{"id":66378,"date":"2024-08-23T23:31:22","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T14:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/article\/2024\/aug\/23\/india-should-consider-ban-on-microbeads-in-personal-care-products-researchers-say"},"modified":"2024-08-23T23:31:22","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T14:31:22","slug":"india-should-consider-ban-on-microbeads-in-personal-care-products-researchers-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66378","title":{"rendered":"India should consider ban on microbeads in personal care products, researchers say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Type of microplastics used in skin exfoliators and banned in UK and US found in 45% of Indian products studied<\/p>\n<p>India should consider a ban on microbeads in personal care products, in line with many other countries in the world, say researchers.<\/p>\n<p>Microbeads are a type of microplastic used in cosmetic products to exfoliate the skin. After a public uproar when the plastics were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sustainable-business\/microbeads-cosmetics-gyres-plastics-pollution-makeup\">highlighted in Europe a decade ago<\/a>, they were banned in the Netherlands in 2014, with many other countries following, including the US in 2015 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2018\/jan\/09\/plastic-microbeads-ban-enters-force-in-uk\">the UK in 2018<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/article\/2024\/aug\/23\/india-should-consider-ban-on-microbeads-in-personal-care-products-researchers-say\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Type of microplastics used in skin exfoliators and banned in UK and US found in 45% of Indian products studiedIndia should consider a ban on microbeads in personal care products, in line with many other countries in the world, say researchers.Microbead&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4383,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[65,62,266,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-india","category-plastics","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4383"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66379,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66378\/revisions\/66379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}