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[–] 38 points 6 months ago (7 children)

On average ~25% of that rubber is synthetic, i.e. pertroleum/plastic based.

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  • [–] 16 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Rubber literally grows on tress, and we're like no, plastic please.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    According to this page it's about that 25% of the whole tyre, where more than half the tyre is not rubber/synthetic rubber but other stuff.

    So there is more synthetic rubber than natural rubber. But the mind-blowing thing for me here is that I kind of assumed the whole tyre was synthetic, but they are only 25% plastic and still are the biggest source of mocroplastic.

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