When Good Intentions are Ill-founded

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In the 1970s, a Florida nonprofit created the Osborne Reef off Fort Lauderdale by dumping two million old tires in the expectation that they would create a reef in which marine life would thrive. The U.S. Army Corps approved the project. Goodyear, the company that supplied most of the tires, even dropped a gold-plated tire from its publicity airship to christen the reef....

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