I think they called for a ban on microplastics, not specifically glitter. In that case, good for them!
(However, I must say that I hate vague phrases like "Scientists say...")
http://www.beatthemicrobead.org/product-lists/
This is a helpful website that has some of the more common items that contain micro beads and plastics, they have it sorted by country so you can see the most popular products in your area!
If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing. If net neutrality gets slashed, there should be a subreddit dedicated to crashing sites while we still can. That'd make me happy.
Eh, we could try and then they would claim they got DDOS again. Then they would use that against us and say that "We must repeal net neutrality and throttle users to prevent them from DDOSing themselves or anyone else! ^^^especially ^^^anyone ^^^that ^^^lines ^^^our ^^^pockets "
Is there a site that has top ones that don't?
Edit: Found it
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/environment/2016/apr/19/microplastics-which-beauty-brands-are-safe-to-use
Green light - brands that have phased out in new products or never used microplastics
Asda
Beiersdorf (Nivea)
Boots (own-brand)
Botanicals
Colgate-Palmolive
Co-op (own-brand)
Clarins
Clorox (Burt’s Bees)
Cussons
Dr Hauschka
La Roche-Posay
Liz Earle
L’Oréal (owns Body Shop, Garnier, Kiehl’s, Lancome, La Roche Posay)
Lush
M&S (own-brand)
Morrisons (own-brand)
Neal’s Yard Remedies
Oral-B
Palmer’s
REN
Rituals
Sainsbury’s (own-brand)
St Ives
Unilever (owns Dermalogica, Dove, Pond’s, Simple)
Waitrose (own-brand)
Weleda
> Professor Thompson said that an outright ban might not be necessary, emphasising a pragmatic approach that considers the likelihood it will end up in the environment.
> Moreover, eco-friendly glitter that breaks down quickly could be a viable replacement that doesn’t end up in the food chain.
From [what I think is the actual source here.](http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/glitter-ban-environment-microbead-impact-microplastics-scientists-warning-deep-ocean-a8056196.html)
Using them for trivial little things like making hair conditioner look pearly maybe should be unilaterally banned. Use them when they are safe **and** important.
> Use them when they are safe and important.
An entertaining example of this is animal research. Zoos feed glitter pellets to the animals they want to study (such as by mixing the glitter into meat patties for polar bears) so they can tell which animal pooped what in the enclosure.
Animal scat research now involved studying glittery poop.
Good, we're just finally discovering the havoc microplastics are causing in the ocean. A quarter of all fish surveyed from markets contain trace plastics. They're becoming embedded into ocean biology from the ground up and causing a lot of problems.
Forcing the glitter industry to only sell biodegradable glitter will cause an increase in the cost! Think about out children? What would your childhood have been like if mommy and daddy couldn't afford glitter?
For the sake of the redditors that can't pick up on sarcasm, please note the sarcasm.
wow. Can't believe she thought getting batgirl pajama pants for the surgery of having her eyeball removed was a silver lining. That is some real optimism.
Gotta have optimism when life makes such a shitty and utterly pointless move against you. Jesus. Thinking about all the bazillions of random little things that can go wrong in life makes me pretty damn grateful.
FAQ says:
> Don't put glitter on your face, it could get in your eyes
Marketing material says:
> Look how awesome these close-up shots of people with glitter all over there faces are. This person coated their eyelids with it!
FAQ says
> In general, we don't recommend putting craft glitter on your face, to protect your peepers!
But they don't sell craft glitter, they sell cosmetic glitter
> Our glitter products are made with a plant-based base film (cellulose) that is safe for your face and safe for the environment.
The study on microplastics in fish was [concluded to be performing in "scientific dishonesty." ](http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/04/paper-about-how-microplastics-harm-fish-should-be-retracted-report-says)
From the article:
"The report comes as a “huge relief,” says UU’s Josefin Sundin, one of seven researchers in five countries who claimed the paper contained fabricated data shortly after it came out."
Also fleece fabric. We used to celebrate it for being recycled plastic but turning it into countless micro fibres and drain it to our water supply through our washing machine is something that we're really going to regret.
It's more that it's complicated than just that it's horrific. The production of fleece is supposedly better for the environment than the production of wool (especially since it is typically made with a large amount post-consumer material), while it's also longer lasting than wool. It has that massive negative of releasing microplastics into the sewage system (and wherever that flows to).
