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by peller
2398 days ago
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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/califor... |
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"Rubber is also considered plastic, both natural (isoprene) and synthetic (styrene butadiene)."