cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/20009882
Car tires shed a quarter of all microplastics in the environment. Urgent action is needed
Electric cars are not THE solution.
cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/20009882
Car tires shed a quarter of all microplastics in the environment. Urgent action is needed
Electric cars are not THE solution.
I was unaware rubber products were considered micro plastics, I mean it makes sense, but for some reason I just never put that together
Tires haven’t been made of rubber for a long time.
What if I told you the gum that you chew was also made from plastic.
I mean I don’t chew gum so… Nothing much?
It really makes you see how the petrochemical industry kills two birds with one stone here
Two birds and a fish
They’re both made of long polymer chains - chains of repeating carbon-based molecules - but rubbers are synthesized in a way that makes it easy for these chains to slip past each other and spring back. In plastics, the chains are much more tangled and bonded together.