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Buying a new car is not better than keeping an old one (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] Yoinkle@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yes I know that, but I'm asking for your source for your claim of those exact numbers.

[โ€“] camelbeard@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

It's an article from a Dutch professor, unfortunately paywalled

https://fd.nl/futures/1299880/autobanden-de-grote-vergeten-vervuiler

On his linked he summarized some points

https://nl.linkedin.com/posts/carlo-van-de-weijer-961998_autobanden-de-grote-vergeten-vervuiler-activity-6532899021768400896-oinC?trk=public_profile_like_view

Google translated

Column FD

  • In the Netherlands, a total of around twenty million kilos of tire grit in various degrees remains in the environment every year.

  • **A car threw the equivalent of a plastic straw's worth of microplastics out the window every five to ten kilometers. **

  • You cannot remove microplastics from the water with a well-intentioned ocean filter.

  • Time to start working on more sustainable or, better, biodegradable tires.