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It is referring to the total from all four tires i.e. 4 kg per car per year [1].

Please note that car tires or anything really won't have uniform degradation. The first year will lose a lot of mass, then once the outer material is shed, there will be far less shedding [2]. So I understand the above number as global tire shedding in a year/total number of cars.

P.S. I just looked it up. I have no idea if the source is reliable.

[1] https://www.emissionsanalytics.com/news/how-tyre-emissions-h...

[2] https://www.emissionsanalytics.com/news/gaining-traction-los...



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