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Fuck Cars@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago

Car tyres shed a quarter of all microplastics in the environment – urgent action is needed

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Car tyres shed a quarter of all microplastics in the environment – urgent action is needed

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Fuck Cars@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago

Car tyres shed a quarter of all microplastics in the environment – urgent action is needed

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Tiny flakes of plastic, generated by the wear and tear of normal driving, eventually accumulate in the soil, in rivers and lakes, and even in our food.

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More realistically like 15 years, but, yeah, same difference in the end.
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  Yeah no, I’ve seen reports back in the early 90s about this in the Netherlands where they saw microplastics.ftom.tires being a huge problem
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