Craft glitter that adds sparkle to decorations, cards and costumes is escaping into our seas and destroying marine creatures. The tiny pieces of plastic and metal not only end up in the stomachs of ...

Their research, published in Environmental Sciences Europe on Tuesday, shows these microplastics promote crystallisation of ...

New research reveals that PET-based glitter microplastics can actively influence biomineralisation processes in marine ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Tiny plastic particles from decorative glitter infiltrate water systems and soil worldwide, adding to the growing crisis of microplastic pollution. These shimmering specks, ...

Henry Ruschmann, a New Jersey rancher and dabbling machinist, is credited with accidentally inventing modern glitter in 1934 by using a machine to precisely cut plastic films in thousands of itty ...