Wow, I had no idea!

Jmc101, THANK YOU!!!! I checked the bottle to see if the ingredients include polyethylene,” “PE,” “polystyrene,” or PS, and it DOESN'T! The "scrubbies" are made from walnut shells! This makes me very happy for several reasons! #1 is that it won't be contributing to damaging our water. #2 is I can USE IT! It smells lovely (fair trade oranges from Ethiopia). If I hadn't known what to look for, I probably would have thrown it away. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you! Just goes to show you, you shouldn't always think the worst. I'm so happy!

I'm so glad I asked here first before tossing!

Wow - I had no idea, either. Thank you for enlightening me.

NEWS to me as well....Thanks!

Glad I could help, Jean. I avoid PEs as well.

Add me to the list of did not know. Very informative Bob thank you. Will be sure to tell others.

I am glad to hear about that. I had some given to me years ago when they first came out. I tried it to shower with but didn't like it. Well I started having a problem with my ear. My doctor got his scope and was doing a through examination of my ears. He said well this is the strangest thing. You have these tiny tiny blue balls way down in your ear canal. What could it be. We had no idea. So he flushed them multiple times but some were stuck. I was wondering what on earth it could be. The next day in the shower I was looking right at the bottle in the shower rack. And bam I realized that the tiny blue balls were those dang scrubbing beads. I called my doctor, who was also my neighbor and friend, and told him what it was. He was astounded. I threw that bottle in the trash. He said he didn't see how that could be good at all, no telling what they can do to the ear drum. So if you are using the stuff be aware that you probably have them down in your ears.

And most all of that stuff is sourced from petroleum ...

... that took millions of years to make ...

... and we've been using for less than 125 years.

More stealing by overuse of precious resources that'll be needed by future generations (even as soon as our grandkids?).

How do you use solar/wind power to fly a plane?

Most of the plastics break up into tiny pieces when they get old ... you can throw them into the compost if you like, but they won't rot and contribute one iota of value to the vegetables, flowers or trees growing there.

ole joyful ... who lives within a couple of miles of Canada's largest city's recently acquired "landfill" (i.e. "dump")

THere needs to be a movement to outlaw this stuff. We've known how awful those beads are for ages.

It was on the news that Obama signed a bill today to ban those micro-beads. That's a step in the right direction! I hope we follow the same lead.