It seems to me like missing the forest for the trees as well.
A stationary chunk of solid plastic will probably give off negligible micro plastics, but unless everyone is wearing 100% natural fabrics there's going to be tons of tiny synthetic fibers floating around in the air from clothing...
mustardman@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Kind of annoying to say I was “screaming microplastics” when I simply asked if there was more or less of a risk compared to non-addative manufacturing of plastics. You also seem to have resigned to not being worried about microplastics since it is already a problem.
You and another poster brought up “but there are microplastics everywhere!” Yes, and we are learning about them and their problems. I’ve heard about potential issues about synthetic fabrics. I think it is pretty reasonable to ask about the safety, especially when the science on the effects of microplastics is finally entering the forefront.
canthidium@lemmy.world 1 year ago
As the other commenter said, “not everything is about you”. I didn’t say YOU were saying that. It was a general comment about there always being people wanting to yell about microplastics and bacteria every time someone posts a 3d print anywhere near food related areas. I was just happy to see someone comment something I felt was more reasonable than the constant scolding you see in 3D printing communities usually. This is also why I didn’t reply to you directly. It’s perfectly reasonable to ask about safety and the other commenter already answered your question so I didn’t.
I also didn’t say I wasn’t worried about microplastics since it’s already a problem, but I DID say that I wasn’t worried about ingesting them from this print.
mustardman@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
I see. Surely you can see how it can be interpreted as I did.
canthidium@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Honestly, not really. If you take into account the context that I wasn’t responding to your comment, but to the other person, and also knowing you weren’t doing what I was talking about, it seems pretty obvious to me that I wasn’t talking about you. You were asking a simple question, and you received an answer. I was praising another person’s comment. So I dunno, you’re entitled to your interpretation, of course, but I obviously wasn’t the only one that knew my comment wasn’t about you.