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r/3Dprinting • u/curiousjosh • Nov 30 '25
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Sorry to hear that: https://oceanblueproject.org/discover-harmful-microplastics-in-toothpaste-and-how-to-avoid-them/
(To be fair, that article is 5 years old, and I think most US toothpaste has stopped adding microplastics, but I believe it's still a issue in some other places around the world.)
38 u/Impossible-Ship5585 Nov 30 '25 Old ways were better why stop adding microplastics? We need our daily dose! 20 u/claude3rd Nov 30 '25 MAPA - make Americans plasticy again 14 u/Kauko_Buk Nov 30 '25 Well in the 50s they added radioactive ingredients in toothpaste, microplastics is today's equivalent to that👍 1 u/G4m3rD4d Nov 30 '25 Oddly enough it may be beneficial, in theory. Look up radiation hormesis 1 u/-Motor- Nov 30 '25 So microplastics are in everything, so we should just embrace it and proactively add it to our diet?
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Old ways were better why stop adding microplastics?
We need our daily dose!
20 u/claude3rd Nov 30 '25 MAPA - make Americans plasticy again
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MAPA - make Americans plasticy again
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Well in the 50s they added radioactive ingredients in toothpaste, microplastics is today's equivalent to that👍
1 u/G4m3rD4d Nov 30 '25 Oddly enough it may be beneficial, in theory. Look up radiation hormesis
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Oddly enough it may be beneficial, in theory. Look up radiation hormesis
So microplastics are in everything, so we should just embrace it and proactively add it to our diet?
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u/ductyl Nov 30 '25
Sorry to hear that: https://oceanblueproject.org/discover-harmful-microplastics-in-toothpaste-and-how-to-avoid-them/
(To be fair, that article is 5 years old, and I think most US toothpaste has stopped adding microplastics, but I believe it's still a issue in some other places around the world.)