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Maybe I have this wrong somehow but I thought that could be categorised as "wear".

IE don't buy the tyres that last 1000[preferred units of measure], buy the tyres that last longer.

But then you could get into "performance per unit of wear" and how that is all defined is a wombat hole of discussion.

You would have to make some trade-offs with emissions/fuel economy though. Harder wearing compounds generally lead to higher rolling resistance, which means higher energy use per distance. I’m inclined to think that microplastics pollution might be worse than tailpipe emissions (or electricity generation pollution depending on your source)?, but it wouldn’t be straightforward. While there will probably always be uses for autos, we should encourage other methods of transport whenever possible.

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