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Electric cars have tires, that produce a lot of the dangerous micro plastic

• rusticpenn 7y ago
  Tires seem to be completly another beast. Apparently, most of the pollution from tires are usually stuck to the roads and are washed periodically with water and soap [1]. I am not sure how much tires contribute to air pollution. https://nmbu.brage.unit.no/nmbu-xmlui/bitstream/handle/11250/2612289/MASTEROPPGAVE%20Ninni%20og%20Jon%20Petter%202019.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y https://nmbu.brage.unit.no/nmbu-xmlui/bitstream/handle/11250...
  • 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 ago
      Interesting: "Rubber is also considered plastic, both natural (isoprene) and synthetic (styrene butadiene)."