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Re:How to breathe in fewer microplastics in your home by scotty79 on Saturday April 11, 2026 @10:11AM (#47730786)
With cars there are higher energies involved, and things like that tend to grow with square or cube of the energy. I wouldn't be surprised if car was causing orders of magnitude more plastic pollution than a bike per person per mile.
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Re:How to breathe in fewer microplastics in your home by Gigachad on Saturday April 11, 2026 @10:16AM (#47730838)
It’s quite intuitive to think about. The entire tread of the tire becomes ground up plastic dust. Cars burn through significantly more KGs of tires in a year than a bicycle.
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Re:How to breathe in fewer microplastics in your home by alt227 on Saturday April 11, 2026 @10:14AM (#47730818)
Thats obvious and goes without saying, but then I didnt state any specific metrics, only that they both casue the same thing even in different amounts
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Re:How to breathe in fewer microplastics in your home by scotty79 on Sunday April 12, 2026 @10:34AM (#47740199)
The dose makes the poison.
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