MyEnviroMind

OK . So, in the news this week: 'MPs call for a ban on plastic microbeads.'  What are microbeads I hear you ask? What do they do? Why does it affect me? Microbeads can be seen here in toothpaste credit: www.medicaldaily.com Microbeads are small pieces of plastic, smaller than 5 mm, commonly made of polyethylene or even other crude oil products such as polypropylene and polystyrene. These beads provide shape and abrasion to products that need to scrub off dead skin, dirt and food. They are used in a vast range of cleaning & cosmetic products that we all use daily and their minute size means they can easily pass through our drains and water filtration systems until they float right out into the ocean. A single tube of Johnson & Johnson’s Clean & Clear facial scrub can contain up to 330,000 plastic beads. 100,000 microbeads can be washed down the drain, from some products, in just one application. So what's all the fuss about? I've never had to

Hi *insert name of you who is reading this right now at this very moment in time*!, Well I don't really know where to begin... Thank you for choosing to come here out of your own free will I suppose! My name is Harriet and this is my little environmental blog. I don't really know what to expect, or what I would like to achieve out of this - I know blogging isn't going to stop the world's temperatures soaring & at most is probably a hypocritical action  - but I've known for a long time now that I've wanted to do something against it, something stronger than just switching a light off, something more influential than just looking disgusted at litter on the street and perhaps, in conversation, I hope to learn new ways that can make a change. Positively. For the better for longer. In what little time we have left, I would like to work with you and try, just a little bit, to save the world. That's a big ask. Although that goal seems unrealistic, of co