Weird, I’m not seeing that passage in the article. Maybe they edited it out.
Anyway, I was under the impression that the biggest culprit in microplastics in the environment is plastics woven into clothing, yet there’s no mention of avoiding those here.
The creation of tire rubber was literally one of the first known carbon polymerization processes, and the nature of wear on tires means that micro-plastics are an absolutely unavoidable aspect of their use.
Weird, I’m not seeing that passage in the article. Maybe they edited it out.
Anyway, I was under the impression that the biggest culprit in microplastics in the environment is plastics woven into clothing, yet there’s no mention of avoiding those here.
Tires and clothing. I buy natural fibers exclusively now if I can, but there are no non-microplastic creating options for tires.
The creation of tire rubber was literally one of the first known carbon polymerization processes, and the nature of wear on tires means that micro-plastics are an absolutely unavoidable aspect of their use.
Also car tires
This is correct. Your average plastic packaging for food has a silicone layer on it that prevents the vast majority of microplastic transfer.
I think it’s tires.
It’s still there for me.
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Edit. Maybe it’s a slow(-ish) roll out and not everybody sees the same thing.
Maybe the algorithm decided I’m not worthy to see that part of the article.