Woman’s Dazzling Revenge: How Sparkles Set a Shimmering Trap for Her Thieving Roommate
As reported by The Conversation and PBS, glitter is incredibly problematic because it:
- Prevents recycling because it isn’t biodegradable
- Tricks fish into thinking that it’s food, once it gets into the water
- Contaminates human beings’ bodies with microplastics
- Makes its way up the food chain into your food after it’s consumed by marine life and birds
- Due to its small size, it impedes the growth of organisms that are vital in water and soil cycles
What’s more, some types of glitter can also harm aquatic plants
Science Alert points out that because glitter resists degradation, it accumulates in the environment. Glitter particles are often much too small for wastewater treatment plants to filter them, meaning that they get into bodies of water, harm aquatic life, and pollute the ocean.
One study conducted by researchers at the Federal University of São Carlos in Brazil looked at how glitter, while made of plastic, is sometimes coated in metals like aluminum, bismuth, iron, or titanium. It’s likely that these metals prevent aquatic plants from getting enough sunlight to thrive.
“These findings support the hypothesis we began with, which was that glitter interferes with photosynthesis, possibly owing to the reflection of light by the microplastic particles’ metallic surface,” explained Luana Lume Yoshida, the lead author of the study.
According to the study, photosynthesis rates in the aquatic plants they tested were 1.54 times higher in the absence of glitter.
Though revenge sounds ‘fun,’ the mature thing to do is to settle any issues diplomatically
Broadly speaking, if your roommate keeps ignoring your boundaries and requests to change their behavior, you should escalate things. Have a chat with your landlord about the situation and ask them to mediate things.
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