President Signs Legislation Banning Products Containing Microbeads

President Obama has signed legislation banning products containing plastic microbeads.

New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand was the lead author of the Microbead Free Water Act.

Gillibrand says the new law provides a powerful new tool in the efforts to clean up New York's waterways.

“I am pleased that President Obama signed our legislation to federally ban plastic microbeads in personal care products, said Gillibrand. These tiny pieces of plastic have the potential to cause serious ecological damage, hurt our fishing and tourism industries, and they have already polluted our drinking water supply. By removing products containing plastic microbeads from the marketplace, we can now begin to focus on cleaning up the mess they caused.”