Car tyres shed a quarter of all microplastics in the environment – urgent action is needed
theconversation.com
Tiny flakes of plastic, generated by the wear and tear of normal driving, eventually accumulate in the soil, in rivers and lakes, and even in our food.
  • sping@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    2 hours ago

    should be proportional to the weight of the system

    It’s that really true? Wear to the roads is proportional to the fourth power of axle weight so I would never have predicted a linear relationship.