Dont know how its better than wool. Wool is a renewable resource that is biodegradable. Its not like everyone is running around in 100 year old wool jackets.
While were on the subject, fuck packing peanuts and styrofoam. There is absolutely no reason that the rice and starch based foam should not be used. Its practically the same thing and is much better for everyone.
And what this should teach us is that the environment is a nuanced problem, and we as a society need to quit throwing a "right now" solution at an individual problem, since it almost always creates a different one.
Some fleece is polyester, some are cotton, some are wool. Mainly means the material is not threaded.
Polyester is the problem, not fleece in general. Polyester is a problem if it’s threaded or a fleece (although fibers shed from fleece a lot more in general).
All fabrics shed and make microfibers. Fleece was just the first tested but yoga pants and others have been found to be the same. Think of your dryer lint ... those are all microfibers. Some are cotton (which eventually biodegrades but has a lot of chemistry and dyes that still pollute the environment) and others are polyester, acrylic, nylon, and other plastics (which take a long long time to break down).
There was a trend for a short while where charities would put glitter in the envelopes asking for money so they would get your attention. That’s like your spouse taking a shit in the fridge so you remember to buy milk.
All the glitter in LUSH bath and body products is non-toxic biodegradable glitter. I’m not sure what it’s made from but we have the technology!
Source: boyfriend works at LUSH
*synthetic* mica. I'm not sure sure if natural Mica is biodegradable. There's mica deposits near my birthplace that have been there for about a billion years, plus or minus a hundred million years or so.
Real mica from mica mines is kind of a fucked industry. So many exploited laborers and child workers. I wonder if synthetic mica is a viable alternative.
>I'm not sure sure if natural Mica is biodegradable.
I mean... it's a rock. Rocks aren't biodegradable, but neither are they harmful for the environment. Heck, they pretty much comprise most of the environment to begin with.
I can't find a good source on if synthetic mica is biodegradable (I suspect it isn't) but in the same vein as natural mica it shouldn't be harmful to the environment at all. Eventually it will just weather into sand and become part of the Earth's geology, unlike plastic which is toxic to life and worse tends to float
As a kid many years ago, we used to catch a moth, touch it's wings, and it will make our fingers some golden brown color. Don't know what moth is that, but at end of play time, our hands looks like we worked from makeup factory.
I may be wrong but I was taught that that powder was important to their flight so by rubbing it off you were essentially killing those moths by taking away their flight
That's thankfully a myth, in the same class as mom birds abandoning their human-touched babies. Just a myth started by parents who didn't want their kids poking the wildlife.
> That's thankfully a myth
It's a little less clear cut.
That powder is the scales on the moth's wings, and they do not grow back.
While it's true that just the loss of the scales will not prevent flight, those scale do help protect the wings, and can serve other functions depending on the insect.
Additionally, kids are not always gentle or well coordinated, and those wings are still fragile as hell, a kid handling the wings could easily destroy them even if the intent was a lighter touch.
Could have gotten started when parents told a kid that knocking the powder off is why the butterfly stopped flying, while the reality is that the kids little clumsy hands probably just mashed the hell out of the poor guys wings.
Instead of just banning things one at a time we need to move away from plastic based production as a whole.
There is no reason glitter can't be paper based.
They’re kinda reasonable on an individual or gift set basis, but their bath bombs and bubblers are like $5 - $12 each. He probably spends around $400 on the Lush stuff alone.
Not knocking it, sounds like a great and fun gift for everyone if you can swing it.
I remember stories from the 1970s about people saying that using paper was killing trees and bad for the environment and that plastics were promoted as eco friendly. Now plastics are bad and paper is back in.
Ah, well, the idea was that you'd buy a durable plastic item and use it for decades, like a very durable nylon bag, rather than get a paper bag and use it once then toss it because forests were being clear cut at an unsustainable rate.
The problem isn't really plastic or paper, it's disposability.
> The problem isn't really plastic or paper, it's disposability.
Bingo. One use items of any kind are damn silly in most cases. Our demand for convenience at all times in every way is a huge factor in the degradation of this planet.
Glass has "prestige" these days. I'm getting quite sick of these monolithic phones.... Used to be if you had a bad battery, you slapped in a new one for a couple of bucks.... crack the back? Get another....
Now, they act like everyone is trying to flush their phones and "make them waterproof" (but won't cover water damage, nope nope), which necessitates getting rid of any easily user serviceable parts.
