Artificial turf “crumb” rubber decays into potentially dangerous chemical cocktail, new research finds ⚠️🧪🌱

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🔬 New Northeastern University research reveals that crumb rubber from artificial turf decays into hundreds of previously untracked, potentially hazardous chemicals.

☀️ Researchers simulated sunlight conditions, finding crumb rubber (made from old tires) is highly reactive, generating dangerous transformation chemicals.

🐟 One identified chemical, 6PPD-quinone, is highly toxic to coho salmon, with less than one microgram per liter killing juveniles in under an hour.

🧪 The study identified at least 572 separate transformation products, including 4-HDPA (a suspected endocrine disruptor linked to breast cancer) and 1,3-DMBA (which mimics amphetamine).

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