The Microbead-Free Waters Act of 2015, a crucial piece of environmental legislation that will phase out and eventually ban microbeads from soaps and cosmetics, has flown surprisingly easily through the Republican-controlled Congress over the past few weeks.
Scrawl this at the top of your grocery list in ink: "No more plastic microbeads." With environmental groups raising hue and cry, lawmakers in New York and Illinois are moving fast to ban the weird, gross exfoliators. In the meantime: Let's all quit buying them, shall we?
Bad news: Your exfoliation addiction might be hurting the environment. And so a lawmaker in New York, working with the state attorney general, has introduced a bill to ban personal care products (think face washes, toothpaste and body scrubs) that use those weird plastic beads.
