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Here's another "fun" fact, with every 3 miles you drive you will polite about 1 straw of microplastics from the cars tires.
Source?
You know how you have to buy tires every few years because they "go bald"? As in, they've lost that material that was once tread? That material isn't just disappearing, it flies off the tires in the form of tiny particles that are in the air and water. It's actually really toxic too, way more than other plastics. Fun fact EV tires are even more toxic.
Source: I work in a toxicology lab studying microplastics.
Yes I know that, but I'm asking for your source for your claim of those exact numbers.
It's an article from a Dutch professor, unfortunately paywalled
https://fd.nl/futures/1299880/autobanden-de-grote-vergeten-vervuiler
On his linked he summarized some points
https://nl.linkedin.com/posts/carlo-van-de-weijer-961998_autobanden-de-grote-vergeten-vervuiler-activity-6532899021768400896-oinC?trk=public_profile_like_view
Google translated
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In the Netherlands, a total of around twenty million kilos of tire grit in various degrees remains in the environment every year.
**A car threw the equivalent of a plastic straw's worth of microplastics out the window every five to ten kilometers. **
You cannot remove microplastics from the water with a well-intentioned ocean filter.
Time to start working on more sustainable or, better, biodegradable tires.