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Occurrence and Quantification of Tire Wear Plastics Pollutants from Highway City Dust of Bhubaneswar City of Odisha
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Researchers measured tyre-wear plastic pollutants in road dust from an Indian city, finding that these particles travel through the air and stormwater runoff into surrounding ecosystems, adding to evidence that vehicle traffic is a significant and underappreciated local source of microplastic contamination.
In this growing generation, plastic pollution is the major ongoing concern for the organisms that live or are dependent on this ecosystem. Within road dust, microplastics move through the environment via atmospheric transportation and stormwater runoff into...
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