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"Obama Signs Ban on Microbead Pollution" [1]

"Say goodbye to the beads.

On Monday, Dec. 28, President Barack Obama signed into law a ban on tiny plastic particles used in personal cosmetic products that scientists say are polluting U.S. lakes, rivers and the oceans.

The bipartisan "Microbead-Free Waters Act of 2015," (H.R. 1321), passed by the U.S. House on Dec. 7, "prohibits the manufacture and introduction into interstate commerce of rinse-off cosmetics containing intentionally-added plastic microbeads.""

Garret Ellison reports for MLive December 28, 2015. [2]

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Source: MLive [2], 12/29/2015
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/obama-signs-ban-microbead-pollution [2] http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2015/12/obama_signs_ban_on_microbead_p.html [3] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/consumer [4] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/laws [5] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/water [6] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national [7] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81