because people who grew up around Great Lakes and go to the beach don't want to go to beach that's dirty and littered by plastic items. Scientists are also seeing evidence that the microbeads are ...

But beneath that pristine image, there's a barely visible threat, says Jennifer Caddick of the Alliance for the Great Lakes: microbeads. These tiny bits of plastic, small scrubbing components used ...

Jennifer Caddick, a spokeswoman for the Alliance for the Great Lakes in Chicago, said there are alternatives to microbeads in personal care products. "Rather than using plastic as the scrubbing ...

Environmentalists say the microbeads are a danger to fish. Products containing the word %22polyethylene%22 likely have microbeads. Tiny%2C plastic beads from personal ...

Environmental groups are concerned for the safety of both humans and wildlife as small plastic microbeads found in commonly used cosmetics have started to become significant pollutants in the Great ...

A new study by the 5Gyres Institute has found an alarming number of plastic beads, smaller than a millimeter, in the Great Lakes. The source of the polyethylene microbeads are exfoliating face ...

Turns out, when it comes to plastic pollution in the Great Lakes, microbeads aren't necessarily the big bad. A new study published by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) shows that tiny ...

Among the Great Lakes, it found the highest concentration ... the dangers posed to wildlife and the environment by the plastic microbeads. “The findings of the study will determine a federal ...

A report earlier this year conducted by SUNY Fredonia found anywhere from 1,500 to 1.1 million microbeads per square mile in the Great Lakes. When asked what amount of plastic pollution would be ...

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 ...

Several months ago, scientists warned that tiny microbeads, a common ingredient in facial cleansers, were flowing into the Great Lakes, with no way to remove the potentially harmful plastic.

But this year's focus was even smaller: the discovery two years ago that the Great Lakes are full of tiny, plastic microbeads from personal care products like facial cleansers. Researchers can't ...