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scotty79 3 hours ago

With cars there are higher energies involved, and things like that tend to grow with square or cube of the energy. I wouldn't be surprised if car was causing orders of magnitude more plastic pollution than a bike per person per mile.

Gigachad 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It’s quite intuitive to think about. The entire tread of the tire becomes ground up plastic dust. Cars burn through significantly more KGs of tires in a year than a bicycle.

alt227 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Thats obvious and goes without saying, but then I didnt state any specific metrics, only that they both casue the same thing even in different amounts