43,900 tires. That year, Florida spent approximately $140,000 on the cleanup, some of which constituted transport for the tires to a shredding facility in neighboring Georgia whereafter they were burnt as fuel at a paper mill . < Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_Reef > Links: http://www.dep.state.fl.us/waste/categories/tires/pages/osborneproject.htm http://www.thiswaytothe.net/reefs/pages/osborne-reef-broward.html http://www.facebook.com/pages/Osborne-Reef/129774360397904 Tagged with: Charest-Weinberg • Contemporary art