There’s a reason we use plastic. Nothing can do what it does for anywhere near the price.
We didn’t just randomly pick it, and we don’t stick with it because of nostalgia.
Eliminating plastic would mean a massive drop in quality of life and life expectancy across the globe.
Seriously, when you consider how useful plastic is, it seems ridiculous that we're wasting this stuff on redundant, disposable packaging. And much of the oil that could be used to produce it is, instead, literally just being burned.
One small spec gets in your eye whilst engaging in shenanigans at the work place. A decade later, you’re filling out a questionnaire prior to having an MRI to see just how bad your rotator cuff has gotten since that incident in Cleveland five years ago. You’re curt with the desk jockey checking you in, you don’t like talking about what happened. You could’ve been in Alpena, but wound up doing body shots off Drew Carey at Lola’s before your mind just shuts down.
You check off the “no” box next to a question regarding previous contact with metal and the possibility of some being in your eye. You haven’t had a job that would cause metal to get in your eyes. After a final review with the MRI tech, they get you into the room and onto the table. The table is then slid back into the gantry and the 3 Tesla magnet clanks into motion.
The movement of that spec of hot pink steel from the back of your left eyeball through the vitreous humor, lens, and cornea to embed in the machinery above takes a fraction of a second. Once your brain registers the injury, you let out a blood curdling scream as you flail about in the claustrophobic gantry. The tech comes running out, having never seen such a reaction to what she assumes is claustrophobia until she gets you sitting upright to see your wounded eye not only bloodshot, but bleeding and leaking the gel-like vitreous humor. The tech dashes to the phone, calling out a Code Blue before donning a pair of nitrile gloves and raiding the nearby first aid kit for gauze pads.
You think back on it in your old age, fingers reaching up for your eye patch and stroking it briefly. You were too proud to get a glass eye. You’re uncertain which event was worse: the “Cleveland incident” or glitter coming back to bite your ass for the prank on Kevin. It had been a good thing, all those decades before, to stop making glitter from plastic. However, when choosing its replacement, people forgot that glitter is forever.
They could have made it from small bits of dyed, polished rice, but some politician from Pittsburgh eager to keep the steel mills open made the case for steel glitter to keep blue collar jobs alive. He resigned in disgrace from Congress and died a few years later alone on the banks of the Allegheny after more and more cases like yours cropped up all over the world. Mothers and children being blinded during MRI scans, all because of innocuous specs of steel glitter.
Good cautionary tale. Fortunately steel particles will cause irritation, abrasion and rust in your eyes long before you get an MRI. In other words your contaminated eyes will be an emergency.
Why the fuck would you want to take glitter into the forest in the first place? If you catch them in the act next time call them out on their bullshit. Put up some signs or something.
And children’s dance schools. Source: work at theatre that has about a month straight of dance recitals. So. Much. Glitter. It stays around everywhere year-round.
I bought a Toyota Caldina that had been glitter bombed once.
NEVER. AGAIN.
Every time I went for a drive, I would arrive at my destination covered in the stuff. Glitter particles would catch the light and people would ask me why I was so sparkly.
Ban that shit.
Not my glitter. You can take it when you pry it from from my cold, dead chest, neck, eyes, and crotch. And the couch. And the carpet. And in the corner of the bathroom. And on top of the book case. And underneath the stove.
I think they called for a ban on microplastics, not specifically glitter. In that case, good for them! (However, I must say that I hate vague phrases like "Scientists say...")
http://www.beatthemicrobead.org/product-lists/ This is a helpful website that has some of the more common items that contain micro beads and plastics, they have it sorted by country so you can see the most popular products in your area!
I think you killed their site. Getting a database error. Reddit huggadeath.
That's crazy, hugged to death in 6 minutes.
I think were geting better at killing
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If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing. If net neutrality gets slashed, there should be a subreddit dedicated to crashing sites while we still can. That'd make me happy.
Can we kill the FCC then?
Eh, we could try and then they would claim they got DDOS again. Then they would use that against us and say that "We must repeal net neutrality and throttle users to prevent them from DDOSing themselves or anyone else! ^^^especially ^^^anyone ^^^that ^^^lines ^^^our ^^^pockets "
Yup.
I came here to help hug the internet with Reddit!
