Gov. Patrick J. Quinn III (D) signed legislation last week that will ban the manufacture and sale of personal care products containing plastic microbeads. The law applies to plastics that measure less ...

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. - Environmentalists in Illinois expected a battle royal over their call for a statewide ban on "microbeads" -- tiny bits of plastic used in personal care products such as facial ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed a microplastics bill that would have expanded a 2015 ban on microbeads in personal care products. Environmentalists criticized the governor for rejecting what ...

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