Car tyres shed a quarter of all microplastics in the environment – urgent action is needed

Trains.

If only there was an alternative.
What if we replace vulcanized rubber with a metal ring 🤔

If only there was a highly efficient mode of transporting people that didn’t use tires. Ah well, nothing can be done I guess.

Geez, here is another issue for which we've known about for 40 or so years that requires "urgent Action" for the past 40 years already

Wake me up when we finally do something

Lots of things contribute to this. Vehicle weight (extra stress on the tires), wheel alignment (toe-in/out causes scrubbing which causes more wear), unmaintained suspensions (worn out shocks, struts and bushings causing the above), burnouts (obviously, but, even in winter being the guy doing a burnout on summer tires while trying to get up an icy hill or across the intersection still counts), tire compound, road design, and driving style. If we had more cargo trains doing logi instead of long haul trucks we could probably cut down on a lot of pollution both in exhaust particles and tire particles.

Action won't happen. In fact, we'll increase the amount of pollution!

While there's no doubt tires are bad for the environment, a quarter of all microplastics seems a lot, especially since plastic is everywhere. Gladly there's a source for that claim, a link to tireindustryproject's FAQ... Claiming that this number is a gross overestimation. What the fuck is this article? Is it supposed to be satire or something?

The other big offender are synthetic textiles btw.

This is also yet another reason SUVs are bad: bigger tyres, higher weight, more wear, more pollution.

It's also another reason to have lower speed limits: less friction, less wear, less pollution.

But electric cars will fix everything. Thats what electric car manufacturers said!

What if we wrapped the tyres in bags to contain all the dust?

That’s on top of all the brake dust cars spread.

Not surprised but happy that someone identified this source

so, basically, drive on three wheels and the problem's solved?

it's not fuckbuses or fuck trolleybuses so we should care about this

would this apply to bycicle tyres as well? also, why is it spelled that way?

Guess science has given up on maglev

what's the percentage comparison to microplastics that are released by the floating plastic island in the middle of the Atlantic?

This makes people that harass people with vehicle drive-bys and creepy vehicle stalking just that much more destructive and shite evil.

They might as well go exploit a child to poison a puppy dog like my neighbor the state patrol trooper did.

Wow, now imagine what tractor tires are doing to the fields we grow our food in. Plus the exhaust and tires deposit heavy metals. I have been bitching about this for years. We need drone fleets in fields and to ban tires and exhaust in fields.

Tires also used to last longer. They are designed to wear out faster now.

Vulcanized RUBBER tyres shed PLASTIC microparticles .... hmmmm something sounds very rubbery and not at all plasticky..... i truly wonder what it could be .....hmmmm......

Edit: "Is rubber considered a plastic? Although materials such as rubber, textiles, adhesives, and paint may in some cases meet this definition, they are not considered plastics."

Here is a Scientific study MIS-CONSTRUING Rubber as a Plastic AND MAKING ASSUMPTIONS WITHOUT PROPER EXPLANATIONS !!!!

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5664766/

This is the problem with Scientific studies, Media, Reporting and bunch of people running with studies that make a lot of FALSE ASSUMPTIONS WITHOUT TELLING YOU THE FULL FUCKING STORY.