Bill would ban lake-polluting microbeads from consumer products
April 01, 2014 at 12:51 PM EDT
Face wash shouldn’t be sleeping with the fishes, an Ohio senator says. State Sen. Michael Skindell, D-Lakewood, introduced a bill Monday to ban the use of microbeads in the state, saying that the tiny, rough specks found in personal care and cosmetic products are slipping through to Lake Erie, causing harm to the water and fish who mistake the particles as food...