Tire particles contribute significantly to global microplastic pollution, affecting soil, water, and wildlife. Despite their growing impact, they remain largely unaddressed in environmental policies ...

That's because a lot of the waste found floating in oceans that is labeled as microplastics is, in fact, tiny pieces of vehicle tires that slough off during everyday use, called tire and road wear ...

The TD-PTR-MS burns the plastic present in the samples. The mass spectrometer quantifies the gases released during heating. Because each polymer produces a kind of fingerprint of gases, the identity ...