Tire & Brake Dust
2023-07-10 23:43:00.459842+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
More studies about tire and brake dust pollution: Washington Post: Why tires — not tailpipes — are spewing more pollution from your cars
In one study, Jung and his colleagues looked at car emission sources along two highways in Long Beach and Anaheim in January and February 2020. In Anaheim, they found brake and tires constituted 30 percent of PM 2.5, whereas exhaust emissions linked to gasoline and diesel constituted 19 percent. In Long Beach, brake and tires constituted 15 percent of PM 2.5 pollution, which was the same as pollution from gas and diesel.
California Air Resources Board: Brake & Tire Wear Emissions
And I have vague memories of linking to this previously, but Common tire chemical implicated in mysterious deaths of at-risk salmon