If they don’t get stuck in your gums, plastic microbeads in toothpastes wash down your drain and end up in our waterways, where they wreck havoc on the environment. Save your oral health and the earth! Take the pledge go bead-free: 5gyres.org/microbeads
Why
are microbeads so dangerous? Here’s a simple explanation.
Greenpeace
is working to get microbeads banned in the UK.
Australia’s
big 3 supermarket chains pledge to phase out beauty products containing
microbeads.
Plastic doesn’t just go away, it breaks down into microplastics which eventually sink down into the deepest parts of the ocean, of which science knows very little.
Today, President Obama signed the Microbead-Free Waters Act into law.
Federal Microbead-Free Waters Act of 2015 sailed through Congress, but there’s more work to be done in 2016 to prevent other microplastics from polluting our waterways: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/23/science/ban-on-microbeads-proves-easy-to-pass-through-pipeline.html?_r=1
Unanimous vote in Senate sends microbead legislation to President Obama’s desk for signature.
Beat the Microbead Launches ‘Look for the Zero’ Initiative.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Microbead-Free Waters Act:
http://www.plasticpollutioncoalition.org/pft/2015/12/4/a-microbead-ban-for-the-whole-country
PPC
member Plastic Change investigates the origin of microplastics in a new
report.
A federal microbead bill is making its way through the U.S. Congress. Read more.