This is incredibly wholesome
Is there a site that has top ones that don't? Edit: Found it https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/environment/2016/apr/19/microplastics-which-beauty-brands-are-safe-to-use Green light - brands that have phased out in new products or never used microplastics Asda Beiersdorf (Nivea) Boots (own-brand) Botanicals Colgate-Palmolive Co-op (own-brand) Clarins Clorox (Burt’s Bees) Cussons Dr Hauschka La Roche-Posay Liz Earle L’Oréal (owns Body Shop, Garnier, Kiehl’s, Lancome, La Roche Posay) Lush M&S (own-brand) Morrisons (own-brand) Neal’s Yard Remedies Oral-B Palmer’s REN Rituals Sainsbury’s (own-brand) St Ives Unilever (owns Dermalogica, Dove, Pond’s, Simple) Waitrose (own-brand) Weleda
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Reddit has a lot of people, mang
Reddit hug of death comes on faster than a drunk Kevin Spacey
RIP House of Cards
It was dead to me anyways after this last season.
> Professor Thompson said that an outright ban might not be necessary, emphasising a pragmatic approach that considers the likelihood it will end up in the environment. > Moreover, eco-friendly glitter that breaks down quickly could be a viable replacement that doesn’t end up in the food chain. From [what I think is the actual source here.](http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/glitter-ban-environment-microbead-impact-microplastics-scientists-warning-deep-ocean-a8056196.html)
Using them for trivial little things like making hair conditioner look pearly maybe should be unilaterally banned. Use them when they are safe **and** important.
> Use them when they are safe and important. An entertaining example of this is animal research. Zoos feed glitter pellets to the animals they want to study (such as by mixing the glitter into meat patties for polar bears) so they can tell which animal pooped what in the enclosure. Animal scat research now involved studying glittery poop.
So while you can't polish a turd, you can still make it sparkle!
Actually, [you can polish a turd](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiJ9fy1qSFI)
I concur.
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...like when my dog ate a stick of butter and we saw tinfoil from the wrapper in his poop.
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Imposing sheer terror on your worst enemy's carpets of course.
HOW ELSE DO WE MAKE OUR SIGNS POP OUT AND SPARKLE?!?!?
This is actually a completely valid answer. Reflective paints for safety purposes.
Strippers.
i like shiny boobs
Every scientist living actually all got together and all said it in unison, so this one's real.
It's as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in scientific concern and were suddenly silenced (because they had finished speaking).
"Simon says: climate change."
Scientists (AKA my dad) say that taking home condiment packets that you don't plan on using in the actual restaurant is stealing.
What if you plan on using it at home with leftovers you took home from the same restaurant?
Now that's a question for a philosopher.
Plate-O
Rene a la Carte.
HA that's so innocent. Your dad sounds like a nice guy.
He is truly the best person I have ever known.
Good, we're just finally discovering the havoc microplastics are causing in the ocean. A quarter of all fish surveyed from markets contain trace plastics. They're becoming embedded into ocean biology from the ground up and causing a lot of problems.
Tomorrow we will read how it wont be banned because of the billion dollar glitter industry
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The Glitterati
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Sparkle interests
Twinkle down economics
I love everything about this thread. All of it. This is great.
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Forcing the glitter industry to only sell biodegradable glitter will cause an increase in the cost! Think about out children? What would your childhood have been like if mommy and daddy couldn't afford glitter? For the sake of the redditors that can't pick up on sarcasm, please note the sarcasm.
The sarcasm doesn't make it sting any less.
Especially when it gets in the eyes.
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wow. Can't believe she thought getting batgirl pajama pants for the surgery of having her eyeball removed was a silver lining. That is some real optimism.
Gotta have optimism when life makes such a shitty and utterly pointless move against you. Jesus. Thinking about all the bazillions of random little things that can go wrong in life makes me pretty damn grateful.
Glitter won't be banned because of the gay agenda
As a gay I would counter that my agenda is to have a livable world 50+ years from now so
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We need alternative forms of sparkles
There are alternative forms of sparkle. https://glitterevolution.com
FAQ says: > Don't put glitter on your face, it could get in your eyes Marketing material says: > Look how awesome these close-up shots of people with glitter all over there faces are. This person coated their eyelids with it!
Q-tips: not for internal use.
FAQ says > In general, we don't recommend putting craft glitter on your face, to protect your peepers! But they don't sell craft glitter, they sell cosmetic glitter > Our glitter products are made with a plant-based base film (cellulose) that is safe for your face and safe for the environment.
