Friday, January 1, 2016

Microbeads, Beauty and Sewage

Microbeads.  Those tiny balls used in beauty products and other items to help exfoliate skin and other things including toothpaste.  Now, it's been discovered they are creating huge problems.  They're getting into streams, sewage plants, and other areas where they were not intended to be and are wreaking havoc.  A new law, the Microbead-Free Waters Act of 2015 has been put into effect and microbeads are to be out of all products by 2017.  Read on for more details.

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