Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 12 February 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
General Scheme of the Prohibition of Certain Products Containing Plastic Microbeads Bill 2018: Discussion
Dr. Kevin Lynch:
Microbeads are spherical but the classification here includes anything within a certain size range, so it is not just anything with a spherical shape, but any shape within that size range. In addition to microbeads, it could include anything flat or other different shapes in that size range.