A little more than a month before the end of the year celebrations, our columnist Fanny Agostini launches the alert: stop glitter in our life!
They are found in the oceans, pollute the ocean floor and are found in the food of marine animals ...
Glitter alert, chants our columnist Fanny Agostini, who is now calling for a Christmas without glitter.
This is not to tarnish the next few holidays a little more, which are already shaping up to be quite gloomy, but because the glitter has become an environmental scourge.
Brands are tackling the problem
Whether on our clothes, in cosmetics or on decorative objects, we realized that the impact was not proportional to their size less than 5 mm.
They do very, very big damage in aquatic environments.
So much so that three big British brands have just announced, and have also strongly communicated around, that they have decided to ban glitter from their products for the end of the year celebrations, hoping to lead others brands in their wake.
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It is hard to imagine the impact of small glitter on the environment.
But you have to know, they cannot be recycled at all.
It is a single-use product par excellence.
They inevitably arrive in the sewers and escape the different stages of treatment in a wastewater treatment plant because they are too small, and pass through the grids to arrive in the rivers, then in the oceans.
Non-recyclable, they pollute the oceans and fish
Glitter by the billions, it could almost be pretty, to imagine the oceans sparkling.
But this decoration which embellishes the festivities is made up of small plastic elements superimposed on aluminum to give it a shiny appearance, glitter which, year after year and over Christmas, litter the ocean floor and is found in the food of marine animals.
So much so that we can eat glitter ourselves at Christmas!
If you like seafood, know that the main ocean scavengers are shellfish such as mussels, oysters, whelks which will filter the water.
They say they have a detritus diet.
They will swallow this waste, which they will then metabolize.
The height would therefore be to treat yourself to a seafood platter for the end of the year celebrations and to eat spangles, the very ones that decorated our table last year ...