Rinse and repeat — that’s how environmental groups are responding to their narrow defeat this year in the California Legislature on a bill to ban microbeads, the tiny plastic particles in a wide ...

After years of complaints and concerns from environmentalists and lawmakers that teeny microbeads found in certain soap products were unsafe for both marine wildlife and people, a bill to ban the ...

As someone who has chronic neck and shoulder pain, finding an excellent pillow to support me while I sleep has been a challenge. Honestly, it wasn't until I discovered microbead pillows that I ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Recent graduates from Purdue University have started a company to further develop and bring to market their SoyFoliate innovation, a soy microbead technology that could offer an ...

DENVER (CBS4) - Selling products that contain microbeads will soon be illegal in Colorado as Gov. Hickenlooper signed a bill on Friday to phase out them out. Microbeads are tiny plastic balls used as ...

Could America’s bathroom cabinets finally be cleansed of tiny ecosystem-disrupting plastic beads? Ecologists, activists, and lawmakers in a number of states have grown increasingly alarmed at ...

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In case you haven’t heard, microbeads are the demons of the beauty world. They’re tiny plastic beads used in toothpastes and face scrubs to give an exfoliating, scrubbing effect. Oh, and they’re awful ...

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The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence. A sample of plastic "microbeads" collected in eastern Lake Erie is shown on the face of ...