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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.

Metal contents and size distributions of brake and tire wear particles dispersed in the near-road environment

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

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