Paul M Mayer, Kelly D Moran, Ezra L Miller, Susanne M Brander, Stacey Harper, Manuel Garcia-Jaramillo, Victor Carrasco-Navarro, Kay T Ho, Robert M Burgess, Leah M Thornton Hampton, Elise F Granek, Margaret McCauley, Jenifer K McIntyre, Edward P Kolodziej, Ximin Hu, Antony J Williams, Barbara A Beckingham, Miranda E Jackson, Rhea D Sanders-Smith, Chloe L Fender, George A King, Michael Bollman, Sujay S Kaushal, Brittany E Cunningham, Sara J Hutton, Jackelyn Lang, Heather V Goss, Samreen Siddiqui, Rebecca Sutton, Diana Lin, Miguel Mendez
About 3 billion new tires are produced each year and about 800 million tires become waste annually. Global dependence upon tires produced from natural rubber and petroleum-based compounds represents a persistent and complex environmental problem with only partial and often-times, ineffective solutions. Tire emissions may be in the form of whole tires, tire particles, and chemical compounds, each of which is transported through various atmospheric, terrestrial, and aquatic routes in the natural and built environments...
March 7, 2024: Science of the Total Environment