An older article but fascinating none the less. What say you era, where is it all going?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/slate.com/business/2018/12/industrial-glitter-mystery.amp
https://www.google.com/amp/s/slate.com/business/2018/12/industrial-glitter-mystery.amp
Grab your tinfoil hat and walk with me down sparkle way. In the Dec. 21 New York Times, Caity Weaver has a rollicking dispatch from the Glitterex glitter factory, which reveals the true nature of glitter—aluminum metalized polyethylene terephthalate—before hinting at a greater mystery: a top-secret industrial glitter use that accounts for most of the company's sales.
The following exchange ensues when Weaver asks Glitterex manager Lauren Dyer why she can't disclose this enigmatic buyer:
Dyer: "Because they don't want anyone to know that it's glitter."
Weaver: "If I looked at it, I wouldn't know it was glitter?"
Dyer: "No, not really."
Weaver: "Would I be able to see the glitter?"
Dyer: "Oh, you'd be able to see something. But it's — yeah, I can't."