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Originally Posted by MGJohn
How about a Brake Dust and Tyre Dust Levy. Where does all that worn rubber and brake pad material go?
Over the years every time someone turns a tyre or applies their brakes, dust is deposited in the environment worldwide. Millions of tons of it. Mountains of bald worn tyres are dumped ... guess where.
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The 'scientists' have already indicated that brake dust (a worse problem now than it was with asbestos linings and drum brakes, where the steel discs also become sacrificial), plus minute tyre rubber particles, are major factors in thousands of people in London dying prematurely. They haven't indicated how the motorist is expected to deal with this, but possibly by dispensing with brakes and wheels altogether!
I regularly see construction workers filling the sky with concrete and granite particles, containing silica, from their disc cutting equipment and seeing that London gets most of the construction and building work these days, perhaps this is the cause of the health scare. I did see local Telford construction workers using disc cutters recently and no dust was coming out, presumably it was being vacuumed into a collection bag.
Roverite.