California to vote on banning products with plastic microbeads

Those tiny blue specks in toothpaste and the gritty granules in many facial cleansers could soon be banned in California. The State Assembly is scheduled to vote Friday on the nation’s toughest ban on plastic microbeads, used in a variety of personal care products, from body wash to exfoliating creams. Environmentalists say those tiny beads are not biodegradable and generate an estimated 38 tons of plastic pollution in California.
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