Scientists say car tires are poisoning wild salmon
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Ha ha, that's so wrong. Turns out 6PPD-quinone and fine particulates, etc from tires are poisoning everyone, not just wild salmon.
https://www.epa.gov/sciencematters/where-rubber-meets-road-epa-researchers-study-environmental-and-health-impacts-tires
https://cfpub.epa.gov/si/si_public_record_Report.cfm?dirEntryId=361070&Lab=CPHEA
Is it hopelessly naive to say it’s a good thing we have identified the specific agent, and it is not a core part of tires nor the tire material itself that is this specific problem.
We don’t have to figure out how to filter tire dust from runoff (yet) or outlaw cars, or even completely reformulate tire materials. Just replace one chemical.
We’ve done that in other scenarios, so it ought to be possible. It’s got to be easier than removing transfats from the food supply or PFOAs from teflon manufacturing
Have been, just slow
https://www.ustires.org/6ppd-tire-manufacturing
Thanks. That looks promising, but as you said, slow. Looking at the timeline there don’t seem to be any updates since Trump took office so I hope it’s ongoing
Headlines like this are always amusing. Almost makes you feel bad about the salmon, until you remember why people are breeding salmon in the first place.
Same vibe:
Pretty sure this is about wild Salmon in rivers, not farmed salmon