The

Danger
of
Microbeads
By:Ricardo & Ryan S.
What Are Microbeads?
╺ The composition of microbeads can vary and
often include polyethylene (PE) or
polypropylene (PP), polyethylene terephthalate
(PET), polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) or
nylon.
╺ Microbeads are anything plastic that is two
millimeters in diameter or smaller
╺ These microbeads often end up in the oceans
in vast amounts due to the fact that they are
too small to be filtered out by the water
treatment plants, this lead to them being spilled
out into the ocean for fish to mistake for food
How do they
affect us?
╺ With the microbeads entering the
system of the fish, the toxicity enters
the fish tissue, these fish are then
captured and used for human
consumption, leading to us
consuming the toxins
╺ In the United States, we release eight billion
plastic microbeads into the environment each
day. That's nearly three trillion each year. Once
in the water, plastic microbeads attract persistent
organic pollutants like flame retardants and other
industrial chemicals linked to human health
problems—even cancer. A single plastic
Resolution-What is being done about
it?
╺ The Microbead-Free Waters Act of 2015
prohibits the manufacturing, packaging, and
distribution of rinse-off cosmetics containing
plastic microbeads.
╺ The ban sets goals for manufacturers and
sellers to begin to phase out their products that
contain microbeads, changing their formulas or
phasing out the product all together.
Sources
╺ Plastic Microbeads: They're Bad. But
Together We Can Stop Them. (n.d.).
Retrieved May 2, 2018, from
https://storyofstuff.org/plastic-
microbeads-ban-the-bead/
╺ “Microbeads.” 5Gyres.Org,
www.5gyres.org/microbeads/.
╺ Center for Food Safety and Applied
Nutrition. (2017, November 3). Laws
& Regulations - The Microbead-Free
Waters Act: FAQs. Retrieved May 2,
2018, from