Imagine your kid rolling around the floor covered with toxins all over them, playing carelessly, picking up things, and also sometimes, putting it in their mouth.
When released in lakes and rivers (where our detergents end up any way), phosphates cause unnatural growth of algae, blocking sunlight, limiting oxygen supply and even foaming of lakes
Foaming lakes & polluted water have as much to do with industrial effluents as with the phosphate in our detergent. It's high time we rethink our cleaning choices