So with my next gunpla kit I also ordered some sanding paper, but now I wonder... How harmful is sanding the gunpla plastic material for the environment? You literally rub it into microplastic, right?
Like Gunpla by itself is not a sustainable hobby and it produces quite a bit of plastic waste to build a kit, but from cutting and plying you at least get visible controllable trash pieces that can theoretically be collected and recycled or dealt with otherwise (I'm aware we haven't moved to sustainable ways of dealing with plastic trash on a global level though). But the dust from sanding is probably just... bad, and floats around, right?
Would be happy to hear thoughts on this from more active Gunpla builders (and folks who know more about microplastic and the technicalities of it)!
