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Cabinet agrees to ban microbeads

Cabinet agrees to ban microbeads

Cabinet agrees to ban microbeads Cabinet agrees to ban microbeads, 5.44 MB
Tuesday, December 5, 2017

On Monday Cabinet announced the approval of regulations to ban the sale and manufacture of synthetic microbeads.

The government says the regulation will come into force in six months, although the New World, Pak'nSave and Four Square supermarket chains stopped selling products with microbeads from July.

Penalties for ignoring the ban may include fines of up to $100,000, with the Environmental protection Authority enforcing it.

Reuben McLaren spoke to Associate Minister for the Environment Eugenie Sage to find out more.