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Rubber is similar to plastic in many regards. Here's how chemicals in rubber car tires find their way into water supplies and kill salmon. Lots of salmon. Most
by cronix 5y ago
Rubber is similar to plastic in many regards. Here's how chemicals in rubber car tires find their way into water supplies and kill salmon. Lots of salmon. Most of this stuff we don't find out about for like 50 years, and usually on a fluke discovery. We trusted the science at the time.
https://www.science.org/content/article/common-tire-chemical-implicated-mysterious-deaths-risk-salmon https://www.science.org/content/article/common-tire-chemical...
- azinman2 5y agoFYI - Tires use synthetic rubber, which is just more plastic. Natural rubber would be way too expensive and difficult to extract at mass scale.