Image shows the actual experimental setup in which the researchers added tyre abrasion to the nutrient solutions of lettuce plants, undated photo. Austrian researchers from the University of Vienna found out that lettuce takes up toxic additives from tyre wear. Note: Licensed content. (Gabriel Sigmund/Newsflash)
Copyrights: Gabriel Sigmund/Newsflash
06 January 2023
A new scientific study has shown that highly toxic chemicals from tyre wear get absorbed by lettuces through sewage sludge and waste water. Researchers at the Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science (CMESS) at the University of Vienna, Austria, claimed that tyre pollutants...