According to Consumerist, on Monday, President Barack Obama signed into law the Microbead-Free Waters Act of 2015, which bans the manufacture of all personal hygiene products infused with microbeads, defined as any solid plastic particle less than 5 millimeters in size and meant for exfoliation, beginning on July 1, 2017.
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The approval on December 28 came after the US Senate and House of Representatives unanimously approved the bill earlier this month.
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Directly on the heels of Obama’s signing of the bill, the American Chemistry Council (ACC) signaled its support of the new Act.
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The beads are generally added to products that claim to exfoliate and help cleanse the skin.
When these beads run into our lakes, rivers, streams, and seas, they can cause incredible environmental damage.
In addition, they could enter the food supply if mistaken for fish eggs by predators.
The government has taken steps towards banning microbeads through the Chemicals Management Plan, but has yet to announce a plan for banning or restricting the use of these harmful pollutants.
The small plastic beads are too small to be caught in the filters of wastewater treatment plants and the beads settle in the sludge which is used as fertilizer.
“The effect is similar to grinding up plastic water bottles, other products of concern to environmentalists, and pumping them into oceans and lakes”, Rachel Abrams wrote in a story on microbeads for The New York Times.
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The International Campaign Against Microbeads in Cosmetics has compiled a helpful list of the products that most likely contain microbeads.
