Beauty products made from plastic microbeads set to be banned in New York New York could be the first state to outlaw tiny plastic beads used in cosmetic and beauty products like facial scrubs and toothpastes, if lawmakers in Albany get their way. The sale of products that contain the plastic beads, which are added to aid exfoliation and abrasion, will be prohibited if proposed legislation, introduced today on behalf of Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, is passed. Too small to be sifted out at sewage treatment plants, the tiny beads end up in the ocean where the plastic, which does...