Bit by bit microplastics from tyres are polluting our waterways

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• Superfool@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I wrote an essay on this for a car design degree more than 20 years ago. Microplastics wasn’t a term then, but we knew the tyres were wearing out. The debris had to be going somewhere.

  6 Mj of electrical energy, 45 litres of water and 35 litres oil are required to make a single average sized car tyre.

  While complaining without offering solutions is just whining, I was not able to offer a reasonable alternative then, and I don’t have one now.

  Anyone else have a viable idea?

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  • lemming934@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Steel wheels on steel roads: trains!

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