10 • 14 • 2015
California Bans Plastic Microbeads
Pass AB 888, which bans plastic microbeads from personal care products in California. These tiny plastic beads are washed off down the drain, are often not filtered out in wastewater treatment plants, and end up discharged in our waterways, and ocean.
Surfrider's California chapters, in collaboration with other environmental organizations and advocates, successfuly worked to ban plastic microbeads by showing their support and advocating for AB 888, which prohibibits selling or giving away personal care products - like soaps, toothpastes, and body washes - containing plastic microbeads, in California.