Forbes: Most Of The Microplastics In Urban Air Come From Tires

Leipzig, 22.04.2026 – Laurie Winkless

"For a team of chemists from Leipzig, Germany, the focus was on presence of airborne micro- and nanoplastics in urban air, and the risks they pose to human health. Their study, published just last month found that tire wear particles from cars and trucks accounted for two-thirds (65%) of all of the plastic particles they detected in their experiment."

dubisthalle.de: Leipzig schafft die Umweltzone wegen Verbesserungen der Luftqualität ab – was macht Halle (Saale)?

Halle, 17.04.2026 – eseppelt

"Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen des Leibniz-Instituts für Troposphärenforschung bestätigten zwar, dass die Zone vor allem ultrafeine Partikel reduziert hat, doch unter heutigen Bedingungen sei ihr Beitrag „nur noch sehr gering“. "

Not Just Bikes: Every Reason to Hate Cars

Leipzig, 29.03.2026

"In this 2025 paper, researchers in Leipzig tested urban air for microplastics and nanoplastics and found that 65% of particles came from tyre wear."

airqualitynews.com: Tyre dust in airborne microplastics poses health risk

Leipzig, 04.03.2026 – Paul Day

"Researchers from the Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS) and the University of Oldenburg analysed air samples taken over two weeks in September 2022 at a busy roadside location in Leipzig. They found that around 4% of the fine particulate matter in the air consisted of plastic particles."

kompas.id: Origins of Airborne Microplastics Identified, Electric Vehicles Could Exacerbate Pollution

Leipzig, 03.03.2026 – Ahmad Arif

"A research team from the Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS) and the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg has successfully overcome these limitations. In a study published in Communications Earth & Environment in December 2025, they employed pyrolysis gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (Py-GC-MS) to identify the chemical "fingerprints" of microplastics in the air."

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