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camelbeard, 1 year ago I responded somewhere above in the conservation. It was something I heard this professor say in a podcast and there was also a newspaper article about it. This English items doesn’t say the straw bit, but it does say 4KG of microplastics during its lifetime theguardian.com/…/car-tyres-are-major-source-of-o… After some Googling, a car tire will last about 50K miles. After 50K miles it has lost 4KG of microplastics. A car has 4 tires so 16KG. 16000 grammes per 50K miles, is almost 1 gram per 3 miles. First Google result Straws on average weigh so little—about one sixty-seventh of an ounce or . 42 grams
I responded somewhere above in the conservation.
It was something I heard this professor say in a podcast and there was also a newspaper article about it.
This English items doesn’t say the straw bit, but it does say 4KG of microplastics during its lifetime
theguardian.com/…/car-tyres-are-major-source-of-o…
After some Googling, a car tire will last about 50K miles. After 50K miles it has lost 4KG of microplastics. A car has 4 tires so 16KG.
16000 grammes per 50K miles, is almost 1 gram per 3 miles.
First Google result Straws on average weigh so little—about one sixty-seventh of an ounce or . 42 grams
camelbeard, 1 year ago Here’s another “fun” fact, with every 3 miles you drive you will polite about 1 straw of microplastics from the cars tires.
Here’s another “fun” fact, with every 3 miles you drive you will polite about 1 straw of microplastics from the cars tires.
camelbeard, 1 year ago It’s an article from a Dutch professor, unfortunately paywalled fd.nl/…/autobanden-de-grote-vergeten-vervuiler On his linked he summarized some points nl.linkedin.com/…/carlo-van-de-weijer-961998_auto… 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
fd.nl/…/autobanden-de-grote-vergeten-vervuiler
On his linked he summarized some points
nl.linkedin.com/…/carlo-van-de-weijer-961998_auto…
Google translated
Column FD
Buying a new car is not better than keeping an old one (lemmy.world)