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Car tyres shed a quarter of all microplastics in the environment – urgent action is needed (theconversation.com)
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[–] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

25% of all microplastics isn't worthwhile to fix? Even if it was 10%, thats worthwhile. Would a 10% raise make an impact on your life? I know it would on mine. We can have people focusing on multiple problems and i think its wrong to dismiss people trying to fight tire plastics just because you think theres a bigger boogeyman, we can save the environment from multiple angles at a time. Even if we recyle 100% of the tires we make, that does nothing to stop the wear down plastics which is where most of these microplastics are coming from in roadway runoff

You say that the plastic island has been slamming for decades, while cars have been using tires for decades too. Some countries have started banning single use plastics so they've already started focusing on that problem as well.