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Tire wear and tear revealed as a major contributor to waterway pollution (newatlas.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.3c03949

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Yeah, when I worked retail in a strip mall 15 years ago the outside windowsills got covered in this nasty black dust every day. Spent an hour of each shift cleaning it. One day the district manager mentioned that the company had it tested and it turns out that it was from tires wearing and giving off dust.

I've always thought about that. If one tiny shop in a strip mall got so gunked up with this stuff, what's it doing to the rest of the planet?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What's possibly equally frustrating is why did no one else think of this before?

Like we know everything wears down, but nobody seems to think "where does the worn material end up?" I imagine it's mostly because it's a product and so "had sale, don't care."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Scientists did think about this, no one listens though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Hm I live next to a busy street, and my window slits keep filling up with a black powder that turns to sludge when a cleaner is added, I'm tempted to get it tested now.