Rubber, including natural rubber, is a hydrocarbon polymer and should probably count as a plastic in any useful definition of the word for this context. Normally natural rubber is biodegradable, of course, but we vulcanise it for usage in tyres, and that makes it much less so. As such, tyres are a huge source of either microplastic pollution or, if you want to call it something else, functionally-identical microrubber pollution
Rubber, including natural rubber, is a hydrocarbon polymer and should probably count as a plastic in any useful definition of the word for this context. Normally natural rubber is biodegradable, of course, but we vulcanise it for usage in tyres, and that makes it much less so. As such, tyres are a huge source of either microplastic pollution or, if you want to call it something else, functionally-identical microrubber pollution
This isn’t someone who is ignorant, they’re just a troll don’t strain yourself
In my defence they had not posted the replies to others when I had started typing
That’s fine, just getting ahead of it so you’re informed
And in my defense this is a shitpost community.
In my defense, in certain terms, you’ve got an itty bitty peepee
Functionally-identical microrubber pollution doesn’t quite have the ring that microplastics does.