San Francisco Chronicle: When Rachel Carson revealed the harmful effects of DDT in her landmark book, “Silent Spring,” it took 10 years for the federal government to ban the use of the pesticide. How long will it take to ban plastic microbeads?
On Feb. 11, the New York State Attorney General’s Office introduced a bill to ban microplastics in cosmetics. California soon followed with a bill introduced by Assemblyman Richard Bloom, D-Santa Monica (Los Angeles County). Sweeping changes are on the hopeful horizon if the bills…

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