_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works to 3DPrinting@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agoNew Study Looks At The Potential Carcinogenicity Of 3D Printinghackaday.comexternal-linkmessage-square24fedilinkarrow-up172arrow-down11cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-squaregerdesj@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·9 months agoIt’s complicated but PLA is bio-degradable … eventually. Not months but years. That’s much better than the horrors you see on Blue Planet II.
minus-squarepiccolo@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-29 months agoPLA requires industrial high heat composting to breakdown. Otherwise it will be around as long as any other type of plastic.
It’s complicated but PLA is bio-degradable … eventually. Not months but years. That’s much better than the horrors you see on Blue Planet II.
PLA requires industrial high heat composting to breakdown. Otherwise it will be around as long as any other type of plastic.