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7,000 Microplastics Studies Show We Have One Really Big Problem (www.sciencealert.com)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (6 children)

Out of curiosotiy where would something like 3D printing be placed?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Not significantly contributing to the global problem, but you might inhale some. Don’t sand your prints for sure.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Or wear a respirator while you sand...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (3 children)

PLA I think just breaks down into lactic acid eventually, but the ABS probably isnt so good

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Thanks this makese.feel.better about pla printing

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Pretty bad, especially with people sanding down productions and stuff.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I like how we've gone from looking at the huge garbage patches in our oceans to the amount of microplastic in a drop of water. I don't see it as a material issue, you pick a material and with enough quantity it will pollute. It is a consumer society issue. But maybe it will be easier to change consumer society by dangling the microplastic threat effect so the actual cause can be treated - wait, the psychopaths in CEO positions would lose money then, never mind.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

for anyone working with acrylic paint, this stuff is plastic so it’s best not to just chuck it down your sink.

There is a way to filter the plastics https://www.jacksonsart.com/blog/2023/09/28/acrylic-painting-rinse-water-microplastics/

Trying out the golden crash system (though you can just buy buckets and elements yourself to do it cheaper) and it got some very good results.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

I fucking hate lemmy now, you are just reddit with a sense of undeserved elitism.

This is a serious as fuck problem and all that anyone replies with are jokes and shitposts.

This is fucking /c/science, not /c/sciencememes

But none of you care especially the mods, so I'm just blocking every one of you.

edit: There's an entire subthread here that is nothing but masturbation jokes, which of course the mods ignore.

Fuck lemmy and its shitstain mod team same as the reddit mods but with worse hygiene. At least on reddit they keep /r/science clean

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

scrolling in the comment section of this news article, i've only seen people either being concerner/shocked, and some sarcastically talking about recycling or something. Nothing about masturbation.

And if your criticism of lemmy is that it's being reddit with elitism, then why try to gatekeep the way people are going to react to an article on c/science? Are we all supposed to have degrees in chemistry or biology before making a comment?

Believe it or not people take heavy news a million different ways and react differently. People ending up making a masturbation joke after discussing microplastics in testicles (i assume this is what happened) harm nothing and no one.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I've already blocked them so I can't link though I reported it too so maybe some mod woke their lazy ass up and deleted it as they should have.