With such a push against single use plastic and mirco plastics etc. Why is glitter left untouched? surely it has to be one of the worse plastic pollutants. Currently getting our Christmas shop ready, and its on everything and gets everywhere!
The biggest culprits are probably polyester and acrylic fabrics, plus tires… and there isn’t likely to be a will to do anything about those. But yeah, glitter is annoying.
I’ve never seen glitter used outside the context of 7 year old girls or pride parades.
Overall, there is just not a lot of plastic in glitter. It’s incredible thin. It’s like aluminium foil, while we use a lot of meters of foil as households, the kg used is quite little given the surface. And glitter is the same. Getting everyone to buy one less plastic chair is more than they’ll use up in glitter over their entire life, basically.
Ah so it’s just tiny tiny little harmless microplastics. That shouldn’t be of any concern… 😑
Glitter isn’t microplastics.
Like, I’m not saying glitter is not a problematic and rather needless product, but on the list of problematic and rather needless products to get people away from it’s quite far down the list.
The concern is that glitter is smaller and harder to dispose of responsibly. It’s likely to end up polluting the ground or the water, as opposed to something like a chair, which, having less surface area, and being disposed of as a whole piece after some decades, is not actually going to bleed that much.
I think most glitters you can buy around here are biodegradable so that
