USING FACE SCRUBS WITHOUT MICROBEADS PROTECTS OUR WATER AND OUR BIRDS
(photo credit 5 gyres)
Microbeads are a vivid depiction that what goes down our drains winds up in our drinking water. Microbeads in face scrubs and body wash are the size of fish eggs and aren’t removed by water treatment. There are lots of them going into the Great Lakes, and they pick up and concentrate PCB’s, DDT, and PAH that is in the water. If we stop using face wash with microbeads we will improve our water quality and save our birds.
Erin Crotty, executive Director of Audubon NY is helping work for passage of legislation to ban microbeads in NYS. The NYS Assembly unanimously passed the legislation May 5th, and it now needs to be approved by the state senate and Governor Cuomo to go into effect. Illinois was the first state in the union to enact a ban, with Governor Quinn signing the bill June 8.
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