1000 Flowers for the Planet - #361 Reject Products with Microbeads
Microbeads are tiny, tiny, tiny balls of plastic often used
in personal care products such as facial scrubs and even toothpaste. They are
too small to be caught in sewage filter systems and therefore end up in water
systems. Lake Michigan in the United States has been found to contain large
quantities of microbeads that have polluted its water. Once these beads are in
the environment they cannot be removed. That’s pretty major, don’t you think?
So what happens is: you wash your face with a product
containing microbeads that get washed down the drain. They don’t disappear, of
course, they end up in the water system where they are gobbled up by fish and
other marine creatures, and drunk in by birds and animals. You go and buy
yourself some fish for dinner and whammo – microbeads in your system. Sound good? No, I thought not.
We need to stop these pieces of plastic from entering our
environment. We can do this by refusing to purchase products that contain them.
There is an app you can get for your smartphone that you can use to check if a
product contains microbreads and there is a lot more information about the
fight against these tiny but disastrous plastic beads at www.beatthemicrobead.org. There are
natural alternatives so let’s get together to support the companies that are
doing good things for the planet.
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