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minus-squareCamelbeard@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 years agoIt’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 Column FD 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.
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
Column FD
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.