On Microbeads

Friend S and I crashed a Children's Festival in the city on the weekend. (It's because they always have a booth serving free McDonald's coffee). We stopped at a booth displaying microbead products. It was to raise awareness of the environmental danger these small plastic beads cause. They are used in certain toothpastes and soaps and are being phased out in Canada. You can see the blue beads in the toothpaste cap in the photo above, along with some other products that contain these microbeads. The young man at the booth said these beads can get caught in your teeth and go into your body and cause harm. They go into the waters and harm fish, etc. Look for polyethylene or polypropylene on the labels. Were you aware of this problem?