Glitter is made of tiny plastic particles that damage the environment, and brands are on a quest to make it sustainable—but it’s a tougher job than it might seem. Plastic pollution is a global problem ...

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

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 ...

Did you know that blue morpho butterflies, one of the most iridescent animals on earth, have only brown pigment in their wings? Or that the single most vibrantly colored living thing is the berry from ...

A large-scale fabrication of cellulose glitter has been developed which is biodegradable and plastic-free, meaning the shiny stuff can be made from your fruit bowl! It’s that time of year again when ...

While glitter may add some much needed sparkle into our lives, anyone who has a young child—or simply loves to embrace the glitz—knows just how difficult it is to get rid of afterwards. It’s also what ...

The microplastics glitter is made of actually accounts for 92.4 percent of the 270,000 tons of plastic in the sea. Remember when President Obama signed the Microbead-Free Waters Act of 2015? It banned ...

Glitter—it’s everywhere this time of year. You open up a holiday card, and out comes a sprinkle of it. And that glitter will seemingly be with you forever, hugging your sweater, covering the floor.

Everybody loves a bit of sparkle, but those glitter specks you use in your crafts will stay in the ocean for centuries. A study published in the Environmental Sciences Europe journal has revealed that ...