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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.
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.
Ah so it's just tiny tiny little harmless microplastics. That shouldn't be of any concern... ๐
Not compared to the amount of microplastic larger products with degrade into.
Glitter isn't microplastics.
Like, I'm not saying glitter is not a problematic and rather needless product, but on the list of problematic and rather needless products to get people away from it's quite far down the list.
Surely nothing is less use than glitter?
So everything is more or equally as useless as glitter? According to you? I'm confused now.
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