{"id":42498,"date":"2014-06-10T14:49:49","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T20:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/10\/tiny-little-beads-and-their-non-tiny-harm.html"},"modified":"2014-06-11T23:09:44","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T05:09:44","slug":"tiny-little-beads-and-their-non-tiny-harm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/10\/tiny-little-beads-and-their-non-tiny-harm.html","title":{"rendered":"Tiny little beads and their non-tiny harm"},"content":{"rendered":"
I used face cleaners with micro-beads before, but I'll be going back to just plain old face cleaners (and a loofah) instead.<\/p>\n

I'm amused \/ irked by the soap companies wanting this put off (the law doesn't actually go into effect for years)<\/i> because they must<\/i> have some sort of scrubby bits in their soap. Which is, of course, nonsense. They would like<\/i> to have them, and customers have certainly shown they, too, would like<\/i> to have them, but such a product is neither a moral imperative nor the only way to get one's face clean.<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Gizmodo<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Here's why Illinois banned microbeads in soap, and why other states should too:\ufeff<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Why Those Little Plastic Microbeads in Your Soap Are So Bad<\/a>
\n This week, Illinois became the first state in the country to ban exfoliating plastic beads. Good for Illinois. Plastic microbeads have been running off by the billions into the Great Lakes and the oceans, causing huge amounts of environmental damage. Yet most consumers didn’t even realize they existed.\n <\/p>\n

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I used face cleaners with micro-beads before, but I'll be going back to just plain old face cleaners (and a loofah) instead. I'm amused \/ irked by the soap companies wanting this put off (the law doesn't actually go into effect for years) because they must have some sort of scrubby bits in their soap. … Continue reading “Tiny little beads and their non-tiny harm”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,63],"tags":[586],"class_list":["post-42498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-environment","tag-pluspost"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":42135,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/22\/the-anti-anti-bacterial-soap-movement.html","url_meta":{"origin":42498,"position":0},"title":"The Anti-anti-bacterial soap movement","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 22-May-14 10:39am","format":false,"excerpt":"Which sounds like an excellent idea.Reshared post from +GizmodoWhy Minnesota banned antibacterial soap, and why every other state should follow its lead:\ufeff The Case Against Antibacterial Soap It's been ingrained in us since childhood. 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