Glitter is made to be tiny and adhere loosely to surfaces, contributing to microplastic pollution. Biodegradable solutions might still get everywhere, but won't stick around forever.
Glitter is made to be tiny and adhere loosely to surfaces, contributing to microplastic pollution. Biodegradable solutions might still get everywhere, but won't stick around forever.
“One of the bad things is that it’s intentionally made to be small…and also very mobile,” says Robert Hale, an environmental scientist and professor at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science. Reports have found microplastics everywhere from the Antarctic to the deep ocean to, more recently, the placenta, feces, and blood vessels of humans.
“This microplastic is so small, at the nanoscale, that could eat this up and actually tear up their internal organs,” says study author Rafael Barty Dextro, a research biologist at the Center for Nuclear Energy and Agriculture in Brazil.
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