For a sport obsessed with their "green" image, the FIA certainly makes some strange rules decisions.While there are some changes which are arguably more "green" -- for example, removing the need to be on "race fuel" during qualifying sessions, and eliminating the need to "burn off" fuel prior to qualifying runs -- there are others which clearly are not "green".
I'm thinking of the tires specifically. While the number of tires used through a weekend is still limited, the tires themselves have a useful service life of perhaps 20 laps before degradation starts to impact performance. So you end up with more pit stops.
You also end up with a lot of this:
...a lot of little rubber balls, colloquially referred to as "marbles", accumulating off the racing line.
Not the best "green" image for a sport in general, or for the tyre manufacturer in particular.
