News Headline

Will the ocean benefit from the battle of the microbeads bans?

Source
Phys.org

Publication Date
2019-04-05

I close my eyes and instead of falling asleep I see this: "Talc, Mica, Magnesium Stearate, Polyethylene…" – one of the thousands of product ingredient lists I had meticulously combed through. This particular one came from a make-up product and stood out to me because it raised so many excellent questions about the scale of the microbead pollution problem (or microplastic ingredients as I prefer to call them after spending years on developing robust definitions).

Content
https://phys.org/news/2019-04-ocean-benefit-microbeads.html