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Date: 2024-04-24 Page is: DBtxt001.php txt00017366

Pollution
Industrial detritus

Environmental Damage from Junked Vehicle Tires ... Tires: The plastic polluter you never thought about

Burgess COMMENTARY
Most everything that people use to improve quality of life have both bad and good characteristics. The way this has been managed for many decades has paid attention to product performance (customer satisfaction) and profit performance (company and investor benefits). Issues like social impact and environmental impact have not been on the agenda and not brought into account in any meaningful way ... there is numbering for profit performance, but no numbering for social impact and environmental impact. Some academic / scientific work has been done on life cycle assessment, but little of this work has been mobilized in a way that supports management and decision making that respects all the dimensions of the society we are living in. Hopefully this is going to change!
Peter Burgess
Ernest Gonzales finds this insightful Jasmine A. Lomax, LEED GA, CGP Jasmine A. Lomax, LEED GA, CGP • 1st Sustainability Manager | Cal Poly CAED Dean's Leadership Council Member | LEED Green Associate

'Tires are made of natural rubber and plastic, it’s easy to miss how much they contribute to pollution in our oceans. Tires are actually among the most common plastic polluters on earth. A 2017 study by Pieter Jan Kole at The Open University of The Netherlands estimated tires account for 10% of overall microplastic waste in the world’s oceans. A 2017 report by the International Union for Conservation of Nature estimates 28%.'

'Tire wear and tear is a stealthy source of microplastics in the environment. But awareness is low and currently there is no alternative for tires.'

'Tire rubber camefrom rubber trees—the cultivation contributed to mass deforestation across the globe. As cars became increasingly common the world needed more rubber than available. In 1909 Fritz Hofmann invented the first commercial synthetic rubber. By 1931 DuPont had industrialized the manufacturing of synthetic rubber.'

'Today tires consist of 19% natural rubber and 24% synthetic rubber, a plastic polymer. Producing tires has environmental impacts: deforestation, climate-harming fossil fuels used to make synthetic rubbers, the assembly process. Modern car tires require 7 gallons of oil to make; truck tires 22 gallons.' Tik Root

#Plastic #Tires #Pollution #Oceans #Environment #Waste #Sustainability #Cars No alt text provided for this image Tires: The plastic polluter you never thought about nationalgeographic.com

4 Comments

Michael O'Neill MRIAI, PSDP Michael O'Neill MRIAI, PSDP 2nd degree connection2nd PSDP at Peter Cassidy Architects 38m Two comments.

1. Interesting the du Pont got in on the act so early. It's hard to believe demand for rubber was outstripping supply in 1909.
2. 19% and 24% make 43% of the tyre. So what is the other 57% of a tyre made of? And dont say 'air' :) Like Michael O'Neill MRIAI, PSDP’S comment 1 Like 1 Like on Michael O'Neill MRIAI, PSDP’S comment 1 Reply 1 Comment on Michael O'Neill MRIAI, PSDP’S comment
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Jasmine A. Lomax, LEED GA, CGP Jasmine A. Lomax, LEED GA, CGP 1st degree connection1st Sustainability Manager | Cal Poly CAED Dean's Leadership Council Member | LEED Green Associate 23m
Michael, 'Today tires consist of about 19 percent natural rubber and 24 percent synthetic rubber, which is a plastic polymer. The rest is made up of metal and other compounds.' The National Geographic article has more insightful history and additional information on the manufacturing of tires, well worth a read. (edited)
Like Jasmine A. Lomax, LEED GA, CGP’S comment
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Adam Lelek Adam Lelek Problem Solver, Project Manager, EPC, Chemical and Process Engineer, Scheduler 15m
The only thing that contributes to the pollution in our oceans is human being. Period. Like Adam Lelek’s comment
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David F Mayer David F Mayer 2nd degree connection2nd Developed New High Efficiency Irrigation System at Direct Irrigation Technology 1h
Most of it is microscopic and therefore difficult to notice. Also, microscopic particles have huge surface to volume ratios making hydrolysis and oxidation millions of times faster than bulk rubber (old tires). Like David F Mayer’s comment
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Peter Burgess Peter Burgess Founder/CEO at TrueValueMetrics.org developing True Value Impact Accounting
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Ernest Gonzales Ernest Gonzales 1st degree connection1st Managing Partner, CEO and President, Executive Board Member
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Andrew Haning Andrew Haning 2nd degree connection2nd Energy Management and Sustainability Specialist
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Canice Maher Canice Maher 2nd degree connection2nd Quantity Surveyor at Select Roofing Ltd.
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Marco Prata Marco Prata 2nd degree connection2nd Graduate Civil Engineer at Kier Group
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Ronika Lewis Ronika Lewis 2nd degree connection2nd CIO and Founder at RLI Consulting
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Martin Arvidsson Martin Arvidsson 3rd+ Project management
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Ernst JOHN Ernst JOHN 2nd degree connection2nd searching for opportunities in supply chain/planning processes

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