Microbeads Should Be Banned

“What You Need to Know About Microbeads, The Banned Bath Product Ingredients”
Microbeads has contributed to a greater increase in plastic pollution, hurting the environment. Microbeads are the smaller plastics particles that can be found in our personal care products such as face soap, body washes, toothpaste, exfoliators, and other cleansing products. These microplastics are smaller that a grain of sand raging in size from one millimeter to five millimeters. Manufacturers used this bits of plastic with an excuse or intentional to sell more scrubbing power, because they are cheaper than the natural exfoliators and by the way posing a threat to the environment. This Forbes article by Carmen Drahl explains why President Obama has signed into law the Microbead-Free Waters Act of
This bill will protect the Nation’s waterways, not only that but it will save millions of fish and other animals that mistake those micro plastic as food that could make their way right back to our own food. I believe that this bill was a huge step to humanity as a whole because microbeads do not dissolve that can transport toxic chemicals from sewage plants and go on to pollute our planet oceans. “…Chemicals can be transferred to humans if people consume these marine species late on, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admiration (NOAA).”[3] Considering this, I personally agree with Darhl on her article that the best way to dispose it without harming the environment is to shipping them back to their manufactures or donating it to an educational cause like the 5Gyres Institute; that studies plastic garbage. Indeed, the microbeads Act can serve us as an example that we can stop plastic pollution just by prohibiting excess of plastic manufacturers produce to sell and distribute throughout the