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> Sounds like a great idea until you realize that cars and trucks drive on the roads and grind them into dust - dust containing microplastics. Car tires themse
by sampo 4y ago
> Sounds like a great idea until you realize that cars and trucks drive on the roads and grind them into dust - dust containing microplastics.
Car tires themselves wear down and produce microplastics. I would guess the tires wear down more than the road, so the contribution from road would be minuscule, comparing to the contribution from the tires.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/tires-unseen-plastic-polluter https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/tires...
- nonethewiser 4y agoThe contribution from the road is independent of the contributions from the car. By your reasoning, if the micro plastics from cars increased, so could the micro plastics from the road, even to astronomical levels, so long as it's less than the cars.
- tnel77 4y agoI think they probably mean that there are potentially bigger problems to solve in the world of micro-plastics.