Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy written question – answered at on 26 July 2018.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he has plans to bring forward legislative proposals to ban glitter.
Under product safety legislation, manufacturers and distributors have a responsibility to only place safe products on the market.
Legislation banning the manufacture and sale of rinse-off personal care products containing microbeads has been introduced in England under the Environmental Protection Act 1990. Under this legislation, the manufacture and sale of rinse-off personal care products containing glitter which falls within the definition of a plastic microbead is banned.
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