Frontiers Special Topic on Tyre Wear Particles

Some exciting news for the Summer of 2022 as ANDROMEDA researchers Dorte Herzke (Norwegian Institute for Air Research) and Lisbet Sørensen (SINTEF Ocean) participate as topic editors on an exciting Frontiers Research Topic entitled ‘Environmental Impacts and Risks of Car Tire and Styrene-Butadiene Rubber: Microplastic Pollution and Contaminant Transport’.

This special issue is looking for articles covering the following themes:
• Car tire particle emissions from field data in various environmental matrices, e.g., air, soil, freshwater, seawater, and sediment.
• Laboratory experiments on TWP, e.g. chemical analyses of car tire particles prior, during, and after degradation.
• Crumb rubber behavior and fate in different environmental compartments, e.g. atmospheric, transport, or sinking behavior in water.
• Transport models parameterized for SBR particles or leached compounds.
• Exposure and toxicity studies for terrestrial and aquatic organisms.
• Impacts of car tire particle emissions on ecosystem function and services to facilitate reliable risk assessments of car tire particles in terrestrial and aquatic environments.

The deadline for submissions is 1st August 2022, and you can learn more at the following link!