Can brushing your teeth or using an exfoliating face or body wash be an act of pollution? Perhaps so, because over 1,000 personal care products contain tiny plastic “microbeads,” each about a half ...

NEW YORK – Eric T. Schneiderman, state attorney general, has issued a pamphlet aimed at helping consumers choose personal care products that do not contain microbeads, a known form of plastic ...

Thousands of microbead pellets from a ripped pool toy scatter across the surface of Lake Tahoe in early July 2021. (Alison Toy/UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center) A new trend of pool toys ...

MAYVILLE – For Dr. Sherri Mason, chemistry professor and environmental science program coordinator at SUNY Fredonia, the number of spherical, plastic balls in Lake Erie is alarming. In a study she ...

Join the Office for Sustainability and the Student Sustainability Council to learn more about microbeads and their pollution to our waterways, aquatic life and ultimately our own bodies. Microbeads ...

Microbeads are tiny plastic abrasives usually found in beauty and personal-care products. Schneiderman said the beads are “systematically” running through the treatment plants and entering other ...

One would think, that in this day and age, corporations would intrinsically do the right thing when it comes to taking care of the planet, without being pressured by lawmakers. After all, a corporate ...

A ban on the manufacture of microbeads, those tiny bits of plastic used in some exfoliating cosmetic products, took effect Tuesday in the U.K. The move bars manufacturers from putting them in skin ...

Journalist Bonnie Burton writes about movies, TV shows, comics, science and robots. She is the author of the books Live or Die: Survival Hacks, Wizarding World: Movie Magic Amazing Artifacts, The Star ...

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 ...