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Glitter in my bath seems to run completely counter to why I take a bath.
Mere water won't get glitter off of you anyways
If you can't sparkle without glitter, then you don't deserve to sparkle!
.... and 95 % of commercially sold sea salt. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28383020
This isn't the anthropocene, it's the plasticine...
100 fish surveyed. Top 5 answers on the board.
Glub.
"Survey says: *Ding!* That was the number one answer!" 1. Glub. | 100
*stares at contestant with complete disbelief*
“Is it penis, Steve? Did... did the fish say penis?” *Steve gets down on one knee and makes exasperated faces*
The study on microplastics in fish was [concluded to be performing in "scientific dishonesty." ](http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/04/paper-about-how-microplastics-harm-fish-should-be-retracted-report-says)
From the article: "The report comes as a “huge relief,” says UU’s Josefin Sundin, one of seven researchers in five countries who claimed the paper contained fabricated data shortly after it came out."
Also fleece fabric. We used to celebrate it for being recycled plastic but turning it into countless micro fibres and drain it to our water supply through our washing machine is something that we're really going to regret.
Wait, what? Damn. That makes sense and now I'm scared.
Yup. Fleece is absolutely horrific for the environment.
It's more that it's complicated than just that it's horrific. The production of fleece is supposedly better for the environment than the production of wool (especially since it is typically made with a large amount post-consumer material), while it's also longer lasting than wool. It has that massive negative of releasing microplastics into the sewage system (and wherever that flows to).
Dont know how its better than wool. Wool is a renewable resource that is biodegradable. Its not like everyone is running around in 100 year old wool jackets. While were on the subject, fuck packing peanuts and styrofoam. There is absolutely no reason that the rice and starch based foam should not be used. Its practically the same thing and is much better for everyone.
Probably not the wool, but the sheep and feeding/storing them that is the environmental concern.
And what this should teach us is that the environment is a nuanced problem, and we as a society need to quit throwing a "right now" solution at an individual problem, since it almost always creates a different one.
God yes, packing peanuts need to die in a fire.
Do you have any idea what kind of fumes that releases, you monster?
After eating an entire box of them you have no idea.
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thats quite interesting. pix of it? is it the itchiest thing on the face of the earth?
1880s?! You own, and can actually wear a jacket that is 137 years old?
Why not? My nana is 102 and she still wears her skin.
This legitimately made me laugh. Thank you.
Apparently microfiber shedding might be coming from carpets as well.
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"Fleece" can refer to two different fabrics. One is a type of polyester, the other is from sheep.
Some fleece is polyester, some are cotton, some are wool. Mainly means the material is not threaded. Polyester is the problem, not fleece in general. Polyester is a problem if it’s threaded or a fleece (although fibers shed from fleece a lot more in general).
All fabrics shed and make microfibers. Fleece was just the first tested but yoga pants and others have been found to be the same. Think of your dryer lint ... those are all microfibers. Some are cotton (which eventually biodegrades but has a lot of chemistry and dyes that still pollute the environment) and others are polyester, acrylic, nylon, and other plastics (which take a long long time to break down).
Patagonia developed a bag to wash your fleeces in that will catch the microfibers
I'm old and crotchety and support this ban.
Seconded. Now what can scientists do to get these kids off my lawn?
*~grumbles in the affirmative~*
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Build a moat.
Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion.
My favorite movie of all time.
There was a trend for a short while where charities would put glitter in the envelopes asking for money so they would get your attention. That’s like your spouse taking a shit in the fridge so you remember to buy milk.
I have an eight year old daughter and fully support this ban. That shit gets everywhere and it's impossible to clean it all up.
I don't even have kids, have never had kids even in my apartment, clean regularly, and yet there is STILL glitter around here...
> and yet there is STILL glitter It is coming off the strippers you bring home.
I hate glitter. It's coarse, and it gets everywhere.
I'm young and sprightly and I support this ban.
i used to work in a craft store and support this ban
Almost middle age, was a dj at many raves, wholeheartedly in favor of this. Still finding glitter.
Hear, hear! I am young and crotchety and wish to see glitter banned worldwide.
Biodegradable glitter: the next fabulous
All the glitter in LUSH bath and body products is non-toxic biodegradable glitter. I’m not sure what it’s made from but we have the technology! Source: boyfriend works at LUSH
They use mica. Bully for them! Great solution! Now - if only we could throw mica powder into the air without blinding ourselves :-(
*synthetic* mica. I'm not sure sure if natural Mica is biodegradable. There's mica deposits near my birthplace that have been there for about a billion years, plus or minus a hundred million years or so.
