How everyone’s backing Mail campaign

LEADING figures from a range of fields yesterday threw their weight behind the Mail’s campaign to ban the beads.

Support flooded in from across the political spectrum, echoed by voices in showbusiness and environmental campaigners.

MARY CREAGH MP, who chairs the Commons environmental audit committee, said she was ‘delighted the Daily Mail is joining my committee’s call on the Government to ban this rubbish from cosmetics’.

She added that ‘microbeads are polluting the oceans and entering the food chain’.

And CAROLINE LUCAS, Green Party MP, said: ‘ A ban on damaging microbeads can’t come too soon and it’s good to see the Mail recognises the urgency of the issue.

‘These tiny plastic particles are totally unnecessary and need a big campaign to get the Government to immediately banish them for good.’ SANDRA HOWARD, Baroness Howard of Lympne and wife of Michael Howard, is concerned about the plastic in the food we eat.

The author and former model said: ‘Fish is my favourite food... It seems absurd that we are pouring plastic into the sea, with the risk of contaminating the fish we eat.

‘I applaud the Mail for this campaign. I for one will be avoiding [microbeads] in future.’ Radio 4 broadcaster JENNI MURRAY went even further, and immediately threw away items containing microbeads after admitting she previously had ‘no idea how dangerous’ they were.

She said that when she found out, she ‘promptly went to the bathroom and found two containers of shower gel – both expensive gifts, both containing the offending beads.

‘I threw them out unopened. I’m now checking the ingredients of every product to make sure I don’t add to the pollution.’

Similarly, EMMA SOAMES was unaware of the dangers posed by microbeads, but now says she is ‘very eager to join this campaign’.

The editor-at-large of Saga magazine confessed that she had not made the link between ocean pollution and ‘ what I use on my face’.