Are Tire Particles Harming The Environment? | An Expert Explains
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we discuss pollution from tire particles with Dr. Kelly D. Moran, a Senior Scientist at the San Francisco Estuary Institute. With over 18 years of experience in her field, Dr. Moran has worked in both environmental science and public policy – and has played a major role in assisting government agencies with water pollution management from consumer products…
Join us now to discover:
- How pollutants infiltrate waterways.
- How tire particles can impact marine wildlife.
- Solutions to mitigate the harmful effects of storm runoff.
- The chemicals that are distributed through tire particles, and how they can potentially cause harm.
Dr. Moran is an environmental professional that is passionate about translating complex scientific information into plain language. How has her research benefited our environment? Click play to find out now!
To learn more about Dr. Moran and her work, visit https://www.sfei.org!
Episode also available on Apple Podcasts: http://apple.co/30PvU9C
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| 0:00.0 | back past in the 70s were really working and so the big huge everyone thought pollution came |
| 0:05.2 | from big pipes you know the big smoke stack the big pipe they ran into the water and the clean |
| 0:12.4 | water act and the clean air act had done their job in a lot of ways there's still a lot of |
| 0:16.8 | pollution out there from big sources but we were still finding pollution that wasn't from those |
| 0:21.2 | big sources so my job was to figure out okay here's a list of pollutants we're still seeing them |
| 0:27.3 | and we know they're not coming from industry where are they coming from so i'm looking around |
| 0:32.1 | saying oh well look this is in a product huh that product has a way to get into out to run up |
| 0:38.8 | or that product has a way to get into the sewer forget frequently asked questions |
| 0:43.4 | common sense common knowledge or google how about advice from a real genius 95% of people in any |
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| 0:56.0 | but only 0.1% are real geniuses Richard Jacobs has made it his life's mission to find them |
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| 1:14.1 | for the Richard Jacobs hello this is Richard Jacobs with the finding genius podcast |
| 1:22.3 | now part of the finding genius foundation of Kelly de Moran she's the senior scientist |
| 1:27.8 | part of the San Francisco estuary institute i want to talk about pollution from tire particles |
| 1:33.2 | so Kelly welcome thank you thank you i'm excited to share information about my research |
| 1:38.8 | yeah how did you get here it sounds like a very specific focus thing so not only look at |
| 1:44.0 | I guess what are called micro macro plastics but from tires specifically how did you get to where |
| 1:49.4 | it's a long and winding path I got my PhD back in a time where there weren't a lot of good career |
| 1:57.5 | opportunities in academia and research for women so I wandered all over the place doing various |
| 2:03.1 | kinds of work and wound up working at a local government agency where we were trying to figure |
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