To: blueplum
“Roughly 3.1 billion tires for the planet’s more than 1.4 billion vehicles are produced annually, the study said, and this chemical appears to be used in nearly all of them.”
I don’t buy two tires/vehicle/year. Maybe one, on average.
4 posted on
12/03/2020 3:05:59 PM PST by
Paladin2
To: Paladin2
15 posted on
12/03/2020 3:25:59 PM PST by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
To: Paladin2
It not a tire per se, but the rubber compounds the tire leaves on the road that washes off when it rain and runs into salmon creeks, killing coho.
24 posted on
12/03/2020 3:51:18 PM PST by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
To: Paladin2
Heavy trucks use a LOT of tires.
32 posted on
12/03/2020 4:35:56 PM PST by
motor_racer
(Who will bell the cat?)
To: Paladin2
Environ
Mentalism continues to jump to conclusions and foster convulsions over anything to do with the economic advancement of
transportation in the last century and righton into the 21st!!!
They will never be happy till everyone on earth returns to the starving and dismal life of savages. To them, development is defined as "any disturbance of the soil! They are dirt worshippers and should become extinct because or their terminal case of the stupids!!!
35 posted on
12/03/2020 4:52:08 PM PST by
SierraWasp
(MASA (Make America Straight Again!!!))
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