Tag: plastic pollution
Everything to know about microplastics in the Great Lakes
The Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement needs to be updated to address the urgent issue of microplastic pollution. Scientists suspect high levels of microplastics in the Great Lakes because they are landlocked, and closer to people, which are the main source of plastic pollution.
Everything to know about microplastics in the Great Lakes
Shortly after Chelsea Rochman moved to Toronto to start her current faculty job at University of Toronto, she began working with the Government of Canada to sample microplastics in fish from Lake Ontario. What she found, she said, shocked her. They found microplastics in every single fish they tested. Every single fish.
PepsiCo Pooh-Poohs Plastic Waste Problem
PepsiCo has backed away from a pledge it made 2 years ago to use more refillable packaging to reduce plastic waste.
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Plastics are ‘ubiquitous’ in the Great Lakes. A robot is trying to change that
Plastic pollution is a growing problem in the Great Lakes. A trash collecting robot named BeBot is helping to clean up Great Lakes beaches while also serving as a conversation […]
Sturgeon Streams and Plastic Pollution
Restoring a threatened fish species and a look at microplastics in the Great Lakes.