California Becomes Latest State to Ban Plastic Microbeads

Thursday, October 8, 2015 - 20:10 in Earth & Climate

The tiny abrasives, used in exfoliators and other care products, have the same effect as grinding up plastic water bottles and dumping them into the ocean, environmentalists say.

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