Tyre industry pushes back against evidence of plastic pollution

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The plastic particles, which are increasingly being found in the air, food, drinking water and even Arctic ice, may pose a risk to human health and marine life, although there is no scientific consensus on the issue.

The European Tyre and Rubber Manufacturers Association, an industry body lobbying European lawmakers, also commissioned a study authored by Cardno ChemRisk consultants.

Gavin Whitmore, a Tire Industry Project spokesman, said the group’s sponsored research was aimed at “answering fundamental questions about the potential human health and environmental impacts of tyres” and not as preparation for possible chemical exposure claims. He added that the group had no knowledge of Cardno ChemRisk omitting information from its studies.

The requirement could lead to billions of dollars in redesign costs for tyre makers, three industry sources said. Fazilet Cinaralp, European Tyre and Rubber Manufacturers Association’s secretary-general, acknowledged a cost from future regulations but that it was too early to quantify. She said the association’s goal was to broaden knowledge about tyre wear by funding research and helping with the development of a tyre wear test.

“The peer-reviewed scientific research that we have sponsored concludes that” tyre and road-wear particles “present low risk to human health and the environment,” Tire Industry Project’s Whitmore said. Eunomia’s 2018 study concluded that 500,000 tonnes of microplastics are generated from tyres in the EU every year, accounting for potentially the largest source of microplastics in the aquatic environment.

 

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