Where the rubber meets the road: Emerging environmental impacts of tire wear particles and their chemical cocktails
Environmental Protection Agency · Environmental Protection Agency · +19 more institutions
Abstract
About 3 billion new tires are produced each year and about 800 million tires become waste annually. Global dependence upon tires produced from natural rubber and petroleum-based compounds represents a persistent and complex environmental problem with only partial and often-times, ineffective solutions. Tire emissions may be in the form of whole tires, tire particles, and chemical compounds, each of which is transported through various atmospheric, terrestrial, and aquatic routes in the natural and built environments. Production and use of tires generates multiple heavy metals, plastics, PAH's, and other compounds that can be toxic alone or as chemical cocktails. Used tires require storage space, are energy…
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31Topics & keywords
- Microplastics
- Environmental science
- Pollutant
- Natural rubber
- Environmental remediation
- Waste management
- Truck
- Particulates