Rinse and repeat — that’s how environmental groups are responding to their narrow defeat this year in the California Legislature on a bill to ban microbeads, the tiny plastic particles in a wide ...

After years of complaints and concerns from environmentalists and lawmakers that teeny microbeads found in certain soap products were unsafe for both marine wildlife and people, a bill to ban the ...

Those who want to see the demise of plastic microbeads in personal-care products continue to gain traction. Used in personal care products such as soap and facial scrubs, the beads provide exfoliation ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Recent graduates from Purdue University have started a company to further develop and bring to market their SoyFoliate innovation, a soy microbead technology that could offer an ...

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DENVER (CBS4) - Selling products that contain microbeads will soon be illegal in Colorado as Gov. Hickenlooper signed a bill on Friday to phase out them out. Microbeads are tiny plastic balls used as ...

Could America’s bathroom cabinets finally be cleansed of tiny ecosystem-disrupting plastic beads? Ecologists, activists, and lawmakers in a number of states have grown increasingly alarmed at ...

The UK government outlawed the manufacture of products containing microbeads on Tuesday in what it says is one of the world’s toughest bans on the tiny plastic particles. The move comes amid a greater ...

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The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence. A sample of plastic "microbeads" collected in eastern Lake Erie is shown on the face of ...