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.

What’s fun about bits of plastic in a placenta ?

So did I! I thought to myself “he is, isn’t he?”

What’s wrong with glitter (the biodegradable kind) bringing joy? Fun police have now arrived x 2

As long as you don’t come for the clitter. I’m partial to a vajazzle, me

Even biodegradable glitters reduce phytoplankton populations when it inevitably ends up in the sea. Which is where glitter abusers should be.

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Same to you. Do lighten up a bit - some glitter might help!

Lol even a thread about glitter descends into chaos on here and just for the record I bloody love glitter but judging by some posters on here that makes me dumb and pathetic for liking sparkly things lol I'm an adult who bought some edible glitter to sprinkle over our Christmas dinner one year lol and if I know people hate it I will always send them a glittery card and yes that does make me pathetic but they know I'm doing it to wind them up and it makes them laugh, and no they don't secretly think I'm a cunt and pretending to laugh as not to upset me because unlike most people on here we all know how to laugh. I also believe in fairies (I don't but I like the idea of them and even better if they have glittery wings)

Eh?

Glitter abusers

I'm a nail tech so that wouldn't be good for business 🤭😂

We call it devil’s dust in our house!

I love glitter but think we should ban anything except bio glitter

😂 That's me, with my biodegradable glitter. The tooth fairy left a trail of it last night, the enviromental terrorist!

I am more likely to use BD glitter on the sparkle police. I had a particularly OTT relative grit her teeth when a few specs went on her carpet (a plain grey, plain white medical kitchen kind).

YABU. I love glitter - it makes me happy. And with all the other shit that is going on in the world, environmental and otherwise, I find it hard to believe that banning glitter is the key to our salvation.

Have they done anything about fishing nets yet?

'Abandoned, lost and discarded fishing gear is the deadliest form of marine plastic, experts say, threatening 66 per cent of marine animals, including all sea turtle species and 50 per cent of seabirds.'

What percentage is glitter op?

"As the New York Times reports, glitter “makes up far less than 1 percent of the microplastics that pollute the environment”.

And for the person complaining about biogradable glitter, I would love to see the way you live. I could guarantee you'll be doing something environmentally unethical. Glass houses...

Well, you know what they say about rolling shit in glitter ...

But I agree with the general sentiment. Herpes of the arts and craft world!

Well the kid had never seen glitter before, so ate it.

If it comforts you, I've witnessed my younger brother eating far worse ...

Banning fishing would have a much bigger impact.

Who says anything about banning fishing? It is about the dumping of fishing equipment into the sea.

Please again see:

' Abandoned, lost and discarded fishing gear is the deadliest form of marine plastic, experts say, threatening 66 per cent of marine animals, including all sea turtle species and 50 per cent of seabirds.'*

Oh, there is a documentary somewhere on this HUGE problem as well. The large fishing corporation supplier conveniently had no comment, on the disposal method of their waste.

Given the microplastics in everything I think banning glitter is just another thing that would reduce joy in the world and make the government look like they are doing something. There are microplastics in loads of clothing and materials for example that get into the water when you wash them. Are you all stopping buying all of those? Has the government banned them? Are they mandating that we all fit microplastic filters or that washing machine manufacturers do?

No, let's ban glitter because it's easy and will make it lol like we are doing something.

100% agree, the hypocrisy on this thread will I am certain, be astounding as well. Those that preach the loudest...