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Post by joblackford on Oct 27, 2021 18:05:42 GMT
I thought this article about what glitter is and (vaguely) how it is made is relevant to our interests  It's older, some might have read it, I spotted it in the morning briefing recently and thought of the Peas. www.nytimes.com/2018/12/21/style/glitter-factory.html?It's a fun read. But also, ugh. Especially the bit where they talk about washing hands with soap and water to get rid of it. The ocean would really appreciate it if you didn't do that... Do you hate glitter or love it? Did this article change your impression of it? |
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Post by papersilly on Oct 27, 2021 18:39:20 GMT
i hate glitter!! glitter is the devil's playground. LOL. like the article said, it gets on everything and it's hard to clean it all off. i hate hearing DH say "why do you have glitter on your face?" when i hadn't even been crafting with any but some find their way off an embellishment and onto my face. i see glitter ornaments in the stores right now and run like the boogeyman is chasing me. |
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Post by joblackford on Oct 27, 2021 20:39:58 GMT
i hate glitter!! glitter is the devil's playground. LOL. like the article said, it gets on everything and it's hard to clean it all off. i hate hearing DH say "why do you have glitter on your face?" when i hadn't even been crafting with any but some find their way off an embellishment and onto my face. i see glitter ornaments in the stores right now and run like the boogeyman is chasing me. I hear you. I despise it too! Even more so knowing it’s tiny bits of plastic. Goodness only knows what it does in the oceans and dirt and in our bodies. It was the worst part of the Pea Christmas card swap. TBH I didn’t even take some people’s cards out of the envelopes because I could hear how much glitter they had in them and how much it had come off in the envelope. I would just peer inside the card. My hubby helped demolish some shelves that had held Hallmark cards for decades. He was so horrified by the glitter, got covered in it, and brought way too much home on his work gear. He came home grumbling about the craft herpes. |
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Post by hop2 on Oct 27, 2021 20:55:20 GMT
I try to only buy either biodegradable glitter or real natural glitter like from mica because those will either degrade or become sand.
I don’t love glitter but it has it’s uses and can be pretty. I do hate glitter when it gets everywhere.
The thing I’ve noticed about the biodegradable glitter is it seems much easier to wipe up as opposed to dollar store glitter - you know those reflective specks from cheap stores that stick to everything! No thanks!
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Post by sleepingbooty on Oct 27, 2021 21:25:03 GMT
The only glitter I'll allow into my home is the naturally (and quickly) degrading kind, like hop2. So, no scrappy glitter for me but I'll borrow someone's bath tub once in a while and just bathe in Lush's eco-friendly glitter (made from child labour-free synthetic mica) like a fabulous mermaid once in a while... Traditional glitter is Satan's micro spawn army. And I'm an atheist. 😆 |
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Post by papersilly on Oct 27, 2021 21:37:28 GMT
yup. in glitter and the tiny beads in the bath washes. those are piling up in the ocean and winding up inside fishes. |
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Post by dawnnikol on Oct 27, 2021 22:00:02 GMT
I love glitter. I always have. However, this will have me change my buying habits.
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Post by kitbop on Oct 27, 2021 22:40:32 GMT
I had read something of this before through Jennifer McGuire - which led me to stop buying any glitter. However, I still own glitter from before, even tho it gets used very rarely. Last I used it I mixed it with a texture paste, so it won't "shed" off a project. But question: do glitter cardstocks that don't "shed" glitter cause equal problems? Likewise, what about products such as Gina K's glitz gel? or Stickles? I know that all these plastic bits are problematic, but if they don't run off into the environment, does that in any way make them less bad? Asking for a friend |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2021 23:12:23 GMT
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Post by hop2 on Oct 28, 2021 1:35:05 GMT
Cosmic shimmer makes biodegradable glitter for crafting
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Post by riversong1963 on Oct 28, 2021 13:26:53 GMT
I love glitter. Always have; always will.
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Post by scrapcat on Oct 28, 2021 17:15:02 GMT
Interesting, had no idea all glitter comes from NJ. I always assumed it was plastic. I don't use a lot of loose glitter, but am wondering more about when it is part of another medium.
