This keeps coming up. Its a total misinformation piece to make you think that everything is good.
Then some guy will reply something like “no no, they’re just saying its less”. Well who cares if its less plastic. No matter what plastic image you find on the net, its almost never a whole bunch of little biys that rubbed off from gloves. Its pieces of soda bottles from fucking coca cola.
Here’s plastics from cosmetics. Look at how tiny these things are. Look at how perfectly round they are. They are not from nitrile or latex:
Here’s another example of micro plastics
Like what makes these deepshits think the important thing is that they are not glove fragments from the people measuring.
I work in a lab and when asked to handle certain things you are told to never touch certain areas. Can the ventilation system blow some dust from powdered gloves? Sure. But take your precautions and do your counting correctly. Use tweezers and avoid rubbing particles off your gloves and into the sample.
Its like someone running over some kids and then writing “hey when you drive you’re not supposed to run over kids or other pedestrians.” Just drive correctly.
