[rjanoch]

Another area of concern with plastics and water is with microbeads and pre-production plastics. http://www.theguardian.com/vital-signs/2015/mar/27/microbead...

As part of health care products or just raw (pre-production) they get introduced into our wastewater and stormwater systems.

[toomuchtodo]

Jurisdictions are starting to ban microbeads:

http://www.beatthemicrobead.org/en/

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/09/business/california-bans-p...

http://marinedebris.noaa.gov/types-and-sources-solutions/sta...

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/oct/09/californi...

> Many state governments, including California, Illinois, New Jersey, Maine, Colorado, Maryland, Indiana, Connecticut and Wisconsin, are banning “microbeads” — plastic exfoliants used in cosmetics.

There is much work to be done still.