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First in the Nation Ban on Plastic Microbeads in Personal Products Passes California Senate Committee

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This isn't already a thing? I thought everyone phased these out years ago.
- Definitely so in the EU
- I'm assuming most producers stopped using them voluntarily when there was a spate of negative publicity, maybe there's still some stragglers that are still selling it.
  
  I still have plastic dust stuck in my balls and cerebellum.
- Made illegal in Canada in 2017.
  In June 2017, the Microbeads in Toiletries Regulations were published in the Canada Gazette, Part II: Vol. 151, No. 12 - June 14, 2017. These regulations help protect the environment by reducing the quantity of plastic microbeads entering Canadian freshwater and marine ecosystems
  The regulations prohibit the manufacture, import, and sale of toiletries used to exfoliate or cleanse that contain plastic microbeads, including non-prescription drugs and natural health products. For the purposes of the regulations, plastic microbeads include any plastic particle equal to or less than 5 mm in size. The types of toiletries covered include products such as bath and body products, skin cleansers and toothpaste.
  Edit: source
  
  January 2018 for the UK, wild that the US is so behind that even California is only just getting to it.
- Thats what I thought.
  Ive seen the "We have salt beads!" one recently, but none with the plastic microbeads.
- Yeah...wtf, I thought everyone switched to charcoal and salt and shit like a decade ago
  No wonder we all have a plastic spoon in our brains
- I swear Obama passed something on this
Next headline: tRump administration blocks California from issuing any more regulations, mandates microbes in drinks. tRump quoted: ‘make drinks great again! We’re bringing back the plastic straw! Paper straws, so dumb, many experts call plastic the best! Now we’re making them better with beads!’
- Well... yeah a lot of paper straws literally implode on themselves after about 2 good sucks. I tried going reusable metal straw but it started growing something in it even though I washed it daily. I think the old myth that the plastic straws were killing turtles has run aground seeing as that floating island of garbage is all fishing gear and cigarettes... so I just want to go back to plastic straws so I can enjoy a thick milkshake even if Im getting a heavier dose of microplastics my brain is full of them anyways from sitting here on my plastic sofa.
  
  Were you rinsing it or actually using a narrow bottle brush to wash the metal straw?
  
  I've got some silicone straws and haven't had that problem, although their softness makes them awkward to push in a plastic drink lid.
It's 2070, the water wars have been going for 5 years. 90% biodiversity gone.
Legislators: "we are in the final stages of a bill to limit plastic cup usage to 10 a day for each citizen. Earth is healing"

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