Enviromentalists applaud new law banning microbeads
Source: CBS News
Environmental activists are applauding a new law signed by President Obama this week outlawing microbeads that are used in personal care products. The bill is known as the Microbead-Free Waters Act, and it passed Congress with bipartisan support, reports CBS News correspondent DeMarco Morgan.
Microbeads are tiny pieces of plastic found in many health and beauty products including soap, body scrub and toothpaste. They are generally used to exfoliate or add polish. No bigger than a grain of salt, these microplastics are a big concern for environmental scientists. They say the tiny particles are a harmful source of ocean and lake pollution.
"We now know the fish we harvest from our Great Lakes are eating these microbeads. Ends up on your dinner plate. It's going from your face, right back into your body," said scientist Marcus Eriksen of the 5 Gyres Institute.......
"They're absorbing industrial chemicals, pesticides from farms," Eriksen said. "Even oil drops from cars will stick to these microplastics and microbeads. At that point they can enter the food chain."
Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/microbead-free-waters-act-president-obama-signs-new-law/
There's much more information in the story than can be posted in just 4 paragraphs, well worth clicking on the link and reading the entire story.
The law prohibiting the manufacture of products containing microbeads goes into effect in 2017.
Dustlawyer
(10,497 posts)jtuck004
(15,882 posts)Green Forest
(232 posts)Otherwise he would do more. As it is, he's done more for the environment than any Democratic POTUS in my lifetime.
tabasco
(22,974 posts)Still, there are many on this board who do nothing but tear him down.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)because its members had already stopped using them, and they're using this to prevent possible competitors from using them.
valerief
(53,235 posts)mountain grammy
(26,644 posts)Good news all the same for once
Person 2713
(3,263 posts)packman
(16,296 posts)Sure, outlawed in the US - but , you can bet your ass it is in every product produced overseas and brought into the US.
DirkGently
(12,151 posts)It's ban covering both manufacture and introduction into interstate commerce (sale).
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/12/28/statement-press-secretary-hr-1321-s-2425
Microbead-Free Waters Act of 2015.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/1321/all-info
packman
(16,296 posts)DirkGently
(12,151 posts)The government is proposing to add microbeads to the Canadian Environmental Protection Acts list of toxic substances and develop regulations that would prohibit the manufacture, import and sale and personal care products containing microbeads, Minister of Labour and Minister on the Status of Women Dr. K. Kellie Leitch said on behalf of Environment Leona Aglukkaq in a press release Friday.
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2015/07/31/canadian-government-moves-to-ban-microbeads.html
Every once in a while, someone gets it right.
Sunlei
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(1,134 posts)IcyPeas
(21,901 posts)Are they just as effective? "100 percent," says Dr. Buka. "In fact, microbeads are typically rounded on their edges. So some of these holistic products, because they've got some texture to their edges, should serve as an even better exfoliant." They're also going to be much gentler on the skin, Dr. Jaliman adds.
Some products Dr. Jaliman recommends are St. Ives Fresh Skin Apricot Scrub and Dermalogica's Microfoliant, a rice-based exfoliant ("it's amazing" , and she also likes exfoliators with glycolic and salicylic acid. Dr. Buka was involved in the making of First Aid Beauty's holistic exfoliator, the Facial Radiance Polish, which uses shea nut shell powder and willow bark extract to polish skin.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/20/microbeads-exfoliation_n_4815133.html
Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)Baking soda and peroxide are cheap. The particles of baking soda are uniform. They'll exfoliate your skin and the peroxide will disinfect your pores.
Cheap beauty tip.
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)that looks like it, biodegradable or not. I get just as clean and beautiful without them.