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I wonder if we are inhaling this. I live in Phoenix, and when I go out at night with a good flashlight, the amount of stuff in the air, visible in the beam, is
by clumsysmurf 2y ago
I wonder if we are inhaling this.
I live in Phoenix, and when I go out at night with a good flashlight, the amount of stuff in the air, visible in the beam, is crazy. I imagine some is dirt among other things, but wonder if the micropastics of the tires are airborne as well.
Since it hardly ever rains here it probably just accumulates on the roads and gets kicked up with activity.
- kyleee 2y agoMust be to some degree. And brake dust
- adriand 2y agoThat urban black dust that accumulates on lawn furniture etc., how much of that is tires? The colour seems right.
- DFHippie 2y agoI believe a lot of that is soot from diesel exhaust. And the two-cycle motors people use to mow their lawns and blow their leaves are amazingly polluting. Some of it might be the motor oil and partially-combusted gasoline they spew out. I'm curious what the balance is.
- hedora 2y agoWikipedia says it’s in most people’s urine, so yes (unless most people lick tires). Health effects in humans are unknown.
- ClumsyPilot 2y agoThey find microplastics in human brain tissue, we are thoroughly fucked