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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/23/recycling-can-release-huge-quantities-of-microplastics-study-finds
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772416623000803
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0269749124005694
This really seems like the kind of situation where you fix one crack and another one pops elsewhere.
Not to mention, car tyres are possibly also one of the highest contributers to microplastics so we might as well be fucked.
edit: maybe my initial post was worded in a confusing way read my update above if you are interested