Glitter should be banned

[willywallaby]

Apparently it was banned in the EU last year! Not for the first time I'm wishing we still followed their rules, and we should follow suit now. We never buy glitter or items with glitter on but somehow it makes its way into our house anyway. If we get something like a card with a glittery front my heart sinks. In DD's bag of crafts from the school year that she brought home, there's an egg box decorated with glitter that already covered all the other crafts and I've left the egg box in the bag for now because I dare not bring it out! A few weeks ago DD found a little packet of glitter in a craft kit that we didn't know was there, and she emptied it all over the carpet and into her art box. It was hard enough clearing it out of the carpet and we're still finding it everywhere and cleaning out the art box will be so difficult we haven't even started yet. And it's all just bloody microplastics! The existence of glitter does no good for anyone.

Quote your source on that please?

It's a pollutant. Microplastics are in our bodies now. It's contaminating the ocean in ways we could never have predicted.

I bloody hate the stuff! Gets everywhere and damn near impossible to clear it up properly. It's top of my list of hated substances,along with sand,those polystyrene balls used for packaging and pine needles from Christmas trees.

I'd happily see glitter banned. It serves absolutely no purpose except to pollute our planet. I don't care if that makes me a fun sponge, a misery or any other silly insult.

If I were in charge it would be the second change I made straight after banning those ridiculous mass balloon releases.

The biodegradable glitter is a very good alternative!

I found a pine needle in my lounge today. In August!

Ah glitter! The cleaner's nightmare!

I absolutely love glitter, especially at Christmas, but agree it should be banned due to the polluting microplastics horrorshow

~but it's so sparkly~

• children and adults who can't let go of SPARKLES!!!

I almost never bought glitter, mainly because I am just not into blingy stuff so it never usually occurred to me.

My DD2 shoved a load of glitter into her mouth when she was a preschooler and they were using it for making Christmas decorations. She had shiny, sparkly, glittery poo the following day. No harm done though, she's 25 now and we just laugh about it occasionally.

Micro plastics are from any plastic item that breaks down, not just from things that start off tiny. Most micro plastics are from drinks bottles and food packaging and other large plastic items such as boxes and barrels used for transporting goods. Glitter must be only a tiny component of micro plastics.

No need for a source. It’s my opinion. Your explanation further tells me there’s nothing wrong with glitter.

Can’f stand eco warriors and their crusade to ban everything. Every time I hear it it just makes me more determined to buy more.

You have the most moronic personality.
Unbelievable that some people being stupid is some sort of moral standing.

The more you tell me it’s polluting the more I don’t give a shit. Wah wahhhh

Our school has biodegradable glitter. It’s not all or nothing.

Ban plastic drinks bottle first, glitter is a tiny part of the plastic problem.

This makes me think of the Peppa Pig episode where the glitter is kept under lock and key 😂

I don’t really care about your opinion anymore than you don’t care about mine. For me, the moronic ones are the eco warriors on their crusade.

I’ll use as much glitter and plastic as I like, just like I’ll continue to set off balloon releases. I don’t see any issue with any of it.

Wow, there really is no such thing as society anymore is there?

Oh there is. Just a lot of us don’t want to live in a society where people think it’s okay to ban things they don’t like and police everyone else’s language.

You don’t see that letting off ballons is dangerous to wildlife?

I bet you’re the kind of person who throws litter out of car windows and leaves red hot disposable bbq trays on the beach, too.

Yes, plastic g-litter is awful because the first thing that anyone who uses it does, is wash their hands and it's immediately into the water system ultimately ending up in our seas.
I presume the biodegradable stuff does properly break down and doesn't take decades, so that would be much better, so no need to have the problematic version.

I’m not. I’m actually the kind of person that participates in charity litter picks, but if it makes you feel better to think that, please do. No skin off my nose.

You're the kind of person who takes part in charity litter picks but also partakes in balloon releases which are littering by another name.... I'm trying really hard to see the logic here?

And moans about “eco crusades”. Litter picks sea sounding very believable.

Glitter isn't banned in the EU, plastic glitter is banned under the new legislation about banning plastic items below a certain (tiny) size that doesnt degrade. Biodegradable glitter is still 'allowed', and this is widely used in the UK now.

I LOVE glitter!! It makes me happy, it makes my class happy and it's beautiful. I do buy biodegradable but sometimes I have to use normal. In these dark times, children need a bit of sparkle in their lives.