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Supermarket plastic bag charge has led to 98% drop in use in England, data shows
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Reminder that the biggest by far source of micro plastic in the air we breathe comes from tires. And there is zero research being done to find an alternative
We already have a way to solve this, just don't drive so much.
Metal tires and metal roads. Kind of slippery, so we might need to make some sort of ridges to guide our vehicle's direction. Stopping will still be hard, but if we just lock cars together and do it all at once it might be feasible.
I see your from feddit.nl, which makes your comment make sense, but you really need to realize that in many places in the world, the way the town's and cities were built, it's just impossible to implement public transit, and biking isn't really an alternative.
Or places where public transit is a thing, it is really inconvenient.
My girlfriend can drive to work in 30 minutes. Taking the bus takes her over an hour. So instead of a 1 hour drive each day, she's on the bus for 2.5 hours + waiting + the inconvenience of the buses not being on schedule + the buses shutting down at midnight
It's great if you can commit an extra 1.5 hours every day just to sit on a bus, but she can't. Not to mention that's just going to work. If she needed to stop by for groceries, pet food, doctors appointments, etc, she's adding an insane amount of time in between by having to switch buses.
I know cars are bad, but going to work + running errands legit wastes a good 3+ hours vs taking a car. That's a massive chunk of wasted time. She has shit she needs to do at home, she can't spend a quarter of her day sitting on public transit.
You just described how bad the public transport where you live is, not why it can't be better. We 100% can and should be building better public transport & active transport, as well as building places with better land use for these.
Then your (presumably Canada) country needs to start re-doing the cities so they aren't dependent on private cars. NL was also going that way in the 1970s until they changed direction. The best time to do it would have been back then, but the second best time to do it is start now.
It can be done.
It will not be cheap.
Who is going to pay? The Canadians who live in the most expensive country in the world and cannot afford to live anymore?
You guys are ignorant as hell lol
Damn u had me confused till the last line. Well played.
When the petrol car ban comes in, this could take care of itself as everybody finds themselves priced out of driving.
We'll need a really good public transport system to replace it, but we won't get that either because we're too poor to care about.
A lot of people are already priced out of driving. We need to be building that public transport network, along with active transport infrastructure and better land use anyway.
With petrol you can always get a £500 banger, run it into the ground over the next year or two and repeat.
With electric it starts at about 5000-6000, and you'll be paying £500 a year just to rent the battery. It's the batteries that are going to keep that out of reach of the poorest.
And you still need insurance, fuel etc on top of that, and your £500 banger isn't going to be very reliable.
You can get a decent bike for £50 or a bus ticket for £2. The problem is in a lot of the country it isn't safe to cycle and the buses are shit, so we need to fix those things to have transport that works for everyone (and doesn't create microplastics).
@Blackmist @mondoman712
I only know of Renault leasing the battery in the Zoe.
Otherwise, the battery is part of the car and sold as part of it, with a guarantee.
I think your £500 banger has to be years older than any large number of BEVs, and will cost you more to scrap after you ture of repairing it.
@Blackmist @mondoman712
It isn't a ban, there are huge numbers of them, of which less than a tenth are new any year.
That tenth of new car buyers can keep last year's car, or buy a second hand car, but these are new car buyers, they'll buy a new EV, mostly, or their firm will.
2,3,4...10 owners down the line, look forward to a used EV coming your way, a couple...10 years after no new petrol cars are made.
@Lemmylaugh @Emperor
The tire companies researched and innovated for EV tyres, and that reduces shedding.