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Obama Bans Microbeads to Protect Ocean Life

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Last year in December, Obama had passed banned microbeads that are inside cleansers and shower gels. These beads do not dissolved because they are plastic therefore, when they wash down your drain and in the ocean fish are mistaking them food for food, eating them, and dying. Microbeads had also contributed to a greater increase in microplastic pollution, and could not exactly be cleaned out of the ocean due to is extra small size.