Social Action

Dear Foodstuffs

My name is Molly Noven and I’m a year 7 student at Hornby High School. We are studying sustainability and need to do a social action somehow. I have chosen to write to you to ask you to stop selling products with microbeads in them. Microbeads are those small plastic beads that are in face scrubs, body washes and many other things. Microbeads affect the environment by going down the bathroom or kitchen sink and into the ocean. Fish will then most likely view microbeads as food, eat them and then choke on the microbead. Sometimes the fish don’t die and you might eat that fish which means you might have microbeads in you. You sell a few products with microbeads in them and I ask you to stop selling them as they are damaging the environment. Microbeads are sometimes labelled as microplastics, polyethylene or polypropylene. Some products that have microbeads include Clearasil, Dove, Garnier, Olay and many more. Thanks you for actually reading this letter.

-Molly Noven

I think I have achieved because I have explained why they need to stop selling microbeads and what products contain it. I have sent this to Foodstuffs and is just waiting for a reply (if that ever happens).