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Tire Dust Makes Up the Majority of Ocean Microplastics (www.thedrive.com)

submitted 11 months ago by haxor@derp.foo to c/hackernews@derp.foo

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[–] acousticpigeon@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago

The forces on car tires are much greater than on bike tires because cars are much heavier and go faster.

Look at the thickness and width of a car tire vs a bike tire and you'll be able to see how much more material is worn off into the environment during the life of the tire. It's magnitudes worse in the car and people are absolutely doing the environment a favour switching to alternative transport.