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.
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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
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A Bangladeshi worker climbs out of a furnace at a tyre pyrolysis plant in Kulai, Johor, Malaysia August 7,2019. Picture taken August 7,2019. REUTERS/Edgar Su
A worker moves a bale of tyres at a tyre pyrolysis plant in Kulai, Johor, Malaysia August 7,2019. Picture taken August 7,2019. REUTERS/Edgar Su
Bangladeshi workers react to the camera as they work at a tyre pyrolysis plant in Kulai, Johor, Malaysia August 7,2019. Picture taken August 7,2019. REUTERS/Edgar Su
FILE PHOTO: A boy scouts for scrap items amidst a pile of used tyres at a pyrolysis unit in Jokhabad industrial area in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, India May 9,2019. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi/File Photo
A worker moves a bale of tyres past steel wires and bags of char at a tyre pyrolysis plant in Kulai, Johor, Malaysia August 7,2019. Picture taken August 7,2019. REUTERS/Edgar Su
A worker passes steel wires and a tyre at a tyre pyrolysis plant in Kulai, Johor, Malaysia August 7,2019. Picture taken August 7,2019. REUTERS/Edgar Su
A bed is pictured in the living quarters of a tyre pyrolysis plant in Kulai, Johor, Malaysia August 7,2019. Picture taken August 7,2019. REUTERS/Edgar Su
A lorry full of tyres from Singapore arrives at a tyre pyrolysis plant in Kulai, Johor, Malaysia August 7,2019. Picture taken August 7,2019. REUTERS/Edgar Su
A Bangladeshi worker drinks tea in his living quarters at a tyre pyrolysis plant in Kulai, Johor, Malaysia August 7,2019. Picture taken August 7,2019. REUTERS/Edgar Su
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