To Save the Oceans, Should You Give Up Glitter?
Sparkles are fun, but these tiny bits of plastic escape into waterways.
From the Web
By Laura Parker
PUBLISHED November 30, 2017
When 19 British pre-schools stopped using glitter in art projects to save the oceans, it set off a frenzy that reached as far as New Zealand over glitter’s potential to harm marine life. The change at the Tops Day Nurseries, the chain’s directors say, is aimed at reducing plastic pollution entering the ocean, and it prompted Trisia Farrelly, an environmental anthropologist at Massey University in New Zealand, to call for a global ban.
“All glitter should be banned because it’s microplastic and all microplastics leak into the environment,†Farrelly says.
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/11/glitter-plastics-ocean-pollution-environment-spd/
