Australia’s love of big four-wheel-drives and the growing sales of electric cars are increasing plastic pollution as the nation’s tyres grow larger, wear out faster and, given their synthetic rubber content, shed more microplastics into the environment.
Tyres shed about 16 per cent of their weight in their lifetime through wear on the road, and a new report from Tyre Stewardship Australia estimates this causes 100,000 tonnes of tyre
Councils have managed to shrink huge tyre dumps like this former site at Numurkah in Victoria due to regulatory reforms, but we are using more tyres than ever.
“This tyre wear represents approximately 44 per cent of microplastic pollution reaching the oceans在全球范围内，首席执行官莉娜·古德曼（Lina Goodman）说，较重的车辆通过增加的摩擦和压力来产生更多的颗粒。在澳大利亚，SUV在澳大利亚的较小乘用车售出了三到一倍。
SUV的轮胎比轿车更大，而电动汽车的电池比内燃烧发动机更重，它的尺寸相似，使轮胎更快地磨损，并使道路上的颗粒更快地掉入了道路上，并散发到了大气中。 wnq-j“ data-testid =“ image”> 倾倒轮胎也是火灾风险，并提供育种澳大利亚轮胎回收协会首席执行官罗布·凯尔曼（Rob Kelman）说，蚊子的理由。由于电动汽车在起飞时的速度比其他汽车要快得多，所以它们在路上留下了更多的橡胶。 凯尔曼说，新的回收技术已经减轻了这个问题，从澳大利亚运往印度的一部分轮胎现在被分解为微颗粒中，将其分解为新的Tires，或将其纳入新的Tires，或在水泥中使用。 class =“ ctzll”>广告 轮胎澳大利亚是由轮胎行业运营的非营利组织，表示EV和SUV销售的增长增加了数千吨的数百万吨重量，每年都有数百万次的电动机，每年都有一定数百万的速度。较重的轮胎，”古德曼说。 “每年每年消耗2000万辆乘客轮胎，即使单个轮胎重量的较小增加也会产生巨大的全系统影响。” Australians used more than 740,000 tonnes of tyres in 2023-24.Credit: Tony Moore In addition to heavier tyres becoming more prevalent, the overall consumption of passenger tyres rose with澳大利亚的人口从2019 - 20年消耗的645,000吨轮胎到2023 - 24年的约740,000吨。 驾车者和行业产生了537,000吨用过的轮胎，包括190,000吨的乘客轮胎，包括192,000吨的乘客，包括192,000吨的卡车和乘坐轮胎，包括大多数<155,000吨的 ，因此，由于此， ，因此对采矿地点的偏远和不足的恢复设施的偏远地区，估计为92％的居民，估计为“ TIR”一/“ the”。 sites. West Australian-based CTS Tyre Recycling managing director Leigh Cometti said recycling initiatives to reuse those large tyres had only been in place for the past three or so years. CTS Tyre Recycling has been accepting mining tyres for recycling for the past two years, recycling the steel and creating “crumbs” that are used in underflooring, playgrounds and as an addition to bitumen in roads. There had historically been no imperative for mining companies to recycle industrial tyres, Cometti said, but there was now mounting pressure on the sector to ensure rubber and steel from tyres was recycled. CTS Recycling is part of the Waste and Recycling Industry Association of WA, which recently called for a statewide ban on the “很大程度上，有汽车轮胎的消费者一直在做正确的事情，并且已经有一段时间了，并且有机会继续改善。 。 以一种巨大或可扩展的方式做任何事情。注册我们的两周环境新闻通讯。
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