Silicone is not actually plastic and definitely don’t break down into microplastics (if they break down at all). There’s varieties leeching suspicious stuff but for some applications the nice ones might actually be the solution of the future, say, for seals for glass jars and stuff. Rubber isn’t better just because it grows on trees, rubber tyres are one of the main sources of microplastics.
Tires haven’t been rubber since the 50’s. Current tires are definitely a leading source of microplastics, but it is incorrect, and misleading to group rubber from trees in with microplastics.
Silicone is not actually plastic and definitely don’t break down into microplastics (if they break down at all). There’s varieties leeching suspicious stuff but for some applications the nice ones might actually be the solution of the future, say, for seals for glass jars and stuff. Rubber isn’t better just because it grows on trees, rubber tyres are one of the main sources of microplastics.
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Tires haven’t been rubber since the 50’s. Current tires are definitely a leading source of microplastics, but it is incorrect, and misleading to group rubber from trees in with microplastics.
Yes in the sense that there’s synthetic rubber which generates less microplastics.