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One of the biggest sources of plastic pollution might be right under your feet.

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By Kevin Tripp, KABC

Move over straws, there’s a new villain in the plastic wars. A new study finds that tiny beads of microplastics are filling the coastal waters and they’re coming from car tires. The San Francisco Estuary Institute finds that tiny particles from tires get blown and washed off roads and into waterways. In turn, those microplastic particles end up in fish and other marine life.