JAGs Protest against Microplastics in Hamburg

Greenpeace volunteers from Greenpeace youthgroups (JAGs) carry out an action on the Inner Alster in Hamburg with a huge wooden model of a cosmetic product in protest against the wide use of microbeads in the cosmetic and personal care industry. The environmentalists demand to ban the toxic microplastic particles known as microbeads. Young volunteers swim with a banner that reads:" Protect the oceans. No plastics in cosmetics!" Microbeads are found in products such as facial scrubs and toothpaste, millions of the tiny plastics are flushed unwittingly into the world’s oceans every year where they ultimately end up in the marine food chain. Too small to be filtered by most water treatment systems, the particles end up in rivers and oceans , harming marine life and polluting the entire ecosystem.