Car tires shed quarter of all worldwide microplastics
Car tires shed quarter of all worldwide microplastics
Every year, billions of vehicles worldwide shed an estimated 6 million tons of tire fragments. These tiny flakes of plastic, generated by the wear and tear of normal driving, eventually accumulate in the soil, in rivers and lakes, and even in our food. Researchers in South China recently found tire-...
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Car tires shed a quarter of all microplastics in the environment. Urgent action is needed
Electric cars are not THE solution.
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That's not all. Apparently a chemical added to extend tire life (sort of good from an environmental standpoint) turns out to leach into water and kill fish, so...
That's mentioned in the article actually
Pffft. Look at this noob. What is it, your first day on the Internet? Actually reading the articles instead of reading the title and assuming.
I had a fish named zagorath. Anyway what was your comment?
Glub glub
Oh, my bad, thanks
Woah
Yikes