COSMETICS COMPANIES AND REGULATORS COMBINE FORCES TO STOP MICROBEADS POURING INTO THE OCEANS
April 1st, 2017
Shocking media images of dead animals and birds, killed by ingesting plastic in oceans have pricked the collective conscience of personal care product manufacturers and consumers as industry self-regulation over the use of harmful microplastics appears to have outpaced formal governmental regulation.
Now a global initiative has been launched by the United Nations with an ambitious target of eliminating major sources of marine litter: microplastics in cosmetics and the “excessive, wasteful usage of single-use plastic” by the year 2022.
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