Car tires shed a quarter of all microplastics in the environment. Urgent action is needed
phys.org
Every year, billions of vehicles worldwide shed an estimated 6 million tons of tire fragments. These 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. Researchers in South China recently found tire-derived chemicals in most human urine samples.

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Car tires shed a quarter of all microplastics in the environment. Urgent action is needed

Electric cars are not THE solution.

  • Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    We need flying hover cars. Imagine if we could get rid of all the cement and asphalt everywhere. Also no more traffic jams.

    A sci-fi nerd can dream.

    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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      3 days ago

      do you genuinely imagine this working? like, you see what people are like driving cars on the ground, right? do you think people would actually manage to not get drunk and think it’s a great idea to reenact 9/11?

    • saigot@lemmy.ca
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      17 days ago

      Great idea! So long as the current safety laws for aviation are followed. That would disqualify most people from flying and dramatically reduce the number of personal vehicles in use.

    • luckystarr@feddit.orgDeutsch
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      18 days ago

      We need a strict speed limit. 30mph should be enough for everybody.

      No chance this will ever happen though.

    • ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social
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      18 days ago

      The inherent problem of any car at all is that people should never personally need a personal vehicle worth thousands to tens of thousands of dollars to buy milk and eggs.

      • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        18 days ago

        We can move the tubes more efficiently by making them large enough for many people, then chaining the various tub- hold up we invented trains again