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The microbeads in your body wash are slowly filling the Great Lakes with plastic
2013-06-26 17:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Sigh. You think the world would have caught on by now that plastic is one of the most incidentally destructive inventions the human race has ever come up with. Sure, L.A. just banned plastic bags, which is great. But meanwhile those tiny microbeads - the little bits of plastics in body wash that cosmetics companies invented for no real reason except to have a new thing to sell their customers - are slowly accumulating in the Great Lakes, where fish eat them. Scientific American reports: They...
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