Tyre Wear Particles Focus Tyre Toxicity Issue

The Tyre Industry Project, the cooperative group of tyre manufacturers that addresses common industry issues across the tyre sector has been, for some time, investigating how it can address issues related to tyre wear particles, which end up in the soil and in the waterways and oceans as microplastics. We have seen issues related to Quinone 6PPD, a derivative of an additive to tyre rubber impacting upon Coho Salmon in Washington State, USA. However, at the 2022 ETRA Conference it was revealed by Nick Molden, from Emissions Analytics UK. that the majority of tyre wear particles were atmospheric and were deposited in roadside agricultural land rather than being washed down the gullies at the roadside. Read the full article at tyreandrubberrecyling.com