Plastic microbeads - Page 2

TY · ‎03-10-2010

The plastic or polyethylene microbeads don't dissolve or deteriorate and they are too small to be caught in the filters at sewage treatment plants so they end up on the riverbeds or seabeds and then the fish and other wildlife eat them thinking they are food so then they end up in the food supply chain from the bottom up is why some states will be banning plastic beads from cosmetic products but that won't start until about 2018 I read.

HonnyBrown · ‎11-23-2013

Yeah...so much good information on the net. Why didn't I think of that!?! Google makes so many experts!

Thanks, TY. Plants use flocculants for contaminants that are too small for filters, ie microbeads.

Get your flu shot...because I didn't.

suzyQ3 · ‎03-09-2010

On 8/10/2014 HonnyBrown said:
Yeah...so much good information on the net. Why didn't I think of that!?! Google makes so many experts!

Thanks, TY. Plants use flocculants for contaminants that are too small for filters, ie microbeads.

ITA. Done right, research online can be very helpful, as in this case.

~Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle~ Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

Bella Carro · ‎10-01-2011

On 8/10/2014 HonnyBrown said:
Yeah...so much good information on the net. Why didn't I think of that!?! Google makes so many experts!

Thanks, TY. Plants use flocculants for contaminants that are too small for filters, ie microbeads.

Quite a leap from making an effort to be somewhat informed to expert.

suzyQ3 · ‎03-09-2010

On 8/10/2014 BellaCarro said:
On 8/10/2014 HonnyBrown said:
Yeah...so much good information on the net. Why didn't I think of that!?! Google makes so many experts!

Thanks, TY. Plants use flocculants for contaminants that are too small for filters, ie microbeads.

Quite a leap from making an effort to be somewhat informed to expert.

Wink

~Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle~ Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

sun8shine · ‎02-15-2013

On 8/10/2014 HonnyBrown said:

I haven't see the shows. I don't understand how microbeads that go down a drain would end up in the oceans and rivers.

Water/sewage companies are closed loop systems. If sewage was able to leak into the river, the EPA would shut them down very quickly.

The manufacturing plants that use microbeads as raw materials or additives have to isolate their process water from rainwater, that goes into the rivers. And if they discharge the process water into a river, under permit, it has to be cleaner than when they got it. This I have a problem with.

Are people taking baths in the oceans, rivers and estuaries?