According to a Greenpeace report, large personal-care products company made the commitment to phasing out use of plastic particles filled with loopholes and introduce a legal ban is necessary.
Plastic particles are widely used in toiletries and cosmetics. However, hundreds of thousands of tons of particles were washed into the ocean, the particles not only cause harm to marine life, and will eventually be eaten by humans, cause unknown health risks. In July this year, 300,000 people to the United Kingdom's Prime Minister submitted a joint petition requesting United Kingdom Government bans plastic particles. At the end of 2015, United States has passed a bill that banned plastic particles.
Greenpeace's report top 30 personal care products company in the world, and ranked according to disable performance of plastic particles, found that even top-ranking companies were not up to their standard.
One of the industry giants, Colgate-Palmolive said that by the end of 2014 would disable the plastic particles. But Greenpeace found that this commitment is only for "peeling and cleaning products", and plastic particles are widely used in moisturizers, cosmetics, lip balm, shaving foam and other products. Yasilandai is one of several companies ranked. The company said: "for a fraction of products containing plastic Exfoliating particles, we are discontinuing the use of this ingredient. "Greenpeace believes that the company is committed to the scope of application is too small, only for Exfoliating products of plastic particles, and without a clear deadline.
Bottom is located in United States Edgewell personal care products company. Out of 400 points in the assessment of Greenpeace gave the company 0, because "their assessment did not respond to us, and we did not find any publicly available information. "However, Edgewell spokeswoman said:" we did not take part in Greenpeace's assessment, because all of our personal care products do not contain plastic particles. ”
The world's largest personal-care products company Procter (brands include Olay Olay) ranked only 18th. The company said their "objectives by 2017 in all stop using cleaning products polyethylene plastic particles". Greenpeace said this commitment was unacceptable, because this kind of plastic particles, does not disable all types of plastic particles, but also for personal cleaning products and oral care products.
Other also includes a number of vulnerabilities in the company's commitment, for example the lack of commitment to progressively in all States to ban plastic particles, no clear instructions in the disabled range of plastic particles the size of still allowed by the United Nations Environment Programme's Chief Scientist, as error substitutes "degradable" plastic particles.
Green Peace (United Kingdom) senior members of the action of the sea luyisi·aiqi, said: "at the mention of how to deal with plastic particles, each company is flawed. ”
She said: "the United Kingdom Government has introduced plastic particles ban was the right way to solve the problem. New Environment Minister andelieya·lidesuomu faces some major challenges, but (for her) banned plastic particles may be a simple and effective way to start. ”
This summer, United Kingdom cross-party environmental Review Committee's findings will be released to address this issue. The Committee Chairman Mali·keliqi said: "the cosmetic companies ' behavior, and they voluntarily made a commitment to gradually disable plastic particles contradictory and misleading to consumers. Most consumers know the scrub after the impact on the marine environment will be very shocked. ”
Wild flora and fauna International (FFI) published the scrub selection guide. Dannier·sitedeman members of the group said: "the banned plastic particles commitment to careful study of these brands, you will find that they make a loss. Any plastic product after entering the ocean will cause harm to marine life, so a solid plastic if present in certain products into the sewage system, it should prohibit their use. ”
United Kingdom cosmetics, toiletries and Perfumery Association (CTPA) Director kelisituofu·fulaoer said: "the cosmetics industry attaches great importance to this issue, fully aware of their responsibility for consumers and the environment. ”
He said that European cosmetics personal care products Association has published a recommendations document, called for by 2020 "stop Exfoliating products and cleaning products for use in the marine environment does not degrade the synthetic solid plastic particles".
Flower said: "compared with the legal ban, we believe this action to work faster. "He said, likely before 2020, the vast majority of plastic particles will be deactivated.
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