Tire wear particles: An emerging threat to soil health
Abstract
Tire wear particles (TWP) have caused widespread contamination in the environment. However, their behavior and potential impacts in soil remain unclear since studies have so far been mainly conducted in aquatic ecosystems. It is possible that soil ecosystems are already under pressure from pollution by TWP. We here firstly synthesize knowledge about the composition, distribution, and behavior of TWP in soils. By comparing with effects of microplastics (MP) in soil, we further outline several potential impacts of TWP on soil biota and the underpinning mechanisms, and highlight the multiple pathways leading to adverse impacts of TWP on soil microbiota, soil fauna and plants. Furthermore, current knowledge about the effects of TWP is mostly based on single soil microbial species, which may underestimate the effects because of cascading consequences at the community and ecosystem levels. Therefore, more research is urgently needed to clarify the behavior and impacts of TWP from the individual organism to the Earth system level. We suggest that TWP may lead to changes in essential ecosystem services and multifunctionality, and therefore represent an emerging threat to soil health.
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The negative effect of tire wear particles on plant growth is likely due to metals such as zinc leaching from tire wear particles.
“likely due to metals such as zinc leaching from tire wear particles (Ding et al., 2022).”
From Review of emerging contaminants in green stormwater infrastructure: antibiotic resistance genes, microplastics, tire wear particles, PFAS, and temperature (2024) · cites this paper as Ding et al., 2022
Low concentrations of tire wear particles negatively affect plant growth.
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- Authors
- Ding, J., Lv, M., Zhu, D., Leifheit, E. F., Chen, Q.-L., Wang, Y.-Q., Chen, L.-X., Rillig, M. C., & Zhu, Y.-G.
- Affiliations
- School of Environmental and Material Engineering, Yantai University, Yantai, China
- CAS Key Laboratory of Coastal Environmental Processes and Ecological Remediation, Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yantai, China
- State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Centre for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- Institute of Biology, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Key Laboratory of Urban Environment and Health, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen, China
- ORCID
- Rillig, Matthias C.
- Venue
- Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2022-03-14
- Volume
- 53
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 239-257
- ISSN
- 1064-3389
- 1547-6537
- Cited by
- 151
- References
- 3
- Language
- en
- Funders
- National Science Foundation of China (,)
- Youth Innovation Promotion Association CAS (212)
- ERC Advanced Grant
- µPlastic and BIBS
- PAPILLONS and MINAGRIS
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