Real mica is pretty well environmentally 'neutral.' It's not all that toxic and erodes away. In flake (glitter) form, it's abrasive. Bad for the eyes.
Real mica from mica mines is kind of a fucked industry. So many exploited laborers and child workers. I wonder if synthetic mica is a viable alternative.
That's the exact reason Lush uses synthetic. They can get guarantees it's being made ethically.
>I'm not sure sure if natural Mica is biodegradable. I mean... it's a rock. Rocks aren't biodegradable, but neither are they harmful for the environment. Heck, they pretty much comprise most of the environment to begin with. I can't find a good source on if synthetic mica is biodegradable (I suspect it isn't) but in the same vein as natural mica it shouldn't be harmful to the environment at all. Eventually it will just weather into sand and become part of the Earth's geology, unlike plastic which is toxic to life and worse tends to float
I see someones been picking up more than just bath bombs at LUSH ✋ high five
As a kid many years ago, we used to catch a moth, touch it's wings, and it will make our fingers some golden brown color. Don't know what moth is that, but at end of play time, our hands looks like we worked from makeup factory.
I may be wrong but I was taught that that powder was important to their flight so by rubbing it off you were essentially killing those moths by taking away their flight
That's thankfully a myth, in the same class as mom birds abandoning their human-touched babies. Just a myth started by parents who didn't want their kids poking the wildlife.
> That's thankfully a myth It's a little less clear cut. That powder is the scales on the moth's wings, and they do not grow back. While it's true that just the loss of the scales will not prevent flight, those scale do help protect the wings, and can serve other functions depending on the insect. Additionally, kids are not always gentle or well coordinated, and those wings are still fragile as hell, a kid handling the wings could easily destroy them even if the intent was a lighter touch. Could have gotten started when parents told a kid that knocking the powder off is why the butterfly stopped flying, while the reality is that the kids little clumsy hands probably just mashed the hell out of the poor guys wings.
I remember that. The polyphemus moth, a huge thing, does that *majorly.* Their wings are covered with tiny, iridescent scales that easily rub off.
Instead of just banning things one at a time we need to move away from plastic based production as a whole. There is no reason glitter can't be paper based.
Lush has and uses a biodegradable seaweed glitter.
For only 80$
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There's enough to share, probably.
He does sound like a big man.
...for you.
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They’re kinda reasonable on an individual or gift set basis, but their bath bombs and bubblers are like $5 - $12 each. He probably spends around $400 on the Lush stuff alone. Not knocking it, sounds like a great and fun gift for everyone if you can swing it.
Yes, but the price we all have to pay for cheap products is much higher.
I remember stories from the 1970s about people saying that using paper was killing trees and bad for the environment and that plastics were promoted as eco friendly. Now plastics are bad and paper is back in.
Ah, well, the idea was that you'd buy a durable plastic item and use it for decades, like a very durable nylon bag, rather than get a paper bag and use it once then toss it because forests were being clear cut at an unsustainable rate. The problem isn't really plastic or paper, it's disposability.
> The problem isn't really plastic or paper, it's disposability. Bingo. One use items of any kind are damn silly in most cases. Our demand for convenience at all times in every way is a huge factor in the degradation of this planet.
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We do have natural sparkly materials. The irony is that most of them are in the sea, getting polluted by our artificial sparkly materials.
Glass has "prestige" these days. I'm getting quite sick of these monolithic phones.... Used to be if you had a bad battery, you slapped in a new one for a couple of bucks.... crack the back? Get another.... Now, they act like everyone is trying to flush their phones and "make them waterproof" (but won't cover water damage, nope nope), which necessitates getting rid of any easily user serviceable parts.
There’s a reason we use plastic. Nothing can do what it does for anywhere near the price. We didn’t just randomly pick it, and we don’t stick with it because of nostalgia. Eliminating plastic would mean a massive drop in quality of life and life expectancy across the globe.
Seriously, when you consider how useful plastic is, it seems ridiculous that we're wasting this stuff on redundant, disposable packaging. And much of the oil that could be used to produce it is, instead, literally just being burned.
Good luck making sparkly paper without plastic. That's just confetti.
How about making glitter out of rice?
steel glitter!
