Decorative Glitter Is Contributing To Global Microplastic Pollution

Here, there and everywhere: Due to its minuscule size and its ease of scattering, glitter is more harmful than other sorts of microplastics.

Glitter (Credit: Nika Akin / CC0 Public Domain)

I’ve been writing about plastic pollution and its dangers to birds, to wildlife and to the environment (for example; here and here) for a number of years, and how plastics are especially dangerous because they don’t biodegrade (plastics do break apart into smaller pieces, but they either don’t biodegrade into their chemical components, or they do so extremely slowly — on a time scale of hundreds or thousands of years).