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Great waste in the Great Lakes: How plastic pollution is clogging our waters (opens the original)
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More than 40 million people in the United States and Canada depend on the Great Lakes for drinking water. Each glass of treated lake water is laden with tiny bits of plastic — microplastics — made of toxic chemicals linked to cancer and other diseases. Also contaminated are fish, staples of Midwestern fish fries and fish boils, and an important part of the diet of Indigenous tribes, certain immigrant populations and communities of color. Yet this pollution isn’t regulated, and manufacturers are
The overwhelming problem of plastic (opens the original)
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Spending more than a decade documenting the spread of plastic waste throughout the Great Lakes took a psychological toll on Melissa Duhaime. Scary findings. Seemingly few solutions to intractable problems. Scientists stacked against the world’s most clout-heavy corporations bent on tripling production of fossil fuel-based plastics. Duhaime, a University of Michigan biologist, found solace — and maybe a chance to build her own business while bolstering the regional economy — in a plastics-free al
As microplastics pollute every corner of the Great Lakes, scientists push governments to combat threat (opens the original)
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Deep within the boreal forest of western Ontario, scientists do the unthinkable: They dump pollution into remote, self-contained lakes to see what happens. Canadian researchers curtained off two halves of a lake during the late 1960s and doused each with different fertilizers. Their findings prompted bans on phosphorus-laden detergents that were supercharging algae blooms choking the Great Lakes. They later documented how brain-damaging mercury spewed by coal-fired power plants contaminates fish
Great waste in the Great Lakes: How plastic pollution is clogging our waters (opens the original)
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More than 40 million people in the United States and Canada depend on the Great Lakes for drinking water. Each glass of treated lake water is laden with tiny bits of plastic — microplastics — made of toxic chemicals linked to cancer and other diseases. Also contaminated are fish, staples of Midwestern fish fries and fish boils, and an important part of the diet of Indigenous tribes, certain immigrant populations and communities of color. Yet this pollution isn’t regulated, and manufacturers are
Illinois law is the first in the Great Lakes region to designate industrial plastic pellets as pollution (opens the original)
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Illinois is requiring polluters to begin reporting spills of industrial plastic pellets known as nurdles, a growing source of contamination in the Great Lakes and Mississippi River watersheds. Companies that manufacture, use or transport nurdles also must develop plans to limit them in storm runoff, making the state the first in either watershed to officially designate bits of wasted plastic as pollution. The new law, signed late last week by Gov. JB Pritzker, comes as an ongoing Tribune series,
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