Marine researchers find biggest source of microplastics in our ocean is vehicle tyres
Marine researchers find biggest source of microplastics in our ocean is vehicle tyres
Yet this ass-backwards emoji exists: 🚳.
I mean, it's just a road sign not some kind of anti-bike statement. There's no equivalent anti-car emoji because places where cars aren't allowed usually are impossible to access in one so no signage is needed.
There are reasobable situations where a bike isnt usable/allowed/suitable and you want to tell people about it.
Just think of Pokémon games. You can't use that here!
Sure, but there are even more reasonable reasons for prohibiting death machines somewhere.
That actually surprises me. I was to understand that abandoned fishing net was the major issue.
I think the fishing nets were the macroplastics, the big chunks of garbage.
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In waters is consistently about a third from tires and a third from synthetic textiles (bcs washing).
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What the hell is "city dust"?
Of course the 2% contributor has been addressed, personal care products now aren't allowed to have plastic "abrasives", which is a good change anyway as plastic is useless for improving scrubbing
No other sources have had any work done to mitigate the problem
“City dust” oh yea. The cities that walk everywhere? What’s the dust from?
I'm just assuming they mean cocaine and not like slowly decaying trash.
I'd like to see the numbers, but I imagine that the synthetic textiles chunk comes from the sheer volume of fast-fashion and trashion produced every year. I have synthetic shirts that are well over a decade old and still look and function as brand new. My cotton shirts under similar wear get ratty and frayed in that time frame (and require harsh chemicals for stains).
If we stopped over-washing and over production, I wouldn't be surprised if the lifetime ecological footprint of synthetic garments is less than a cotton equivalent.
i would imagine most comes from shedding of the fabrics in regular use and washing+drying, basically the rate is mostly constant fast fashion or not. I would think the only viable solution would be limiting/stopping or finding alternatives to synthetic fibers. Also perhaps some kind of microplastic filter in washing machine outlets mandated by regulation could be a way to limit the emissions of new microplastics.
My decade old plastic shirts have faded, the linen ones last better, but yeah, they stain (and I'm not going to test them with plastic coatings to improve stain resistance!). I only get bold colours, so my pastel shirts are very faded
What is the data source for this chart?
Wow tires might as well be almost half
Not sure what city dust is composed of but imagining some of it is tires
City dust is everything that's not covered by the other categories, e.g. car-related pollutants like paint or wear of brake pads, but mainly I guess packaging materials and plastic film as they seem not to be included in the other categories.
You don't have a good idea to replace synthetics in textiles, do you? I can't stand cotton shirts, but I would really like to skip synthetics.
If you live somewhere cold – wool.
If you live somewhere hot – linen.
If we banned plastics (gutting their lobbies affecting everything from taxes, laws/regulation, logistics, etc) we would have natural replacements in like 5 years & nobody would even think of the times before (except for environmental cleanup purposes).
They said you can't have water-tight bags from non-fossil fuel sauces, now they are everywhere. The paper industry just like developed see-through water-tight "paper" (the lil windows in envelopes & some packaging) bcs they didn't want to deal with the petrol industry.
The non-plastic drinking straws? Yeah, explain to me why they intentionally sux even tho we always had the materials for a seamless transition?
(Also, just in case an fyi - cotton, like wool, can be processed and woven if very much different ways which makes for basically divergent materials, it's a whole science. The mainstream stuff is mostly the same tho.)
some people are allergic to cotton, because of lanolin produced by sheep that is aprt of the wool, people are allergic to it. polyester also can cause rashes in some people.
People wore animal and plant based clothing for hundreds of thousands of years
Have you tried Rayon? It's a semi synthetic fabric made from cellulose and iirc biodegradades decently.
Hemp.
Tires are made of rubber, not plastic. U can't fool me, science.
From the wikipedia page: "Styrene-butadiene or styrene-butadiene rubber (SBR) describe families of synthetic rubbers derived from styrene and butadiene..... About 50% of car tires are made from various types of SBR." Styrene should sound familiar is the base of polystyrene used to make styrofoam
Tyres specifically break down on hard surfaces that typically drain directly to a nearby waterway. Used tyres were/are popular for boat fenders and seawalls and the like. That and literally just dumping them. I’m not surprised.
City storm drainage is already treated for a population over 100k (in the us). But never for these microplastics. Seems like that would be a good place to start.
when growing up people dumped tires purposedly so go back later and tire fish for catfish
I feel like the solution to this starts with t and ends with s.
Trams rights are trains rights.
Thank you. It's time people started taking Trebuchets seriously as a mode of transport.
It's a one-way ticket because you won't need more.
I know what you're thinking but we'd have to create whole different kind of sewer network if you wanted to travel via toilets (a la harold halibut)
tssssssss like the sound of a perforated tire
Paris Metro has entered the chat.
I wonder as well how much comes to play from tires dumped in the ocean like the Osborne reefs as they’re degradation over time.
🌈 Yet another problem EVs don't address 🌈