Tire wear causes massive pollution... now what?
 

Some apparently old news made the headlines over here today.

Apparently half of the microplastics pollution is caused by tire wear...!
The rogues gallery of microplastics

I suspect someone is off a thousand in one of the calculations. After all, a set of tires lasts several years on the average car.
Yet, what if this is really true?

I never gave microplastic pollution as a factor any thought in selecting my car tires, but I might from now on.

LRR, I guess. Cuts down on pollution in more ways than one.

Now maybe alignment will be checked as part of emissions testing?

This doesn't surprize me, the only way to reduce pollution in a real sense is to have fewer miles driven on the road and get cars off the road.

Too much of anything is bad.

Especially people.

Yup

Oh malarkey, all this pollution propaganda. We have much bigger things to worry about.

Fantasy Football!!!

FWIW...anything that *wears* produces a 'waste by-product':

tyres = rubber dust
bearings = metal dust
plastic = plastic dust
wood = wood dust
fabric = lint dust

Duh!

humans = gray dust
:)