Microbeads

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Once in water microbeads can have a damaging effect on marine life, the enviorment and human health. This is due to there composition, ability to absorbe toxins and potential to transfer up the marine food chain. Which means microbeads flow into water, fish eat them and we eat the fish! Which causes plastic particles to be in our bodies

Microbeads end up sitting in the stomach of fish, and, just like any plastic they attract and concentrate toxic chemicals including a class of pollutants called polybrominated diphenyl, which are known to cause neurological problems, decreased immune function and even fertility problems

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Microbeads range in size from 1-5 milimeters in length

There are about 100,000 microbeads in a facewash product!

A single shower can result in 100,000 microbeads entering the ocean

Microbeads are added as an exfoliating agent to cosmetics and personal care products, such as soap, facial scrub and toothpastes.

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In November 2016, Simon Coveney, the minister for housing, planning Community and local government, said that Fine Gale Led government would press for an E.U wide ban on microbeads and rejected a Green Party bill banning them on basis that it might confit with the E.U's freedom of movement of goods. In June 2019, Coveney's successor Eoghan Murphy introduced the microbeads bill 2019 which would ban manufacture, sale, and export of rinse off microbeads products.

Microbeads are used as ingredients in these products for a variety of purposes. Microbeads are not captured by most wastewater treatment system's. If they are washed down drains after use, they can end up in rivers and lake's.

Microbeads are small, solid, manufactured parts of plastic particles that are less than 5 millimetres and don't degrade or desolve in water. They may be added to a range of products including rinse-off cosmetics, personal care and cleaning products.

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