Posted on 02/11/2014 5:31:52 PM PST by smokingfrog
Beauty products made from plastic microbeads set to be banned in New York
New York could be the first state to outlaw tiny plastic beads used in cosmetic and beauty products like facial scrubs and toothpastes, if lawmakers in Albany get their way.
The sale of products that contain the plastic beads, which are added to aid exfoliation and abrasion, will be prohibited if proposed legislation, introduced today on behalf of Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, is passed.
Too small to be sifted out at sewage treatment plants, the tiny beads end up in the ocean where the plastic, which does not biodegrade, becomes a persistent pollutant ingested by wildlife and toxic to sea organisms.
The beads, hundreds of thousands of which can be found in one beauty product bottle alone, slip through wastewater treatment plants after being washed down bathroom drains. Tens of millions of the tiny 'microplastic' debris are now sitting in the Great Lakes, according to scientists’ estimates.
There are also high concentrations along the New York shores of Lake Erie, and they have been found in the Los Angeles River and in the Pacific Ocean as well.
Coated with toxins like PCBs, the beads are often eaten by fish and other marine life.
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This is a needed law, imho. Should go national.
It says they’re in some toothpastes, too, but nothing further in the article.
What toothpastes?
Shirley, you jest.
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Brown sugar is a great facial scrub. Rinses away cleanly too w/o the slimy after effects the other packaged scrubs leave behind.
Baking soda does a good job too
Call it the dirty face law. Or maybe the black face ban.
/johnny
Tiny particles of silver are used in oder resistant insoles and socks. These particles lodge in fish gills causing problems.
CREST Pro Health
CREST Pro Health for Me
CREST Sensitivity
CREST Complete Multi Benefit
oatmeal too
oder = odor
Hmm. thanks.
Did it just the other day after a spray paint malfunction. Not. Pleasant. Highly effective, though.
I love the ground glass in Crest pro health toothpaste.
Nothing better.
Did Ronald Reagan did commmerical for that company long time ago LOL!
Maybe I am wrong on that product found the commercial never minddd
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT8ZS_Ptqdg
Thanks for the tip :p
I’ve never used that. I’ll have to try it. Maybe mix it with some of the brown sugar.
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