President Obama approved a bill on Monday banning soaps, toothpastes, and bodywashes that contain a harmful ingredient.
That ingredient is microbeads — tiny, nearly impossible-to-dissolve
plastic particles that enter water streams by the billions. The beads
are typically found in cleansing products because they can be used as
tiny scrubbers, helping to wipe away oil and dirt from the skin or
teeth.A recent study found as many as 1.7 million of the tiny particles per square kilometer in the Great Lakes region's Lake Erie, where much of our trash ends up.
But why is the government targeting microbeads, rather then plastic bottles, plastic bags, or other sources of plastic debris?
When it comes to waste, size matters Before getting either reused or discharged to the ocean, our wastewater gets processed at large wastewater treatment plants, where it is filtered and cleaned.
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