27 June 201617 June 2016 EPA Announces the 2016 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award Winners! Each year the EPA honors winners whose chemical technologies incorporate the principles of green chemistry into chemical design, manufacture, and use
18 January 201616 January 2016 Microbeads to be phased out in US starting in 2017 President Barack Obama’s signature has made the phase-in of federal ban on plastic microbeads official starting in 2017.
27 May 201521 July 2015 California may ban microbeads by 2020 The California Assembly passed a bill that would ban the sale of products containing plastic microbeads by 2020