Glitter: making the sparkly stuff plastic free and environmentally friendly

Glitter is always great fun, but have you ever wondered just how environmentally friendly it is?

Would you support a ban on glitter?

Well, the answer is: not very. Now, one company in Manchester has created a plastic-free glitter, which uses plant-based materials instead of plastic.

Stephen Cotton, a British scientist helped to create the eco-glitter by swapping plastic for a plant-based material called cellulose. Sir David Attenborough who spoke of the dangers of plastic waste on marine life in BBC One's Blue Planet 2, is backing the environmentally-friendly product

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