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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;">For a review of bills currently being considered by Connecticut, Hawaii, Oregon, and Washington:<br>
<blockquote>http://ecowatch.com/2015/03/30/states-microbead-ban-bills/<br>
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<div>Ed Gottlieb<br>
Chair, Coalition for Safe Medication Disposal<br>
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525 3<font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><sup>rd</sup></font> Street</div>
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<div>fax: (607) 273-8433</div>
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<div style="direction: ltr;" id="divRpF808193"><font color="#000000" face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> pharmwaste-bounces@lists.dep.state.fl.us [pharmwaste-bounces@lists.dep.state.fl.us] on behalf of Bickford, Barbara J - DNR (Barb) [Barbara.Bickford@wisconsin.gov]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, July 02, 2015 6:31 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> pharmwaste@lists.dep.state.fl.us<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Pharmwaste] Wisconsin adopts ban on microbeads<br>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><b>Wisconsin adopts ban on microbeads</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Wisconsin is </span>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">the seventh state to ban</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> microbeads in personal care products. On Wednesday, Governor Walker signed bipartisan legislation that bans the
manufacturing of microbead products at the beginning of 2018 and their sale one year later. <br>
<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/wisconsin-governor-walker-signs-bill-banning-microbeads-002857108--sector.html" target="_blank">http://news.yahoo.com/wisconsin-governor-walker-signs-bill-banning-microbeads-002857108--sector.html</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:#984806">Barb Bickford</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt; color:navy"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; color:black">Medical Waste Coordinator and Hydrogeologist</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; color:black">Waste and Materials Mgt/AWaRe Division<br>
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources<br>
101 S. Webster St., PO Box 7921, Madison, WI 53707-7921<br>
Phone: 608-267-3548<br>
Fax: 608-267-2768<br>
barbara.bickford@wisconsin.gov<br>
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