Personal Care Products
This is a very broad plastic debris category. This includes various products, such as health and beauty aids ranging from deodorants to suntan or body lotion bottles to combs/ brushes, to toothbrushes. Other items may include chap stick tubes, tampon applicators, hearing aids, etc. Items are usually made of polypropylene (PP) and polyethylenes (including HDPE).
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Plastic hand soap bottle found on Hogg Island, Blue Fox Bay, Afognak, AK. (Photo Credit: Blue Fox Bay Lodge)
Personal care products found on Walk on Beach, CA. (Photo Credit: California Coast National Monument Task Force)
Plastic roll-on deodorant bottle found on the beach. (Photo Credit: Seba Sheavly, Sheavly Consultants, Inc.)
Medical needle and syringes found on the beach at Stearns Wharf to Mission Creek Outlet, CA. (Photo Credit: NOAA)
Plastic combs and a brush found on Midway Atoll in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. (Photo Credit: Junichi Sugishita, NWR)
Personal care product bottle found on Kamilo Beach, Big Island (Hawaii), HI. (Photo Credit: NOAA)
Shampoo bottle found on the beach. (Photo Credit: Seba Sheavly, Sheavly Consultants, Inc.)
Tooth brushes and combs found on Kamilo Beach, Big Island (Hawaii), HI. (Photo Credit: NOAA)
Medical needle found on the beach at Kahala-Waialae Beach Park in Honolulu, HI. (Photo Credit: Hawppon)