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cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/20009882

Car tires shed a quarter of all microplastics in the environment. Urgent action is needed

Electric cars are not THE solution.

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[–] yokonzo@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

I was unaware rubber products were considered micro plastics, I mean it makes sense, but for some reason I just never put that together

[–] Takumidesh@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

Tires haven't been made of rubber for a long time.

[–] NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

What if I told you the gum that you chew was also made from plastic.

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 weeks ago

You can still buy him made of chicle.

[–] Halasham@dormi.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago

I'd be more surprised if you told me it wasn't. At this point, living in the American Dystopia, I expect anything obtainable to a Proletarian to be at least partially artificial and likely carcinogenic.

[–] yokonzo@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

I mean I don't chew gum so... Nothing much?

[–] pkill@programming.dev 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It really makes you see how the petrochemical industry kills two birds with one stone here

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 weeks ago

Two birds and a fish

[–] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

They're both made of long polymer chains - chains of repeating carbon-based molecules - but rubbers are synthesized in a way that makes it easy for these chains to slip past each other and spring back. In plastics, the chains are much more tangled and bonded together.