A Bright Future
Thankfully, countries all over the world are responding to the problem. In 2015, President Obama passed The Microbead-Free Waters Act that bans the manufacturing and sale of cosmetics containing microbeads that started taking effect on July 1, 2017.
Additionally, the UK government outlawed the manufacturing of products containing microbeads. Canada and New Zealand have also banned microbeads.
Sweden, Austria, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Belgium are also calling for a joint effort to ban microbeads in cosmetic products.











