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What are Tire Wear Particles?

Plastic & waste types

What do you think about when you hear the words “microplastic pollution?” Your mind may immediately go to imagery of colorful fragmented plastics broken off from bottles, buckets and other items we use in our everyday lives. Or, perhaps, you imagine a pile of microplastic fibers—the tiny, squiggly, spaghetti-shaped plastics that shed from our synthetic […]…

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Plastic pollution reporting helps connect what people find outdoors with prevention and disposal upstream.