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!
I’ll never argue in favor of glitter, but if we’re discussing micro plastics there’s this:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-43023-x
All the synthetic shit cloth you wear and/or sleep on has impact.
Likely to make more impact on this microplastic by buying cotton or bamboo than trying to ban glitter.
Damn, dude. I never even thought of synthetic fabrics as a source. Plastic is one of the worst things we could have ever made.
It’s also one of the most useful things we’ve ever made. Medical devices alone. The problem is mismanagement and overuse for profit by bad actors who lied to the world and said not to worry cause it’s all being reused again and again in this closed feedback loop called recycling
very good point
100% cotton gang on standby
Seeing the comments here and people don’t even realise how widespread glitter is. It’s in everything and used in a variety of industries. From pharmaceuticals to construction, to transport, vehicles, military… in fact the one of the biggest consumers of glitter is kept secret so who knows, could be the military. It won’t surprise me. We really need to find an alternative.
I thought i read somewhere that the biggest consumers of glitter are the auto makers because it’s in nearly all the paint.
That sparkly quartz kitchen top? Yeah…crushed quartz and glitter to make it sparkle. As I said, it’s everywhere.
Interesting. Not surprising, but that’s one I didn’t think about.
Still, that’s one use that’s not making anything worse, right? I mean, that counter is going to be used for decades, and when it does go to the landfill, the glitter in it is hardly going to make a difference.
Best guess seems to be Crest Toothpaste
https://www.dentalbuzz.com/2014/03/04/crest-imbeds-plastic-in-our-gums/
This is from 2014. Can you still buy these products in the US?
At least in the EU, solid microplastics within cosmetics have been forbidden since 2018 (silicones etc. are still allowed unfortunately).
Hmm so it would seem. Most recent thing I found was from 11m ago and says the toothpaste theory is bunk but no real answer has been found.
A lot of the glitter nowadays is biodegradable
I’d be surprised if there isn’t a company making biodegradable glitter
one quick DDG search, first result: https://thegoodglitter.com/
For 15 times the price
I’d buy it for 30x the price. 10 years after having two girls get ready for the millennium in my bathroom (which involved the liberal spraying of glitter) I could still find that shit in crevices.
There is.
Glitter is not a major micro plastic source, and people who buy glitter are probably not people who are worried about micro plastics anyways. Car tires are so much more of a micro plastics source that it’s almost not worth worrying about other sources until we figure that one out.
Not all kinds of glitter is made of plastic ? AFAIK one of the oldest and most popular sources of glitter is mica, which is a mineral (or rather a group of minerals) ?
I think most glitters you can buy around here are biodegradable so that
I’ve never seen glitter used outside the context of 7 year old girls or pride parades.
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