• Blaster M@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Lots of things contribute to this. Vehicle weight (extra stress on the tires), wheel alignment (toe-in/out causes scrubbing which causes more wear), unmaintained suspensions (worn out shocks, struts and bushings causing the above), burnouts (obviously, but, even in winter being the guy doing a burnout on summer tires while trying to get up an icy hill or across the intersection still counts), tire compound, road design, and driving style. If we had more cargo trains doing logi instead of long haul trucks we could probably cut down on a lot of pollution both in exhaust particles and tire particles.

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    7 days ago

    But electric cars will fix everything. Thats what electric car manufacturers said!

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      6 days ago

      Unfortunately this is known since two decades or so. I have learned about it in Uni 5 years ago.

      I expect that car and tire manufacturers have been lobbying against this getting more attention extensively. There is no other solution except reducing car traffic.

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        6 days ago

        Reduce car traffic, or…

        Tyre dust vacuum car, just add HEPA filter:

        Even more road noise. No improvement to car-dependence ruining walkability in cities and bikeability in suburbs.

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    6 days ago

    This makes people that harass people with vehicle drive-bys and creepy vehicle stalking just that much more destructive and shite evil.

    They might as well go exploit a child to poison a puppy dog like my neighbor the state patrol trooper did.

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    6 days ago

    what’s the percentage comparison to microplastics that are released by the floating plastic island in the middle of the Atlantic?

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      I can’t imagine much microplatics are getting chipped off of them. The tires have thousands of pounds of pressure being put on small surface areas when you round corners, where as a plastic bottleneck can dolphin into the water if hit by a large wave and not nearly as much friction placed on it.

      How I imagine it

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        so plastic floating in a salty ocean, being hit with wave after wave of hundreds if not thousands of tons of pressure 24 hours a day 7 days a week for literal decades all while slamming into other plastic bottles will release less plastic than tires?

        IDK. I think a wider study should be done.

        50-75 trillion pieces of plastic exist in the ocean today and makes up 80% of all marine pollution.

        plastic itself isn’t easily recycled either. tires on vehicles can be reliably recycled into other products like asphalt, roof shingles, new tires, etc.

        I think if the concern is about microplastics, there are bigger pollutants at hand that need attention before car tires.

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          One question that’d be interesting to know the answer to is where it ends up at. I could imagine microplastics from the garbage island mostly staying around the island, whereas ones from tires will end up all over the environment.

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          25% of all microplastics isn’t worthwhile to fix? Even if it was 10%, thats worthwhile. Would a 10% raise make an impact on your life? I know it would on mine. We can have people focusing on multiple problems and i think its wrong to dismiss people trying to fight tire plastics just because you think theres a bigger boogeyman, we can save the environment from multiple angles at a time. Even if we recyle 100% of the tires we make, that does nothing to stop the wear down plastics which is where most of these microplastics are coming from in roadway runoff

          You say that the plastic island has been slamming for decades, while cars have been using tires for decades too. Some countries have started banning single use plastics so they’ve already started focusing on that problem as well.

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    Wow, now imagine what tractor tires are doing to the fields we grow our food in. Plus the exhaust and tires deposit heavy metals. I have been bitching about this for years. We need drone fleets in fields and to ban tires and exhaust in fields.

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    8 days ago

    If only there was an alternative.
    What if we replace vulcanized rubber with a metal ring 🤔