Answer: 1. Capturing fibers shed from tyres
The Tyre Collective start-up describes tyres as “the stealthy pollutant you never thought about.”
“It’s common knowledge that tyres wear down, but nobody seems to think about where it goes, and we were really shocked to discover that tyre particles are the second-largest microplastic pollution [after single-use plastics] in our oceans,” Hugo Richardson, one of co-founders of the company, said.
The particles from tyres also infuse into the air we breathe, making up to 50% of air particle emissions from road transport.
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