Most glitter products are made from plastic, which contributes to the growing problem of microplastics in the environment. Microplastics are consumed by plankton, fish, and birds, and have a ...

“All that glitters is not gold,” wrote William Shakespeare. And how prescient he was: Glitter today is a mix of plastic and aluminum. These sticky, scintillating specks appear in wrapping paper, ...

A few months ago, shoppers in Germany were reported to have been stockpiling decorative glitter. That’s because it is now officially banned in the EU. Glitter is made of plastic, and since plastic ...

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 ...