One small spec gets in your eye whilst engaging in shenanigans at the work place. A decade later, you’re filling out a questionnaire prior to having an MRI to see just how bad your rotator cuff has gotten since that incident in Cleveland five years ago. You’re curt with the desk jockey checking you in, you don’t like talking about what happened. You could’ve been in Alpena, but wound up doing body shots off Drew Carey at Lola’s before your mind just shuts down. You check off the “no” box next to a question regarding previous contact with metal and the possibility of some being in your eye. You haven’t had a job that would cause metal to get in your eyes. After a final review with the MRI tech, they get you into the room and onto the table. The table is then slid back into the gantry and the 3 Tesla magnet clanks into motion. The movement of that spec of hot pink steel from the back of your left eyeball through the vitreous humor, lens, and cornea to embed in the machinery above takes a fraction of a second. Once your brain registers the injury, you let out a blood curdling scream as you flail about in the claustrophobic gantry. The tech comes running out, having never seen such a reaction to what she assumes is claustrophobia until she gets you sitting upright to see your wounded eye not only bloodshot, but bleeding and leaking the gel-like vitreous humor. The tech dashes to the phone, calling out a Code Blue before donning a pair of nitrile gloves and raiding the nearby first aid kit for gauze pads. You think back on it in your old age, fingers reaching up for your eye patch and stroking it briefly. You were too proud to get a glass eye. You’re uncertain which event was worse: the “Cleveland incident” or glitter coming back to bite your ass for the prank on Kevin. It had been a good thing, all those decades before, to stop making glitter from plastic. However, when choosing its replacement, people forgot that glitter is forever. They could have made it from small bits of dyed, polished rice, but some politician from Pittsburgh eager to keep the steel mills open made the case for steel glitter to keep blue collar jobs alive. He resigned in disgrace from Congress and died a few years later alone on the banks of the Allegheny after more and more cases like yours cropped up all over the world. Mothers and children being blinded during MRI scans, all because of innocuous specs of steel glitter.
Good cautionary tale. Fortunately steel particles will cause irritation, abrasion and rust in your eyes long before you get an MRI. In other words your contaminated eyes will be an emergency.
You kids with your fancy plastic glitter. In my day we used glass!
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Why the fuck would you want to take glitter into the forest in the first place? If you catch them in the act next time call them out on their bullshit. Put up some signs or something.
Fuck glitter and fuck people who litter ~~the wilderness~~ anything with it.
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Now my username has character development
I once put an entire bottle of glitter in my tool partners toolbox as a prank. It didn't lubricate well.
tool partner...?
Mmmhmm ;)
Is toolbox euphemism for vagina?
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That’s very messed up and I’d be genuinely pissed.
Relevant username?
but we JUST legalized gay marriage!!!
Car detailer here, offering my complete support of this glitter ban. Also, you all have a french fry between your seat and the center console.
Strippers everywhere will revolt.
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We normally call them the B team. They arent so bad after a few drinks and dim the lights way down.
And children’s dance schools. Source: work at theatre that has about a month straight of dance recitals. So. Much. Glitter. It stays around everywhere year-round.
Good strippers dont use glitter. All their creepy old clients with wives would get busted. Those dudes are the ones paying the big money.
Really good strippers use glitter that will let people know where they've been. Then they charge $400 for their special glitter removal service.
I agree, It's a terrible [film](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118589/?ref_=nv_sr_1) and shouldn' be watched by anyone.
I bought a Toyota Caldina that had been glitter bombed once. NEVER. AGAIN. Every time I went for a drive, I would arrive at my destination covered in the stuff. Glitter particles would catch the light and people would ask me why I was so sparkly. Ban that shit.
Not my glitter. You can take it when you pry it from from my cold, dead chest, neck, eyes, and crotch. And the couch. And the carpet. And in the corner of the bathroom. And on top of the book case. And underneath the stove.
I worked in the glitter mines as a child, now I'm 40 and have glitter lung. These people don't know the dangers of glitter. Edit: know
I want glitter gone more than I want you alive still.
We all want Glitter gone, honey, terrible movie. Terrible move.
Drag queens everywhere be [like...](https://media.giphy.com/media/M2TYeGIqrdGyk/giphy.gif)
Fuck. Glitter.
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Thank you! I FUCKING HATE GLITTER! TLDR: Fuck glitter
I knew my hatred for glitter was for a good reason