New York Calls for Ban on Face Scrub Microbeads

[Thor]

The problem with these microbeads is that they are just washed down the drain. Because they are so small and buoyant, many escape capture by wastewater treatment plants, which tend to filter water through screens that have holes bigger than the microbeads.

Ummm... add another smaller holed screen after the screen with bigger holes? Or ban the product...

 

[donnay]

Ummm... add another smaller holed screen after the screen with bigger holes? Or ban the product...

Right get microscreens to capture the microbeads and any other micro-toxins...but we all know that is just too easy, banning things and petty power is what these people love. Then they will create a black market for these products and it will still continue...

 

[eduardo89]

Ummm... add another smaller holed screen after the screen with bigger holes? Or ban the product...

You do realise the cost involved in this, right?

 

[Carlybee]

Lava soap and alcohol will burn the acne right off your face. I personally don't have acne but use coconut oil and raw sugar for a scrub.

 

[donnay]

Honey works well to rid acne.

 

[Suzanimal]

Never had acne, when I was a teen I used a rough washcloth and Ivory soap. If a pimple popped up I just dabbed rubbing alcohol on it.

 

[eduardo89]

 

[ZENemy]

Persistent acne comes from WITHIN and will not be helped by this snake oil product anyhow. Still though people should be free to get ripped off.

 

[jtap]

Bizarre that "tiny spherical beads made out of polyethylene or polypropylene ranging in size from 0.004mm to 1.24mm" are cheaper to make than to put some sand particles in there.

 

[MadelineJ]

Bizarre that "tiny spherical beads made out of polyethylene or polypropylene ranging in size from 0.004mm to 1.24mm" are cheaper to make than to put some sand particles in there.

live is also very harmful:o everybody die

 

[eduardo89]

live is also very harmful:o everybody die

interesting article

good thread

absolutely agreed

I already own the book, it's cool!!!

I haven't seen it!

This account does not seem suspicious at all.

 

[VIDEODROME]

Bizarre that "tiny spherical beads made out of polyethylene or polypropylene ranging in size from 0.004mm to 1.24mm" are cheaper to make than to put some sand particles in there.

They probably originate as the by-product of manufacturing some other plastic product somewhere else such as a stamping plant. The beads are scooped up from the factory and resold to put in these face scrub products.

 

[devil21]

Makes sense. Now that Wall Street has been cleaned up and NY's huge budget deficits are resolved, they have to find something to do.

 

[2young2vote]

The article conveniently leaves out any actual negative side-effects of the beads being released into the water. There were a lot of "cans" and "coulds" in that article. This is one of those times that the court system should be used rather than legislation. If someone can prove damages to themselves and others they then should be able to sue.