Political Quotes

“across the country, many State and local governments, including counties in New York, have moved to ban products that contain plastic microbeads. Because of their leadership and because of the advocacy from scientists and others who have shown us the damage that microbeads can do, Congress came together to unanimously ban plastic microbeads from rinse-off cosmetic products. This is a great bill, and it shows that we can pass smart environmental legislation here in Washington. Plastic microbeads are the tiny pieces of plastic that we often see in toothpaste, hand lotion, or various other personal care products. When we brush our teeth and wash our face, most of us don't consider these acts to be harmful in any way. But plastic microbeads are smaller than 5 millimeters in size, which means they are too small to be captured by the filtration systems in our water treatment centers. So these plastic microbeads end up leaching into our lakes, our rivers, our streams, our bays, and even our drinking water supplies. It might be surprising that a piece of plastic so small can cause such outsized damage. But we have heard from a wide range of constituents and business groups that all recognize the damage, and all recommended that Congress act to remove plastic microbeads from the marketplace. We have heard it from the fishing industry, from the tourism industry, from the culinary industry. Even the cosmetics industry is supportive of this ban.…”