[crazygringo]

I'm definitely not disputing that, although I think "emissions" are generally understood to be airborne. Micro plastics that run off the road into storm water are pollution for sure, but "emissions" seems misleading.

And obviously fewer/no emissions is also referring just to operation, not manufacture or disposal or power plants either.

[rrradical]

From the linked article: "A study published in July suggests that vast quantities of tire fragments find their way into the ocean not just via rivers and waterways, but also through the air. Swept on the wind, they drift far from where they were shed. The study warned that so many tire particles are landing in the Arctic that they pose a climate-change risk."