Thinking about how glitter is in so many finishes...cars, countertops, tile, etc.
I used to get those little glass tubes when I was a kid, we used them with puff paints. I still have the same 4-5 glass tubes with some glitter in them, have to be 30 years old. If I use (very rarely) any type of glitter in projects, I use a swiffer type cloth to clean up, tho more trash doesn't help either. But I will remember this and be more conscious of washing it off of anything.
Thinking back to clerking in a store as a college student and manager had me make stockings to hang of all employees names at xmas to decorate bcz I was the creative one. I made like 20 some stockings using elmer's glue to handwrite the names out and those big jars of cheap silver glitter. Yikes that was prob a lot of glitter waste!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2021 17:23:25 GMT
I always assumed it was plastic. It is plastic. But then layered w/metal. "The bulk of Glitterex glitter is made from plastic" |
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Post by joblackford on Oct 28, 2021 20:21:26 GMT
I was sort of excited to learn that foil chip packets are made from the same basic stuff as glitter - super thin metal fused onto plastic film. Somehow I had never quite figured out the nature of that material.
Of course any time we fuse one thing with another we make the resulting product impossible (or very difficult?) to recycle... neither plastic nor metal...
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Post by pastlifepea on Oct 29, 2021 12:30:29 GMT
I am a magpie and LOVE glitter and anything sparkly as long as it isn't micro glitter that has managed to unleash itself in my house. (We had a halloween party two years ago. One friend dressed up as "Jon Snow White" and I am STILL finding his red glitter on our lanai.) I am sad that so much of it is bad for the environment and now I will have to try to limit myself to using eco-friendly glitter. Thinking about old style big chunky glitter gives me holiday crafting nostalgia.
OP, that was a fascinating read for me....thank you for sharing. I sent it along to my sister who will probably enjoy it as much as I did.
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Post by riversong1963 on Oct 29, 2021 14:13:05 GMT
I am a magpie and LOVE glitter and anything sparkly as long as it isn't micro glitter that has managed to unleash itself in my house. (We had a halloween party two years ago. One friend dressed up as "Jon Snow White" and I am STILL finding his red glitter on our lanai.) I am sad that so much of it is bad for the environment and now I will have to try to limit myself to using eco-friendly glitter. Thinking about old style big chunky glitter gives me holiday crafting nostalgia. OP, that was a fascinating read for me....thank you for sharing. I sent it along to my sister who will probably enjoy it as much as I did. Jon Snow White: brilliant! |
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Post by scrapcat on Oct 29, 2021 16:53:24 GMT
I always assumed it was plastic. It is plastic. But then layered w/metal. "The bulk of Glitterex glitter is made from plastic" Yes, that was a statement. Not a question. I was confirming what I believed to be true with the article. |
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Post by myboysnme on Oct 31, 2021 0:17:46 GMT
I adore glitter. Aside from that, original glitter was made of crushed glass. If you break a glass Christmas ornament you can crush it up to make glass glitter that was used on cardboard houses and to decorate other ornaments, for example. You can see it on vintage and antique Christmas items most commonly. I save any broken ornament to crush into glass glitter to add and repair items in my vintage and antique Christmas collection.
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Post by kmage on Nov 1, 2021 14:51:59 GMT
I thought it was so interesting that all of it is so secret and that the biggest user of glitter is so hush-hush, and they won't tell. I wanted to know!  Thanks for sharing, what an interesting read! |
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Post by joblackford on Nov 1, 2021 23:18:37 GMT
I thought it was so interesting that all of it is so secret and that the biggest user of glitter is so hush-hush, and they won't tell. I wanted to know! Thanks for sharing, what an interesting read! Definitely! I figured it was probably car paint, but that wouldn't be such a secret, so now I'm racking my brains trying to think of something else shiny that isn't obvious where the manufacturer wouldn't want us to know they use so much glitter. Very mysterious. It was a fun read  and now I can add secretive glitter companies to my list of things I know about NJ! |
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and now I can add secretive glitter companies to my list of things I know about NJ!