Great Lakes Echo (https://greatlakesecho.org/category/waste/page/8/)
Everything from litter to nuclear waste.
Tensions between the Michigan legislature and environmentalists have grown after the Department of Environmental Quality proposed deregulating 500 chemicals. Regulators say the move benefits public health by targeting the most serious chemicals threats.
Mr. Great Lakes discusses discusses alternatives to microbeads, Frankenmuth fish passage and Michigan’s recycling rate.
Kiteboarding tricks are treats.
Company president gets 30 days in jail, 240 days community service and must pay restitution.
The film explores the science and controversy of Canada’s search for a Great Lakes-area underground storage site for spent nuclear fuel that could take 250,000 years to safely decay.
The nation hit Ecological Deficit Day recently, thanks in part to the Great Lakes states that use more resources than they regenerate.
The latest chapter in the St. Louis contamination saga is that the school athletic grounds, where kids practice football and softball, are being dug up after the discovery that they too are contaminated with DDT.
Government agencies say company owner removed arsenic, chromium, lead, selenium and other hazardous chemicals from a bankrupt facility in Keene, New Hampshire, without a permit and took the materials to his facility in Owego.
The results showed that ammonium was discharged to rivers at well above the Environmental Protection Agency’s aquatic life criteria.
New research from Michigan State University indicates that biodegradable plastics might not actually be breaking down in landfills any faster than other plastics.