Tiny plastic timebomb - the pollutants in our cosmetics
▻http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/exclusive-tiny-plastic-timebomb--the-pollutants-in-our-cosmetics-9391
Millions of people are unwittingly pouring hundreds of tons of tiny plastic beads down the drain. These can persist in the environment for more than 100 years, and have been found to contaminate a wide variety of freshwater and marine wildlife, The Independent on Sunday can reveal.
Few consumers realise that many cosmetic products, such as facial scrubs, toothpastes and shower gels, now contain many thousands of microplastic beads which have been deliberately added by the manufacturers of more than 100 consumer products over the past two decades.