Tiny plastic particles are often used in your cosmetics and personal care products as a scrubbing agent, emulsifying agent or just as cheap fillers! Washing your face or brushing your teeth with the cosmetics containing microplastics can harm the ocean, yourself and your children. Beat the Microbead!
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By now, many people know to avoid scrubs and shower gels which include plastic microbeads; either look for a natural alternative or forgo cosmetic products with “scrubbing” functions altogether. Simple enough — but what people don’t realize is that many cosmetic products aside from scrubs, even …
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Amsterdam, 26 September 2018 – Breaking news: the European Parliament has embraced the environment commission’s report entitled Turning plastic wastelands into fields of gold, by a huge majority. The report, compiled by the European Parliamentarian Mark Demesmaeker, supports the Plastic Strategy, Europe’s strategy to address the …
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A citizens’ initiative to ban microplastics in cosmetics in Finland will be considered by lawmakers after the collection of 50.000 signatures last August. The importation, production and sale of care products with microplastics should be banned according to this initiative. A recent study from the University …
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Amsterdam, 11 May 2018 – Today holds the deadline for the ‘Call for evidence on the use of intentionally added microplastic particles in products of any kind.’ The European Chemical Agency (ECHA) is investigating, at the request of the European Commission, a need to restrict “the …
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