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Sounds like it's more so water pollution where tires are bad: > Driving is not just an air pollution and climate change problem — turns out, it just might be t
by peller 7y ago
Sounds like it's more so water pollution where tires are bad:
> Driving is not just an air pollution and climate change problem — turns out, it just might be the largest contributor of microplastics in California coastal waters. [...] Rainfall washes more than 7 trillion pieces of microplastics, much of it tire particles left behind on streets, into San Francisco Bay each year — an amount 300 times greater than what comes from microfibers washing off polyester clothes, microbeads from beauty products and the many other plastics washing down our sinks and sewers.
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2019-10-02/california-microplastics-ocean-study https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2019-10-02/califor...
- Tempest1981 7y agoInteresting: "Rubber is also considered plastic, both natural (isoprene) and synthetic (styrene butadiene)."