Contaminating #stormwater (not counting #TireFillHasPFASAnd6PPDq in plastic grass playfields, etc): the research indicated that during rainfall, about 95% of the microplastics detected in stormwater runoff were from tire wear, ranging between 2 and 59 particles for every liter of water.
In #poor countries the rising #middleclass is discovering that the first thing they want to buy when they can afford to is a #car. From Johannesburg to São Paulo, Bengaluru to Jakarta, the car is increasingly dominant. The fastest-growing #cities all over the world look more like Houstons than like #Amsterdams. And far more people live in them than in #America or #Europe. That is why unless we deal with the car, #climatechange is going to prove unstoppable.
Carmageddon: how cars make life worse and what to do about it. By Daniel Knowles. Page 23.