Yes, however the micro plastics observed in animals is very often multicolored and followed up but much larger pieces of plastic much larger than the glove material thickness. Moreover, when analyzed it is easy to identify car tire rubber from these other rubbers and from other plastics.
Media: multicolored latex gloves
Please indicate where your 4mm thick latex glove chunks are:
Its a huge problem with latex these days and nitrile too…they just fall off in large chunks of multicolored micro plastics. Sure mechanics, labs and medics love black and blue, but what about all the latex gloves for kids?
Right? All falling into large chunks.
Locally, there is a fantastic pile of solutions! Its called, don’t touch your samples with dissolvable gloves!
Expensive:
Cheap:
Everyone who’s ever worked in vacuum applications where cleanliness is important, knows to never touch vacuum facing parts. Specially not with bare hands and not with powdered gloves and not with gloves at all. Specially reflective surfaces can become damaged just by touching them.