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Having lived next to a freeway, I found everything in my apartment covered with a sticky black dust that took hours to remove. I found embedded on books and oth
by gpapilion 7y ago
Having lived next to a freeway, I found everything in my apartment covered with a sticky black dust that took hours to remove. I found embedded on books and other items years later. So, I think this has been true for a long time.
What I didn’t find mentioned is these emissions were more or less localized to a small distance from the road. For example when I moved it went away. That said I’m sure it’s a nightmare for the watershed.
- ajnin 7y agoHow do you know if that soot came from exhaust, tyres, or something else ?
- hinkley 7y agoWe moved a young coworker into a first floor appt in downtown and there was black soot on all the windowsills. I taught him about soap and vinegar and we suggested an air filter and being judicious with opening the windows, or finding a window fan with a prefilter. It had just not occurred to me that the busses and trucks were pumping out that much soot in the modern era.
- pas 7y agoIt's not always soot, a lot of it is also simply dust.
- gpapilion 7y agoYou could see it was tiny sticky pieces of rubber.