Environmental activists today rejoice, as America passes the first law banning microbeads. The Microbeads Free Waters Act passed by congress on the 31st December with bipartisan support will by 2018 end all sales of products containing plastic microparticles by 2018.
After a full scale initiative by several oceanographic environmental groups such as 5 Gyres the #banthebead twitter movement has pressured the American government into action. Let's hope that the rest of the world quickly follows suite! What a great start to the new year!
I really don't think that this will be an effective, as 5gyres said the legislation wont come into place until 2018, it is only a national law and the USA is not the biggest contributor to oceanic waste. What we need is a globally combing framework to tackle the issue.
I really don't think that this will be an effective, as 5gyres said the legislation wont come into place until 2018, it is only a national law and the USA is not the biggest contributor to oceanic waste. What we need is a globally combing framework to tackle the issue.
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