Rinse and repeat — that’s how environmental groups are responding to their narrow defeat this year in the California Legislature on a bill to ban microbeads, the tiny plastic particles in a wide ...

Microbeads are very small bits of plastic that manufacturers use to supply scrubbing power to body washes, exfoliators, toothpastes, and other cleansing products. They look like tiny spheres. They ...

After years of complaints and concerns from environmentalists and lawmakers that teeny microbeads found in certain soap products were unsafe for both marine wildlife and people, a bill to ban the ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Recent graduates from Purdue University have started a company to further develop and bring to market their SoyFoliate innovation, a soy microbead technology that could offer an ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. California is the latest state to consider banning products with microbeads, the tiny ...

DENVER (CBS4) - Selling products that contain microbeads will soon be illegal in Colorado as Gov. Hickenlooper signed a bill on Friday to phase out them out. Microbeads are tiny plastic balls used as ...

Could America’s bathroom cabinets finally be cleansed of tiny ecosystem-disrupting plastic beads? Ecologists, activists, and lawmakers in a number of states have grown increasingly alarmed at ...

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The UK government outlawed the manufacture of products containing microbeads on Tuesday in what it says is one of the world’s toughest bans on the tiny plastic particles. The move comes amid a greater ...

In case you haven’t heard, microbeads are the demons of the beauty world. They’re tiny plastic beads used in toothpastes and face scrubs to give an exfoliating, scrubbing effect. Oh, and they’re awful ...

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