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Car tires shed a quarter of all microplastics in the environment. Urgent action is needed (phys.org)

submitted 2 years ago* by Sibbo@sopuli.xyz to c/climate@slrpnk.net

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Electric cars are not THE solution.

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[–] Num10ck@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

whatever happened to the green tire technologies that get announced by the big mfg and then never come to market.. like the mushroom based materials

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[–] assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

Usually stuff like that is just a distraction so companies can do greenwashing while delaying the implementation of real solutions. I’m going to guess that’s the case but, I haven’t really looked into it.

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