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!

  • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

      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.

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      Ah so it’s just tiny tiny little harmless microplastics. That shouldn’t be of any concern… 😑