindsay is planning to be the first woman to make a crossing of the Antarctic in November 2009. She training by dragging old tyres on the Edinburgh's Salisbury Crags. © Gerry McCann

17-01-2009 - Fiona Lindsay is planning to be the first woman to make a crossing of the Antarctic in November 2009. She training by dragging old tyres on the Edinburgh's Salisbury Crags. © Gerry McCann

17-01-2009 - Fiona Lindsay is planning to be the first woman to make a crossing of the Antarctic in November 2009. She training by dragging old tyres on the Edinburgh's Salisbury Crags. © Gerry McCann

17-01-2009 - Fiona Lindsay is planning to be the first woman to make a crossing of the Antarctic in November 2009. She training by dragging old tyres on the Edinburgh's Salisbury Crags. © Gerry McCann

17-01-2009 - Fiona Lindsay is planning to be the first woman to make a crossing of the Antarctic in November 2009. She training by dragging old tyres on the Edinburgh's Salisbury Crags. © Gerry McCann

01-12-2008 - Lansing, Michigan - A worker tightens lug nuts on a wheel on the assembly line at a General Motors assembly plant which produces Buick, Saturn, and GMC vehicles. © Jim West

17-12-2006 - Rompers Day Nursery, an onsite nursery. © Paul Box

25-08-2006 - Used tyres in a tyre fitter's yard in West London. © Philip Wolmuth

08-05-2005 - A man selling car tyres on the roadside. © Gerry McCann

24-04-2005 - Children playing, in a shanty area in Johannesburg. © Gerry McCann

10-03-2004 - A mountain Bike tyre on rough ground © Paul Box

31-08-2002 - Child playing on a tyre swing, St John's Nursery School Hackney, London. © Jess Hurd

31-08-2002 - Child playing on a tyre swing, St John's Nursery School Hackney, London. © Jess Hurd

14-07-2001 - Teenager on a bike playing on Derelict industrial land St Werburghs Bristol © Paul Box

16-11-2000 - A mechanic working on a Manchester City Council dustcart © Paul Herrmann

01-04-1991 - An old car tyre littering the beach. In the background there is a docked ship. © Paul Carter

30-07-1981 - Black girl with a tyre in the rubble of Belfast, 1981 © NLA

21-03-1979 - Workers protest at closure of Dunlop factory, Speke, Liverpool 1979 with the loss of 2400 jobs © NLA