One of the best pieces of news I've heard in my life. I hate glitter. It gets everywhere.
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The herpes of art supplies.
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Had a craft project involving some glitter, bought 3x 10 mL of glitters, and feel like I have enough for my whole life, it's great to fight single user plastic, but I feel like that cheap shoes a lot of polyester/plastic cause more microplastic than glitters
It's a start. Certainly not the most ambitious start but it bans utterly useless products that nobody will miss.
Shoes are actually useful and they tend to emit microplastics from the sole. You'd need a scalable way to fix their soles without limiting poor people's access to footwear. As far as I know there's, as yet, no real, sustainable, scalable alternative to rubber soles. The only thing the EU can do here, is to discourage fast fashion and invest in manufacturers working on alternatives until they have, say, 20% market share.