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For every kilometer you drive, your tires shed 1 trillion plastic particles. 78% of microplastics in the ocean are from tires.
What are you suggesting? That I stop peeling out of every parking lot and doing sick doughnuts!?
What I'm saying is that we need to figure out to make tires out of some unholy bamboo/cheese composite.
What if the roads were rubber and the tires were asphalt?
This was in a cartoon with the Flintstones once!
Or just go back to unvulcanized rubber
Then it would be like 10x more particles....?
They wouldn't be plastic and would be biodegradable, which is likely a step in the correct direction.
But the oil products! We gotta make the oil billionaires more billions!
10-4, rolling coal instead to impress potential sexual partners.
Maybe switching most of the transportation to steel tires on steel roads would help with this.
Rail is the dream
Yeah