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Researchers evaluate ways to keep plastic pollution out of Great Lakes
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They examined strategies for keeping plastic cigar tips, water bottles and bags from harming water quality.
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Nearshore
Great Lakes conference to discuss regional challenges
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In mid-October, environmentalists from across the Great Lakes region will meet to discuss their biggest challenges.
Water
Another clean-up for Mother Nature
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Governments might be phasing out the use of microbeads, but nothing but time will remove the problem from the environment.
Echo
You want to ban plastic bags? Good luck
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The same things that make plastic bags useful to us make them bad for the environment. But banning them has proven to be a challenge.
Capital News Service
Pure Michigan: A two-centuries old marketing tool
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Michigan’s natural landscapes have been marketed as refuges for urbanites since the 1800s.
Water
Great Lakes scientists remind social media they exist
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Some scientists from the Great Lakes area used Twitter to introduce themselves and their work to the public.
Waste
New model tracks plastic in Great Lakes
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A new mathematical model could bolster research on plastic in the Great Lakes.
Great Lakes
Plastic litter on Great Lakes beaches
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A recent study found most trash on Great Lakes beaches is plastic – consumer goods like water bottles and food wrappers.
Echo
Great Lakes pollutant lurks in your laundry pile
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The United States and Canada are moving to ban microbeads — the tiny plastic bits in toothpaste and facewash that are big water polluters. Now scientists are focusing on a similar problem — and it’s lurking in your laundry pile.
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Wash, rinse, pollute, repeat
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Parts of our clothing ends up in the bellies of fish because of our laundering habits.