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Beat the Bead

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Topics

Advocacy, Animals, Health, Microplastics, Ocean Pollution, Plastic Pollution, Waste

Audiences

Activists, Consumers, Health Professionals, Students

Type

Film

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In Beat the Bead, 5 Gyres provides information about the prevalence of plastic microbeads, which are in everyday cosmetic products. It discusses their presence as major marine plastic pollutants and how they adversely affect our health.

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