Sentences with phrase «microbeads out»

Dental hygienist Trisha Waravan told Denver's ABC 7 News that she regularly picks microbeads out of her client's mouths, where they can get embedded below the gum line.

Standing near the shore of Lake Champlain, New York U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand on Monday discussed legislation she has drafted to keep microbeads out of the nation's waterways.

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Manufacturers such as Proctor and Gamble, Unilever and Colgate - Palmolive have already committed to phase out the use of microbeads in their products.

Higgins, who is a member of the Congressional Great Lakes Task Force, points out that earlier this year Erie County was the first county in the nation to ban microbeads in personal care products.

Christopher Goeken, Director of Public Policy and Government Relations at New York League of Conservation Voters, said the personal products industry successfully lobbied lawmakers into stalling legislation that bans microbeads, though some larger manufacturers have already pledged to phase out certain products.

Microbeads are washed down drains after use and end up in water treatment facilities that can not filter them out.

Eriksen said a company spokesperson told 5 Gyres they will phase out microbeads in products by 2017.

A Johnson & Johnson spokeswoman said they have already begun the phase out of polyethylene microbeads in their existing products and are currently developing an environmentally friendly alternative for future products.

Though the Microbead - Free Waters Act of 2015 has been signed into law, it won't go into full effect for a few years: cosmetic product containing microbeads have until July 1, 2017 to phase them out, while the deadline beauty products is July 1, 2018.

The international retail company has also pledged to phase out plastic microbeads from its products.

And much like the microbeads we've been sticking in our shampoos and other cleaning products, glitter is now making its way into our water ways and eventually out into the ocean, where fish can mistake it for food.

We worked with Procter & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson, L'Oreal and Unilever to voluntarily phase out plastic microbeads from products made by brands like Neutrogena, Dove and The Body Shop.

Plastic microbeads are too small to be properly filtered out of household waste water by most municipal treatment facilities.

The Great Lakes and St Lawrence Cities Initiative, which is a coalition of 114 U.S. and Canadian city mayors, is calling on these companies to figure out how they can now remove microbeads from the Great Lakes — «a task currently believed to be impossible.»

It takes a freshwater mussel 47 days to flush out ingested microbeads.