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The Microbead-Free Waters Act of 2015 is a United States law that prohibits the addition of plastic microbeads in the manufacturing of certain personal care products, such as toothpaste. The purpose of the law is to reduce water pollution caused by these products. Manufacture of the microbead-containing products was prohibited in July 2017, and ...
For example, the U.S. official definition for a microbead, as per the Microbead-Free Waters Act 2015 laid out by Congress, is "any solid plastic particle less than 5 millimeters in size that was created with the intention of being used to exfoliate or cleanse the human body."
In 2015, the Microbead-Free Waters Act passed, which prohibits the manufacturing and distribution of primary plastic microbeads for cosmetic products. [39] This ban will reduce the amount of plastic pellets that end up in oceans by preventing microbead particles from being used in cosmetic care products.
Doing so can result in a prison sentence that ranges from three to 15 years, making it one of the world's harshest laws of its kind. Anna Kim/istockphoto. If you're headed to Nigeria, be sure to ...
Biosafety Act 2009; Environmental (Impact Assessment and Audit) Regulations, 2003; Environmental Management and Co-ordination (Conservation of Biological Diversity and Resources, Access to Genetic Resources and Benefit Sharing) Regulations, 2006
Plastic Soup Foundation is a non-profit marine conservation organisation that aims to reduce plastic pollution, specifically marine plastic pollution. [1] [2] Established in 2011, Plastic Soup Foundation advocates towards imposing bans or voluntary phase-outs of microbeads in cosmetics at a global scale with the Beat the Microbead campaign.
Superparamagnetic microbeads: the monosized Dynabeads (scanning electron microscope image)Microbeads, also called Ugelstad particles [1] [2] [3] after the Norwegian chemist, professor John Ugelstad, who invented them in 1977 and patented the method in 1978, [4] are uniform polymer particles, typically 0.5 to 500 microns in diameter.
Companies are racing against the clock this week to notify antitrust agencies about pending deals before a new, more stringent merger filing rule passed during President Joe Biden's administration ...