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Polyethylene Beads: Natural Alternatives for Exfoliating Beads
2014-08-18 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
Personal Care companies today are under compressed timeframes to quickly replace Polyethylene beads due to regulations passed in Illinois and proposed in New York, California, and several other U.S. states. Fitz Chem offers several viable, natural options that are not only environmentally friendly, but that also provide benefits in foam, feel or other multi-functional attributes. You can choose from natural minerals or natural waxes to suit your specific application needs. Please click here ...This story is related to the following:Beads
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Like those tiny beads in your soap?
2014-06-19 22:46:03| Chemicals - Topix.net
In this July 2013 photo provided by State University of New York at Fredonia, Sherri Mason, right, a New York environmental scientist who led a research team studying microplastics in the Great Lakes, examines a trawling device used to collect plastic "microbeads" from the water's surface with University of Buffalo student Shayne McKay on Lake ... (more)
Battelle develops self-healing smart beads that detect and repair corrosion; valuable for oil & gas industry
2014-05-02 11:30:31| Green Car Congress
Plastic beads are the latest pollution threat to Great Lakes
2013-07-31 05:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Tiny plastic beads from beauty products are showing up in North America's Great Lakes, and an environmental group is calling upon companies to stop using the plastic particles. Scientists have already been found the particles, known as microplastic, floating in the oceans but recently reported the same contamination in the largest surface freshwater system on the Earth. The particles are often less than a millimeter (0.04 inch). A team of researchers with 5 Gyres Institute, a non-profit California-based...
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3 companies commit to removing plastic beads from their body products
2013-07-03 14:45:42| Biotech - Topix.net
Tiny plastic beads used in body wash are polluting the Great Lakes, where they are eaten by fish and other wildlife.
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