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 have come under fire for quite a number of reasons lately (more about that here), but in case you need further proof for why you should eliminate products with those tiny, plastic beads, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Microbeads are known to harm marine ecosystems. Photo: Trunk Archive This Monday, December, 28, President Barack Obama signed the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – When you go to the store, it’s common to find toothpaste, soaps, or exfoliators with microbeads. Now that Erie County has banned stores from selling products containing them, ...

Connecticut is on track to become the latest state to either ban or put new limits on the sale and manufacture of plastic microbeads found in many cosmetic products. The beads, tiny pieces of plastic ...

State lawmakers are moving to ban the sale of some face soaps, shampoos and toothpastes that contain very tiny plastic spheres that flow straight through most municipal sewer systems to gather in the ...