Every year, billions of vehicles worldwide shed an estimated 6 million tons of tire fragments. These tiny flakes of plastic, generated by the wear and tear of normal driving, eventually accumulate in the soil, in rivers and lakes, and even in our food. Researchers in South China recently found tire-derived chemicals in most human urine samples.
  • AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    13 days ago

    I call shenanigans on blaming EVs. Yes, they’re heavier, but pickups and trucks are even heavier, and pickups are currently far more widespread (in the US). If you want to single them out, you either include all heavy vehicles or at least five a reason we should be more concerned about those than about heavier vehicles

    • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      4 days ago

      We should be “concerned” about cars in general. They’re an unsustainable scam based on the extreme privilege of destroying the planet.