I know.
There was a factory I know of that turned everything around it black. A beautiful valley where everything was black including trees, grass, birds. A westerner took a picture published in National Geographic and won a prize with it. You might have seen it, it was a woman hanging out her sparkling white bedspreads in a sea of black. That factory was closed down a long time ago. Amazingly, nature has recovered spectacularly though I am sure trace elements might still hang around in plants, soil, water, people's and lungs/skin, etc.
Eastern Europe has the same legislation as the EU so no advantage there.
I am aware they wear down quicker than "normal" tyres but still worried they'll have some life left in them when too old to keep.
And yeah, I was thinking about rotating them, not that it seems to matter these days, but I am curious how much it can extend their life (against wear). I haven't rotated tyres for a while now. Anyone here still doing it? How do you do it (I know there's a lot of options)? Does it make a difference?
On the Koleos, to get 65-68k out of a complete set of tyres I swap them every 15k diagonally, i.e: front left to back right, front right to back left and vice versa for the rears. The 15k coincides with a service so I ask my service centre to do it at the same time and has resulted in even tread wear all round as I get a wheel alignment done at every service too. The downside is they all need replacing at about the same time, but with Jax doing 4 for the price of 3 it's not that much of a downside. I get about 5 years of good use out of each set.