Plastic debris is getting into the Great Lakes, our drinking water, and our food

There’s been a lot of news about the amount of plastic debris in the oceans. But plastic pollution is also affecting the Great Lakes. A study out of the Rochester Institute of Technology estimates 22 million pounds of plastic debris enters the Great Lakes from the U.S. and Canada each year.

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Plastic debris is getting into the Great Lakes, our drinking water, and our food is an episode from The Environment Report by Michigan Public.

This episode is 4:51 long.

This episode was published on May 6, 2021.

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