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Since last year, the authority has issued compliance notices to six businesses selling nine brands of banned microbeads in facial and body scrubs, and ordered them to pull the products from retail shelves. Microbeads are a form of microplastic that annually deliver tonnes of plastic into the natural environment from personal care products alone, quickly entering food chains. “Although microbeads are used more frequently than other microplastics, it is incredible that scientists who focus on the contamination of the environment by microplastics have not given them much attention,” scientists from the Indian Institute of Technology wrote in 2023. “Microbeads have the potential to affect soil sediment, water, and air all at once, yet nobody is paying attention.” The brands ordered to withdraw products from sale in NSW are
