I decided to have a green tea because it's healthier than soda. It's healthier, right?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10389239/

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[–] -3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Tire dust? Tires are generaly made from a kind of rubber, not plastic. A great majority of micro plastics that end up in enviroment and in your body are shed from plastic fabrics. If you're really worried about limiting plastic consumption check your clothing tags for polyester and nylon. Return to cotton, hemp, and linen.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Tyres are unfortunately plastics in this day and age as well.

    As for the share of microplastic pollution, both rank about equally as high: 35% for clothes, 28% for tyres (https://www.europarl.europa.eu/topics/en/article/20181116STO19217/microplastics-sources-effects-and-solutions) - this as a share of directly released particles that make it into the ocean.

    Note the interesting fact of fishing nets, plastic bags and bottles making up the vast majority of plastic in the ocean, however.

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    Tires are generaly made from a kind of rubber, not plastic

    Both are made of polymers.

    Rubber, also known as latex, is naturally occurring polymer from the sap of a specific species of tree.

    "Synthetic rubber", is in fact, plastic.

    Po-TAY-to, po-TAH-to

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