Research
Measuring tire particles in stormwater runoff with a passive collector
Nature · By Zoé Arrigoni ·
The Brief
- A low-cost passive collector can be placed in existing roadway spillways to measure tyre particles in stormwater runoff.
- The method is designed to quantify mass fluxes of tyre particles carried by runoff.
- The approach is described in a Nature Reviews Earth & Environment article published online on 13 November 2026.
Why it matters
It offers a cheap way to monitor tyre wear pollution entering waterways using infrastructure that already exists, which could make routine measurement more feasible for environmental scientists and regulators.
Who’s affected
- environmental scientists studying microplastics and urban runoff
- transport and stormwater engineers
- regulators monitoring road pollution
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- #passive sampling
Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, Published online: 13 November 2026; doi:10.1038/s43017-026-00866-z Zoé Arrigoni explains how a low-cost passive collector can be deployed within existing roadway spillways to quantify the mass fluxes of tire particles in stormwater runoff.
Timeline
Article published online in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
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Measuring tire particles in stormwater runoff with a passive collector