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Buying a new car is not better than keeping an old one
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this post was submitted on 10 Oct 2023
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Here's another "fun" fact, with every 3 miles you drive you will polite about 1 straw of microplastics from the cars tires.
Here's a fun fact because I work in a lab that studies micro and nanoplastics:
Of all the plastics we have studied, tire particles are THE FUCKING ABSOLUTE WORST. They leach all sorts of nasty shit.
Source?
You know how you have to buy tires every few years because they "go bald"? As in, they've lost that material that was once tread? That material isn't just disappearing, it flies off the tires in the form of tiny particles that are in the air and water. It's actually really toxic too, way more than other plastics. Fun fact EV tires are even more toxic.
Source: I work in a toxicology lab studying microplastics.
Yes I know that, but I'm asking for your source for your claim of those exact numbers.
While notable: That wasn't a source on the particular fact cited.